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Complications of Shunt Systems(hydroassoc.org)
2 points by femto 6y ago|0 comments
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by femto 7y ago
My hope is that now Australians have seen what is possible there will be no going back to the old ways.
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by femto 7y ago
My feeling is that they are getting it right this time, as science and medicine is still trumping politics in Australia's COVID response. (Though that's beginning to change.) Getting it right this time means the Government doesn&
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by femto 7y ago
What about a "Both Respirator"? [1] In the 1930s polio epidemic there was a shortage of "iron lung" respirators, which were expensive to produce. Edward Both invented a plywood version, which was cheap and easy to produ
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by femto 7y ago
But working under Catherine Hamlin are a bunch of people doing "irrelevant" things. Someone has to empty the garbage bins in the wards, but the hospital wouldn't work without that person. You don't have to run the show
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by femto 7y ago
I first learned of her work from the book "The Hospital by the River". It's well worth reading. It can be bought directly from the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation website, thus helping the charity. https://st
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by femto 7y ago
I was working on the Jindalee OTHR at the time. We used to sit in the control room listening in on the Woodpecker. We also had quite a bit more power then the HAMs (beamformed) so they didn't ignore us. (Jindalee also stayed clear of
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by femto 7y ago
The official interactive map for the NSW Rural Fire Service is also an eye opener, as it shows the actual areas burnt in roughly real-time. https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fires-near-me In the past month it
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by femto 7y ago
Last night's moon was a fully saturated red colour in the suburbs at the Northern edge of Sydney, whilst high in the sky, just like the colour red you would get on a computer monitor. More spectacular than a lunar eclipse, as there wa
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by femto 7y ago
To that end, there are proposals for OSM to handle disputed boundaries. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/M... The idea is that OSM captures the multiple views of the boundary in dispute,
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by femto 7y ago
Having run my own server for 20 years, my experience is also that it is relatively hassle free. I also run my own DNS and have a static IP, which might help with keeping email related DNS records up-to-date. Running the server is generally
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by femto 7y ago
So one can view Rod Stewart's entire career as an attempt to achieve enough fame to preserve his model railway layout after his passing? Tongue in cheek, but I do think modelers keep these questions in the back of their mind, about the
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by femto 7y ago
No doubt it will be touted as a way to protect civilians from the effects of war, apart from those civilians who look a bit like someone else or have upset someone who has access to the system.
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by femto 7y ago
AGL in Australia is looking to turn disused coal mines into pumped storage. https://www.agl.com.au/about-agl/media-centre/asx-and-media-...
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by femto 7y ago
I'd extend this by aiming to have each trivial step be a useful result that can be immediately released to market. If you can't make every step useful, try to get as many as possible useful with a minimum number of steps between
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by femto 7y ago
What about "audio" doodling as an interesting parallel? A doodler is typically listening to their subject, whilst their visual attention is elsewhere. An audio doodler has their visual attention on the subject, but is listening e
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by femto 7y ago
Because you're in private mode? You can still read the text of the article, as it's briefly displayed before being obscured. While the full text is visible there is enough time to do an alt-A (select all) clt-C (copy) key sequen
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by femto 7y ago
> For SMEs its the total opposite. A cracking business opportunity: a cheap "personal cloud" for SMEs that just works? An extension would be an associated "public cloud", allowing customers to seamlessly move between
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by femto 7y ago
And those 10000 URLs per hash are not equally likely. Chances are one or two of those URLs get visited and the other 9999 are so obscure they can almost certainly be ruled out. Sending a 32-but hash isn't that far off sending the URL
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by femto 7y ago
In typical use the person being paged makes direct contact with the sender once the page has been received. It's better than guaranteed delivery, in that the direct contact from the recipient closes the loop "completely", an
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Humans are making biased algorithms that entrench discrimination(abc.net.au)
5 points by femto 7y ago|0 comments
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by femto 7y ago
This paper also adds information on absolute energy usage and per kilogram produced. http://web.mit.edu/ebm/www/Publications/energy_required.pdf
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Embodied energy of digital technology(lowtechmagazine.com)
102 points by femto 7y ago|50 comments
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by femto 7y ago
The numbers I've seen say that glass uses less energy than plastic. 100% recycled aluminum beats glass, but a more realistic mix, or virgin aluminum, uses more energy than glass. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/what-is
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by femto 7y ago
Lock Picking as a Service? I can imagine someone cracking these locks en masse, then setting up a website to sell the fruits of their labour. A local thief could log into a website, provide a street address and pay a fee, and the lock will
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by femto 7y ago
The burning of Sydney's rolling stock was a crime against woodworkers. The same thing happened to old wooden railway carriages in Sydney. Slabs of well seasoned (Australian) red cedar, the length of a railway carriage, inches thick a
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by femto 7y ago
Thank you.
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by femto 7y ago
I'd like to see a description of the real boot process: the one that starts from cold silicon, and the Management Engine fetching its first instruction, as it brings up the main CPU.
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by femto 7y ago
A wikipedia based on Universal Product Codes has been in the back of my mind for a long time. Scan the UPC and a page pops up. Have the data in the form of an infobox or RDF (dbpedia.org) and the basis is there for an app or glasses that
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by femto 7y ago
Also worth noting that the NBN is a government mandated monopoly. There are no other options for a wired Internet connection. If the NBN abandons net neutrality then the entire Internet is broken in Australia.

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