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by timthorn 4y ago
And now the Arm (Neoverse) V1 is Armv8
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Rare 'snow tornado' spotted by Shetland crofter(bbc.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
The Centre for Computing History (which provided props and extras for the film) recorded Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching Micro Men for the 10Y anniversary: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/news/5
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Where Was the Only Nuclear Reactor to Be Constructed Inside a Listed Building?(historicengland.org.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
There's a need for localisation of tone, too. Even if the language is common, culture is not.
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by timthorn 4y ago
Given we're talking of After Dark times, don't forget to run park before turning the machine off :)
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Discovering the 'secret of life' – 70th anniversary of DNA breakthrough(cam.ac.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
By some people - that's certainly not a universal view.
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by timthorn 4y ago
From 1986, a 5 minute segment from BBC Micro Live on the Transputer: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/865da57d1a0039e80fe68ac2624374c4
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by timthorn 4y ago
> it's not going to recover real details, it's just going to sharpen lines and potentially show details that look real but might not be Super resolution as a name covers a number of techniques, but some absolutely can recover r
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Virgin Orbit update on UK mission anomaly(investors.virginorbit.com)
1 points by timthorn 4y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 4y ago
UKMON has received 40 reports and 4 videos so far, from which they have the meteor coming into Dieppe http://ukmon.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/937
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by timthorn 4y ago
The photo of a UK train ticket is very interesting. Reading Green Park station isn't yet open, AFAIK: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/RGP/details.html
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Loyalty card data spots ovarian cancer eight months before diagnosis(thetimes.co.uk)
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Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight(technologyreview.com)
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Largest hydrogen-electric aircraft completes 10-minute flight(engadget.com)
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by timthorn 4y ago
The politician responsible for this bill was replaced since that discussion, and the content of the bill has been changed significantly - some of the discussion of 6 months ago is still valid, but you can't rely on what was said then t
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by timthorn 4y ago
While we're talking about old tech books, I have to give a shout to Forrest M. Mims III.
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by timthorn 4y ago
I learned to drive properly in CMR, with a force feedback steering wheel. I have a particular memory of driving on a motorway around a bend at 70mph, and finding a patch of ice ahead. Thanks to the muscle memory I'd built up from my ho
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by timthorn 4y ago
Trials of grid distribution for up to 20% H2 blended gas have been undertaken successfully in the UK: https://hydeploy.co.uk/app/uploads/2018/02/HYDEPLOY-FOURTH-O... https://hydeploy.co.uk&#x2
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by timthorn 4y ago
I got introduced to it at the "World Hnefatafl Championships" that happened to be on when I once visited Sutton Hoo. That sounds grander than it was... Game is quick to learn but good fun. Gave my brother in law a set this Christm
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Pouria Hadjibagheri and the UK’s abandoned open data revolution(spectator.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
> What is more crazy is that RSA (or something comparable to that) was discovered in parallel also by another mathematician working for a government agency 4 years prior to the RSA algo Cocks, Ellis and Williamson at GCHQ: https:/&
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by timthorn 4y ago
Based on the data shared with Nielsen according to TFA, it looks like Netflix is a little more open with data in the UK: https://www.barb.co.uk/news/netflix-signs-up-to-barb/
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by timthorn 4y ago
Foyles is also part of James Daunt's Waterstones these days, having been sold in 2018.
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by timthorn 4y ago
This already exists, though with a different process: https://www.powerhouseenergy.co.uk/
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by timthorn 4y ago
I had literal dreams about a block like this as a child. More recently I'd had a go at creating a video with the displays working through VFX but a working block is amazing.
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by timthorn 4y ago
Hannah Khalique-Brown taught herself Python and C++ for the role. It's the first time I've seen IDA Pro being used in a drama, though there were a few inaccuracies.
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by timthorn 4y ago
Not Look & Read? "Magic, magic e" stayed with me a long time (and Dark Towers too)
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by timthorn 4y ago
> British publications love to explain how British culture is responsible for British scientific achievements. That's really not the usual position of the New Statesman.

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