MarcScott

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by MarcScott 2y ago
They really are good as well. I insure my car and the DVLA knows about it. I MOT my car and the DVLA knows about it. Then I hop online and pay £0 to tax my car as it is a low emission vehicle. I used to have to collect all my certificates a
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I've taught kids to make line-following robots, with very little code. They are slow, don't handle crossing lines very well, and can often just flip out and do their own thing. I'm not teaching the kids to compete in line-fol
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by MarcScott 2y ago
> I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract. John Glenn
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by MarcScott 2y ago
Most of my family use my brother's Matrix server, but it's the Element app that makes it appealing to us all. Client side scanning could be enforced in the app, regardless of the server's protections.
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Tesco 'laser-tattoos' avocados to replace stickers in trial to cut waste(standard.co.uk)
12 points by MarcScott 2y ago|6 comments
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by MarcScott 2y ago
> 73% of individuals in America earn less than the average teacher's salary of $69k. And around 95% of degree holding individuals do less work than the average teacher, and almost all of that 73% are less qualified and probably in l
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I'm pretty sure Brave has been doing this for awhile now, and it's certainly available outside of the US. It often saves me a click, which I appreciate.
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by MarcScott 2y ago
We're close to the 2% inflation target, thanks to energy prices dropping. The Bank of England will probably drop interest rates soon, and anyone with a mortgage will be thankfull. I suspect that this is why the Conservatives are callin
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Raspberry Pi Confirmed Intention to Float(investors.raspberrypi.com)
2 points by MarcScott 2y ago|0 comments
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UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by MarcScott 2y ago|1 comments
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by MarcScott 2y ago
Why would you have a site with a whole load of videos on it, with all of them set to autoplay and constantly loop? I was watching a video on my second screen, and it stutters each time I try to visit the site.
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by MarcScott 2y ago
Isn't that a little like saying archaeologists seem to find a suspiciously large number of historical objects, or tornado hunters seem to have a suspiciously large number of tornado sightings?
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by MarcScott 2y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if there were a large enough population in the UK to be sustainable. I've been hearing stories about black leopard sightings since I was a kid, and geographically they are quite far apart. These animals are
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I think you're confusing Trading with the Foundation. Go and have a look at the websites to educate yourself on the difference. https://www.raspberrypi.com https://www.raspberrypi.org There's pleanty of inf
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I take it you live in an area with good public transportation, or maybe you work from home and have shops within cycling distance of where you live. Workers need to get to work, and there are tradeoffs. Unless you want your local sewage tre
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I'm okay with watching the majority of action movies, but I distinctly remember watching this fight scene in a Bourne movie and not having a clue what was going on. The constant camera changes, short shot length, and shaky cam, just co
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by MarcScott 2y ago
You could look into setting up a Code Club. https://codeclub.org/en/ And we have a tonne of resources at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en Playing around with teachable machine is also a tonne of fun
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by MarcScott 2y ago
That was such a faithful adaption of Scanner Darkly, it was like reading the book again. I agree that a similar adaption of Do androids dream of electic sheep would be amazing. I'd also like to see the same care and attention given to
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Tame toxic algorithms to protect children, big tech told(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by MarcScott 2y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I have a street in a town near me which grammatically should be called St. Thomas' road. However, the street signs call it St. Thomas road at the north end and St. Thomas's road at the south end.
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by MarcScott 2y ago
In training a couple of weeks ago, my son accidently delivered a straight right to my forehead, with significant power. It took me a few seconds to recover, but when I did it was to check his hand was okay, as we weren't wearing gloves
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by MarcScott 2y ago
In my experience, most martial arts tests don't require you to actually break the thing you are hitting. The examiner is just watching to make sure you hit with the correct technique and to hit hard. She should just focus on that, and
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by MarcScott 2y ago
Breaking in on my Tang Soo Do sylabus at every belt grading. We do use plastic break boards rather than natural wood or concrete though.
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by MarcScott 2y ago
Your board holders also have a significant input on your success. If they hold the board, but let their arms flex, then they absorb too much of the energy of the strike. They can make it easier for you as well, by flexing the board inwards
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by MarcScott 2y ago
> Your vision is a site for the lifting community Is that mentioned explicitly somewhere on the site? I'm into martial arts and never want to set foot inside a gym; I also have no equipment at home. Picking things up and then puttin
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'Eugenics on steroids': the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford's FHI(theguardian.com)
8 points by MarcScott 2y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 2y ago
These lasers mean that the watches that Q gave to James Bond will finally become a reality. LLMs and self-driving cars mean that KITT from Knight Rider will finally become a reality. All I need is for Webb to discover a planet a long time a
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by MarcScott 2y ago
I can't remember if it was descent or descent 2 but I remember there being a bug on the final level when flying down a super long corridor that caused a 15 minute or so reload time each time you died. Took me hours to complete and I dr
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Giant redwoods: largest trees 'thriving in UK'(bbc.com)
8 points by MarcScott 3y ago|0 comments
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by MarcScott 3y ago
I want Dang's search tools.

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