teh_klev

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by teh_klev 4y ago
We'll be hanging in there by a few Threads.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I did also "nothing of substance" until I was almost 30 also.. But it's fine I dont regret it. Much the same here. I enjoyed the company of friends, read a load of stuff, had many adventures with a motorbike, beer and cu
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by teh_klev 4y ago
You can boot a Pi4 (and some older Pi boards) from more reliable storage attached to a USB port these days (e.g. SSD). https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr... You can also network boot as w
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Having had snow tyres on previous cars I can confirm that these tyres are no better than regular tyres if you hit a patch of black ice . There's basically no traction available. Now, if you've invested in studs for your winter ty
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Original article by Jalopnik that this one is a re-heat of: https://jalopnik.com/sacramento-county-says-its-illegal-to-w...
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Bing maps has a clearer aerial image than Google: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=e9251d57-4167-4334-a24d-2f988...
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Robert Rankin author of The Brentford Trilogy is very much in the style of Pratchett and Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brentford_Trilogy
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Peter F. Hamilton but hadn't read any of his Greg Mandel books, the first of which, and his first published novel, I finished the other week. Well...there's a quite a few nuggets of prose in Mindstar Rising t
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by teh_klev 4y ago
These aren't actual books. It's a competition open to all to submit what would be the worst opening lines in an imaginary bad novel: "Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Co
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by teh_klev 4y ago
See also the "Scunthorpe Problem": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by teh_klev 4y ago
For anyone else wondering, this happened during Operation Solomon in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon#World_record
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Maybe I've been fairly lucky, but excepting the initial Pi v1 release I've never really had any problems getting hold of them. Until now of course. I'm desperate for a couple of Compute Module 4's and gawd only knows whe
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> only a database server needs an SSD Where did you acquire that (somewhat flawed) opinion? I've been using SSD's since ~2009 and those early devices were transformational even on already elderly equipment. You can pick up a mo
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> they need their people now. Not in 6 months to a year after a back issue is resolved. You may have missed this from the article: "I said I expected to be out for only a few days" and "returned to work after missing on
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> ITV couldn’t do that. Yes they can, all they need to do is stump up for the licenses the same as the BBC do via organisations such as the PRS: https://www.prsformusic.com/ https://www.prsformusic.com/li
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> "we only ever made six episodes back in the 1970s and they are etched across everyone's childhood" Or alternatively sometimes scarred for life :) And if taking a trip back through 1970's UK TV is something anyone&#x
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by teh_klev 4y ago
This is the work of Jeri Ellsworth who's a fairly well known experimenter, tinkerer and inventor in hacker circles: https://www.youtube.com/@jeriellsworth/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> Given the highly falsifiable nature of his claims it should easy enough to disprove them. That nobody chooses to do so is quite curious. Because it isn't worth anyone's precious time and effort in academia to respond to such
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I think you've misinterpreted the parent commenter (gnz11). They were referring specifically to the Hancock Netflix documentary mention hence the "> Netflix Docu" quoting from GP's comment, and not at all suggesting
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Yep. It also made unnecessary busy work for UK wide online retailers such as Majestic who had to add a special case for sales to folks in Scotland.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
See also minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Was the 182BHP engine map a subscription or a one off option that couldn't be disabled over the air? There's quite a difference here.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
Heh...as an A&A customer I was thinking that too, then wondering if someone had found a vulnerability in RevK's code.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
I work from home full time, my gas bill is a fraction of that (~GBP100/month), and that's even accounting for the crazy energy cost increases we've seen in the UK.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
See Jeff's explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638959 Loads of folks use their blogs as places to write up stuff like this (I used to as well). It may not seem useful to you but others might discover th
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> I'm surprised that anyone wants to launch from that far north. Most launch sites are further south, so you get more velocity from the earth's rotation. The reason is that Scotland and northerly launch sites favour launches in
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by teh_klev 4y ago
This is reported in the article: "Moonikin Campos' job will be to pretend to be an astronaut, and sensors inside of him will measure radiation, acceleration and vibration to help NASA prepare to launch human astronauts in the nex
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by teh_klev 4y ago
The article's own title isn't that vague and fits well enough with the content, i.e. what is traditionally thought of as the first BBC broadcast may well have been preceded by broadcasts from the north of England.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
And this is why editorialising the title is discouraged, and especially so in this case because the article isn't really directly about that.
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by teh_klev 4y ago
> came with some pretty severe restrictions on supported hardware That's hardware, and just like with the Linux kernel you have some tough choices to make about what you continue to support. Apple rendered my Intel Mac Mini a brick

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