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by Zenst 5y ago
That is the position of many a CEO of a large company, akin to politicians in that they say lots without actually saying anything and by the time you realise that they have said nothing, they have gone. For example "He says many countr
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by Zenst 5y ago
I read the article and shame the BBC went for the small sound-bite click-bait title. Most of the article is about other aspects, from AI, Quantum computing, corporation TAX and the title per-say does not do the article justice. With that
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by Zenst 5y ago
I had 3 small packages arrive this Friday, left on my door and tied together in a brown rubber band. Like you, I have never seen a red one either, blue one's yes, though rare.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Not so common these days and for me personally a shame as was always a good source of freebies in that respect, I had to buy some a while back and ironically the quality of bands the post office use are pretty darn good compared to the ones
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by Zenst 5y ago
Reminded me of late 80's when I had an Amstrad PPC640DD which had a built in 2400 baud modem. Was in an Hotel and spent a couple of hours on a BBS...£50 charges for phone when checking out for those two hours usage. Soon learned some
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by Zenst 5y ago
> When I got to Uni in Oct 2000, I could use BitchX/IRC on the lab irix machine to use a massive 10 MEGA bit connection to get voyager episodes. Compared with downloading on a 33.6kbit connection over a phone line that cost at least
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by Zenst 5y ago
I would imagine health and safety and deaths have also decreased since that period. Quick look at https://sbcmag.info/news/2015/jan/construction-jobsite-fatal... does seem to bear this out, though really need
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by Zenst 5y ago
For some perspective, this is a nice list of many household appliances and their power usage: https://www.daftlogic.com/information-appliance-power-consum...
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by Zenst 5y ago
Whilst such things have been common in large corporation office political culture for decades, too see it play out in the wild like this in open source, is just shocking. Sadly it does seem to be becoming more and more, more since some view
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by Zenst 5y ago
I first encountered a VAX in the late 80's/early 90's on a project to port an ICL 2903 George assembler system onto the VAX into C (yes horrible idea and been better to redevelop, though somebody in marketing dropped the bal
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by Zenst 5y ago
What happens if an Employee of Amazon who is in a country that has a data regulation that allows them to ask for and legally get any data pertaining too them? That would place Amazon to legally disclose if such an employee is on any list or
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by Zenst 5y ago
So, like TAX off-shoring, some airlines will just fill up outside this remit of tax, so your flight from EU to Australia as an example - may have enough fuel to hit the next refuel outside the EU and then carry on, saving lots of money for
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by Zenst 5y ago
Imagine you have a shop window, your shop is closed - lights on all the time, burning electric as it is your advert to the customer base, showing your wares. Now if you add a sensor to detect if somebody is looking in your window and turn t
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by Zenst 5y ago
Interesting, I was aware they can make plastic from milk - called "casein plastic", so certainly would tie in that their stomachs have microbes that can effect the chains in plastic.
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Norfolk seal inscription mystery solved by US man on Twitter(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Zenst 5y ago|0 comments
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by Zenst 5y ago
I look forward too it as a show HN one day.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Reading your comment, I can't help feel you have more story about this era than all the articles. I'm sure others would be fascinated to know more of that time - any blogs or books down the line?
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by Zenst 5y ago
My earlier hack was a ICL 2903 running George OS, involved creating large file in area previously used for system journal and could then dump that file out and read the content of the system journal and that was how I got the admin password
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by Zenst 5y ago
Some nice internals of these gems here: http://www.corestore.org/cm200.htm
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by Zenst 5y ago
> Also their bulk contact upload. Take any data leak of email addresses, bulk upload them as contacts and then correlate email addresses to social profiles. This is one of those functionality aspects all these social/networking site
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by Zenst 5y ago
It seems the competition was for station foot crossing designs and this is a design for less urban area's in which you just need a foot crossing and no station. Which would explain why it can accommodate a longer ramp up and down and
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by Zenst 5y ago
I'm looking at the design and living in the UK, my first thoughts are - BMX riders are going to love this. I'd be interested in seeing it in more detail as whilst the design does seem to possibly be wheelchair accessible, it does
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by Zenst 5y ago
Anything that can impact a countries control upon their own currency has the potential to destabilise things. Now whilst cypto is another currency, it is one that is very volatile and as we have seen, anything that volatile in a currency is
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by Zenst 5y ago
The crux really is the FCA raising a red flag so people who wouldn't normally think will maybe think before buying into the latest `invest in crypto` advert that have become widespread and the latest FOTM(flavour of the month). The oth
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by Zenst 5y ago
I was wondering what foods would have high levels of magnisium and https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/15650-magnesi... Looking at those foods and daily intake, I'm wondering how many people are no
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Mechanical 7-Segment Display Uses a Single Motor(hackaday.com)
2 points by Zenst 5y ago|0 comments
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by Zenst 5y ago
Your instinct is spot on - it does not, and just does high frequencies in the RF range using acoustic resonance to amplify instead of using electrical amplification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_resonance On
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by Zenst 5y ago
Feature creep, though in a way in which that feature creep is used to keep people hanging on and reel in new investors. It has in near on become it's own business model. Difference from releasing and then adding updates every so ofte
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by Zenst 5y ago
Whole area of having tests that give definitive answers in the field of health is the one area in which it can't get enough of. Biggest issue health wise many have is time from issue to getting a correct diagnoses, whatever the ailmen
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by Zenst 5y ago
The user-interface, planning your plot sure does gameify that aspect very much like a farm simulator. Heck, in today's times I shudder how much game/real-life cross-over and IP conflicts we see play out in the years too come.

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