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by dtf 10y ago
The Ordnance Survey grid system, a form of map coordinates in the UK. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geograph... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid
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by dtf 10y ago
Pretty sure your driver supports that (glxinfo |grep ARB_copy_image). Maybe you don't have GLEW >= 2.0?
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by dtf 10y ago
Last year, there was an interesting story about a woman who could smell a certain odour that seemed to be given off by people with Parkinson's (primarily her husband). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34583642
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by dtf 10y ago
I was very glad to find this page earlier this week, after scratching my head while implementing an isometric renderer for a client. I had assumed it would be a simple back-to-front order, but this page and a few others pointed out that the
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by dtf 10y ago
Well, there's a fair chance now that Andrea Leadsom will become PM. And she's definitely crazy enough to do it, regardless of consequence.
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by dtf 11y ago
Ironically, parliament awarded CryptTalk an innovation award last week. http://budapestbeacon.com/economics/crypttalk-given-innovati...
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by dtf 11y ago
If it was a million dollar hardware-level exploit, does it really matter? Much of the excited reporting on this seems to assume the FBI exploited an iOS software bug... do the press know something we don't?
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by dtf 11y ago
"The Internet as we know it won’t survive if other governments get their way." Here's a quick recap from TechDirt on the kind of Internet the author of this article would prefer: https://www.techdirt.com/blog&
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by dtf 11y ago
In the UK, we call that "doing a Ratner". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
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by dtf 11y ago
Also, if your traffic is basically one-way like in this example, don't forget Server-Sent Events, which are auto-reconnecting and well supported.
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Introducing the BBC micro:bit(bbc.co.uk)
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by dtf 11y ago
Isn't Number26 Germany only for the moment?
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by dtf 11y ago
It's a personal blog, and that's a bio. A short list of interests, things that might turn up in the blog.
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by dtf 11y ago
I think we can take banking to mean those particularly wicked fruits of the City of London... things like AIG's collapse, LIBOR and FX rigging, HSBC's drug money laundering, the seemlingly endless scandals of UK retail banking
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by dtf 11y ago
ConEmu + Clink... and it looks so pretty. Thanks, will give it a go!
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by dtf 11y ago
I'm a Linux user, and I use iTerm when I'm on a Mac and ConEmu on Windows. Are there some features I'm missing out on?
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by dtf 11y ago
Apologies for that, I submitted this and did actually go looking for the HN title guidelines, which seemed to say use the original title. I'll try to be a little braver with title editing in future.
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The NICAM Codec replacement project(bbc.co.uk)
519 points by dtf 11y ago|106 comments
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by dtf 11y ago
This guy Michael Brown (absolutely no relation to Ferguson) an Inspector in the UK west midlands police force has been steadily writing many intelligent things over the years about the intersection of mental health care and policing. https
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by dtf 11y ago
Visualising Quaternions is a book which goes into much beautiful depth about what they represent and how they behave, if you fancy digging deeper than the everyday practicality of them.
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by dtf 11y ago
If you added the equivalent of a spam button ("I don't like this"), took the user's history into account, and relations with other users, would there be a way to pre-flag posts much like a spam detector? Although I suppo
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by dtf 11y ago
Because they leak details about the user's machine?
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by dtf 11y ago
They've already done a pretty good job. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/isis-caliphate-...
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by dtf 11y ago
Here's an older piece by Jessica herself, on being a social radar, and the "mom" of the family: http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/the-social-radar-what-i-... (I posted this partly due to the predictable rea
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by dtf 11y ago
The current UK government has committed to: 1. ban encryption (any encryption worth its salt) 2. ban anything psychoactive 3. detach us from the European Convention of Human Rights. Not one of these things is achievable in practi
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by dtf 11y ago
Linux workstations have been the preferred platform for high-end finishing applications like NUKE, Flame and Baselight for years. Generally it's NVIDIA hardware on Red Hat.
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by dtf 11y ago
There are two crimes. One is theft, the other negligence.
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by dtf 11y ago
Someone on the radio just said it was an SQL injection. Can it get any more comical? Meanwhile TalkTalk & Met Police PR machines are in full flow talking up exotic claims of cyberjihadiism to deflect responsibility.
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by dtf 11y ago
There's the Met Police's £10m/yr communications budget at work.
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by dtf 11y ago
What's the HN opinion on Dyson? Good engineering or good marketing?

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