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by ljf 2y ago
Yeah, I was down Putney Bridge - most people had fallen in at some point, but no one fell ill - but I would not have swim in there out of choice, you could see oil slicks on the water regularly - this was about 2008 I guess.
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Rapid intensification of Hurricane Francine is a sign of a hotter world(theguardian.com)
4 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
I used to regularly kayak in the River Thames (London, UK) - I didn't concentrate one day and forgot to keep the kayak always facing the current, and a small boat wake/wave knocked me over. I swallowed a little water while rightin
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by ljf 2y ago
Great article! I've just installed an rss reader for the first time in years specifically to subscribe to your site. Looking forward to reading more
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by ljf 2y ago
I've not bought a new watch for ages, but I still love those from the 90s and 00s. I'd have to go and look at them to find the model numbers (as much as I love them they are all in an ice cream box somewhere) - I have the later ve
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by ljf 2y ago
I wasn't much of a fan of Fred, but my girlfriend (now wife) loved him, so I thought I better go and say hello and capture that I'd met it, otherwise she might not believe me. I remain a HUGE fan of Casio watches.
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by ljf 2y ago
A friend of mine (with an autistic child) explained it as: If you give your kid a strawberry - even within the punnet the tastes and textures will vary - even mid summer some will be unpleasantly tart. If I make a sandwich it will be mildly
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by ljf 2y ago
I have the version before this and ADORED it at the time. Felt like science fiction to have a camera on my wrist. I personally think/thought that the prior version had a bit better styling. I preordered it in the Carnaby Street Casio s
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by ljf 2y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)(publicdomainreview.org)
76 points by ljf 2y ago|19 comments
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Jellyfish under attack: Study uncovers parasitic spillover of burrowing anemone(phys.org)
2 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running(theguardian.com)
3 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
This! Said it before here but also consider than right next to each ear drum is a huge artery. When you run you might hear your heart beating in your ears, but generally we totally tune it out. But it is always there. Once I realised that I
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by ljf 2y ago
In the UK - even at the 'worst' public charging, mile for mile - it is still cheaper to charge up than to drive a petrol or diesel car - and that isn't taking into account the reduced running costs of an electric car. If you
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by ljf 2y ago
I wish I had the video still - maybe I need to run the experiment again, this time with my kids? Tangent: I look back sometimes and realise how stupidly lucky I was to have a father who not only humoured my crazy ideas, but actively encoura
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by ljf 2y ago
I mentioned over dinner at my parents house (about 20 years ago) that I'd read that running 240v through a gherkin would cause it to glow - and pretty much as soon as dinner was over, my father and I had the experiment set up. Gherkins
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by ljf 2y ago
Without the comma, that headline is hard to parse.
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by ljf 2y ago
It is interesting to test people at just one device. I used my phone on a mount, and completed the test with my wife, children and myself - I was interested (though not surprised) what an outlier I was, as I am colour blind in various combi
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by ljf 2y ago
Trucker rest stops had WiFi in 2002? That is awesome, I doubt we got similar services in the UK until 2015 or later.
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by ljf 2y ago
Seeing a Concordski and a Buran up close would be a dream for me - I hope I can see them some day. Both hold so much 'what it' pondering for me. I wonder if anyone local could explain, if day tickets are €23 to each museum, why wo
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by ljf 2y ago
Great video presentation on an experimental dive to 230 meters, using hydrogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skL5EQa8DFY "The probability of survival in such a dive is greater than zero" - 20m17s
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Fake watermelons full of drugs fail to fool US agents(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ljf 2y ago|0 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
Further discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301447
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by ljf 2y ago
I've tried this a few times, and while it 'works' for some teams, it means you aren't actually talking about the user stories you are working on. If you just want to pick up from a list of documented requirements and bui
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by ljf 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299268
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Disney drops bid to stop allergy death lawsuit over Disney+ terms(bbc.co.uk)
21 points by ljf 2y ago|16 comments
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by ljf 2y ago
I took a photography course in the 90s and we did some 3D images that you looked at two photos through a viewer or by going cross eyed. The teacher tried to get us to invest in some lenticular pictures but the cost for a 16 year old was ju
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by ljf 2y ago
These are amazing - I'd love to buy one, if you are selling your art. Though shipping to the UK and import tax would probably make this prohibitively expensive.
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by ljf 2y ago
True, I'm no doubt being too cautious - where I work it is mainly used for unit testing and prototyping - as I understand it we are using it with developers, but always with a human review - we never have a product owner making code wi
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by ljf 2y ago
Exactly this - show me something and I can tell the AI what I don't like or what it is missing. Equally, you can ask the GenAI to keep asking you questions to broaden its knowledge of the problem you are solving, and also ask it to res

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