Robert Smallshire

@robert.smallshire.no

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Founding Tubetrain 🚀. Building Demonstrable® at Sixty North. Director for lithium explorer Transition Elements. "utterly competent". Geoscience PhD. 330 ppm CO₂. Cyclist 🚴‍♂️ . Caver. 🇳🇴🇬🇧

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09.30 Doors Open 11.00-11.30 Stand up talk: Rob Smallshire - Reverse Engineering Acorn's Network Filing System 12.00-13.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Keynote: Steve Furber - From ARMS to Brains 16.00 Wind down and packing up 17.00 Doors Close
Extending work by Harvard economist Stefanie Stantcheva and others, my analysis of polling by More in Common finds that in the US, UK, France and Germany zero-sum beliefs on the left (eg people only get rich by making others poor) and the right (eg immigrants succeed at the expense of the native-born) are related expressions of the same underlying worldview. Namely that there is only so much to go around and we must therefore use restrictions, exactions and preferential treatment to redress the balance between winners and losers.
Two cardboard tetrakaidecahedra and a single pyritohedron, a type of dodecahedron comprising five irregular pentagons.
Commit contains problems 72,215 errors and 150 warnings
Total: 8.5-11 hours After each phase: - V Run full test suite (uv run pytest packages/demon - V Approve HTML changes (approve-all -v packages/dem - V Git commit with descriptive message - V System remains fully functional Key Benefits: - V Explicit layer APIs - no filename inference - V Self-documenting code - V Type-safe layer collection - V Clean separation of concerns - V Stable at every phase
A close-up showing the typography on Touch Bar "keys" f0 to f7.
A view of a MacBook Pro Touch Bar showing BBC Micro function keys.
Yachts sailing on a lake.
Planning a cycle route using RideWithGPS on an iPad in a café at Hamburg Station.
The author’s touring bike in Zurich station.
Superyachts in Monte Carlo harbour.
The author standing with his touring bike outside the Casino at Monte Carlo, in Monaco.
Cycle route planning on an iPad with an Apple Pencil in a bar on the shores of Lago d’Orta in Italy.
The author, with his touring bike, on Sustenpass at around 2000 metres altitude in the Swiss Alps, with mountains and glaciers behind.
A cable car station called Tällibahn, which is closely homophonic with Taliban, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
A cooling fan zipped snuggly into the door of a damp tent being dried in a hotel bathroom.
A yellow van with a soft yellow (inflatable!) proboscis protruding from above the windscreen.
My feet in a hammock strung from silver birch trees.
A one litre glass of German beer.