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by rjsw 3y ago
Openreach (BT) doesn't own all the cables in the UK. There are also independent ISPs with separate fibre networks, I'm using one to send this post.
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by rjsw 3y ago
You can get the machine interpretable bits of it without a paywall [1]. [1] https://standards.iso.org/iso-iec/39075/ed-1/en/
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by rjsw 3y ago
Or use one of the combined CPU+FPGA chips like the AMD/Xilinx Zynq, there are plenty of low cost dev boards for them.
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by rjsw 3y ago
> Is EURISKO famous in US only? It was featured in a BBC radio series on AI made by Colin Blakemore [1] around 1980, the papers on AM and EURISKO were in the library of the UK university that I attended. [1] https://en.wikiped
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by rjsw 3y ago
Skoda did not have that bad an image, their pre-VW cars were very sucessful at rallying.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Already being done with glasses [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/05/loose-fr...
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by rjsw 3y ago
Most were from military families and there was a bit of a war around the time they were enlisting.
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by rjsw 3y ago
They are selling shovels, always the best bit of the business to be in.
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by rjsw 3y ago
A fair bit of the cost increase of HS2 was NIMBYs wanting it to be in tunnels after the route had been chosen, replacing a bridge should be easier to estimate.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I think Intel should have made more effort to get cheap Larabee dev boards onto the market, they could have been using chips that didn't run at full speed or with too many broken cores to sell at full price.
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by rjsw 3y ago
They were interesting to program for. I started using a graphics card with a 34010 before there were tools available for it. I did ports of GNU binutils (gas and ld) to target it then wrote some firmware in assembler for an X11 server to ca
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by rjsw 3y ago
I would start with the MIT CADR CPU in an FPGA and add modern hardware round it like Ethernet, USB host, 2d blitter, etc...
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by rjsw 3y ago
> Rust lowers the bar for contributing and also increases the pool of programmers who can. It reduces the amount of help that current experienced kernel developers can give to newer developers who want to write in rust.
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by rjsw 3y ago
> Military planes generally don’t advertise their location in combat zones They might if they are from countries neutral to that conflict, like NATO flights over the Black Sea.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Zoom asks if you want to update after a call, which seems the best time for it to me.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Using it to connect to the internet to make this comment. Not tried writing any apps for it yet.
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by rjsw 3y ago
He is a scientist, he just liked working. He is also more of a child of WWII than the depression.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I still think that it would have been better if BIM had not been created in opposition to STEP.
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by rjsw 3y ago
My father has just retired at 90.
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by rjsw 3y ago
His Royal Institution Christmas lectures inspired me to study maths, I was quite proud of getting red ink all through one school homework answer where I used his main area of work instead of whatever method the teacher was expecting to see.
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by rjsw 3y ago
What is wrong with citron pressé?
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by rjsw 3y ago
Some KaiOS ones do. I got a Nokia 6300 4G a week ago, not tested the hotspot functionality yet but am happy with the other features of it.
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by rjsw 3y ago
When other organizations have done this they just pay the same as Google.
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by rjsw 3y ago
Apex predators never have to "work" particularly hard.
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by rjsw 3y ago
If the robots have a longer working life than the humans they replace then they don't have to be cheaper. Doing physical work breaks down your body relatively quickly.
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by rjsw 3y ago
The API to the floppy disk in the Mac IIfx/Q900/Q950 range is at a similar level, it is implemented in one of the IOP coprocessors.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I developed GEM applications on DOS and on the Atari ST, didn't do anything that required as much precision as Ventura Publisher. The runtime that came with Ventura wasn't a standard GEM one.
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by rjsw 3y ago
In the UK, hospitals hide their number when they call you so you have no idea who it is.
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by rjsw 3y ago
I was looking at the phone mainly to use it as a 4G WiFi hotspot. What is wrong with KaiOS itself?
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by rjsw 3y ago
Not just India, there are several Nokia/HMD models that run the same fork [1] of FirefoxOS, I am thinking of buying one in Europe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

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