rjmunro

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by rjmunro 4y ago
Maybe because you said "Metaverse" (and to some extent "VR") making it sound like sci-fi nonsense. You could have just said: How long then until we get photorealistic AI generated 3D games and experiences?
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by rjmunro 4y ago
You should only do that if you have changed something. Otherwise you are falsely extending the period before the work enters the public domain.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Wonky mouse inputs? Why? For the same number of bits, an integer representation of angle is always going to be more precise than a floating point one for angles away from 0. It's also going to be equally precise for the whole circle.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Altavista was initially a demo of the capabilities of DEC Alpha CPUs. It was initially amazing. It got taken over by SEO rubbish, and beaten by Google who invented PageRank to get good results again. PageRank was initially much less prone t
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by rjmunro 4y ago
It's nothing to do with Google advertising. It was a problem before Google had advertising. Being the number 1 non-ad result for a search will get you many more hits than being a number 2. If you don't appear on the first page, yo
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by rjmunro 4y ago
One of the problems with British railways is that they think bank holidays are a great time to do engineering works, close lines and cause confusion and chaos. This is simply madness. On Intercity routes they are the absolute busiest days.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
He mentions a bunch of non-intel laptops from history but misses the Acorn A4 from 1992, which was an ARM based machine https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/A4.htm... .
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by rjmunro 4y ago
So you made a tool to make life easier for you and your fellow students, and rather than congratulating you they threatened to sue?
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by rjmunro 4y ago
It doesn't 'exist' now but it could be printed.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
If you are making an image of a cityscape to illustrate an article it probably doesn't matter what the city looks like. But if the article is about the architecture of the specific city, it probably does, so you need to 'be aware&
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Absolutely. The scrolling behaviour is the worst part about number inputs. I don't think I've ever found a case where it is useful.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
There are loads, but they have to ban people too.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
I was expecting something like one of these maps too: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/rail-ma...
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by rjmunro 4y ago
What if you forget your credentials and the the money is still there, but can never be used? Related question, can you pass the money to your relatives when you die?
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by rjmunro 4y ago
16MW shared between 480 million people in Europe is 33mW each. That's enough to power a small LED indicator.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Right now, the UK is exporting energy to France because we are receiving Liquified Natural Gas at our Gas terminals and have nowhere to store it and can't send it over pipelines to Europe fast enough, so our only option is to burn it f
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by rjmunro 4y ago
> While the appeal is pending, you don't have to pay. They need to change this so that at least all legal costs have to be paid while appeal is pending, then if the appeal succeeds, they have to pay it back.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
It would be good if the article mentioned the models of buggy monitors, in particular those that don't present unique UUIDs, so that we know which ones to avoid buying. I'm about to choose a new monitor, they all seem much the sam
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Live map of London Underground trains(traintimes.org.uk)
1 points by rjmunro 4y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 4y ago
"Non-refundable deposit" could be $1. In exchange they get their name mentioned in a load of press as being associated with new technology etc., so massively worth it for them. Also worth it for Boom as having "orders" f
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Why isn’t Russia blocking GPS in Ukraine?(economist.com)
8 points by rjmunro 4y ago|4 comments
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by rjmunro 4y ago
The risk calculation is very different. Cryptocurrency is protected by passwords and keys and stuff so is secure from theft without needing a bank. But cash is not, so a bank does provide value - you're more likely to be robbed than th
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by rjmunro 4y ago
> because different teams within Google don't talk to one another Let's say they fix that at some point in future. Suddenly you will find yourself banned. I get why this is hard for Google - there are probably thousands of scam
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Seems like a total non-problem. It doesn't matter if it captures 4%, 99% or 0.000001% of the solar energy. All that matters is the total cost of the fuel at the end is in the same ballpark as current fuel prices. This depends on the pl
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Which vendor is that?
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by rjmunro 4y ago
I don't know why inspection time is limited to 15 seconds. It would be interesting to allow unlimited inspection (or maybe like 30 minutes) and see how fast people could solve it then.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Reading this, I don't get how you can take all "nudging" and declare "No evidence". Surely "nudging" encompasses a whole range of different actual actions. Some nudges work, some don't. You can't
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by rjmunro 4y ago
> There was also a breakthrough in late 2021, when researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford managed to release a record-breaking 59 megajoules of fusion 59 megajoules in useful units is 16kWh, less than 2 days use
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by rjmunro 4y ago
Not that it has a better chance of changing the world, just that it has a better chance of making them some money back in a reasonable time.
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by rjmunro 4y ago
We don't need to stop saying "Don't invest more than you can afford to loose", we need to be saying it louder (in the future tense). To people who were sucked in by the marketing from influencers etc. I am sorry. We need

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