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by ajb 1y ago
Nice. One point - on Firefox on Android, tap to rotate seems random. I often seem to need to tap more than 4 times to get the orientation I want.
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by ajb 1y ago
Being derogatory is absolutely a valid political tactic. But making it your only possible tactic is bad strategy . Sure, "not everyone is scared of naughty words", but politics is about appealing to as many people as possible, no
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by ajb 1y ago
I totally agree. The term is a puerile way of "owning the cons" following Haidt's idea that conservatives have a strong sense of disgust and liberals do not. The problem is that a) many conservatives are also a potential cons
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by ajb 1y ago
Yeah. Given that they all move out on the same day, the most economically efficient way is to organise the reuse collection centrally, as some unis mentioned in the article do. More generally, it's dumb that it's so much more work
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by ajb 1y ago
So, the way you've written this comes across as if you think that's a canal running across midsummer common. For the benefit of those unfamiliar, it's not a canal, it's the River Cam. It may well be that the reason for
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by ajb 1y ago
Politicians were the first vibe coders.
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by ajb 1y ago
It seems implausible to me that the clay is dehydrated. The Victoria line was only built in the 60s and has a waterproof lining. (It's also built with asbestos cement, unfortunately, which is no doubt a problem when they need to cut it
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by ajb 1y ago
Not useful for you now AFAIK, but there's some evidence that n-acetylcysteine has a protective effect if taken before or shortly after loud noise exposure.
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by ajb 1y ago
Makes sense. To be fair, I don't think Diana claimed that that was the root cause, only that her mitochondrial function was "f'd".
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by ajb 1y ago
It seems like mitochondria research is going to have a lot of impact over the next decades. For example, apparently some people with fatigue diseases have damaged mitochondria (eg, Dianna Cowern aka ThePhysicsGirl who has had a terrible lon
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by ajb 1y ago
There are a lot of grants for universities because a) that's how universities are funded and b) to encourage technology transfer. But pure startup funding does exist, eg the EIC accelerator. If you want to get it there are companies l
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by ajb 1y ago
I think that only works for rather specific cases, like if your robot is contaminated but not physically dirty. Usually people care about the mess of dirt as well. Also if the frame is open I suspect it will get grit etc inside. Perhaps a m
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by ajb 1y ago
Pretty cool. Once suggestion: any bot for home use (and many industrial uses) needs to be able to wash itself. No-one wants a bot that cleans the toilet and then gets dirt all round the house. This will be hard to retrofit (just covering it
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by ajb 1y ago
In a sense. NCs were really for business use though Probably the closest thing we have is a Chromebook.
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by ajb 1y ago
Yes, RISC iX. I've no idea how many users it had to be honest . They kept going for a period by virtue of owning ARM. When the shareholders persuaded them to list it directly, the game was over. Before that they bet on set-top-boxes an
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by ajb 1y ago
Acorn just plain didn't have the manpower. They failed to effectively enter the international market and so other companies with a wider customer base out-invested them. They had a UNIX clone in 1988. The guy that did the kernel, Mark
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by ajb 1y ago
So giffgaff,who also use the O2 network, claim that they are unaffected as they have their own implementation of the service on top of O2s physical network. Which might be true, but I'm a bit suspicious as I know they are actually own
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by ajb 1y ago
Yes, it still exists. Most (all?) EU legislation that ended had to be explicitly revoked, since the UK was fairly diligent in transposing it to national legislation.
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by ajb 1y ago
I always check pprune (professional pilots rumour network) on any recent crashes, as many of the posters are pilots. However it's a forum so you have to wade through the usual idiots and arguments.
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by ajb 1y ago
It's easy to assume that a cultural issue is due to nationality or ethnicity, but actually culture varies hugely between companies and even teams. At a previous place, which did a lot of acquisitions, we had one Israeli team join us wh
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by ajb 1y ago
You can actually now get realtek rtl838x based ones that run openWRT. That's open firmware not open hardware, but good for most purposes.
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by ajb 1y ago
It's basically the same in the x86 world : your bios is customised to the board The sad part is that on ARM the kernel is usually also custom compiled for the board. So what happens is that Armbian ship a different image for each boa
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by ajb 1y ago
Probably just copypasting them out of google search, it's an easy mistake to make if you're not that technical.
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by ajb 1y ago
That's true, but it's actually a property of the circuit. Any circuit that fits into a 2d space will work the same if simulated in 3d: voltage will still drop off linearly along a 1d resistor. This is because it's actually an
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by ajb 1y ago
This may depend on jurisdiction. UK buildings insurance usually covers subsidence (although it may then be difficult to sell the property, as any buyer will have difficulty getting their own insurance even after a repair) I don't know
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by ajb 1y ago
This was apparently reached in Russia a while back, and became very advanced: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579124072390463488.html "In contrast, Russian cryptobros that I know tend to act very, very lowkey.
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by ajb 1y ago
I'm skeptical of these devices that say they are safe based on CE or FCC testing. (zenbud says it has been CE tested). That's consumer product testing, not health-device testing; I would like to see some evidence that long-term u
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by ajb 1y ago
Indeed. Just think how bad Zuck's sycophants must be, for that to be better...
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by ajb 1y ago
To a rich person, anyone who interacts with them is likely to be after their money. So from his point of view, LLMs are actually conversation partners who he knows aren't seeing him as a rich person, and so may actually feel more trust
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by ajb 1y ago
It was designed in 1920 , before digital computers, and is made using a very small number of electronic components. So, they couldn't have made it sound like whatever they wanted, at the time.

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