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by timthorn 3y ago
They might have been superior but it took a while for users to switch. Obviously some went across very quickly but AltaVista et al were still viable for a while.
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by timthorn 3y ago
Yes, it is correct: "I have apples in my bag"
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by timthorn 3y ago
> I'm glad I've never had to deal with that kind of compute power And yet I'd say you missed out. It was an amazing time to be messing with computing technology.
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SAP HANA Cloud Now Supports AWS Graviton(news.sap.com)
1 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
Insurance companies do. The human driver is only free of liability when the autonomy is activated so the hands of the customer are not so relevant
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Driverless car users will not be prosecuted for fatal crashes in UK(telegraph.co.uk)
23 points by timthorn 3y ago|15 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
> I got really good at pumping the brakes (is that "dosed braking"? new term to me) in the days before ABS. I always understood the term was cadence braking; that might be UK terminology though.
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by timthorn 3y ago
The link to the AAIB report in the article has gone stale. However, it's still available here: https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-boeing...
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Engineering Icons Tube Map(londonblog.tfl.gov.uk)
44 points by timthorn 3y ago|9 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
Not all tidal power is in the sea. A Severn Barrage would be in an estuary and could generate up to 7% of the UK's electricity demand, depending on what location was chosen for the barrage.
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by timthorn 3y ago
Also, it can be hard to navigate the sky if you're not used to it. The patterns of stars that you can see instantly in more polluted areas get a lot of "background noise" and you need to relearn the sky to a degree.
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by timthorn 3y ago
That's the market RPi was initially established for
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by timthorn 3y ago
If you're a child not earning your own money, price point matters enormously. I remember rarely ordering electronic components from Maplin because of the P&P charge which was massive compared to my pocket money. Though I did get a
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by timthorn 3y ago
It is reminiscent of the 1980s micros that inspired the Pi; there was a thriving scene - commercial and homebrew - of plug in modules. If you think of the Pi in that context rather than an SBC, it makes sense.
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by timthorn 3y ago
That £76m was for the track and trace service including the teams of people on the phone. The app was a fraction of that cost.
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EU Grabs ARM for First ExaFLOP Supercomputer(hpcwire.com)
154 points by timthorn 3y ago|110 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
It's not too hard on a Raspberry Pi or Microbit
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Britain to build world’s most powerful laser(thetimes.co.uk)
11 points by timthorn 3y ago|2 comments
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History of WWII British Cloth Escape Maps(escape-maps.com)
1 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
The request was not from the Government, but an MP who chairs one of the Select Committees that scrutinise the Government.
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How Rishi Sunak convinced the world to worry about AI(politico.eu)
2 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech(telegraph.co.uk)
237 points by timthorn 3y ago|182 comments
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Has the UK government surrendered in its war on WhatsApp?(capx.co)
1 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
Not quite - this is the report, rather than the press release.
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NATS Major Incident Preliminary Report [pdf](publicapps.caa.co.uk)
5 points by timthorn 3y ago|2 comments
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Air Traffic Control System Update: Statement from NATS CEO(nats.aero)
3 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
> As I said, they were a really interesting team, their CTO was a former early Acorn employee who had lead RiscOS He was profiled a few years back, as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24226740
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by timthorn 3y ago
When I was a child I could always hear a high pitched whine from nearby CRTs that adults couldn't. I'd always assumed that to be a mechanical effect due to the varying magnetic fields, but perhaps this was the mechanism?
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We built a spaceport on a Scottish island(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
> I basically destroyed my teacher's plan of early physics education. Basically, the teacher wanted to replay physics history a bit by explaining the early experiments and what people thought about them. What did you do to destroy

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