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by softgrow 7y ago
For me the advantage of the pager, is that it is loud , much louder than a mobile phone and easy to hear outdoors in traffic. I have found though an iPad is equally loud, if not louder but is a lot bigger and less robust. For my use if som
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by softgrow 7y ago
Its not just boats going electric with positive results. Electric chainsaws starting to appear on trial near me for emergency services dealing with fallen trees. Much less noise, no smell (two stroke) and recharges itself on the truck. Just
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by softgrow 7y ago
I’ve looked at building one of these, but what new actionable information do you get? I’ve been wondering if it might say the room is dusty and then I could run the HEPA vacuum cleaner to bring it down. Or is this just for measurement geeks
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by softgrow 7y ago
I stashed away a whole lot of (expensive) graph paper. Never used it and now never will. I can easily do a log-log plot or log-lin plot on a spreadsheet. I think I even have some polar paper. I can see the point for cricket scoring paper as
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by softgrow 7y ago
I used to work on reliability of the emergency number in South Australia which could stand: - failure of reserved circuits from outlying exchanges - failure of trunk exchange - failure of operators exchange - evacuation of operators - fail
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by softgrow 7y ago
Not a new idea, Tokyo Narita has had holes, benches, vending machines etc for ages https://www.narita-airport.jp/en/fun/view/ The only thing they could possibly do more are cabins for the cold in winter. Stil
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by softgrow 7y ago
It's not just the UK. Prospect Council in Adelaide Australia have "Prospect Fast WiFi" https://networkprospect.com.au/prospect-fast-wifi/ . It costs a little to provide, but they get back actionable metri
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by softgrow 7y ago
The title is a bit misleading leading to disappointment. I was expecting something like a self driving car. You just give the desktop an objective and it figures out how to get there and then gets you there.
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by softgrow 8y ago
And lazarus (ie. free Pascal) will compile Turbo Pascal code without a lot of effort. Was quite amazed to resurrect a discrete event simulation I first wrote on VAX Pascal, ported to Turbo Pascal (and wrote my own replacement to the FORTRAN
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by softgrow 8y ago
I found it quite amusing to see that still there too. Unless you have an affected Pentium 100 (or slower) you won't have an issue. A poster on StackOverflow (2014) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24101125/
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by softgrow 8y ago
If only sites like this existed when I was doing design work. Really looks quite helpful to have a distributor agnostic site. Not sure about whether the popularity metrics are useful, you might end up using popular chips in the same way you
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by softgrow 8y ago
Where I was brought up had no street number, just a road and house name. Was an utter pain having to actually describe to everyone who visited drive along the road (not included in street directories), look for a side road, then look for a
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by softgrow 8y ago
Slightly tangential there is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film about a man who becomes homeless and then the dangers of sleeping rough in Helsinki (freeze to death) and so on. I enjoyed it in the cinema, it won awards at Cannes, https:&#x2F
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by softgrow 8y ago
I've done the same. Did the eye test in English with really big writing on the cue cards :). 40 minutes later my glasses are ready. Real contrast to Australia where you make an appointment for an eye test for a day or two later. The te
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by softgrow 8y ago
The example you quote is (bar one) people moving as pedestrians rather than with the protection of a vehicle. A vehicle offers a great deal of protection, particularly now with air-conditioning available to give a buffer against the heat. A
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by softgrow 8y ago
Australian here. Australia has different wild/bushfires in that the morning is always safe (at least as far as we know for the last 100 years) and easy to evacuate, the danger is in the afternoon. So there is a simple strategy that w
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by softgrow 8y ago
If you are wanting an inexpensive spectrometer, then Public Labs has instructions on how to build one using an old DVD as a diffraction grating https://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometry I got a kit as a present and reall
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by softgrow 8y ago
Five percent is very much non-zero and scarily so. And this is just for the vehicle occupants, not counting damage and injury to other people hit by a vehicle. Whilst we can applaud the work done, there is much more to do.
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by softgrow 8y ago
Non-musician here. Is it possible to create modern scores from the originals? I can engrave using Lilypond or Frescobaldi for choral music to make it print cleaner and super crisp. Is it that hard? Please explain...
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by softgrow 8y ago
Australian here (we speak English and have kangaroos, not in the towns to be clear but they do outnumber the people). Australian personal tax returns are getting easier and easier with the move to electronic filing combined with pre-filling
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Amazon to block Australian shoppers from its global websites(abc.net.au)
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by softgrow 8y ago
Distraction free writing seems to be its attraction - e.g. http://journeyto1000.com/distraction-free-writing-pomera-dm1... Sit down and write your 10,000 words towards your novel, blog post etc.
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by softgrow 8y ago
The device is A5 not A4! https://www.sony.jp/digital-paper/products/DPT-CP1/ Doesn't seem to be available anywhere or have reviews as not being released till June and then only into the Japanese market.
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by softgrow 8y ago
Really interesting to scroll through and play random sounds. Seems very comprehensive, although it is a bit UK centric (not surprisingly). A good source for a project I've been contemplating to deconstruct sounds in the same way a pict
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by softgrow 9y ago
Gandi.net for 16 years. Not sure why I chose them but stayed with and bought more domains because of role separation between owner and technical contact. Also the free email hosting, web redirection and email redirection are useful and it i
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by softgrow 9y ago
Office 365 Business Essentials. Costs money but get good support and 50GB mailbox. I actually only needed the Exchange Product, but for only a $1.50 a month more I get a whole bunch of things, like SharePoint to play with :)
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by softgrow 9y ago
I'm wondering if a four hour (international) train trip can really compete with air and that the inflexion point lies around the three and a half hour mark. There is a series of nice graphics from JR East (Japan Railway East) factsheet
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by softgrow 9y ago
Driverless cars will bring safer roads in terms of exposure measures like deaths/injuries per 1 Million/km. They will also lower the monetary cost of transporting a person per km due to reduction in fleet size and optimised drivin
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by softgrow 9y ago
There is also the inverse. Helicopter mounted guns that throw out fire starting balls. At fire fighting trade shows you get both ends of the spectrum.
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by softgrow 9y ago
From the headline I was actually expecting a ‘mystery trip’ region, cut price but you don’t find out where till you start using it.

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