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by sleavey 6y ago
FRITZboxes are better in terms of their software. The names and descriptions for the various controls are written in proper language, and there are loads of graphs and stats for the nerds. My only gripes are that the interface relies too mu
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by sleavey 6y ago
I am part of an organisation called the LAAC, which is the LVK Academic Advisory Committee. The LVK is the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. LIGO is the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory, and Laser is Light Amplification fr
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by sleavey 6y ago
I studied physics at Glasgow. You can still see the pipes in the ceiling of the corridors on the ground floor of the Kelvin Building which were intended to be used to heat the building using the laser's cooling fluid. That was apparent
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by sleavey 6y ago
These are commonly drawn in circular layout, like this: https://sites.google.com/a/parishepiscopal.org/mr-rick-dunn/... .
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by sleavey 6y ago
It'd be fun to see this for the whole world. It would also make it easy to compute the answers to common quiz questions involving doubly landlocked countries, countries with most borders, etc.
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by sleavey 6y ago
Ah, now I see what you mean. > On the surface it sounds very doable if each pattern of AST node is generated by a unique grammar production. This seems to be the key, from my work implementing this in my application. Luckily for me the g
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by sleavey 6y ago
> I'm interested in the application I'm part of a team developing a scientific modelling tool. The user defines a model via syntax similar to SPICE's netlists, specifying model objects and their parameters and connections.
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by sleavey 6y ago
Thanks! I'm interested in the idea of a reversible state machine, for parsing an application specific language syntax into some machine representation, then allowing the user to modify it and unparse back to syntax again. So far I&#x27
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by sleavey 6y ago
What are DFAs/NFAs? I didn't see them defined in the article.
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by sleavey 6y ago
Looks nice, but why the separate database? This seems like the sort of thing that should be using OpenStreetMap's database as a backend. Most long distance walks will be in there already, so the site could just pipe that data and add s
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by sleavey 6y ago
Agreed. I occasionally imagine a feature that it would be cool to have in Numpy, then find that it's already there. Most recently I discovered (somewhat lately) that you can create arbitrarily structured arrays and store things like st
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by sleavey 6y ago
Are there plans to lay more underwater HVDC cables between the British Isles and the rest of Europe? This seems a no-brainer to allow everyone to take advantage of the UK's (mainly Scotland's) huge wind and wave power generation c
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by sleavey 6y ago
> Due to budget constraints, many shows end up using Mac minis. Historically speaking, the Mac mini’s computing power has been a bottleneck for electronic music designers on Broadway. In a perfect world, we’d all like to use the best-sou
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by sleavey 6y ago
Continued membership of ERASMUS was negotiated but the UK was unwilling to continue to pay the same rate it did before, which makes me think the replacement UK scheme will either fund fewer places or only fund them in cheaper countries.
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by sleavey 6y ago
> Yes - but now we can trade with those countries on our terms, not an aggregated decision on how we can trade set by EU legislation. No, we trade with those countries on the terms of our trade agreements with those countries, which wil
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by sleavey 6y ago
I completely disagree. The EU remained silent during the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 because they didn't want to be seen to be publicly undermining the UK government, but since relations have soured they've been prett
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by sleavey 6y ago
> It essentially makes compliance to EU law optional for companies operating in the UK. That's a huge advantage. Choose to trade on EU terms with the single market, or choose to trade on other terms with international targets. When
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by sleavey 6y ago
Exactly. I was happy to pay €10/month to DAZN when they had the streaming rights for a football league I was interested in, but then after two years they lost the rights to Sky via whom the minimum payment to get access to the same con
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by sleavey 6y ago
There was recently an interesting interview with a content producer on OnlyFans by UnHerd, talking about the money, ethics, and how it differs from "traditional" (well, traditional in the age of PornHub) porn producers: https:&#x
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by sleavey 6y ago
Not OP, but that is either a direct phrase or a paraphrase of a very frequently spouted justification for Brexit: so-called sovereignty.
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by sleavey 6y ago
The smaller particles still get through. Microplastics really are micro. I would cite a URL but I learned this from a TV program in Europe called Xenius.
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by sleavey 6y ago
> In my findings, the reason unlimited doesn't work is a small percentage of users (very small, like ~0.1%) who push it to the extreme. In other words, if your exhaust 50% of your resources to service 0.1% of your users, at a fixed
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by sleavey 6y ago
+1 for the point about the complexity of the German tax code. As a foreigner it's even worse for me, given the frequent use of German words never encountered in every day language. When the majority of people either ignore it or employ
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by sleavey 6y ago
I see. This change prompts me as something that could break a lot of code running on web servers where the sysadmin updates to PHP8 assuming it will be backwards compatible. I wonder if they did any code searching to see how widely used suc
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by sleavey 6y ago
> 0 == 'foobar' // true That's PHP7 behaviour that's updated in 8 to return false. I'm not a PHP basher, I really like it these days, but why the heck was that example ever evaluating to true?
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by sleavey 6y ago
I try to avoid this by writing the email before the recipient addresses. In theory it shouldn't matter but somehow when I want to write an email my brain is more concerned with putting my thoughts into writing and less about thinking w
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by sleavey 6y ago
I wondered that too until I started woodworking. A fairly substantial part of it is pretty scientific - you have to propagate measurements and angles between cuts and joints and think ahead about how things fit together. It's related,
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by sleavey 6y ago
What's your connection to NANOGrav?
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by sleavey 6y ago
I can understand why the tech giants are getting involved in mapping. There are some really cool things being built with OSM and other data, like OpenRouteService [1] (Google Maps navigation for OSM), OpenTopoMap [2] (space shuttle topologi
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by sleavey 6y ago
I'm quite surprised #3 has only been mentioned 197 times (well, a few more after this thread) in 14 years.

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