@JohnSmith
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It will be 10 years after the Grenfell Tower fire before any potential criminal prosecutions begin.
Let me describe an idea I heard from a very innovative person, which I think would be really useful right now in midst of the general election campaign.
The basic idea is to interpret politician’s or basically any talking head’s speech realtime and check the semantics against the Internet. Imagine a banner at the bottom of a TV screen with a line being drawn as the person talks.
If what the person says correlates positively with what can be found in reputable Internet sources, the line goes up and is green. There is evidence they are speaking the truth.
If what the person says correlates negatively with the sources, the line goes down and is red. There is evidence they are lying.
If what the person says does not correlate with the sources, the line is flat and brown, because they are spewing unadulterated bullshit.
I’d pay for this service.
The history of computers and software is full of nerdy and obscure jokes well beyond the caricatures of exiting vim. Complier compiler (explain that to most people!) to yet another compiler compiler to bison is one of those.
What are your favourite obscure computer nerd jokes?
Heinz bean getting a lot of free advertising lately.