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by mnw21cam 2y ago
> Only in the USA, for US citizens. Outside the USA; not so much. Yeah. When I think of the US and freedom, the first thing that comes to mind is "The country where you're not even allowed to cross the road."
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I met him briefly when I was at Cambridge in the late 90s. I can't remember why I did, but I do remember that he was an absolute legend back then.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I actually loved the side-plot in "About Time" where the main character went back in time and changed something and then they had a different child and then had to undo their change.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It was "Soldier Out of Luck".
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Correct. That's one reason why LiveATC has recordings of air traffic control radio calls from most countries, but not the UK.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
So basically, next time there's a heatwave and everyone cranks up their aircon, the system will still collapse.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yes. Please realise that things that can be evicted from RAM include the code and static data for the programs you are running. If you switch off swap, then you are disqualifying stuff like data pages that a program will set up on process s
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Visible light is different, because each photon has a lot more energy than in the 2.3GHz range. Your average decent consumer-level camera has a sensor that can nominally just about detect single photons some proportion of the time (as in, s
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It's the "precession of the equinoxes", not the "procession of the equinoxes".
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Mmm. The story is about a missing full stop.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Nothing to do with Apple, but I recently bought an old car. It has a radio. Whenever I turn on the engine, it switches on. Actually, no, it doesn't switch on, because I found that behaviour so annoying that I just unplugged the whole t
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
You're saying that you love the integrity of the legal system being jeopardised and juries being interfered with?
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The question at the end - what is the highest value of pi that is playable (doesn't crash). I'm suspecting that when pi is 4, it segfaults because some accesses to the lookup table fall off the end of the lookup table, and therefo
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yes, and because of that the numbers on the average time to failure are completely meaningless. The drives the don't ever fail skew the numbers completely. If a fantastically reliable drive were to have 5/5000 drives fail, but the
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I think it should join "billion" in never being ever used again due to its ambiguity.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Arguably, the entire purpose of this popup is to be incredibly disruptive to the UX - it's trying to stop you using the service.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It wasn't consistent last year when I tried to look for a better broadband deal.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Fun fact - if you try to purchase broadband from a service that runs over BT infrastructure, the price you'll be charged will vary depending on whether there is also a Virgin Media service that would also be available to you. As in, if
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
I had four covid vaccines with no trouble whatsoever, but after catching covid for real, I was hospitalised for a night, slowly recovered, and then a few months later got the fatigue and brain fog. Now, 2 years later, I have recovered my ph
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
This is really neat. Feature request: Add a "library" option to give mkdwarfs a list of files that should be loaded into the dedup mechanism first, but not stored , allowing the image to be even smaller if the contents of the fil
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
One thing to consider is that the resolution and colour space of your computer's display also depends on available clock speed, so if you reduce that by a factor of 20, you'll also have to reduce the number of pixels in your displ
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
It's not that simple either. Common law jurisdictions often use rulings at higher courts in completely different countries (as long as they are also common law jurisdictions) as precedent if it helps come to a suitable judgment.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
> This has set a basic precedent I would note that technically the small claims court in the UK does not set precedents. That would be the function of a higher court.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The other difference is partly a consequence of the wide field of view. That thing has a huge front lens, which lets in a massive amount of light, so the brightness of the projected image on the sensor is much higher than a telescope that h
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Thanks. It boggles my mind that an article like this about a scientific camera can fail to list the focal length and aperture, which are basically the two most important numbers for any camera.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Are you sure you got these the right way round? It seems logical that something that integrates over time should veer off towards infinity eventually, but something that differentiates should be stable.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
The article itself makes the point that overbuilding the renewables massively will get you from 98% to 100%, but the consequences of that are increased cost and increased emissions, compared to just having some fossil-fueled peaker generati
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Heck, anything is worth it if VCs are subsidising it like it's 2019.
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
With socks, wear levelling is actually really useful. I tend to buy a whole rotation of identical black socks, and then I don't need to pair them up individually. Also, buying 15 pairs of socks in one go isn't going to break the b
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by mnw21cam 3y ago
Having said that, even though I complain about Teams sitting there with 100% CPU while doing nothing that appears useful, at least it does actually manage to do video conferencing full screen (3200x1800) within the limits of the Intel Atom

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