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by speedbird 3y ago
Toilet bowls
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by speedbird 3y ago
ASN.1 anybody?
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by speedbird 3y ago
Don’t know about 5G, haven’t experienced a personal need for it, but in contrast to the position taken in the articles the 3G to 4G upgrade has been huge where it’s reliably available. Can now easily web conf while commuting, whereas with 3
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by speedbird 3y ago
https://3dconnexion.com/us/product/spacemouse-compact/
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by speedbird 3y ago
I just don’t get the obsession with micro services (by with I mean a complete tech stack for each service). I can only see the relevance in a sub optimal org structure - huge org, merger etc. SOA, sure (hello CICS :-)). DB sharding if neede
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by speedbird 3y ago
Still using my 2012 MBP Isn’t a patch on my M1, but it’s still very useable for everyday stuff.
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Disgraceful story of animal abuse in India(bbc.com)
1 points by speedbird 3y ago|1 comments
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by speedbird 4y ago
ChatGPT feels very much like having an enthusiastic junior working alongside. You can send it off on all sorts of legwork research missions but don’t expect perfect results and sometimes you’ll get crazy ones. Used the right way, if you are
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The Pylon Appreciation Society(pylons.org)
9 points by speedbird 4y ago|3 comments
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by speedbird 4y ago
Worked on an i860 Stratus machine in the early 90s - provided a key part of our distributed infra due to its FT capabilities.
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by speedbird 4y ago
30 minute doc of 100mph run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fp8Gknm0w
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by speedbird 4y ago
Courtesy of the market you could have a proper fry-up with a pint at an unfeasibly early hour.
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PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem(bbc.co.uk)
133 points by speedbird 4y ago|61 comments
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by speedbird 4y ago
Used C on VMS in late 90s and remember strange bugs trying to bring up X windows and GNU packages due to bit order incompatibilities.
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by speedbird 4y ago
Armageddon Domestic cats are killing an estimated 230M native Australian birds, reptiles and mammals every year https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/15/keep-pet...
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by speedbird 4y ago
Same. Used to really like some of the old stuff, like Lewis’s, but these days I only visit if an item is linked from here.
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by speedbird 4y ago
Do we? Please enlighten …
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by speedbird 4y ago
In a broader context of similar ideas, this is seminal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_documen... , leading to the totally iconic piece of one shot perfectly timed tv: https://m.youtube.
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by speedbird 4y ago
I think there’s a lot to be said for the two stage argument. First stage water mill powered factories and canals for transport. Second steam and steam railways.
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Shipwreck The Gloucester hailed most important since Mary Rose(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by speedbird 4y ago|0 comments
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by speedbird 4y ago
Evidence?
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by speedbird 5y ago
Please don’t CO2 causes extreme stress for a period before causing unconsciousness Do a little research And just pay a decent vet to do it properly.
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by speedbird 5y ago
Having been at this for a few years I’ve seen a couple of unfortunate trends. When i started out it was very common to find women and older people in the workforce doing programming and related roles quite happily. We then seem to have gone
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by speedbird 5y ago
Brit here. Roundabouts are pretty easy once you get used to them, extensive discussion of associated signage etc from another respondent here as to the need for ancillary features. This, however https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by speedbird 5y ago
Cough fuel duty
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by speedbird 5y ago
Charming story, but only an American would think 1942 was early in WWII. I’m tempted to roll out the old joke about US foreign policy but I’ll save y’all …
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by speedbird 5y ago
Ah, back in the day. I got X11r3 on tape to build locally on a Sun3 as part of a project. 4MB RAM - huge! What was the network game? Maze war?
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by speedbird 5y ago
Same. Nearly 60. Familiar with plenty of less than appealing “traditional” Brit food but never heard of this.
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by speedbird 5y ago
Try NICE Actimize and some of their competition. Financial crime detection software for financial service organisations. They need to read financial regulations from FCA / EU, SEC etc like MIFID 2 and turn them into pattern detection s
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by speedbird 5y ago
Simple evidence: when there’s rugby at Wembley the bars are open, when there’s football they aren’t.

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