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by m-i-l 11y ago
I've only used a small number of low budget tools on a very infrequent basis since. A quick search on the internet suggests that safety mechanisms are common nowadays, with keyless chucks and chuck guards seemingly the most common. I g
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by m-i-l 11y ago
At my school, one of the teachers had fixed a spring to each chuck key, to make it impossible to leave in by mistake - you had to press the key in to open/close the chuck, and as soon as you stopped pressing it in the spring would make
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I read many years ago that one of the keys to long term happiness is supposed to be having "achievable goals". By using the word "fantasy" I would assume the article/abstract means unachievable or unrealistic goals,
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Source link (Desert Island Discs interview): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35442969
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Charging is currently free, whereas the battery swap was US$60.
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Looks good. Feedback from a designer I showed this to: it would be useful to search based on aspect ratio (landscape vs portrait at minimum).
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The potential for depreciation was a powerful deterrent for me. Assuming 20% depreciation a year, then a £65K Tesla would be "costing" over £1000 a month just in depreciation alone. However, the Tesla Model S has apparently so far
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Tesla did have battery swap stations where the battery would be swapped in around 90 seconds (less time than it takes to fill up a tank)[0]. However, uptake was apparently very small so focus was shifted to building the network of superchar
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by m-i-l 11y ago
In the UK there has also been the relatively recent arrival of the "upward inflection", i.e. making statements sound like questions, which may also have arrived from Australia: "in the UK many people take it as a given that
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by m-i-l 11y ago
There's some advice in The Manual which I've sometimes wondered could (or should) apply to the startup scene: "having no money sharpens the wits".
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Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain (UK Government report)(gov.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The BBC article doesn't say much, and probably raises more questions than it answers. However, it is worth reading the government publication it links to, which was published today. Link is https://www.gov.uk/government
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by m-i-l 11y ago
BitFury were apparently spending around $100M on a new mining data centre[0] so I would imagine cost would be in excess of this. There was also a discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774204 with some estimat
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Good article. Although I'm not sure the Bus Analogy is a good name. When I saw the heading I thought it was going to be something related to waiting for ages and then 3 coming at once. In actual fact the analogy is about (i) strategic
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Indeed. There was a discussion about these on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936028 .
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by m-i-l 11y ago
To put it into perspective, a bookmaker in the UK offered odds of 14 million to 1 for Elvis Presley crash landing in a UFO on top of the Loch Ness monster[0]. [0] A quick Google returns a number of sources, but I'm going to use this o
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by m-i-l 11y ago
There's also a blog entry about accessing GPU from Docker at http://marconijr.com/posts/docker-exposing-gpu/ .
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How much inequality is too much?(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The Grapple X on 8 November 1957 (a few months after the Grapple 1 on 15 May 1957) was a successful thermonuclear device[0], so it was only a short term bluff. Bear in mind that this was in the context of the British feeling betrayed by the
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by m-i-l 11y ago
See also "What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie" at http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/ . To summarise the "What makes a good #selfie" section: - Be female. -
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Does anyone know what technology they are using for their private distributed ledger? I heard a rumour that it was based on SharePoint - not sure if this was a joke, but wouldn't be surprised if it were true. As per some of the other c
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by m-i-l 11y ago
The English were known as a "nation of shopkeepers"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_shopkeepers
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Everything you need to know about Bitcoin and blockchain right now(uk.businessinsider.com)
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Fear in the Faceburbs: Comfort, Dread and Digital Fortresses in 2015(thequietus.com)
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Seems a reasonable response to me. After reading the original article I was left with the impression that Tesla had outsourced the development of their autonomous driving technology, and this changes that impression. And I have to agree tha
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Some countries don't get much sunshine though, e.g. the UK only gets sun around 30% of the daytime according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_Kingdom .
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by m-i-l 11y ago
In a large organisation you'll typically have a number of different architecture roles, i.e. its always something Architect. For example, there are Enterprise Architect, Line-of-Business Architect and Solution Architect roles for dif
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by m-i-l 11y ago
I know someone with a really similar name. He should take photos of the Richard Prince ones in a gallery, add a caption or something to claim fair use, and sell them as his-similar-name originals. Sounds like the key to plausibility would b
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Volunteers aid pioneering Edsac computer rebuild(bbc.co.uk)
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by m-i-l 11y ago
Hugh Trevor-Roper's "The Last Days of Hitler" is the nearest we have to a primary source in English. The 1947 edition didn't have any details from the Soviets, but there were a number of subsequent editions where additio

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