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by polshaw 10y ago
Yes the idea for this will be v. short haul for now which is why they talk about London to Paris; ~215 miles. 25 times further (50x lower energy density, 2x better engine efficiency) would be under 5,400 miles. Looking at the empty weight,
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by polshaw 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Midlands, UK or London, UK or Remote. Experienced software/ full-stack web developer. Expertise in a broad range of software development areas and surrounding disciplines to effectively solve business problems. Experienc
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by polshaw 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Midlands, UK or London, UK or Remote. Experienced software/ full-stack web developer. Expertise in a broad range of software development areas and surrounding disciplines to effectively solve business problems. Experienc
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by polshaw 10y ago
It's factually incorrect that high ranking British politicians are named on the Panama papers. It's widely known Cameron's dad was in the PP but also that he was not a British politician. It still stinks but there's no e
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by polshaw 10y ago
The vine program is a disaster for Amazon reviews credibility IMO. The reviewers are almost never invested in the product and most come down to "this product does the thing it says it will do!" and then goes on to some largely i
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by polshaw 10y ago
ARM builds are something that I want from ST; if it were OSS that would not be impossible
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by polshaw 10y ago
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by polshaw 11y ago
Try being in the UK right now. The government have even given up the pretence that it has anything to do with harm-- every unapproved psychoactive substance on earth is about to be banned from sale/import. Be thankful at least you are
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by polshaw 11y ago
Is there any chance of some ARM builds? (pretty please!) (also, congrats!)
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by polshaw 11y ago
'ubuntu desktop' meaning a very crippled system that only allowed access to Firefox. Which was rarely updated and even then not for long. There were some efforts to patch it up to make a more full system but I don't believe a
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by polshaw 11y ago
You can run linux/gnu concurrently with most android phones today, just not so easily[1] and not as polished and with the caveat that there is no GPU acceleration[2]. There are a few apps that do it but AFAIK Linuxdeploy is the best. 1
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by polshaw 11y ago
>I'd wager it won't be long before Three sims are being picked up by tourists and used as their main operator back at home. There is a maximum of 3 months you can use it abroad a year
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by polshaw 11y ago
I used the unicode symbols; ♠ etc for my game; http://playonline.cards It was a bit fiddly but definitely wins on file size. I would have used SVG for the face cards but they really killed performance with animation unfortunatel
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by polshaw 12y ago
Fossil fuel for electricity . Transport is a comparable energy consumer and overwhelmingly fossil fuel based. In cooler climates the same is true for space heating.
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by polshaw 12y ago
It was the fact that Youtube was normalising sound volumes that the author said nobody noticed, not that the loudness wars exists.. for which there are so many examples it might be quicker to list the counter-examples.
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by polshaw 12y ago
Google's intent doesn't really matter (I think you're right, I don't see it as a targeted offensive against the loudness war), it's the response from labels that does. Compressing music (in the loudness sense) at th
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by polshaw 12y ago
>[on YT] Everything plays at a similar loudness, regardless of how it was mastered. And no-one has noticed. None of us noticed; it seems like the labels and sound engineers may have; take this image comparing the dynamic range of the
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by polshaw 12y ago
I love the dell venue 8 pro (5000), but I really wish dell would stop fucking around and go all out with it. Give us a proper display output, let us charge and dock at the same time, give us a 4GB option, get USB 3.1 with type-C connector o
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by polshaw 12y ago
I think it really depends on what you mean by 'a low end PC'.. if you mean a full desktop with an extensible (PCIe etc) motherboard.. I believe the answer is... way after you'd ever want to use the old PC[1]. But if you'
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by polshaw 12y ago
Agreed, the late P4's check the box when it comes to performance, but they are right at the worst point possible in terms of power consumption, the next gen (I would include CoreDuo, or P4 era A64) are vastly more appealing because of
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by polshaw 12y ago
For value in a used linux laptop nothing beats an Acer C710(~$60+)/C720(~$100); they'd beat the T400 or a 2.8ghz P4 (by a mile in total system performance), with an SSD and HDMI output, all while giving you >6hrs battery life
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by polshaw 12y ago
This guy is (pretty much) right. Firstly it's energy not power (power is more like the rate of flow of energy).. The embodied energy of a PC (ie, energy required to make it) is huge. >life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated
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by polshaw 12y ago
21 minutes later, an extra $1M.
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by polshaw 12y ago
Yeah, anyone considering a digital nomad lifestyle isn't typically looking at NYC or London; the most popular destination of Chiang Mai is rated at $638/month all-in[1], and most have rent $300-$500 /month, not $1500. I reall
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by polshaw 12y ago
Parent was a bit wrong; you didn't need an account or to be signed in. IIRC, you went to youtube.com/html5 and enabled it.
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by polshaw 12y ago
NB it runs android 2.1 though. Is there even a VNC viewer that runs on an android version that old?
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by polshaw 12y ago
Yes. Although there is a lot more going on in the original that justifies its use as a test image; varying levels of subtlety of detail (the two parts of the top of the hat, DoF, and especially the feathers or whatever you call it) as well
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by polshaw 12y ago
More relevantly, it is a good test image. It's a woman with a bare shoulder ! Nobody would have a problem with it if it were an attractive man in that image instead (sexuality irrelevant).
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by polshaw 12y ago
Enabling is not enforcing. No downside.
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by polshaw 12y ago
Yes, but this isn't a problem. Nothing is 'lost' with the digital stage. Vinyl sometimes has a different mastering, as you cannot increase the loudness of vinyl by compressing the waveform, as well as the fact that it is ofte

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