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by mhandley 7y ago
I didn't take the train because I was transporting my son's sailing boat back from a competition. Also the train line was flooded yesterday, so that wouldn't have been an option. But normally that's not a problem, and
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by mhandley 7y ago
Automatics are great when they work. I do have automatic wipers, which usually work pretty well. Fortunately they didn't remove the manual controls though because I had a boat on the roof yesterday, and the rain sensor behind the rear
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by mhandley 7y ago
Yesterday I was driving back from Scotland to England, doing 70ish, when we ran into a really heavy thunderstorm. Went from good visibility to almost zero in seconds, and the only thing I could properly see was the crash barrier alongside
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by mhandley 7y ago
The EU banned field use of neonicotinoid pesticides from the start of this year. Is there evidence yet that insect populations within the EU are recovering this year? It's too early for scientific publications to have come out, but i
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by mhandley 7y ago
Old-style railway crossings often included gates that closed across the tracks to prevent this happening. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3VF4hWvjC3g/maxresdefault.jpg Is it really that hard for the railways to fix this pro
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by mhandley 7y ago
If you're going to pretend to be TCP, you probably need to look like TCP to middleboxes. When we investigated this a few years back, we found that on port 80, only 85% of the client locations we tested would pass TCP if there were hol
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by mhandley 7y ago
LoRa has become the tool of choice for the high altitude balloon community. At least in the UK, you're restricted to 10mW in the 434MHz band when airborne. People have been pretty successful at getting (very) slow-scan video from bal
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by mhandley 7y ago
This article is much better: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/07/spacex-resume-starho...
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by mhandley 7y ago
I've been using DDG for quite a few years now. At first, I would !g to Google pretty often, but these days it's pretty rare I feel the need, and when I do, Google is no better. I'm not sure if this is because Google no long
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by mhandley 7y ago
Under GDPR, Google can only use your data for the uses you have given permission for. This includes not handing it to other companies (via their API or otherwise) for any other uses.
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by mhandley 7y ago
And for European users under GDPR, maybe the only legal tradeoff too.
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NASA approves development of flying drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan(spaceflightnow.com)
3 points by mhandley 7y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 7y ago
My 12 year old is very creative in Kerbal Space Program. And what he's trying to do is hard - things never work first time, and you have to spent a lot of time trying to figure out why. Sure, it's not how I learned, building go-
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by mhandley 7y ago
There are 8 billion people. If half of them were awake, and 10 percent of that half are actually typing at 40 words/minute, that would be about 13Gbit/s. I couldn't receive that feed today at home, but my work could. A sate
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by mhandley 7y ago
We could always ask a different question: what would it take for everyone to have a copy of the index? Humans can only produce new text-based content at a linear rate. If storage continues to grow at an exponential rate, eventually it bec
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by mhandley 7y ago
One runs CUPS and is my printserver for an ancient but very reliable HP laserprinter. One is our Internet radio in the kitchen. One Pi 3 with a PiNoir infrared camera is used in a home-made camera trap for recording the local wildlife. Two
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by mhandley 7y ago
Like many people my age (early 50s), I now need reading glasses. My distance vision is fine, but my phone held at arms length is slightly out of focus unless I put on my reading glasses. This is the case for many (most?) people my age. I
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Today is the centenary of the first transatlantic flight(aviation-history.com)
7 points by mhandley 7y ago|2 comments
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by mhandley 7y ago
I'm not sure why the hundredth anniversary of the first trans-atlantic flight is not getting wider coverage. You can bet that when it's the hundredth anniversary of Lindberg's flight, that will get coverage.
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by mhandley 7y ago
The reference was to no more permanent ice in the Arctic. Arctic ice floats. Floating ice displaces its mass in seawater. When it melts, it becomes fresh water, displacing roughly the same volume of seawater as it did before, so minimal
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Moving control to the endpoints: Motivations, challenges, and the path forward(blog.apnic.net)
2 points by mhandley 7y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 7y ago
Presumably there will be a legal requirement that video used as evidence is digitally signed by the camera, using tamper-proof hardware and a certificate chain back to a certified manufacturer. Anything less will just be contested in court
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by mhandley 7y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone simulate the full Starlink constellation including the ~7500 VLEO satellites. For your amusement, here it is: https://youtu.be/bKj4GDNhH0Q No-one can say that SpaceX lacks ambition
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by mhandley 7y ago
I've modified the original title to hopefully make this clearer
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Huawei's vulnerability to US microchip ban(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by mhandley 7y ago|12 comments
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How to Build a Dyson Swarm (2017)(realclearscience.com)
1 points by mhandley 7y ago|1 comments
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by mhandley 7y ago
Why would Samsung want to team up with Huawei on this? Huawei is a major competitor to Samsung; having Google services available on Samsumg phones and not on Huawei ones is a major competitive win for Samsumg. They must be laughing all th
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by mhandley 7y ago
One thing I don't hear discussed much is that we really need enough renewables installed so that on good days for solar and wind, we're actually generating much more than 100% of demand. This then substantially reduces the fracti
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Nasa aims for quick start to 2024 Moon landing via newly named Artemis Program(nasaspaceflight.com)
1 points by mhandley 7y ago|0 comments
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A critical step to reduce climate change(gatesnotes.com)
346 points by mhandley 7y ago|396 comments

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