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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Maybe not trade deals but the Anne Sacoolas[0] case of using diplomatic immunity of dubious legality to flee from justice probably tends to irritate the British judiciary. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-north
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I often find it easier to grok things like circuits and logic visually, certainly when in circuit design/PCB mode. Does anyone know of any open source software for taking smallish chunks of Verilog/VHDL and making a visual represe
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Another way of saying received wisdom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_wisdom
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I believe it was a mistake to decommission eLORAN (both US and Europe), for the reasons you mention. Thankfully we still have terrestrial frequency and time standards (although there was talk of shutting down WWV). Now that the UK has been
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I use for it for the various RF/EE/Controls related matrix stuff, as others have said it is often quicker to use to do some sanity checks even though at work we have actual MATLAB/CST Studio etc.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I think the usual way of handling stuff like that in the embedded world is with an RTOS. Something like FreeRTOS or RTEMS (both have ARM Cortex ports). Also, depending on complexity of the system (more actuators) you might have the individu
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Matthew Boulton was also pioneering mass production prior to making steam engines with Watt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Manufactory
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
The guy was really a master story teller, whether you take what he was saying seriously is up to you. Saying that, he did a lecture in New York when Giuliani was mayor and makes a quip about "the consciousness of Giuliani administratio
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Thanks. I'll have to check that out.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I don't think we have fully grasped what information really is yet, almost like fish that have just become aware of the ocean. After finishing James Gleick's excellent The Information (mentioned recently on HN), I came away wantin
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
So you are saying that life is effectively a Dirac Delta Function. I guess I always knew that infinity was buried in there somewhere.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I learned to drive in a Mini Mark IV. After passing my test I had all sorts of near misses with it. One particularly hairy one was coming round a bend to find traffic queuing at a junction, I locked the wheels and hit the curb, spinning 180
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Coldstream Guards must get through a bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
And the cops don't appreciate fish driving around, they frown on that.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
>On top of that, climate change is a slow moving disaster, and we are typically good at mitigating long term changes (at least way better than urgent crises). That statement is laughably incorrect, in fact the complete opposite of what i
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Everyone has a differing body chemistry. I can only speak for myself. I do have some mild symptoms when starting a fast, but they go away quite quickly. It could be related to the fact that I'm not usually hungry in the mornings (exclu
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Where is the evidence that a 15 day fast is dangerous?
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
The figure I have seen is that muscle wasting drops to less than 0.2 kg per day once the body fully enter ketosis. Obviously, anyone considering a fast longer than a few days should do so under the supervision of a doctor who can monitor el
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I have a book called Fasting and Eating for Health by Joel Fuhrman MD (ISBN 0-312-18719-X). In it, he recommends fasting for between 10 - 15 days around once every 10 years. I have actually completed a 10 day water only fast a few months ag
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Someone recently posted a link on HN to a book by an Herbert Shelton MD that you might find interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20110222200902/http://www.soilan...
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
>t feels like hackerspaces and certain scenes still have the same energy of the web's early days. I'm not so sure. Maybe 10 years ago. I used to be involved with the hackerspace scene in the UK but I got sick of the politics. L
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Great movie. "Cattle mutilations are up." Has Dan Akroyd ever played a bad character?
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
>surveillance tech was in the stone ages. I believe it is a mistake to think that. I have some notes from an undergraduate course in digital signal processing, dated 1979. There is a section written by someone from "Joint Speech Res
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I'm surprised that it is not possible in US to buy air time on commercial stations for exclusive use of the buyer and their customers. Surely it would be similar to buying an advertisement. Here in the UK we already have data transmiss
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
There are currently no signs that Longwave and Shortwave AM broadcasts are going away here in the UK. If Droitwich Transmitting Station[0] can stay operational for another 14 years it will be 100 years old! [0] https://en.wikipedi
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Nice. There is also: "Who Dares Wins" The motto of UK elite special forces regiments of the Special Air Service.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
It must be getting pretty crowded up in LEO. How long before we get a Kessler Effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Fermi can blast out "Hi" with a 100GW of power and he is unlikely to be heard in Andromeda, which for all we know could be teeming with life and host to something like an Iain Banks Culture series space opera.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I wonder where Jordan from the film Real Genius fits in to that. She was definitely manic in the film.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
It is not that much better here in the UK for specialised things like mental health. My local private specialist for ADHD charges around £1500 for the consultation, and it is hard to justify risking that much money to just be told you'

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