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by ggm 2mo ago
Very true. Had many bikes, usually broken at time of acquisition. Most rusted out under the house. Went bikeless for a few years then got one driven in need (home work commute in an inner city just too long to be a quick walk, and car use r
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by ggm 2mo ago
Never rated them as bikes. Like Halfords, a brand of last resort. Cheap cycles for the masses is a good thing but when it winds up being the one constantly at the side of the road in the rain having a lost loose nut replaced and with Rusty
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by ggm 2mo ago
I think there is a common belief if you make a lot of information available, acquiring skills is "easy". It's certainly easier than without, but the thing is, drawing the owl just takes a fucking long time to learn. There are
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by ggm 2mo ago
Great article with elements of "how to draw an owl" about it. To be really good at botany is simple. Just learn how to be really good at {list of requirements which are themselves recursively complex and challenging, despite b
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by ggm 2mo ago
Model steam enthusiasts have had this for literally decades with a variety of premade parts available, angering those who learned to use a lathe. "Did you really make that" is huge in this.
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by ggm 2mo ago
This made me think about viral infections which reset your immunity and functionally "cancel out" vaccine immunity for measles and the like. It's called "immune amnesia"
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by ggm 2mo ago
Worthy of a top level post be the OP you need to be!
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by ggm 2mo ago
I don't particularly like the idea of India being the force which brings a tech scofflaw to heel. But that said, I'll take what I can get.
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by ggm 2mo ago
Well said. One might as well have machines pray for you. Or, maybe have some machine centric fun, while you work to pay the cost of the machine.
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by ggm 2mo ago
There's a great sequence in Bill Forsyth's "comfort and joy" where somebody records their ice cream van jingle on a kids toy xylophone and plays it through a handheld PA. Just the right degree of mind-numbing repetitiven
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by ggm 2mo ago
Has aged reasonably well. My local firefox user is marginally discontent with unrequested changes across update, but otherwise content and finds the list of "we stopped them snooping" catches fascinating. I am in Brave. It's
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by ggm 2mo ago
I have heard comments which echo those of the collapse of public-private-enterprise activity "who cares if the shareholders lose, we have the asset" There is some truth in this. But only some. Firstly, pension fund investment mean
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by ggm 2mo ago
Is this more than just documented use of PKCS12? Maybe the flimflam around that PKCS12 matters more than I realized. JSON is at least modern(ish) I would hope this means I can stop worrying where I make pass keys, and instead worry about sy
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by ggm 2mo ago
She basically ignored the wisdom of her own advice. A corollary of "don't blame the original author" is "it's not your story once the film company has the contract signed" "Saving Mr Banks" is this fo
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by ggm 2mo ago
And nobody asinine enough to ask "where's my jetpack" because we'd need Von Neumann self replicating machines, a supply chain and significantly more robust coding to get there. He might have done better to push it anothe
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by ggm 2mo ago
From memory, Glasgow University CS had serious buy in to VLIW models of computation for a while, predating Itanium. There was good reason for believing it might have some interesting behaviours. I think they worked on languages targetting i
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by ggm 2mo ago
Explaining WHY 400hz power weighs less would have been useful. The article is a one-paragraph "because" with a lot of padding. Power doesn't come from nowhere. It's taken as some form of output from the gas turbines driv
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by ggm 2mo ago
Somebody, either Buderi or Rhodes has the magnetron appearing in the MIT Radar labs and somebody saying "oh, thats obvious" and being asked "ok smartass, how does it work then..." Sometimes, simple things are obvious in
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by ggm 2mo ago
Decca navigation gear was common in British boats operating in near coastal waters right up to the 70s and 80s. The fundamentals of how this system worked were not radically different to the beam systems used for navigation in the war. htt
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by ggm 2mo ago
Galahs are highly socialised and live in large groups. I certainly want to believe they take pleasure in flight, and I love seeing them fly above the Brisbane River where I live but I am drawn to observe they are also probably subject to so
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by ggm 2mo ago
Very different to the environmental shut-downs elsewhere (france) which are about water temperature effects on the ecology: this is a pretty straightforward physical/engineering limit. Danube low, less water available.
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by ggm 2mo ago
Also on Landline. well worth watching.
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by ggm 2mo ago
Didn't early Victorian Train lines have shareholders tokens which functionally entitled the holder to free travel? I am sure this was an understood concept probably handed down from Turnpike and Canal days.
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by ggm 2mo ago
I love that English is the lingua franca and that the phrase "lingua franca" is well understood in English, enough to be legitemately "an english word" (so to speak). The whole "we have a word for that" carri
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by ggm 2mo ago
Modern photographic portraiture is immensely satisfying.
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by ggm 2mo ago
IP geo is private industry agreement. Comcast could use an IP anywhere in its footprint, att likewise. There's no strong geographic identity of necessity in where you come from and with private IP overlay from apple or cloudflare warp
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by ggm 2mo ago
Because NEXTstep used Unix files stem semantics URLs use Unix /
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by ggm 2mo ago
I remember knowing about these at uni and then learning about reprogrammable UV erased PROM and thinking the same magic faries who do the link fusing probably had tiny soldering irons to fix them in the reprogrammable ones (we said if you l
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by ggm 2mo ago
It is very hard to believe any process which pushes and stores that amount of energy in shorter and shorter times does not have a truly awesome what-if risk side. We know fuel does. LNG spectacularly. So this isn't a pro ICE anti EV th
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by ggm 2mo ago
How about providing a searchable index of channel, IPR restrictions, delay to DTV live on aid broadcast time. If you cannot provide me with Australian ABC Chanel 2/22 within tolerable on air time, inside Australia, you're useless

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