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by scrlk 2y ago
> Interesting: I posted this a few days back, and certainly not "10 hours ago". Who was kind enough to re-surface this? Thanks :) It's HN's second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166
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by scrlk 2y ago
PyQt/PySide with QT Creator is the closest equivalent.
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FTX Sues Binance, Ex-CEO Zhao Seeking $1.8B Clawback(bloomberg.com)
1 points by scrlk 2y ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://archive.ph/XyQOi
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by scrlk 2y ago
The logo got a second lease of life after NeXT was acquired by Apple. A bit of British political trivia: Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of the Vote Leave organisation in the 2016 Brexit referendum, nicked the NeXT logo and made a
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by scrlk 2y ago
Sounds like the old maxim around boat ownership still holds: "the two best days in boat ownership are the day you buy it and the day you sell it" :^)
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by scrlk 2y ago
Nano-texture option for the display is nice. IIRC it's the first time since the 2012 15" MBP that a matte option has been offered? I hope that the response times have improved, because it has been quite poor for a 120 Hz panel.
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by scrlk 2y ago
I somewhat regret not specialising in RF/comms in my EE degree - this side of HFT sounds like a fascinating line of work ( Trading at the Speed of Light was a great read).
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by scrlk 2y ago
Radio waves travel at nearly the speed of light, whereas light in an fiber optic cable travels at ~67% of the speed of light due to the refractive index of glass.
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by scrlk 2y ago
From the press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-i... > With up to 14 cores, including 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores They've backtracked from the M3
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by scrlk 2y ago
M4 10-core = 4P, 6E M4 Pro 12-core = 8P, 4E M4 Pro 14-core = 10P, 4E
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How red tape holds back nuclear power in Britain(samdumitriu.com)
2 points by scrlk 2y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
In more recent times, there's a Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...
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by scrlk 2y ago
Fuchsia was a success for its developers: they created something new and shiny at Google, which would allow them to receive their promotion. HarmonyOS NEXT is probably a lot more existential for Huawei.
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by scrlk 2y ago
2007: "Choose a Vista" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-feCRQBkSs 2024: "Choose a Claude"?
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The Chancellor Game: Can you mastermind a UK Budget?(ig.ft.com)
3 points by scrlk 2y ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
Great Western Railway in the UK still operates a Pullman dining car on select services between London Paddington and Plymouth or Swansea: https://www.gwr.com/travelling-with-us/pullman-dining
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The search for Japan's 'lost' art(ft.com)
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://archive.ph/bO5dq
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by scrlk 2y ago
The UK and France have been rivals for centuries - old habits die hard! :^) Renewables have seen significant growth over the past decade, particularly offshore wind, for which the UK is ideally positioned: https://grid.iamkate.co
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by scrlk 2y ago
I believe the claims may be based off of the recently published Foundations essay: https://ukfoundations.co/ Specifically, the "Britain: the first energy superpower" section: https://ukfoundations.co&
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by scrlk 2y ago
RIP. I was surprised that it didn't get much attention on HN when the news broke back in April, considering Dennard's large contributions to technology.
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End of an era as Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down(theguardian.com)
4 points by scrlk 2y ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
Sounds like you'd enjoy visiting a pub owned by Samuel Smith. > Our pubs are havens from the digital world – there are no TVs or background music. The use of mobile phones, laptops and other tech is not allowed in our pubs. https:&
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Caroline Ellison sentenced to 24 months in prison for FTX fraud(bloomberg.com)
25 points by scrlk 2y ago|1 comments
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Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 50 bps(cnbc.com)
47 points by scrlk 2y ago|18 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
The Data Wrangler extension for VS Code might be of interest. As you apply operations to your dataset, it generates Pandas code. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/data-wrangler https://www.
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by scrlk 2y ago
Off topic - is Firedancer going to survive Jump winding down its crypto arm? Kanav left, they liquidated a huge staked ETH position a few months ago (+ a bunch of other coins), and the SEC/CFTC is all over them for the Terra Luna fiasc
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OpenAI Nears Release of 'Strawberry' Model, With Reasoning Capabilities(bloomberg.com)
1 points by scrlk 2y ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Wa0GS

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