17 Oct
2025
17 Oct
'25
7:33 p.m.
https://youtu.be/O_-1WxTBNHI
On Oct 17, 2025, at 17:08, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Martin Bishop wrote:
I shall shift into BeerMode, everyone else seems to be there
[BeerMode raambling]
British beer is excellent, and always has been. (and, It doesn't need to be cooled
down to the edge of freezing)
My father used to say, "A pint is a pound, the wrold around"; if that ever was
true of British beer, it wouldn't be now, and even as a unit of measure, a pint is
ambiguous.
Oil leaks and Lucas Electrics are issues with British cars and motorcycles, and pretty
much not an issue with anything else.
Many inventions come from UK. Including the parents/grandparents of the USA inventors.
Bletchley Park was a major undertaking.
Without Alan Turing, where would we be?
Current AI, despite being STUPID and hallucinating, could probably pass any of the earlier
Turing tests.
(at one point, cchatGPT was asked for the last digit of PI;
a SERIOUS flaw in current AI design is to never let it answer, "I Don't
Know"! Also, there have been a LOT of legal cases where AI drew up briefs, and
included precedents that didn't exist!)
Sinclair did some brilliant and clever stuff.
There is nothing wrong with British computers.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com