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by mhandley 5y ago
I wrote a proposal back in 1999 or so exploring IPv4-in-IPv4 as an alternative to IPv6. You would have used the outer IP header to traverse the internet backbone, and the inner IP header locally. It completely avoided the need to change a
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by mhandley 5y ago
We're not going to stop omicron - that's pretty clear. We may need to spread the wave over a longer time period though. The current models are predicting a UK wave peaking in early to mid january with hospital admissions between
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by mhandley 5y ago
With previous waves you were likely to become PCR negative around 2-3 weeks after initial infection, though it was longer for some people. We don't have data for omicron yet on this. As for whether you have omicron - that depends on t
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by mhandley 5y ago
I think of myself as a very visual thinker, but I actually cannot form conscious images in my head. This seems like a contradiction, but it's true anyway. I do have a very good spatial reasoning sense though - like you, I can think of
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by mhandley 5y ago
If I close my eyes and try to consciously see something, I see only black or maybe shifting colours. With my eyes open, and not consciously trying to form an image, I think I can see things I'm thinking about, though not in colour, bu
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by mhandley 5y ago
The market is already there. I have a 2010 Mercedes C180 and the car suddenly wouldn't start. Turns out it has an coded electronic steering lock which talks to the electronic ignition and won't enable the car if the lock doesn&#x
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by mhandley 5y ago
Does anyone know how much of the price tag for JWST is manufacturing, as opposed to research/design/development costs? I would expect the actual manufacturing is a very small fraction, so I don't understand why they haven&#x
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by mhandley 5y ago
From page 2: One form of such market manipulation is Wash trading--- investors simultaneously selling and buying the same financial assets to create artificial activity in the marketplace, which is known to distort price, volume, and volati
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by mhandley 5y ago
When I learned to fly gliders we practised spins and spin recovery. First time I did it, I botched the recovery and was mildly terrified. Went up a week later with a extremely experienced instructor and spent a whole hour thermalling up
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by mhandley 5y ago
There are sound differences that people who learned a language when young find clear, but which other people who did not learn when young simply do not perceive as being different. Yes, you may be physically able to make the sounds, but if
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by mhandley 5y ago
This could backfire on Tesla. If Tesla have better data than every other insurance company, then they'll be cheaper for low-risk drivers. But now other insurance companies know the only drivers that will not use Tesla insurance are h
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by mhandley 5y ago
I wonder how much of an issue this is for long distance undersea power cables? If you temporarily disconnect both ends during a solar storm, does the fact that they're under a great depth of electrically conductive salt water serve to
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by mhandley 5y ago
Where "unencypted" means "turned the web page over, and read what was printed on the back of it". It seems stupid to us, but non-techies just won't understand unless we come up with reasonable analogies.
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by mhandley 5y ago
Natwest seems to have taken to sending me text messages listing three recent transactions (where one is suspicious to them), and asking did you make these? Reply y or n. I can't verify that the text is from Natwest, but it seems relat
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by mhandley 5y ago
It may well be that this was the pandemic we needed - really bad, but not so bad as to be catastrophic. When the next pandemic comes along, we'll be a lot better at fast vaccine production and lab testing, more prepared for how to loc
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by mhandley 5y ago
The phase of the moon really can affect performance. A friend of mine worked on wireless links in Scotland and was struggling with loss at certain times of day, but not exactly the same time every day. When they graphed loss against time,
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by mhandley 5y ago
"websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook." Any website doing this for EU users without their consent is going to run into GDPR issues very quickly indeed.
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by mhandley 5y ago
I've had a good experience with using a passive heatsink case on my Pi 4s. It's not lightweight, but there's a lot of thermal mass and plenty of surface area for cooling. https://thepihut.com/products/al
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Covid: Immune therapy from llamas shows promise(bbc.co.uk)
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by mhandley 5y ago
The strike price for nuclear power from Hinkley Point C when it becomes operational will be £92.50/MWh. This has received a lot of criticism for being too high. With current wholesale rates at £385/MWh, suddenly Hinkley Point C
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by mhandley 5y ago
I also really like https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ It's not so useful as a forecast, but you can move around the world and see everything so well. Take a look at the winds in the Southern Ocean for example
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by mhandley 5y ago
Even with good safety procedures and legislation, we still get the storage of flammable liquids catastrophically wrong occasionally: http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/research/events/buncefield_... LiIon batteries
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SpaceX False Alarm Encounter with “Unknown Object” – April 2021(theblackvault.com)
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EU unveils sweeping climate change plan(bbc.co.uk)
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by mhandley 5y ago
It looks like this isn't exactly the issues from last year, but is a new related issue. This Seattle Times article has slightly more detail: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/a-new...
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by mhandley 5y ago
If it is the issues from last year, this article has a lot more detail: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4374235-boeing-dreamliner-m... As I understood it, there are two issues, neither of which is a problem by itself,
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by mhandley 5y ago
My understanding is that it's not about airflow, but about unplanned for localized stresses rather than having them distributed evenly. This means the joint does not meet limit load requirements. While it's not so bad it could i
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by mhandley 5y ago
Is this a new issue, or just an update on the problem fastening the fuselage barrel sections together that was identified last year? This article has a lot more detail on that problem: https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf
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by mhandley 5y ago
So that's around 7 million phones per year. Assuming around £700/phone and 30% profit (very rough made up numbers), that should be £1.5B/year profit. If the judgement is for £3B to £5B as the article states, I can see why t
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by mhandley 5y ago
Exempting private jets seems dumb, but I guess it's important we don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Taxing regular commercial passenger flights will have most of the impact, and should encourage more efficient planes

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