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by noneeeed 5y ago
It reminds me of the gravity wave detectors. It boggles my mind that we are able to build machines that can measure such staggeringly tiny effects.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Ok, good to hear it's not just me. We've recently been aquired and the new company uses Outlook. I can't use the desktop app as it constantly asks me to go through the full authentication process. I have to use the web inte
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by noneeeed 5y ago
It was one of my favourite course at uni, I'd love to get back into doing something like that at some point.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
> A high speed line with passing places is a non-starter. Yep. Not sure if I miss-worded something but that definitely wasn't what I was implying, just the opposite. That the whole point of HS2 is to separate the fast and slow tra
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by noneeeed 5y ago
You can definitely do that. However on something like the underground that would complicate the "turn up and go" approach that most people take to the tube if you start skipping different sets of stations on different trains. It&#
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yep, there are whole departments of people who work hard to make the scheduling on railways work as well as possible. People always like to complain, but they always ignore the fact that the timetable has to try and satisfy a huge number of
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yes, you can do things like that, but that ends up with you having two different sets of stations that are not easy to get between. The normal pattern is express trains that stop a few times with stoppers that "fill-in" between, b
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yep, basically. Water use is one of those hidden effects of a lot of industrial processes, whether it's used as a coolant or a solvant for processes it often takes a ridiculous amount to produce many goods. In the past the water would
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by noneeeed 5y ago
The only way to have express and stopping trains on the same track is to have frequent passing places. Scheduling and signalling get fiendishly complex. On somewhere like the underground, where building those extra passing places is really
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by noneeeed 5y ago
On the railways in general there is a strong inclination towards keeping what works as the potential downsides of getting it wrong can be literally catastrophic. Things like solid-state interlocks, are reliable and trusted; it's taken
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Fascinating post as always from Ian. My dad used to work for the underground and hearing him talk about the challenges of the engineering down there was always fascinating. This is especially true for the deep tunnels and the older parts of
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Or even worse, leaving a 5 star review because it is what they ordered but they haven't actually used it because it's a present for their nephew...
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I was listening to an interview with John Greene, the author of A Fault in Our Stars and the excellent The Anthroposcene Reviewed podcast. He talked about how one of his books basically sat on the shelf for ages (possibly a year), he just c
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by noneeeed 5y ago
For the interior unlocking button, how are these implemented where you've come from? I assume you are referring to security doors with fob entry on the outside and massive magnets at the top that hold the doors locked?
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I hate that layout, it is far too common. I've lost count of the number of times where I've almost pushed the fire alarm point.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
That's good to hear. I'm tempted to get the Moonlander. I have ergodox ez at the moment which I really like. I've never really got into the layer system. It feels like something that would be great to already be fluent with,
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Ah right. I'm on Android so didn't realise, thanks.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Yeah, I saw a sudden flurry of people getting Signal, but it faded and now we're back to WhatsApp.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
What is "green bubbles" a reference to? I understand what you mean, I think, I've just not heard that phrase before. Also, totally agree.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I remember reading an old paper on some funky experimentat user-interface that used a pair of PDP-11s (possibly, might have been event older) essentially wired together at the busses, with extra instructions added with new logic in TTL sili
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Interesting, I'm trying to work out how that would work. Would you mind giving a quick overview?
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Curious to read this and not see a reference to Ruby. In Ruby hashes are ordered by insertion, can have any object as keys, but the hash key value can be defined on a class by class basis (by overriding the default `hash` method on the clas
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I was wondering that too. I'm guessing it's frequency. We get them, but they are once every few months. The only annoying thing about them is I have to open outlook to actually report them as I normally use Airmail.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
I no longer buy anything important from Amazon, this especially goes for anything that plugs into the mains, I just don't trust Amazon any more. Amazon is now just for those low value items that I might need in a bit of a rush. This is
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by noneeeed 5y ago
This is very true. I have the same response to many (but not all) Julia Donaldson books. I could happily read the Snail and the Whale every night to my kids. My son loved them all, but for some reason my daughter never took to them and it&#
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Thanks for that suggestion, I like the sound of that. It sounds a little like the story of the Little Red Hen who bakes a loaf of bread, but without the moral about her friends not helping but then expecting to eat the bread.
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by noneeeed 5y ago
Funny timing. Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast had an episode about Shannon. He sounds like a fun guy to have been around. https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-fritterin-aw...
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by noneeeed 5y ago
That reminds me of a time I went to the pub with friends after work. I was sat at the table with my back to the rest of the pub. After a while I though "wow it's really quite in here tonight" at which point I turned around to
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by noneeeed 5y ago
A lot of the earth is frequently inhospitable to plant life, so it makes sense that the ones that have survived to the modern day would be able to cope with hard times. Check out the Death Valley super blooms, they are amazing. Vast areas o
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by noneeeed 5y ago
My favourite example of a word that has entered English is "loot", which derives from the Hindi word "lūṭ", and was bought back by members of the British East India Company during the early years of them doing exactly th

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