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Sydney's sulphur-crested cockatoos spotted using drinking fountains(abc.net.au)
3 points by femto 1y ago|2 comments
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by femto 1y ago
The article says: "The first 115 units will begin shipping this summer at $35,000 each" From Cortical's home page [1]: "We're a revolutionary biotech firm based in Melbourne, Australia." Melbourne is the capita
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by femto 1y ago
How's that compare to the peak power output of a bubble collapsing in a liquid, over similar timescales? A genuine question, as I know bubbles pack quite a punch (can cause fusion) but can't find any numbers.
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by femto 1y ago
As I see it, that the whole point in this case. Alexander wants to teach children how to program in text mode, but can't see the bridge from Scratch to text mode. With textboxes, the child can write small functions to start with. As
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by femto 1y ago
It sounds like you want the ability to instantiate a scratch block that contains a text box, which in turn contains the function body for the block? It would then be possible to incrementally write as little or as much as desired in text.
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by femto 1y ago
> Money can solve all problems for someone, so you offer it, because there is so much else to do. Anthony Pratt is worth a few billion dollars and acknowledges the above with his quote "being rich is my superpower". [1] https:
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by femto 1y ago
Don't know. The customer ran a radio network which was used by fire brigade(s?) in NY, so we weren't on the "coal face". It was about 15 years ago. It was an interesting job. Among other things, our gear ran stage man
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by femto 1y ago
It can depend on the application/niche. I used to write signal processing software for land mobile radios. Those radios were used by emergency services. For the most part, our software was high quality in that it gave good quality au
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by femto 1y ago
> brass tacks An interesting story behind those: https://blog.lostartpress.com/2023/02/07/john-wilson-1939-20...
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by femto 1y ago
The Nissan Leaf is (was?) what you describe, apart from the LTE chip. The LTE doesn't seem to do much without NissanConnect (which was actually written by Bosch).
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by femto 1y ago
As a counterexample, I offer a pick-and-place line in action. https://youtu.be/Ca-SoKzjh4M?t=110 SMT component placement isn't that different to placing bricks. Conventional wisdom is that if you can design a PCB that
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by femto 1y ago
The article tries hard to give the impression that the fungus is transmuting other elements into gold. The real story is that the fungus is chemically reacting with and concentrating trace amounts of gold in the environment. Read the pape
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Pro-Russian influence operation in election attempt to 'poison' AI chatbots(abc.net.au)
9 points by femto 1y ago|2 comments
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by femto 1y ago
The story is Russia playing the long game, not the Australian election. Pravda Australia publishes stories, which get absorbed into AI training sets, which then influence chatbot outputs.
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by femto 1y ago
Even if Signal's encryption implementation is secure, the device on which it is running probably doesn't satisfy TEMPEST requirements. Most consumer crypto is vulnerable in some way to a side-channel attack.
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by femto 1y ago
My "favourite" one is bulk insulation for domestic dwellings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Fluffy Just get a big tub of loose asbestos fibre and use a blower to fill the roof space. What could go wrong?
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by femto 1y ago
At time 1:56 in the the video, the older guy "lets rip" a little bit and speeds up. It gets a murmur and a grin from the crowd, giving the impression that they are aware of what it can be. https://youtu.be/7_YoaP0
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by femto 1y ago
> can't possibly be intentional Careless?
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by femto 1y ago
This article is great: hard data from someone who is actually doing it. The way solar panel prices are going, my suspicion is that the most economical way to get a reliable home system is to massively over specify the solar array so it puts
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by femto 1y ago
Some BASICs had a RENUM command. They were a bit of a pain as well. As you wrote your program you got to know which line numbers were associated with which statements. Doing a RENUM meant having to relearn the "meaning" of each
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by femto 1y ago
And it was an absolute pain if you had to insert a new statement, but didn't have enough space left between line numbers. You had to retype the offending lines with new line numbers.
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by femto 1y ago
They were required for most early BASIC interpreters. They acted as a label for goto statements and determined the listing/execution order. From memory, the TRS-80 (and similar) would immediately execute a statement without a line nu
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by femto 2y ago
Any Australian buyers should be able to get an instant refund under consumer law (goods not as advertised). For those who don't want a refund and have the time and energy, fun could be had with the consumer law around "Unfair co
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by femto 2y ago
At one point Francis said "The Patriarch cannot become Putin’s altar boy", in reference to Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church [1]. Maybe Francis recognised that working to get Kirill to temper his support for Puti
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by femto 2y ago
We also emulated the British centralised model, with the Weapons Research Establishment. Like the British, Australia struggled to get research out of these centralised labs and into products: computing (CISRAC, 5th computer), satellites (W
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Why an Aussie lab is racing to make a vaccine for haemorrhagic fever(smh.com.au)
2 points by femto 2y ago|0 comments
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by femto 2y ago
Awareness started in the 1980s in Australia with Sid the Seagull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgn5nwYtj0 https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/sun-safety-campaign/103...
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by femto 2y ago
What's the battery durability like with 5 minute flash charging? EV makers quote durability and charging speed, but gloss over the fact that it's typically "either/or" because fast charging normally reduces the lif
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by femto 2y ago
A paper with data on the locations referred to by bearsnowstorm: https://intjem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12245-023...
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by femto 2y ago
Related, the ambulance system where I live has been running a clinical trail using a mobile ECMO unit (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) [1,2]. An invasive procedure that oxygenates and pumps blood. It's boosted survival rate for

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