sambeau

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by sambeau 2y ago
Very cool. Great aesthetic and copy. No notes.
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by sambeau 2y ago
My first thought was that it is listening to the scratches rather than the music, but I guess they speed up as the record gets played and the arm moves inwards. So, my second guess is that it's listening to the pitch of the notes being
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by sambeau 2y ago
The Minecraft team at 4J have just announced a new voxel-based crafting game platform. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/4988656/4j-studi...
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by sambeau 2y ago
So, I take it the UK now needs to rename Land's End and John o' Groats.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Ha. I did this back in 2003. It's surprisingly fast, and makes it simple to do granular locking. I used it as a per-user database for a web-templating language for a giant web-site building tool.
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by sambeau 2y ago
"for an hour"
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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison(theguardian.com)
1 points by sambeau 3y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 3y ago
Central banks do not deal in gold and have not for decades, some for nigh-on a century.
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by sambeau 3y ago
The British Rail system is so ridiculously over-complicated, my only conclusion is that it is deliberately designed to add as many layers of profit and obfuscation as possible. For instance, Southern Railway is owned by Govia Thameslink Rai
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by sambeau 3y ago
I like it! FEATURE REQUEST :) Would it be possible to have option+click+drag create multiple cursors where you drag and not a selection with cursor at the end? Basically, the behaviour that Sublime Text has—Sublime Text's multiple curs
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by sambeau 3y ago
I couldn't read past this photo caption:- "In 1969, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson developed UNIX, a computer programming language. Nokia" :-|
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by sambeau 3y ago
So beautifully put. When I lost my son, I found comfort in two thoughts— - A big life can be very short - "Why NOT me?" Grief is an illness that can only be cured by time. Your wounds heal over, but never completely fade.
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Mickey Mouse horror film unveiled as copyright ends(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by sambeau 3y ago|3 comments
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by sambeau 3y ago
The claim to separate characters is somewhat undermined by chapter 1, page 1 which features Samwise and Rosie Gamgee, and mentions Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.
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by sambeau 3y ago
Yet again I am struck by how incredible it is that Braben and Bell, two undergraduate students, could produce something as ground-breaking as Elite—all the way down to writing their own multiplication routines.
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by sambeau 3y ago
The only thing stopping me from using iA Writer for everything is being able to manually sort a folder. I realise that, being it's just a folder underneath, this would require storage somewhere. But it could be as simple as: _index
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by sambeau 3y ago
I recently built a couple of apps in it and I found it to be great—I would recommend it, assuming that your app has similar functionality to a web app—text, images, data fields, fairly standard navigation (some of the more sophisticated int
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World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters(theguardian.com)
33 points by sambeau 3y ago|42 comments
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by sambeau 3y ago
I have a friend who works in games who would secretly add a malloc to the initialisation code that would just hold onto a large chunk of memory. Come the point just before release, where everyone was desperately trying to fit the final asse
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by sambeau 3y ago
If you search YouTube, you will find other presenters trying to mimic it and getting it hilariously wrong.
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by sambeau 3y ago
Global corporations aren't generally looking for the lowest tax rates to house their companies, they are looking for the ways to avoid paying taxes in a higher tax country by offsetting them in tax havens. They do this by splitting the
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by sambeau 3y ago
I understand why people are reluctant. If you donate your organs, you don't get a 'death'—as in your loved ones don't get to sit and hold your hands while you die—as you need to be kept 'alive' while the organs
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Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke(bbc.co.uk)
475 points by sambeau 3y ago|147 comments
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by sambeau 3y ago
> "The general idea is to have a closed vessel sitting on the seafloor. Surplus energy is then used to pump water out of this vessel, leaving the inside at a near-vacuum. When it’s desired to recover energy from the system, water ca
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by sambeau 3y ago
It's grid-scale load balancing, not grid-scale storage. Grid-scale storage is hundreds and thousands of GWh. The UK needs 30-50 TWh to be secure without fossil fuels.
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by sambeau 3y ago
For load balancing, these days, there’s really no need for giant monolithic storage projects. Every renewables project can — and should be made to — have storage built in to it. Companies leave it out as it would make there price per MWh hi
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by sambeau 3y ago
I’ve seen a suggestion that you could use two spheres in the sea one deep down, one near the surface.
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by sambeau 3y ago
We need more like 30 TWh of storage to secure the grid without fossil fuels.
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by sambeau 3y ago
The U.K. needs something like 30 TWh of storage (the National Grid has 50 TWh in their plan). We’d need thousands of these. They’re great for load balancing, especially when coupled with compressed air to get them generating within seconds,
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by sambeau 3y ago
If you are a Star Wars fan, Cruachan is the location of The Empire’s base in Andor. As a Scot, who’s done a lot of hillwalking in the past (and been scared witless by airforce jets suddenly appearing over the brim of a hill) it was amazing

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