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by mhandley 1y ago
When I used to do gliding (sailplane, not hang gliding or paragliding) many years ago, it was not classed as a dangerous sport for insurance purposes. Don't know about the other fields of gliding. General aviation was classed as risk
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by mhandley 1y ago
With a high fraction of renewables, the reverse is probably better in the long run. The larger geographic area you connect, the less you're affected by weather systems, and the wider area you can draw dependable dispatchable power suc
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by mhandley 1y ago
Beck, meaning stream (small river), is one I remember from growing up in the north east.
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by mhandley 2y ago
The micromouse would have been spring 1983 I think. If there were any pictures, they'd probably be in my parents huge pile of unindexed old 35mm slides!
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by mhandley 2y ago
I agree completely about that sense of discovery. No-one around me knew anything about computers and the information available was limited, but somehow figuring things out for myself was a key part of the attraction for me. And it served
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by mhandley 2y ago
I had one of the early Jupiter Aces - the circuit board said something like v1.00 - and it had some added soldered wires on the board, correcting some errors, but it worked well enough. Forth was definitely what attracted me to it - I was
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Dave Täht has died(libreqos.io)
245 points by mhandley 2y ago|53 comments
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by mhandley 2y ago
I've been coding for over 40 years at this point. I'm definitely a better programmer than I was - not necessarily faster at pumping out lines of code, but I get the right approach first time more often than I used to. Whole clas
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by mhandley 2y ago
You need the electric equivalent of a glider tug plane to get you up to altitude. It can then return to base taking its drained batteries with it while you continue to your destination with fully charged batteries.
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by mhandley 2y ago
Unless you're prepared to go supersonic. Not easy to do with electric propulsion though.
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by mhandley 2y ago
Worked for me on a 2.5 year old OnePlus Nord 2T, both in Chrome and Firefox. Not a high frame rate, but perfectly usable, even on this pretty old mid-range phone.
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by mhandley 2y ago
There's a good chance this is not an either/or question, but that AI will get us to viable fusion power much earlier. For example: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/23/doe_fusion_ai/ https:&
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by mhandley 2y ago
Of course the flip side is that nearly-new low-mileage EVs can very good value economically.
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by mhandley 2y ago
There's an element of "Worse is Better" in this debate, as in many real-world systems debates. The original worse-is-better essay even predates the Linux vs Minix debate: https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsB
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by mhandley 2y ago
Six of the London tube lines have all night service on Friday and Saturday nights, so if you fall asleep on these, you won't be stuck. https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-do... My route
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by mhandley 2y ago
I live in SW London. It's definitely suburbia, but the density is just about perfect, at least as I see it. Since about age 11 my kids were fairly free range - they could hang about outside with their friends (the street is very quie
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by mhandley 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure, and have the scar on my arm to show for it. Everyone in my school had it. Would have been around 1980.
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by mhandley 2y ago
I think my Polestar 2 does this too. If I haven't driven it recently, I can hear the brakes cleaning the rust off the disks the first time I brake. After that, I think it's using regen most of the time.
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by mhandley 2y ago
Heathwow is 15 miles west as the crow flies from where I was at university in central London. When it took off flying away from us, you could clearly hear it over the London traffic. Amazing aircraft!
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by mhandley 2y ago
Not being from the US, I find it odd that the article didn't mention anything about vaccination. Until 2005, pretty much everyone in the UK received the BCG vaccine. After that the TB rate fell too low to merit routine vaccination, b
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by mhandley 2y ago
Anything to stop a non-EU resident owning an EU company that owns a Spanish home?
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by mhandley 2y ago
TFL has obviously been aware of his use for 15 years, as the website was widely publicised in 2010. They have not taken any action to defend any trademarks they think he violates in all that time. IANAL, but I would have thought that if h
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by mhandley 2y ago
Agreed - I've only been programming C for 38 years but I've also never found a legitimate use. However I have used it to illustrate a point when teaching C to beginners - it looks so odd they tend to remember it.
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by mhandley 2y ago
I expect many people know this one, but it's a useful teaching aid when understanding the relationship between arrays and pointers int array[10]; *(array+1) = 56; array[2] = 4; 3[array] = 27; The first two are obvious, but
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by mhandley 2y ago
Haha, yes, the Pyramid was alien technology, but the cover story was that it was a multiprocessor RISC minicomputer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology When I arrived at UCL, there were three PDP 11&#x2
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by mhandley 2y ago
Peter once told me that in 1973, the only two organizations permitted to do telecommunications were the Post Office and the Ministry of Defense. So to legally connect UCL to the ARPAnet, he needed an exception clause. Somehow he got both
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by mhandley 2y ago
I was also in one of those basement labs in the Pearson building in 1988. Not exactly the nicest place to work, but some great equipment. I particularly remember that year coding a graphical application in NeWS (Sun's original networ
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by mhandley 2y ago
UCL was on both the JAnet X.25 network and the Internet when I joined in 1985, and provided a relay service between the two for email and for telnet. Maybe others - not sure. Relaying email required translating the address order as the UK
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by mhandley 2y ago
I worked for Peter Kirstein for many years - he always had wonderful stories to tell. In the article Peter talks about the temporary import license for the original ARPAnet equipment. The delayed VAT and duty bill for this gear prevented a
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by mhandley 2y ago
I'm British, but had never heard of it until I spent New Year with my wife's family in Denmark a few years ago. Indeed it does seem to be compulsory viewing there, and no-one could believe I didn't know it.

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