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by manarth 2y ago
Derek would like a word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ
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by manarth 2y ago
"All these getters and setters manually coded make it feel like Java." Project Lombok has solved that issue of manual boiler-plate getters and setters in Java. If you program regularly in Java it's worth having in you
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The article says it's "without parallel", quoting the lead archaeologist.
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by manarth 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification! :-)
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by manarth 2y ago
My understanding is that it's the other way around. - Qualcom has a "Technology license". Because ARM design the entire chip under that license, ARM charge a premium royalty. - Nuvia had an "Architectural licence" (
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by manarth 2y ago
Oh, I misunderstood the point you were making. I guess you _could_ have a modern digital receiver with SCART-out (if such a thing exists) to a B&W TV. This BBC article (2018) claims 7,000 people watching TV with a B&W licence – whet
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by manarth 2y ago
Where I said that the BBC were independent, I was responding to the parent thread which said the BBC are a Government organisation. The BBC are independent of the UK government. The BBC are responsible for TV licencing, and they delegate (o
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by manarth 2y ago
There has rarely (if ever) been a separate broadcast signal for B&W vs colour. Broadcasts began in B&W, over time upgraded to colour, but there wasn't a need to broadcast Channel <whatever> in B&W and broadcast the sa
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by manarth 2y ago
The BBC is independent, and funded by the TV licence. The TV licence scheme is _administered_ by Capita on behalf of the BBC. Those responses are coming from Capita.
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by manarth 2y ago
TV licencing in the UK is administered by Capita. Their contract is unlikely to allow queries to be ignored, and the people receiving the queries are likely to have targets to resolve "tickets" (queries) within a particular time &
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by manarth 2y ago
> "Why scientists are drilling into volcanos" Because they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
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by manarth 2y ago
Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius(cnn.com)
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Britain to Return Chagos Islands to Mauritius(theguardian.com)
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by manarth 2y ago
"went back later with some fellow divers, going down 15 metres" At 15 metres, the pressure is 2.5 × the surface pressure. Pressure at the surface is 1 bar, and fresh water pressure increases at 1 bar per 10 metres. 15 me
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by manarth 2y ago
https://archive.is/UX9d4
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Replace one proprietary format owned by a private organisation with another proprietary format owned by a different private organisation?
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by manarth 2y ago
The BAN provide fields `long` and `lat` which are WGS84, and also `x` and `y` which are coordinates expressed in "the appropriate local CRS" (without much elaboration on what that would be).
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by manarth 2y ago
There's some underwater footage on the Sky News website: https://news.sky.com/story/hms-hawke-discovered-wreck-believ...
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by manarth 2y ago
User-input speed vs system-interpretation speed is a decades-long problem with a history of incidents and warning signs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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by manarth 2y ago
Which is where the foam is. And the roof timbers are covered by the foam, hidden from easy visual examination.
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by manarth 2y ago
You're correct, "cowboy traders" is a British idiom for tradesmen without the appropriate skills, qualifications or experience to fulfil their contract responsibility. It can also refer to those who will take on contracts (pl
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by manarth 2y ago
No. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... >
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(2011)
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https://archive.is/TlCSu
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by manarth 2y ago
Also, do ensure your suit and helmet meet ISO 17763. They _do not_ have to be NASA branded, but the cheap ebay knockoffs will be spotted. You may also be asked to use the suit in a vacuum negative pressure test to ensure it's compliant
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by manarth 2y ago
Humour goes in different ways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Happy if it brightens up a single person's day :-)
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by manarth 2y ago
> "Convert Liters to Anything" Clickbait. I wanted to convert liters to strawberries, but there's not a single option there. Liters to monkeys? Nope. Liters to hailstones? Not a single calculation. Don't waste
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by manarth 2y ago
If you bring your own space suit and helmet, they'll often let you sit in the crew capsule on top of the rocket for a few minutes, as long as there's more than 30 minutes to go before launch. The Dragon's my absolute favourit
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https://archive.is/m2O0Y

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