[HN Gopher] Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Fore...
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Show HN: EBNF Specification of the BBC Shipping Forecast
Author : jamespwilliams
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-02-06 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| anitil wrote:
| What a brilliant idea! I had heard that people find listening to
| the shipping forecast very relaxing, but I didn't realise they
| had such a strict format
| fshee wrote:
| Huh, great idea. Might (attempt to) do one of these for metars.
| blipvert wrote:
| Clip up some samples, Markov chain generator; endless fantasy SF
| for the insomniac ...
| unfocussed_mike wrote:
| In the meantime, here's five hours of it:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHa5KaMBcM
| unfocussed_mike wrote:
| This is the cutest thing I have seen in weeks.
|
| For those outside the UK who are unfamiliar, the shipping
| forecast is the most British thing possible. A concise forecast
| that reads as pure poetry, and before it, _Sailing By_ :
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74
| satellite2 wrote:
| Hour can only go from 0 to 19. Is this on purpose?
| jamespwilliams wrote:
| Whoops! Thanks, I've fixed it.
| jarvist wrote:
| You're also missing 'soon' and 'imminent' (along with 'later'
| have a very specific and important meaning).
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| And no 'sea states'? Currently there's 'Very rough or high,
| occasionally very high later in northwest Rockall.'
|
| Nice stuff!
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