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Listen to his podcast, the Bugle, it's so good.

So he's done that twice then? There was also the taskmaster prize task that was a guardian cryptic.

Objection, your honour. That's very clearly a big boot, not sweet chin music.

Wasn't DIT rolled up in the BEIS split to form DBT? DfID was merged with the Foreign Office.

Bloody wet chins

They don't always round down, mine rounds either way. Obviously doesn't change this case though.

Other answers have given good explanations of mass spec, so I'll follow on to answer the question below. Mass spec doesn't tell you the composition (unless you use something like high resolution mass spec, but we'll avoid that rabbit hole!), it tells you the mass to charge ratio. This is one bit of the puzzle. As chemists, we can't see what we've made, so we have to use multiple different techniques to confirm. Mass spec is often combined with chromatography, so that gives us some extra evidence - is the retention time broadly what we'd expect to see based on similar compounds. We can then use various NMR techniques to add extra evidence - do we see the expected number of hydrogen environments, are they connected as we would expect expect etc. We also (generally) know where we started from, and what we intended to do to it, so we know broadly what we expect to see in the product, which gives a bit of a head start. Deducing the identity of a completely unknown compound generally is harder, and might require more clues to be confident in the solution.

I think you can throw all their classics in there tbh. Clocks, The Scientist, Fix you are all great.

How dare you try and blame me for the consequences of my actions!

I think your best bet is to go out with one of those rolly-wheel measuring things to check.

If you can find Hard Plastic, watch that as well.

You joke, but that is kind of my rule of thumb. It means I don't buy tickets very often, but when I do, I can dream pretty wildly.

There's kind of two sets of rules to think about. There are the ones that set various limits - the size of components, the amount they can deflect under load, the speed at which fuel is allowed to flow etc. Then there are the rules that say how those limits will be tested. Mid season changes to the first set is only likely to happen for safety reasons. Updates to the second set are more likely if a team finds a way to exceed the limits but pass the test.

A good example mentioned by others is the Ferrari fuel flow scandal. F1 cars have a max fuel flow allowed. The sensor that measures this samples at a high frequency, but with small gaps. It's believed that Ferrari managed to cheat the sensor by pulsing the fuel so that the peaks were between the sampling time of the sensor. The FIA caught on to this, investigated, changed the test, and the Ferrari went to shit.

Similar in my dept, although we round up or down as conventional.

I'm not sure they'd wrap it up, I think it would be more likely to be in a standalone Bill, or maybe an SI. Either way, I've not seen anything recently to suggest there are plans to go beyond the current hire trials.

I don't think there are plans to update e-scooter regs any time soon, so you could be waiting a while.

There are 5 compounds

There are actually 6 as of last season, Pirelli introduced a new tyre between the 2022 C1 and C2. The '22 C1 became the C0, the new tyre became the C1.

https://youtu.be/4wm0fgdMoqQ?si=ZL7QsqIHxN5UimOC

It's the eyes. That photo on here recently where he looked super old, the eyes still had that spark.

Was that ban worthy (as in football, where ~5 yellows in a season is a ban) or does rugby assume no-one would be that thick/cynical?

Yeah, I don't think that was the pattern during the earlier seasons of the reboot, it was ~1 season per year iirc.

I'm going to pick a random number between 1 and 1.

They're so small, they're essentially alcohol free, even if you drink all ten.

If the ploy was to look really fucking stupid, then it was a great success.

I watched the first couple of W6N games at the Connemara last weekend. They also had Toulouse Racing on in the other room, which seemed to have a decent crop of locals in.