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by iam-TJ 4y ago
I found this chuckle-worthy in the changelog: * Many more buffixes and improvements.
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Asteroid 2023 BU: Space rock to pass closer than some satellites(bbc.com)
2 points by iam-TJ 4y ago|0 comments
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
"Jamming" is legal in as much as any device that operates in the ISM[0] bands must accept interference - so in the 2.4GHz example, microwave ovens, baby monitors, TV relays, remote door monitors, wireless alarm systems etc., all o
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
I do wish in those kind of comparison's they would make them equivalent: as in "26kg of jet fuel + XXXkg of turbine" vs "600kg of modern Li-on batteries + XXXkg of electric motor" since for a flying vehicle the all-
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Warning after Amazon customer sent dog food instead of iPhone(bbc.com)
4 points by iam-TJ 4y ago|0 comments
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
PSU and VRMs all check out. Went through the basics first.
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
I wonder if this also should work with AMI APTIO UEFI capsules. Currently dealing with a similar issue where for no apparent reason on a regular reboot motherboard fails to even start to POST. Without RAM modules it emits the manual-defined
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
In a former business I had several 'customer advocates' who were tasked with representing customers to internal teams. Difficult/complex/delayed issues could be escalated to the advocates by customer support. I view cust
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
1. Were you expecting or able to forecast a likely spike due to marketing activities? 2. Could it have helped if Stripe/random payment processor had a way for you to indicate you expect a sales spike and a specific contact route? Possi
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
One use-case I hit recently is when having multiple Private Windows. Assuming visiting a site, B, and wanting to use two different username+password combinations. If Window A->Site A needs to remain open but Window B->Site B is closed
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Isn't WHIP used as the signalling channel for set-up? So initial signalling over HTTP(S) for Offer(), Answer() and ICE candidates ?
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Help in coping post-Pratchett: Jasper FForde [0] - first 6 of 7 "Thursday Next" stories (starting with Eyre Affair), Nursery Crime books, Early Riser (possibly) The audio books of these are as good as the Discworld stories in term
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Seems like it'd be simple to deal with that: Allow people to pre-pay (deposit) an amount of their choice and set an account flag "Do NOT exceed account balance".
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
You remind me of a Windows CE PDA I had in the late 90s through early 00s [0] that had a pen stylus and consistently amazed me that it could flawlessly interpret my scrawly scribbles perfectly - I'm hard to please but it always amazed
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
That's already been adopted in Python with its "Truthy" or "Falsy" values!
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
The 'remote' aspect is the complicating factor but the basis of this is no different to other services. At the shop cash tills I noticed recently a sign that said "if you're purchasing alcohol and are fortunate enough to
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Internet Suite - that'd be rather like going full circle to the 1990s and Netscape Communicator Suite [0] ! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
<humour>Well, did you ever see sight of IPv5 ?</humour>
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Yes, I agree having revisited it! I'm almost sure it was much more wordy when it was first published which was why I used the shorter headline. I've changed the submission title to the article title "Mystery of BBC radio&#x27
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
The title came from the BBC News front-page link to the article that I copy-pasted since the article's own title is so vague! See the current (2022-11-15) Features and Analysis sub-section at https://www.bbc.com/news&#x
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Interesting little-known fact: "The BBC that began broadcasting at 6pm on 14 November 1922 was not the British Broadcasting Corporation of today. It was in fact the British Broadcasting Company and was made up of separate stations arou
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Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on(bbc.com)
63 points by iam-TJ 4y ago|20 comments
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
I've no irons in the fire here but it seems to me Elon sees the 'factory & cattle' model of business as preferred over other arrangements - that in software development doesn't necessarily hold. There are many extrem
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Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end(bbc.com)
7 points by iam-TJ 4y ago|3 comments
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
It is based on the higher performance of "Starlink Business" [0] that has more performant hardware, increased throughput, priority, and support and which, in the U.K., is billed at "... £400/mo for service and £2,410 for
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Boeing's Starliner launch pushed back again to April 2023(theregister.com)
7 points by iam-TJ 4y ago|0 comments
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
It is NOT possible to have the UEFI access the RAID device so that if one of the mirrors is broken it can continue to boot in degraded mode. It requires manual intervention of a knowledgable person to boot a UEFI system into the default OS
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
"don't set up MDRAID array for ESP, just have the ESP mirrored on all disks. " Isn't that the entire point of utilising MD RAID-1 in the first place? I've done as you suggest in years gone by with either metadata v0
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Changing ownership of /etc/ and directories under it like that sounds fine in theory but in practice breaks in many ways. I did some extensive testing of this some years ago (on Debian/Ubuntu) and many system services and too
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by iam-TJ 4y ago
Sounds like a 'reason' for a RasPi project! Pi, camera, small screen, and some image recognition ? To para-phrase a famous BBC journalist embedded on a U.K. aircraft carrier during the Falklands war and restricted on what he was a

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