Was it that the PDF produced by latex was less OCR friendly than the word one, or just that you didn’t submit the PDF at all most of the time?

I guess if you trained a program to OCR PDFs that are produced by word it might get really good at that and less good at PDFs from other sources.

I’m curious if your CV font was computer modern?

People are mostly talking about what a bunch of idiots they are though.

This lot look like they were cast by the daily mail, they couldn’t be more of a caricature. It is absolutely not effective communication.

Haha I have similar tastes, love a kebab.

Maybe those foods seem overrated because they are so accessible and easy to cook (few ingredients)? Easy things to start with if you’re learning to cook.

Are you someone who likes sweet stuff more than savoury? I’m not into sweet stuff and don’t get the fuss about chocolate, but a nice savoury salty or spicy thing does it for me.

I guess everyone has different tastes.

I get your point but hydrogen isn’t just sea water, you’ve got an awful lot more energy to put in after the “tank is full so wrap up the hose and drive off” stage to separate the hydrogen from oxygen to get the fuel. The difficult bit comes after “get water”.

On the one hand, this is embarrassing for Russia, but on the other hand the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent failed a couple of times in a row over the last few years, so I’m not going to get too excited about it.

It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.

Great book if you haven’t read it!

Those are also good reasons, i.e. more than just “I disagree”

It’s supposed to be for bad faith posts/comments not just for disagreement

Are those things in the middle at the back soft pretzels? They look like conkers (horse chestnuts), confused the hell out of me!

I like it like this, looks very cosy!

Agree to some extent, but the meaning would only become clear if they continue to listen instead of assuming they know what you’re about to say and zoning out.

I have some of both with my SO and I’m not sure what’s more annoying, being interrupted or explaining exactly what you mean and having none of it be absorbed.

Up the chuff = good, down the chuff = bad

Everyone loves the D

How would you portray Bombadil in a Film/TV series if it was your decision?

Sorry mate, totally forgot not everyone would have seen it yet. I’m behind the US so always assume I’m watching later than most people.

At least that Cornish accent is quite mysterious!

Although he looks quite a lot like jack black I don’t think he really acts that way.

I’m not sure how I’d have done it myself, it would be very difficult to put in lots of HEY HO BOMBADIL TOM BOMBADILLO type mad singing in a serious way.

They always have done this, even before there was a wider understanding / acceptance of neurodiversity (e.g. at Bletchley Park)

“Drunk”

Yeah we have that meaning too :D