DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
Just wait until you find out what cosmologists do with ALL the fundamental constants. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2205:_Types_of_Ap...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
My school back then went from BBC micros straight to PCs as well (I suspect it might have been govt policy, or lack thereof). And the PCs then were awful compared to the Arch. Can't remember if it was an early version of Windows or O
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Digging a ROM out of a motherboard made you value the machine even more. I can distinctly remember bending the leg on one of the chips and carefully straightening it, otherwise that would have been £80 (?!?!?) down the drain which was a lo
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by DrBazza 4y ago
This takes me back. For those somewhat younger than me... This was the first 32 bit machine widely and cheaply available in the UK. It shipped, briefly with Arthur OS (as mentioned in article), and then RiscOS came out which was so much b
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not much would have saved Knight Capital and powerpeg. You can write company bankrupting code in any language.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I don't think there's one real reason but a combination, but I can list the features that C# and Java ecosystems had since the early 00s, and javascript/Rust have since they came around, but C++ hasn't had until recently
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Same with C++. Dependencies were boost, qt, gtk, and a few others and that was pretty much it. Since vcpkg, cmake, conan, and a few others, the C++ "ecosystem" has started growing far more in the last 10 years, than in the previ
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I built zellij (rust tmux clone) recently. 193 dependencies that cargo downloaded. When did rust turn into javascript? Are there supply chain attacks in Rust?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
At a previous job we were building something significant in the Java stack, and as part of the CI/CD we have a jar checking stage which flagged that an emoji library, that wasn't an emoji library, suddenly was coming in to our bui
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Fwiw typical bike speeds are about 12mph Which is the speed of a marathon runner and I wouldn’t want one of those running into me either. https://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2022/8/454264
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Agreed. Cheap and nasty shared pavements for bikes and people in the UK are a nightmare.
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In many places in the UK it would be trivial to place a protected bike lane parallel to an existing railway line which is a level grade, and ideal for cyclists. Except the rail companies wouldn't like it you use your bike to cycle a co
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> In my view it is too dangerous to put cycles on the same roads as cars and lorries. And if we want to promote cycling (perfect mix of exercise and local transport) then we need to invest in totally separate pathways. Where we already d
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Editors, authors and reviewers will hopefully find the guidance helpful when considering and discussing potential benefits and harms arising from manuscripts dealing with human population groups categorized on the basis of socially con
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Some perspective from the UK: HS1 completed in 2009 for domestic passengers (also used by the Eurostar to Europe) is our first high speed railway since the 60s. The three "high speed" stations on the route once leaving central L
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> What was even more surprising, to me, is that Mercedes had this amazing nice center console unit to control things with your arm in a rested position. They removed that piece of brilliance! My MB is a UX disaster. Have a guess how many
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The number one thing you should be doing in a car is paying attention to the road, not glancing at a touch screen because there's zero tactile feedback. And even worse, putting what would have been a physical button on an old dashboard
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Cinavia was stuffed into the PS2 (or PS3?) with no publicity, as part of the increasing blu-ray DRM and advertised as as blu-ray player that actually wouldn't play some legitimate blu-rays. (and blu-ray was a Sony invention - https:&#
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by DrBazza 4y ago
But are all the buildings on the MS campus, for example, "built to code"? (that's the US phrase isn't it). Do we reasonably expect most, let's say, post-80s buildings to survive a magnitude 9+?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I stopped knowingly buying all things Sony because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... That made me switch to t
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by DrBazza 4y ago
From a cloud perspective, I'd hope everything just carries on. But from a 'shareholder' perspective I expect the stock markets will go silly at the first sign of shaking.
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What is Microsoft's contingency plan for this? Or, in fact, the FAANG's and other west-coast tech companies? The effects of a Cascadia earthquake on the US and world economy would be "interesting".
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Best link I could find mentions Russia as well as all the other countries. See the uranium mining section. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
CND in the Uk pretty much helped set the Uk on a similar path of “nuclear bad”.
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Is that right? Almost 50% of the world’s uranium comes from Khazakstan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I did say drought twice rather than heatwave. It seems 1976 is still drier than 2022. At the moment that is.
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It was pretty much like this in 1976 (yes, I'm that old). We've had localised droughts too. 2003 sticks in my mind - Faversham held the record for just under 100F, and the London Jubilee line had everyone clustered round the win
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I'd love to see a mission or more focussed on exploring interstellar regions. Yes. I did like the article, eventually, buried in the details, was "twice the speed of Voyager", and "can't gravity assist past th
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I did sort of contradict myself there and say never and multi-decade plan. Problems the US has: * Lack of spoke and hub railways. * Cars. * Cost-per-mile, which if I understand correctly is a political and a union-thing. * And just politics
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I'm not convinced high speed rail would ever work in the US due to how entrenched the car culture is, regardless of the terrain. In Europe with we have spoke-and-hub railways - want to get into London? There's almost certainly a

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