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by delibes 8y ago
Even stranger to see Eccles and Irlam mentioned by someone here - I grew up in those two places! You mean the Bridgewater Mill by Patricroft bridge, right? If you're interested in Victorian era tech, there's also a Nasmyth steam h
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by delibes 8y ago
I used to love the puzzle adventure things like Repton. edit - and Castle Quest and Ravenskull.
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by delibes 8y ago
Yep, I agree Scotland is fine for polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
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by delibes 8y ago
On the plus side, it's remote. But it's hard to get my satellite there, and the weather there doesn't seem ideal for launching rockets. I'd expect the east of the UK to be better for both access and available launch date
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by delibes 8y ago
I think battery for commercial jet airliners might be a long way off, due to jet fuel's energy density. Small planes might manage. One idea I recall from Virgin Airlines a while back was to have planes towed around the airport so they
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by delibes 8y ago
> So could we not "renew" some antibiotics by simply not using them for 5 to 10 years? I'm fairly sure I've come across this idea before. Oh here's an example: https://www.quora.com/What-is-antibi
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by delibes 8y ago
That licence is written in some very nice plain English. Congratulations to the people that did it.
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by delibes 9y ago
> "It is clear Microsoft needs to do something to stimulate use of Edge, but the change is likely to be extremely unpopular with both testers and regular users" I think if it has the side-effect of pushing users still using IE8
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by delibes 9y ago
Well his excellent write-up acknowledges the WDC 65816 which was you can still buy (IC or Verilog), so I guess somebody wants it? https://wdc65xx.com/65xx-chips/w65c816s/16bit/MPU I had a BBC Micro B (a very
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by delibes 9y ago
I'm the tech director/CTO/whatever in a team of 3 devs (me plus 2). We don't do 'performance appraisals'. We often do code reviews. I sometimes do pair programming. Once in a while I have a private chat about s
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by delibes 9y ago
I occasionally boot up a PowerBook G4 running Leopard - I think the last version to support PPC. It's had a battery replacement and an SSD installed but is still quite slow (and hot after a while). But the screen and keyboard are nice
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by delibes 9y ago
And yet we still can't heal damaged gums easily. When somebody figures that out, they'll be rich.
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by delibes 9y ago
Was thinking the same, but more eyeballing also makes me think there's always a slowdown or even dip in Jan/Feb. That seems even stranger.
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Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary(theguardian.com)
12 points by delibes 9y ago|2 comments
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by delibes 9y ago
> For example a large attack by India towards Pakistan That's 8th on the list in the movie Wargames :) https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/24ujzq/for_fans_of_...
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by delibes 9y ago
Is it that easy? If the USA declares 'no first use' do I believe it? How much more than UK, Russia, China, ... Israel, Pakistan, North Korea? In fact, only America has ever actually used a nuclear bomb in a real war. On the balanc
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by delibes 9y ago
My understanding is there is no grace period. It starts 25th May, and affects any existing data you have. So for example, if I have 1 million users today with a weaker form of consent agreement, I need to ask them all to re-affirm a much cl
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by delibes 9y ago
I like it. You need a good slogan for the media. How about something like ... err ... "No taxation without representation" ? Nah, it'll never work.
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by delibes 9y ago
Ah, memories. Back in 2010 I whinged to colleagues who were using their fancy functional languages to solve problem 1 inefficiently in 2 lines of code... " Project Euler problem 1 :- It helps to know the sum of (1 .. x) is 0.5 * n * (n
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by delibes 9y ago
Not sure if we'd be sun-transiting to them, but perhaps they can get a highly sensitive atmospheric spectral line chart. Then they can start debating whether the CO2 level going from 0.03% to 0.04% indicates we're entering another
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by delibes 9y ago
Thanks for reminding me. The Last Lecture is good. Since it's about 9 years ago, some younger HN readers may have missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Cancer sucks.
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by delibes 9y ago
That's the fun science bit where we say "Oh that's odd" :) Is there some matter along the path that interacts with the gamma ray burst and slows it by two seconds? Why is it two seconds? Does it tell us something about t
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by delibes 9y ago
I see what you're getting at with (B), since you've named the function which adds another 'thing' to think about. But I can anonymise it in modern Javascript: y = (x) => {return Math.max(2, x)} To me that just
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by delibes 9y ago
Gas giants are a much less obvious place for native life to evolve, at least from our understanding of life. Enceladus appears to have liquid water, which makes it much more likely (still slim). That said, Arthur C Clarke included giant cit
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by delibes 9y ago
HMS, HMAS (Australia), HMCS (Canada) are fairly well understood and widely used in the press. As a Brit, we generally understand that USS George H.W. Bush is a big ship, not a person. This seems to be the same case from the other side of th
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by delibes 9y ago
A slightly more recent UK figure has it at less than 0.1% https://blog.yell.com/2016/04/just-many-web-users-disable-co... I like to avoid Javascript where possible just to build a nice clean fast page.
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by delibes 9y ago
Pity they couldn't have the imagination to write a more positive headline then. How about - "MP3 music tech finally freed from license limitations"
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by delibes 9y ago
You might like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abolishing-Performance-Appraisals-B...
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by delibes 10y ago
Huh. His obituary says he retired from IC in 1986, but I _distinctly_ recall him giving an electric motors course in my first year in 1994! I'm doubting my own memory now, but have vivid recollections of a classmate talking about the p
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by delibes 10y ago
Love that "late" sign. Reminds me of H2G2 - Slartibartfast: Come. Come now or you will be late. Arthur: Late? What for? Slartibartfast: What is your name, human? Arthur: Dent. Arthur Dent. Slartibartfast: Late as in the late Denta

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