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Snow Plowing by Bicycle(hackaday.com)
1 points by jjp 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 4y ago
I wonder how much of the message is for train and station staff, like Inspector Sands, as much as for passengers.
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by jjp 4y ago
Some back story and previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32536808
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by jjp 4y ago
Yes, plenty of research that analyzes the impact of your environment (not just temperature) on productivity. I read an earlier editiion of - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279190533_Creating_... it was fascina
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by jjp 4y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/ps... - is probably the most succinct from that thread. Your challenge isn't just learning Cobol - that's relatively simple. It's
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by jjp 4y ago
Shortening was probably driven by storage constraints - 3 bytes saved multiplied out by a few hundred references becomes a real saving on a 1.2Mb floppy disk.
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Cooking up a way to remove microplastics from wastewater – with okra, aloe(acs.org)
3 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 5y ago
As it seems to be the client and not the provider that is insured, be interesting to understand how they price the risk and whether it's on all providers. Also I wonder whether they do anything with the providers to reduce the risk, an
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The pervasiveness and policy consequences of medical folk wisdom in the US(2020)(nature.com)
1 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 5y ago
We had one at home from early 1980's. It was bought by my dad's business, it came home weekends and he taught himself to program. He used to create job schedules and pricing estimates and I got to do the data entry! Dad seriously
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Wiltshire Police 'Digi-dogs' trained to sniff out technology(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 5y ago
Dutch reach is one of many recommended behavioural changes - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-highway-code-8-change...
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Big Repair Project(bigrepairproject.org.uk)
2 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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‘We started eating them’: what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish?(theguardian.com)
4 points by jjp 5y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 5y ago
Discussion from a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170886
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by jjp 5y ago
BBC news reports that the auction was the estate of a deceased antique dealer.
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by jjp 5y ago
Many more images - https://www.puppiesandflowers.com/toys-of-potatoes/#Toys%20o...
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by jjp 5y ago
App to access files over the network. I think Infuse is pretty good. It supports NAS and if your files are well named then pulls in meta/artwork. Can also be a front-end for Ember/Jellyfin/Plex, but for my LAN media I’m curre
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by jjp 5y ago
See Scientific American blog post [1] which has a drawing from the paper author. [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goanna...
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by jjp 5y ago
Reuters reporting same https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/john-mcafee-found-dead-...
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by jjp 5y ago
How does cell broadcast work with either wifi or wifi calling? And is a cell broadcast a single point in time, i.e. what happens if I'm out of range at the time the broadcast sent?
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by jjp 5y ago
Is this (mostly) available in something like a Stream Deck - https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck
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Generating clean energy from the coal mines(theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by jjp 6y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 6y ago
Is there a way to persist the name, color across sessions. I'd love to be able to open all the bookmarks in a folder and then have them assigned to the same group/color. Then that way I can recreate one of a handful of different
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by jjp 6y ago
RSS couldn’t do it’s on its own as it’s just a mechanism to distribute content. Less technical content creators would still want somewhere to publish the content to and on the consuming side there would need to be a discovery mechanism.
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by jjp 6y ago
Yep, many years ago had several thousand pieces of testing mail delivered. Names and address text had been scrubbed, but house number and post code was enough to get them delivered. All of the letters were watermarked Test, but somebody jus
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by jjp 6y ago
Average number of properties per post code is 15 (max about 100), so a lot smaller than a route. And in rural area the routes are often kept to the same small group of staff for years.
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Gridded Bathymetry Data(gebco.net)
2 points by jjp 6y ago|0 comments
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by jjp 6y ago
Depending on your website market you also shouldn't set language based on browser preferences, but should be user selectable. I've spent years working with desktops builds from US-based IT teams that have then been deployed global

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