The Fool on the Hill

Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.

Saturday, 19 February 2022

This blog is being decommissioned.

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TL;DR: In future, my blog will be here . No further entries will be published on this site. From 2004 until 17 January 2011, I ran my blog o...
Monday, 29 November 2021

The North Wind doeth blow

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  View from my bedroom window Storm Arwen tore through my wood on Friday night, and caused very significant damage. There is no significant ...
Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Open Source Climate Models: initial review

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Motivation Climate models are normally built to do real science; that is not my aim. Rather, I want something which will form a compo...
Monday, 15 November 2021

The Everyone Dies Event Class

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Lytton burns The climate, globally, is warming. Everyone acknowledges that. It’s not warming equally, or consistently, or evenly; I thin...
Monday, 1 November 2021

Owning Scotland's Land

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Scotland's land.  OK, yes, it is my croft. The white saviours, led by Benedict Macdonald , are again taking up the white man's burde...
Thursday, 19 August 2021

Where's the steel?

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A blast furnace in operation From the discovery of iron working techniques, about 3,200 years ago, up until the widespread exploitation of f...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Death, Glory, and computer games

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the rookie, quick Let's suppose for a moment that you're a member -- the most junior member, the rookie -- of a squad. Your squad ma...
Friday, 1 January 2021

T-Bug, memory management, and Cyberpunk

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A Cyberpunk 2077 character in T pose I have no inside information about the development of Cyberpunk 2077, but I am a software engineer with...
Thursday, 17 December 2020

Cyberpunk 2077, considered as a Witcher III DLC

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Johnny, Panam, Vixen This is the first essay I've written on Cyberpunk 2077; I doubt it will be the last – indeed, I hope it won't, ...
Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Virtual Cities

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A review of Dimopoulus, Konstantinos: Virtual Cities ; Unbound, London, 2020 . ISBN 978-1-78352-848-6. The Pelennor Fields around Minas Tiri...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

Who is the fairest of them all?

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Emma Appleton as Renfri There's a princess. She has a stepmother. Her stepmother has a magic mirror that always tells the truth. Her ste...
Friday, 24 July 2020

Rape, grouse, and the pathology of power

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Red Grouse ( source ) I got into a foolish Twitter dispute last night, and ended up saying something I fundamentally think to be true . Peop...
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