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by markb139 5y ago
I wonder if you could get around this by having a multi CPU machine setup (many vendors silicon) and have a "Generals problem" algorithm ?
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by markb139 5y ago
Or both. I’m 6ft6 and 254 lbs
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by markb139 5y ago
Maybe water is getting in and out at differing rates
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by markb139 5y ago
Indeed. We have an aging Audi that has adaptive cruise control. Recently the radar unit failed. To get it replaced at a dealer will cost about half of what the car is worth.
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by markb139 5y ago
My iPhone 8 Plus has landscape mode
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by markb139 5y ago
It wasn’t very different 25 years ago when I worked there. I remember going to a viewing for a “2nd hand” apartment. I arrived 5 mins early. Swedes take their shoes off upon entering a place, there were so many people viewing the flat that
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by markb139 5y ago
My iOS developer story ended shortly after I attempted to start back in 2008. To run apps I’d written on a device I had to sign up and pay for an account, which I was ok with. Then my account was suspended until I proved who I was with a sc
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by markb139 5y ago
And John Lewis is owned by the staff
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by markb139 5y ago
I don’t think there are any sub £30k Audis that do sub 6s to 60. Base S3 is £38k
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by markb139 5y ago
I have this problem too. I’m 2m tall and 118kg. I destroy most sitting or sleeping things eventually. It’s surprisingly reasonable to get custom made mattresses in the uk. Current one is 2.10m long. Perfect
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by markb139 5y ago
If I'd have been interviewing you we'd have talked about those two projects a lot. Especially the OS kernel :) I currently have two hobby projects "in development". An bot trader (it broke even over 6 months with pretend
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by markb139 5y ago
Sounds like it's going to be similar to the local London trains. i.e private companies running the system with "Transport for London" branding.
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by markb139 5y ago
I'm 200cm and been an ad-hoc tourist attraction in various places I've visited :) Except Hanover, where everybody seemed just as tall
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by markb139 5y ago
There is at least one massively scaled system that relies heavily on software, that doesn't often get a mention because it just works. When was the last time you picked up a land-line phone and it didn't work because of a fault on
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by markb139 6y ago
I tried to repair some electronics on a modern car and it was impossible for me to buy a new SIM card holder of the same sort. The dealer would happily take £3k off me for a new unit. I’ve now got a salvaged waiting to go in
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by markb139 6y ago
It's interesting how devices have gone. Nokia, when they were focused, were making devices smaller, cheaper and with improved battery life. Now we get these giant devices that need re-charging daily and cost >£1000
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by markb139 6y ago
I’ve worked with 0.1x engineers, where the whole team is slowed down. It becomes very draining. This is why I’ve retired and am just doing my own projects
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by markb139 6y ago
Quad-input. Luxury. All we had was a BC108
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by markb139 6y ago
One of the locations used for the TV series was the BBC technical training centre. As an 80' graduate engineer I "enjoyed" the "behind the iron curtain" feel to the accommodation. The onsite bar made up for it.
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by markb139 6y ago
According the uk official national statistics manufacturing product sales for 2019 was £396 billions.
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by markb139 6y ago
I’m 55 and have been studying for a degree in Mathematics. I’m about 2/3 the way through. It’s a challenge but enjoyable
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by markb139 6y ago
In the context of London and the UK “get tossed in prison” has an alternative meaning
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by markb139 6y ago
I couldn’t stretch to an A440, but did get an A310. What a great machine. It was blindingly fast for the time (1987). In about 1994 it still out performed a new 486DX100 PC
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by markb139 6y ago
This book was never too far away when I worked in electronics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics
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by markb139 6y ago
This reminds me of my time spent working as an engineer in BBC television in the late 80s. There was a lot of kit designed and built by the BBC design department. It Was just so well designed, built and documented. In the 90’s it all starte
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by markb139 6y ago
I’ve got a Dell m4600 that I bought in 2011. I specifically chose it so that I could upgrade. It’s now got a new SSD, HDD and 24GB of RAM. It works well enough for most things, but not video editing.
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by markb139 7y ago
My career got started because of these programmes. I even spent 5 years working as an engineer at the BBC. There were plenty of BBC micros around performing ad-hoc tasks.
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by markb139 7y ago
Something else that was introduced, that we all take for granted these days, was anti-aliased fonts. At the time it was a huge leap (for me at least)
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by markb139 7y ago
More like fast forward 10 years. By ‘97 most mobile devices ( the ones I came across at least) had started to use ARM. Even Palm devices eventually used ARM CPUs
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by markb139 7y ago
What a fantastic machine the Archimedes was. If your BASIC programs needed more performance, you just used the BASIC's built in assembler. In about '94 my Archie could out perform a modern(ish) 486DX PC despite it being an origona

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