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by rjmunro 1y ago
> solar power inverters are not exactly military and high security stuffs I'm only familiar with the UK grid, but yesterday, the UK generated a peak of about 11GW of electricity from Solar power. If you can control 10% of that, and
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by rjmunro 1y ago
In the UK you can buy used railway sleepers for landscaping, as well as new ones: https://www.uksleepers.co.uk/
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by rjmunro 1y ago
> The Save dialog is normally presented as a menu, into which you enter a filename > This menu however is deeply confusing. No, this is the greatest piece of the RISC OS UI. It makes all other systems save dialogs seem like total nons
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by rjmunro 1y ago
https://archive.ph/v4Fld
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The #1 Benefit of EV Life Is the #1 Thing People Worry About(cleantechnica.com)
1 points by rjmunro 1y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 1y ago
PebbleOS isn't the only player in this space. There's also https://www.espruino.com/ which powers https://banglejs.com/ . It's a tiny implementation of Javascript for microcontrollers, so it&#
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by rjmunro 1y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention the concert hall. It's one of London's most famous, with almost 2000 seats, and it's the London Symphony Orchestra's main home. Until last lear, The Lead Developer conf
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Which hardware would you need support for?
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by rjmunro 1y ago
It could, but it's aimed at news style programmes, ingesting information from commercial news gathering systems and turning that into broadcasts. You can reorder the stories and make edits even while the program is live, and e.g. handl
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by rjmunro 1y ago
According to Google Trends meteor js was popular from about 2012 to 2018. Sofie was started in about 2018, so when Meteor was established enough to have all the kinks worked out, but still popular.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
It was mostly developed for NRK by Superfly.tv. They are available to extend the system to other hardware or customise it in other ways if the broadcaster doesn't have the expertise to do it themselves. It's already used by severa
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by rjmunro 1y ago
That's not what it does. You would have your real time shaders running on a server somewhere, and Sofie would activate them at the right moment in the show. It's a tool that lets you drag and drop news stories in to a rundown and
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Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production(nrkno.github.io)
378 points by rjmunro 1y ago|53 comments
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by rjmunro 1y ago
Reminds me of Adolescence on Netflix - 4 episodes, each nearly an hour, with no cuts.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
If it runs on US made software, they could probably release a "critical update" whose real purpose was to add a back door for the US government.
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by rjmunro 1y ago
This looks very cool. It seems to serve the resulting wiki pages over HTTP. Could is just generate them as markdown files in a folder that you could upload to your Github project wiki ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/150808
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by rjmunro 2y ago
I think the original phrase was "North of the Watford Gap", but people often mis-abbreviate to "North of Watford". The Watford Gap is not the same place as Watford. It's about 75 miles north of London. Watford is wi
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by rjmunro 2y ago
I believe they switched to pagers because their location can't be tracked. Every pager message is broadcast across the whole country and the pagers just listen to all of them and only tell the owner about the ones meant for them. A pho
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by rjmunro 2y ago
There was a whole bunch of random historical stuff, like a cinema museum with a collection of old projectors and a model railway at one point. It was really fun. Those had all gone last time I was there. Also when I was last there, The Nati
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Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?(thebignewsletter.com)
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by rjmunro 2y ago
> All money that has even been invested into Bitcoin + total cost of mining = all money that investors will ever get back Don't you mean "All money that has even been invested into Bitcoin - total cost of mining = all money tha
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by rjmunro 2y ago
> After reporting the vulnerability, the affected system was patched within 24 hours and never exploited maliciously . How did they verify the never exploited maliciously part? Did the person who's password they changed ever notice
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Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI(openrightsgroup.org)
9 points by rjmunro 2y ago|0 comments
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by rjmunro 2y ago
Please say something like "here in [insert country name]", or "back home in [insert country name]" intead of "in my country", otherwise we have no idea what you are talking about.
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by rjmunro 2y ago
It's funny that this is released the same day as a 56 minute overhead drone video of the Swindon magic roundabout, one of the UK's most iconic road junctions: https://youtu.be/CzQunCuQCJY?si=X1nbcxiWOCcnm8eO
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Traffic at the Swindon Magic Roundabout for 56 minutes [video](youtube.com)
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It's a nice UI, and there is interesting data in there, but I think it is just an static estimate of averages, rather than something linked to actual live data like http://gridwatch.co.uk/ or https://gridwat
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by rjmunro 2y ago
MusicBrainz has also been making a list of unique identifiers for music tracks: https://musicbrainz.org/
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by rjmunro 2y ago
I think the point is that if you are designing with that size in mind you may make different decisions about the column layout etc. I would have thought that a PDF of a book would normally be made in the size of the physical book, which cou
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by rjmunro 2y ago
JPEG is the absolute worst possible solution here. If MathML or similar is not supported, use an SVG or PDF so that it's zoomable and not made of pixels. It's also slightly readable by screen readers (although you probably want so

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