Stewart
LightNews LightNews
stewmh.bsky.social
Stewart
@stewmh.bsky.social
470 followers 1.5K following 440 posts
Particle physics and nonsense, mainly

Posts Replies Media Videos
stewmh.bsky.social
Is this WWI? Big fan of this one
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
ARE YOU FOND OF CYCLING? IF SO WHY NOT CYCLE FOR THE KING? RECRUITS WANTED By the S.Midland Divisional Cyclist Company (Must be over 19, and willing to serve abroad). CYCLES PROVIDED. Uniform and Clothing issued on enlistment. Application in person or by letter to Cyclists, The Barracks, Gloucester BAD TEETH NO BAR. H. Osborne, Printer, St. Mary's Square, Gloucester.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
puzzling cmake error
put it into google
google tells you you're an idiot and HIP's great actually
Google search: "No known features for HIP compiler" • Al Overview The statement "no known features for HIP compiler" is incorrect. The HIP compiler is a key component of the AMD ROCm platform, enabling developers to write code for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. It supports features like offline and runtime compilation, porting from CUDA, and C++ language extensions. A potential reason for this user's confusion could be issues with cross-platform compatibility or configuration, which are sometimes challenging to set up correctly. e HIP compiler features • Source portability: HIP allows you to write code that can be compiled and run on different hardware, including AMD GPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, though not as a single) Frequently asked questions — HIP Documentation Can a HIP binary run on both AMD and Nvidia platforms? # HIP is a source-portable language that can be compiled to r... AMD ROCm documentation : [Issue]: no cross-platform compilation #3582 - ROCm/hip - GitHub 22 Aug 2024 — Problem Description... This feature seems to be badly documented and... Show more v
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
There’s a lot of slow motion. The episodes were running up to eight minutes under. The only way to stretch them out was with slow motion. And we tried to keep the slow motion away from the dialogue as much as possible. Anything without dialogue was considered for slow motion.
Richard Ayoade as Dean Learner in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
I spent five minutes evaluating UK Children's Laureates by how many letters in their name can be found in "Children's Laureate"

Excellent showings for Chris Riddell and Lauren Child (although Riddell should really be docked a point for his extra 'd'), less good news for Coelho and Morpurgo
Chris Riddell 1.000 Lauren Child 1.000 Anne Fine 0.875 Cressida Cowell 0.857 Michael Rosen 0.833 Julia Donaldson 0.786 Jacqueline Wilson 0.750 Quentin Blake 0.750 Malorie Blackman 0.667 Frank Cottrell-Boyce 0.632 Anthony Browne 0.615 Joseph Coelho 0.583 Michael Morpurgo 0.563
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
we do have a while to go until it's all built up.
UK land use from National Food Strategy, discussion here https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-will-englands-national-food-strategy-help-tackle-climate-change/ An area roughly the size of Wales is built up, beef and lamb pastures dominate the Midlands and Scottish Lowlands
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
quite a fun round-trip version:
- tale of the Buddha appears in Arabic
- gets translated into Georgian, Buddha and his teacher Bilawhar becomes Christians Josaphat and Barlaam
- J&M canonised by Gregory VIII
- Jesuits use story of J&M to convert Japanese from Buddhism
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Tweet by @rupinjapan "Cannot stand that Dolmio family. Eating our human food with their revolting felt mouths"
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
@L80J8 on X: the most efficient meal is a small amount of oil (picture of how much space 400 calories of oil, chicken and vegetables take up in the stomach)
October 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Just need the courage of the Swiss People's Party
Infamous UDC ad showing a cartoon black sheep being kicked off the Swiss flag by a cartoon white sheep while two other cartoon sheep look on sheepishly. Caption: Pour plus de sécurité
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
Mr Burns in bed saying "Doughnuts? I told you I don't like ethnic food!" to Homer from S7e17, Homer the Smithers
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
UK consumption has increased but by less than I would have thought, 15% since 1961.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat...
Meat consumption for UK, US, Europe and China. Big increase for China, gentle rises for UK, US, Europe.
October 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
How to be an alien, by George Mikes
September 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Alex Jacobson from Deus Ex saying "We are so back, JC." Generated using the foone Death Generator
September 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
Email inbox showing "Pack your bags!" "Uber" "tickets to Didcot Parkway"
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
If they are employed on a UKRI grant then the grant can/should cover these costs
www.ukri.org/councils/stf...
UKRI currently allows visa fees and NHS surcharge costs to be charged to the grant for all directly incurred staff directly employed on the grant for 50% of their time. All visa and NHS surcharge costs incurred must be a direct result of the person being employed on the grant for 50% of their contracted time and are not extended to family members. All costs must be met within the original grant cash limit. These costs should only be included at the time of application where it is known that they will be required and not as a contingency for any posts that will need to be recruited for.
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Important: hereditary peer James Bethell is DJing at a healthtech conference/festival at Harwell Campus
Agenda of thefix.io festival z including some drumming, some folk and a DJ set by Lord Bethell
September 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Given that the recommendation came out in 2023, I wrote to my MP about it and got a fairly boilerplate response in May. I assumed it was on the back burner.
Any proposed change to the childhood immunisation schedule requires careful consideration that takes into account a number of factors, including commercial considerations, NHS delivery options and the impact on other routine vaccination programmes. It is important to fully consider these factors to maintain the high standards of the UK’s world-leading vaccination programmes and ensure best value for money for taxpayers. The Government will make a final decision about whether to introduce a chickenpox programme, including the timing of any potential programme, when this work has concluded. I hope this reply is helpful.”
August 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Dagless: What's your name, son? The Temp: (dying) Clive. Dagless: That's a strange name for an American. The Temp: I'm from Bermuda. Dagless: Ohhh, that explains it: British principality. The Temp: It's actually a dependent territory. Dagless: What's that? The Temp: The queen appoints a governor in charge of internal security and external defence, but she's still the de facto sovereign. Dagless: We have so much to teach each other.
August 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Janet can you just chill out for a minute?
A plaque on a bench reading "RELAX AND ENJOY THE VIEW JANET"
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
Yes, we own a dismal bar. No, we have never hosted a pib quiz.
“We found ourselves sitting in a dismal bar overlooking a concrete walkway where children dodged waves as they broke over the sea wall.” Early in The Salt Path, Winn describes the couple attending a pub quiz in Westward Ho!, a small village on the north Devon coast. Rob Braddick, the owner of the Fairway Buoy, the only pub fitting Winn’s description, says the pub has never hosted any kind of pub quiz.
August 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
John von Neumann
August 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
I'm at The Range. I'm at the Iceland. I'm at the combination Range and Iceland.
A combination The Range and Iceland
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
Je téléphone à la police
Illustration (Lucy Cousins) of Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie Runs through the town Upstairs and downstairs In his nightgown Rapping at the window Crying through the lock "Are the children in their beds? For it's now eight o'clock!"
July 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
stewmh.bsky.social
Cover of Geoff Dyer's Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
stewmh.bsky.social
CERN ran a project trying to basically do this. Some nice stuff came out of it, they have a huge Mattermost instance. But they still ended up with quite a bit of reliance on COTS

More details here
cds.cern.ch/record/2800622
or search for CERN MALT
Table of FOSS alternatives to commercial software considered by CERN, with some (e.g. Mattermost, Wordpress, COdiMD) adopted, and some rejected in favour of the commercial option
June 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM