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by robga 4y ago
A group of engineering students in the Philippines have been making headlines recently for their creative method to avoid cheating during exams. Students were asked to make 'anti-cheating hats' to wear during their mid-term examin
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2002 web page, quoting his 1996 book: https://web.archive.org/web/20021231112332/http://www.stevem...
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> Apple will relocate more than 1,500 employees from offices around London to its new UK base inside the boiler house But at least they get to shop at “Uniqlo, Mango, Superdry and Swatch”. The glamour of not working from home - boiler ro
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by robga 4y ago
Post numbers may be ornamented with alternating red and green colour on Christmas Day. As in 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20071225140214/http://news.ycomb...
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I run 4 AirGradients with ESPhome hooked up to Home Assistant and couldn't be happier. In case you're not aware, the kit was upgraded this year to move the temperature sensor a little further away from heat sources, they now bundl
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Interesting that the apparent base64 encoding doesnt decode to anything sensible. Sort of thing you'd see on a CTF challenge ... What's the encoding and/or content all about?
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They've been doing this for a while. This post is headlined "One Last Time". In this 2018 link, 23rd in a series, the LoC says it has "exhausted its currently slate of unidentified stills" So, they have very few uni
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IR35 is not being repealed, only the 2017 amendments (which required Public Sector buyers to make an assessment) and the 2019 amendments (which required Private Sector buyers to make an assessment). Prior to 2017, the onus was fully on the
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> I never confirmed one way or the other, but I'm fairly positive evolution operates by large sudden changes followed by incremental improvements/optimizations This is basically the theory of punctuated equilibrium as proposed
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For all we know it may be Fake Nose.
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This board sets "the new standard for entry-level edge AI" at 30x the performance of the previous generation of "entry level". Now I can perform number plate recognition at 1000fps vs the previous 100fps. Is the previous
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> BTW, she's not merely a friend - she's his relative. I don't know that she is. She describes herself as a family friend. Her brother was friends with Adnan. I'm sure they now all consider themselves "family&quo
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Serial was blowout success, but flawed in many ways. For me, chief amongst these is not updating the podcast with new (and potentially exculpatory) information as it came to light over the years. What really progressed the case was the Undi
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30 years ago I first saw Breathless, which was then 30 years old. It’s hard to believe the same time has passed. The film has stayed with me ever since as one of my favourite movies. It had such verve, style, self confidence, and a sense th
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OK Computer. Fitter, healthier, more productive.
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> AFAIK Starlink's bandwidth bottleneck is on customer per area given, which means they are saturated in some hotsopts like SV or maybe London but not saturated in less dense areas. Maybe. But just looked. If I order now, Starlink p
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by robga 4y ago
I reckon I’ve just ticked over 10,000 days of web browsing. And I’ve never once used a bookmark. Not even once. Maybe I’m the second class citizen?
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UK LocalGov Drupal. A publishing platform by councils, for councils(localgovdrupal.org)
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The UK has around 400 local area councils, each with their own IT. Moving a few miles away can entail reregistering with services on websites that behave very differently. Local Gov Drupal is a community developing a shared pool of code, re
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> I wish there was more buy in by local councils of this system, there are some incredibly poor local government sites. You may be interested in Local Gov Drupal. Unfortunately they've defined themselves around a specific tool, rath
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fast.ai openly declares it doesn't have complete pipelines for audio, especially ASR. They're also very open that areas like ASR and RL take a ton of compute to replicate SOTA. This shouldn't be used to substantiate any sort
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Worth tweeting.
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In modern times, the Volkswagen XL1 approached the aesthetic. It had an equally low coefficient of drag as the aptera. Not many sold - but it was a production car. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/volkswagen/xl
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BBC More or Less Behind the Stats. Making sense of the numbers that surround us. BBC The Life Scientific - talks with leading scientists about their life and work. BBC In Our Time - the ideas, people, and events that have shaped our world.
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Las Vegas
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>There is no way to check one’s position on the list. One simply waits, as if for an act of God. Actually, many London boroughs have good tracking information. Here is one. It even shows the application date at the top of the list. http
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In the early 1980s my dad’s hobby was flying “Old Timer” RC model aircraft. The plans had to date from 1942 or before. I couldn’t find any contemporary rule books but [0] looks accurate. I’m glad to see it continues to this day. When they w
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I use the exact same cleaners and have for years.
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The June 2021 assessment [0] of the service notes that "the team will never be able to fully recoup their cost through a recharge model so will need to rely on centrally provided funding. This poses an important risk to the longevity o
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The UK government is changing the full name ('State Title') only, not the short name ('Country Name'). The UK gov follows the standards set by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. This

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