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by jjp 11y ago
> If you are building things in the US/UK/Canada then you are using feet and inches. In the UK you are more likely to be using millimetres if working from any kind of design. Working in inches and feet would depend on your age
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by jjp 11y ago
Can't much off the electronics be off-board? Given I could buy a Fire, Apple, Roku etc. I've always wondered whether there is a market for just a panel with a single HDMI input.
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by jjp 11y ago
I can relate to the research. In an office of about 70 staff there are days when we have less than 10 people at their office desk (either because they are working from home or on client sites). And it certainly makes me question why I both
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by jjp 11y ago
Not clear from the article or linked press release how wildlife isn't caught up in the cleanup. Would also be interesting to know how small an item it will clean.
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by jjp 11y ago
6000 years between unlevened and yeast bread seems along time. I would have expected naturally occurring yeast to have hastened this.
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Paid to spend two months in bed(bbc.co.uk)
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by jjp 11y ago
A little more on the research - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_488900_en.ht... including why it's difficult to do this in the wild. And some earlier research http://news.bbc.co.uk&
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by jjp 11y ago
And like the iPhone roll-out you have to have bought the device directly from Vodafone - http://www.vodafone.co.uk/explore/network/network-improvemen...
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by jjp 11y ago
Interesting that the Met Office in the UK says that winter for weather starts on December 31st http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/learn-about-the-weather...
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London bus stops embrace e-paper(bbc.co.uk)
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by jjp 11y ago
Don't know about pH but very interesting read on history primarily from a civil engineering perspective - http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/Civil_Eng-Nov-2010-H...
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by jjp 11y ago
Was discussed yesterday on this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754917 which points to the proactive announcement Juniper made
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by jjp 11y ago
If a vehicle is approved in the UK I'm assuming it would have to be geo-fenced to stop me going into the rest of Europe. Either because it wasn't approved or because it didn't know how to cope with country specific road cond
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by jjp 11y ago
It would be very interesting to see whether it can use LIDAR to enhance the model of the road in order to detect passing places. And then use this data to know which of the vehicles should reverse because it is closer to a passing place. Bo
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by jjp 11y ago
Certificate was disallowed from December 1st.
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EU law makers reach deal on new network and information security rules(out-law.com)
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by jjp 11y ago
Agreed, think the article title is misleading because it implies it covers everybody whereas it only really covers people who live in cities. The PDF cited in the article with a title of "Urban demographics - Why people live where they
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by jjp 11y ago
Thank you. I was struggling to identify with a user story of why a scan of an envelope that was going to be delivered later today was of benefit to somebody.
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by jjp 11y ago
For Europe by train see http://emptypipes.org/supp/isochrone_london/
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The fluid dynamics of the chocolate fountain(iopscience.iop.org)
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by jjp 11y ago
I'm honestly a bit surprised, come to think of it, that all supermarket sales aren't actually accounted as online orders from a webshop hosted on the Isles of Man with express delivery from warehouse at the customer's locati
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by jjp 11y ago
http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/
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NIST De-Identification of Personal Information [pdf](dx.doi.org)
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by jjp 11y ago
Think you probably mean this map - http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the...
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This Acoustic Tractor Beam Can Levitate Small Objects with Sound(smithsonianmag.com)
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Driverless Navy Boats Programmed to Swarm Like Bees (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)
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Driverless Navy Boats Programmed to Swarm Like Bees (2014)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jjp 11y ago
Would be interested to find an ad blocker that is aware of my available bandwidth. If I'm using my phone/phablet on 3G/EDGE connection then block ads (especially on the kind of ad payload being reported in this article). But
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by jjp 11y ago
Take a look at the Pyramid Principle [pdf] http://www.consultingmethodology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014... , developed by Barbara Minto from Mckinsey Consulting. It provides a framework for structuring your thought
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The Facebook of the Future Has Privacy Implications Today(theintercept.com)
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