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by bencollier49 4y ago
Interesting, this is another one of those product names which have strange connotations in the UK. Viz Comic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics) They probably hold the trademark for animation in the UK or Europ
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Well yes, if you're a fan of hypogonadism. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789927/
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Some types of artificial neural networks are biologically plausible. The layered structure of the cerebral cortex reflects the layers of an artificial network.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
If you want to properly go down the rabbit hole as a C64 fan, then there's always the Mega65 ( https://mega65.org/ ). Makes the Next look like a bargain-bin item.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I'm currently reading "Sinclair and the 'Sunrise' Technology", which has a section on the calculator. They initially had problems with battery life, but took advantage of the fact that they could strobe power to the
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by bencollier49 4y ago
It was such a great idea that I couldn't not jump on the Kickstarter. It was a little pricey, but the case, build, presentation and software were all terrific. The team did an amazing job.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Yes! I've pretty much watched it to death... I was always an Acorn fan, but these days I also have a ZX Spectrum Next.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Ouch, that one made me wince! The RaspPi is very much an heir of the Acorn machines. Obviously your point still stands, but...
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I wonder if they were working with recruiters who were scraping LinkedIn photos. Very unusual practice for the UK, and slightly dubious, IMO.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Paradise Lost?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
It's interesting - someone looked at their smart plug and it was pulling 1.2W, the cost of which comes to more than some of the devices they might be attached to - assumes saving electricity is your only goal - in that case not necessa
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I find the reuse of the term "datasette" quite jarring. You'll pollute my retro searches! :-) The same thing happened with the "BBC Micro:bit" which was roughly in the same field, unlike this one.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
The BBC ran an interesting piece of advice this morning on saving money from "vampire devices": "There are smart plugs you can buy which will let you check everything is turned off from your phone". How much power do the
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by bencollier49 4y ago
> I can't sell paper outside the UK any more. What is this down to? Export regulations? Could you use print on demand or something instead?
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Agree totally with this. It's been exacerbated by the Crossrail work at Tottenham Court Road, which seems to have completely cut out the heart of the area - related to the issues at Denmark Street and elsewhere, like the Astoria.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Am I missing something fundamental here? What have London sweet shops got to do with UK government spending? Rents on Oxford Street, perhaps? Or is this a foreign key problem? EDIT: I think the parent poster has added a last line to clari
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I totally disagree - he's demonstrating that what appeared to be the scientific consensus on several occasions in the past was completely wrong.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
"It's not banning arguments, just recognising that the public sphere isn't the best place for certain arguments." And so on. That feels like a slippery slope to me.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Does this mean that languages become more synthetic if they're left on their own? Did Latin and Sanskrit develop in greater isolation? This is a fascinating subject.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
That's a great graphic. I can't figure out what it is doing this - I'm UK-based too, and I know logically that everything is now safer - I used to walk two miles to the woods with friends at the age of eight or nine, but I wo
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I've been interested for some time in how he's handling the building control people....
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Unfortunately, this will be very popular with schoolchildren on their homework, so it'll become normalised in culture.
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by bencollier49 4y ago
Sounds like you've been assimilated!
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by bencollier49 4y ago
English contingent on HN here going peak middle-class. :-) Speaking as one of them!
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I noticed the supermarkets producing copycats and became suspicious of the method by which they achieved the colour. There's something qualitatively different about the darkened yolk in the Clarence Court eggs, and it makes me wonder a
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by bencollier49 4y ago
> The creature is speaking English. That's not a very effective counterargument - the being in question could have communicated in any way and the conversation would have been recounted in English later, unless it used interpretive
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by bencollier49 4y ago
I wish the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy site could step up and fill this void, but from looking at it, it's covered in ads and not very functional. Shame the BBC ditched it. I really think there's room for a wiki site whi
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by bencollier49 5y ago
I agree, unless... It could be that they're making most of their money from spikes. It would be interesting if that were the case.
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by bencollier49 5y ago
I've said this over and over again. There should be laws in place enabling a person or company to set a hard limit on spend. It would be a pro-innovation law because people would then have the confidence to innovate.
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by bencollier49 5y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30991278

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