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Once per word, or once per puzzle? Either way, that's surely hard mode.

Ah yeah, missed that 🤦‍♂️

Because this is the internet, I can't tell if the whoosh goes to your downvoters or you. I think you were joking, but that second sentence makes me wonder...

Hmm, interesting logic; my first reaction is that even if I program a robot to hit a golf ball I still wouldn't be any good on the links, but perhaps there's enough medical theory that she'd have to encode that she would be the top doc. I would have expected the original program to already have the knowledge and skills useful in OP's scenario, however.

I think all the engineers would have transferable skills, seeing as surgery is basically engineering/plumbing on living things.

I pay for Nebula - $30 a year which is about £22.50. That won't even cover two months of YouTube Premium (£12 pm), and there's not even the discounted yearly option in the UK.

And "if you're not paying you're the product" is wrong - YouTube/Google would still be datamining my viewing habits to sell to advertisers.

Rosie's prize task was a worthy winner, brilliant entry.

I can't believe they actually went with the smoothie idea, especially after Baba's reaction.

"Creatures of habit, just like nuns." With humour like that, I'm assuming Alex enjoys cryptic crosswords.

Anyone find the mannequins' names familiar? I wonder if it was just a callback or if they'll appear again.

I like the idea that someone forgot to wear the hotdog outfit and brings it out for the final's studio task.

Others have answered, but the UK has been rabies free for over a century!

The British Isles (GB and Ireland) have been rabies free since the disease was eradicated in terrestrial animals in 1922.

per DEFRA

forcing passengers to flee

Err, why? We know they're not rabid since it's the UK, so why not just ignore them?

Perhapsburg they are

Only if enough people do it. Then again, loads scrapers outside of AI already pretend to be normal browsers.

The phrasing of "First actual case of bug being found" definitely sounds like it's a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say "a literal bug lol".

Edit: to be fair, OP doesn't say that Hopper invented the term

I had a "T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

It looked like this, just less German:

That's the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

What about proxies and the like? It might be less relevant in a world where most communication happens under TLS.

Makes a lot of sense - it's a GET with the body from POST (I know, there's more to it than that). Definitely cleaner than encoding a huge URL or query string.

However, we're still implementing IPv6, so how long until we could actually use this?

I want David Mitchell to try this show at some point, but I doubt he’d be willing to do it.

Victoria Coren Mitchell did it, and she's about the same "seriousness" (as comics go).

Jack Dee is a very well known face on British TV, in part for hosting Live at the Apollo before it became rotating hosts. Grumpy, dry and deadpan, he's someone Alex has consistently mentioned when asked who he'd love to have on the show.

Rosie Jones has been on a lot of panel shows lately, and is quite a marmite taste - people seem to love or hate her. In my house we're not a fan in large part because her punchlines are all shock humour, which doesn't really work once you're expecting it. I'm hoping she'll grow as a comedian - Sarah Millican's routine seemed to be 99% I'm fat earlier on but now she's great.

I've not watched anything with Andy Zaltzman in and I don't know the other two at all.

Andy Zaltzman's bubbles task was a thing of beauty, it's only right that he got the top marks.

Then him dragging that spot around on the final task, chef's kiss

Talking of, Emma Sidi's abysmal throwing was wonderful (and Baba channelling Dr McCoy).

Jack Dee is turning out to be the mostly-joyless joy we knew he would be.

In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?

Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes

Seems to be based on Tragedy of the Aral Sea, or maybe vice versa.