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NBN Co floats its own 'Netflix tax'(itnews.com.au)
2 points by femto 7y ago|0 comments
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by femto 7y ago
I avoid right angle turns on the theory that the sharp exterior corner increases the risk of the copper foil peeling away from the substrate.
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by femto 7y ago
Very nice! I've been using SimcirJS [1] to teach computer architecture to a group of primary school children. DigitalJS would be a replacement if it were possible to drag and drop components from a menu in addition to instantiating wi
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by femto 7y ago
> Thicker wires will heat up less for a given amount of current, increasing the carrying capacity of the circuit. One solution to increasing the effective thickness of a conductor is to “bundle” several conductors a few inches apart from
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by femto 7y ago
Are Huawei people also banned from accessing IEEE Xplore?
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by femto 7y ago
A bit of trivia: "the support that holds the receiver above an antenna's reflector" doesn't seem to have a word in the English language. At least one couldn't be found when it was discussed on the Sydney Wireless m
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by femto 7y ago
And now it will be possible to get one's hands on truckloads of potential bricks for almost nothing. If the community makes enough bricks it will eventually learn how not to make bricks. Those lessons can then be applied to other pho
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by femto 7y ago
And is the Huawei ban also about giving the competition a chance to catch up?
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by femto 7y ago
This strikes me as a brilliant opportunity to push for a complete Free Software stack for a phone. There will soon be a heap of 5G phone hardware going cheap. Software support will be lacking. The hardware manufacturer may well be open to
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by femto 7y ago
A set of encryption keys for a critical system is another point of failure: when there is a problem with the keys the system stops working. I'd posit that the risk of a failure due to a problem with the keys is greater than the risk
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by femto 7y ago
Also the Emma Watch [1]. Mechanically it's related to the spoon, but simpler in that it just generates white noise rather than trying to explicitly counter the tremors. The theory is that Parkinsons causes the brain-muscle feedback l
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by femto 7y ago
It fits my purpose and just works. The system has a fanless power supply and GPU making it virtually silent. When it's idle it consumes relatively little power as a server. Admittedly with 2GB of RAM and the latest Gnome/Debian
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by femto 7y ago
Ummm.. that is my everyday computer! DVD burner, 3.5" floppy, 5.25" floppy, zip drive, Bt848 based tuner. It's based on an Intel Core 2 Duo and must be pushing 10 years old by now, but it still works. Okay, about a year a
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by femto 7y ago
So the plan is to only use excess renewable energy that otherwise wouldn't get produced and consumed? If not wouldn't you be a net carbon generator, as you would be burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon in order to capture a
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by femto 8y ago
Australia recently ruled that its local (10%) Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to the majority of online purchases. The big overseas sites, such as Amazon, claimed that it was not practical for them to collect the GST on behalf of the
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by femto 8y ago
But you made the correct decision on whether to start the computation immediately or to start by building a "more impressive" system. Maybe it was luck that you beat them, or maybe it wasn't, but either way several years out
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by femto 8y ago
It strikes me as analogous to the near and far field of a radio antenna? The complicated initial close-in chaos corresponds to the complicated near field of an antenna. As the EM wave propagates further away from the antenna it assumes a
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by femto 8y ago
> You can make an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet back into an egg. The 2015 IgNobel was awarded for uncooking an egg! http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201509258005/awards-and-prizes/eg...
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Chasing Jack Ma: Chinese tech workers face burnout in 2.6 years(businessinsider.com.au)
2 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
A pair of these is just begging to be pointed towards each other and modified to form a Free Space Optical communications link.
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by femto 8y ago
One concern is nuclear material being diverted from their civilian programs to weapons programs. As a major suppler of uranium, this has been an issue in Australia for the last decade. India wants Australian uranium, but they aren't
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by femto 8y ago
See the book "The Machinery of Life", by David S Goodsell, the artist of the first illustration. It's an entire book of such illustrations, ordered to walk the reader though the different processes happening in a cell. I&#x
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by femto 8y ago
I reckon it's only a matter of time until someone uses the ESP8266 to synthesise a TV signal, whether that be at baseband or transmitted using the integrated radio. In fact a quick search shows that it is already in progress. https:&#
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by femto 8y ago
The other useful program would be one that can process a photo of a person wearing glasses and suggest which adjustments they should make to get the frames seated properly. Bonus points if the program can also spit out the script details b
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by femto 8y ago
It does seem a stretch to be bumping against the limits with a global head count of 3061 [1], with about 40% in Sydney [2]. To name two (of many) other tech heavy Australian employers, CSIRO has 5500 employees and DSTG has 2500, so it&#x27
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by femto 8y ago
The reference to "Australian-free" has piqued my curiosity. Do you care to elaborate? In my imagination you had an Australian collaborator that you fell out with and have been busy expunging all "Australian" code from
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by femto 8y ago
Weird, the LMK05318 datasheet shows an external crystal oscillator on pins 31 and 32. Is this an older part and the integrated oscillator is not yet released? I went looking for phase noise specifications, as the article and CC2652RB data
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by femto 8y ago
At the cost of 154+ deaths. That's one thing that has changed since the big projects of last century: construction workers are no longer considered to be part of the cost/benefit equation. I'd argue that a contributing facto
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Facebook probed by Australian Electoral Commission over mysterious political ads(abc.net.au)
3 points by femto 8y ago|0 comments
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by femto 8y ago
They understood the impact. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-says-la... They just put their own political skins ahead of good government and passed a law that they knew was flawed. There'

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