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JWT confirms something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe(livescience.com)
31 points by smackay 3y ago|10 comments
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by smackay 3y ago
Birds have accents, or at least their calls and songs vary by region. They're generally recognisable as being similar but sometimes it can be confusing. Throw in species like starlings or bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) which are accomp
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by smackay 3y ago
That's my reading list for the next few weeks sorted out, thanks. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=William+Dampi...
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by smackay 3y ago
Thanks for the reference. There are quite a few writers railing against the current Professional Managerial Class (PMC). It's very interesting to see that their rise has quite a long history. Where things appear to have gone off the ra
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by smackay 3y ago
Be careful what you ask for. FIFA's Video assistant referee was supposed to banish controversial decisions in soccer matches forever. Instead, they simply replaced one form of controversial decisions with another. https://en
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'Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand'(daringfireball.net)
3 points by smackay 3y ago|0 comments
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Ubuntu Pro(ubuntu.com)
55 points by smackay 3y ago|45 comments
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by smackay 3y ago
What use is a household robot if you cannot hand it any clothes?
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Technical Writing Essentials(pressbooks.bccampus.ca)
4 points by smackay 3y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 3y ago
Put them on drones and fly them off into the forest to count owls - when it's nice and quiet in the dead of night.
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by smackay 3y ago
Here is a list of associate members, https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs... which also lays out some of the terms. If you scroll down there's a list of countries which can partic
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by smackay 3y ago
Proofreading is enormously expensive in time and, as a spouse, goodwill. More so if you have to proofread their colleagues papers as well, where the level of English can vary enormously. Perhaps it's time to reimagine the scientific pa
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by smackay 3y ago
Oh yes. Walking up at night, scared, thinking there was something in the room. Childhood (well, teenage) memories I'll treasure to the end,
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by smackay 3y ago
If you're using firefox, create a separate profile and add devdocs documentation to it. That keeps your docs isolated from general browsing and so you reduce the risk of the browser deleting it to free up space.
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by smackay 4y ago
The only way by road into the Moine Peninsula would be along the A836 up through the centre of Sutherland. You'd probably need to upgrade the entire length of road to be able to accommodate heavy loads and take out any tight turns. Pos
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by smackay 4y ago
The Portuguese Space Agency (yes, there is one, Go Portugal) recently ran a competition for teens to fly with Air Zero G. Thirty kids, including my son (majority were girls), shipped out today for the Air Force base at Beja. They fly on Fri
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by smackay 4y ago
The UK Government currently spends around £11 billion on roads, https://www.statista.com/statistics/298667/united-kingdom-uk... so the excess is a handy revenue stream which clearly it would lothed to give up. Tha
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by smackay 4y ago
For a species that has given so much and has been pivotal in the development of humanity, it's time we repaid the debt and granted them freedom in perpetuity.
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by smackay 4y ago
Female and male US Olympic athletes live 5 years longer than their general population counterparts: a study of 8124 former US Olympians https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/4/206
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by smackay 4y ago
It would be very cool to have network of these listening to calls while birds are migrating at night. With a large enough network you'd get an amazing way to visualise large scale movements which are generally completely invisible. Wir
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US, EU sign data transfer deal to ease privacy concerns(apnews.com)
1 points by smackay 5y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 5y ago
This is the wrong way to look at it. If Syrian refugees had the media coverage Ukrainian ones do there'd be job boards for them and much more besides. People are reacting to the magnitude of the perceived crisis. Peoples' compassi
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by smackay 5y ago
Except for viewers in Scotland.
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by smackay 5y ago
I can't say anything on whether NATO attacked Libya but it's members certainly dabble in the various conflicts trying to extract advantage. I had a conversation with a "systems thinker" of British origin who straight out
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by smackay 5y ago
After the ScotWind giveaway, it's widely expected that water will be next.
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James Webb telescope completes epic deployment sequence(bbc.com)
21 points by smackay 5y ago|1 comments
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by smackay 5y ago
Scotland is a sovereign nation which is currently in a long term "marriage" with England through the Treaty of Union. It's not trying secede from the United Kingdom in as much as it's trying to get a divorce - not unlike
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PT Watch Live: NASA and ESA to Launch James Webb Space Telescope(youtube.com)
3 points by smackay 5y ago|0 comments
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Online Safety Bill: New offences and tighter rules(bbc.com)
3 points by smackay 5y ago|1 comments
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by smackay 5y ago
The fundamental problem is that there is no separation of powers between the government and the judiciary as you might find in most (all?) modern democracies. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) acts as the governments la

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