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by timthorn 4y ago
Yeah, the ew sound isn't commonly understood - try asking for a Mountain Dew. I've been visiting America for 20 years and I still can't get people to understand what I want to drink.
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by timthorn 4y ago
> So would UK folks use () as 'brackets' and [] as 'square brackets'? Yes, exactly that.
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by timthorn 4y ago
Expected transmission losses through the atmosphere are less than 2%. The efficiency of the cells above the atmosphere is significantly higher than a terrestrial solar farm - the power economics look to stack up. I've posted this befor
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UK orders sale of Newport microchip plant by Chinas Nexperia on security grounds(politico.eu)
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by timthorn 4y ago
> All the energy in a hybrid comes from an internal combustion engine which is generally less than 40%. Only if you define hybrid to exclude plug-in hybrids. Almost all my driving is on charge, with only longer trips 2 or 3 times a month
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by timthorn 4y ago
> yes, printing code on paper was a thing Don't other people still do this? I find it really helpful when trying to reason about the operation of a program.
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by timthorn 4y ago
> He was a gadget freak without doubt... He even wrote for the UK version of MacUser
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by timthorn 4y ago
For interest, an overview of UF2: https://makecode.com/blog/one-chip-to-flash-them-all
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by timthorn 4y ago
The beam would be over a very wide area - 5km diameter. Lots of detail in this feasibility report: https://www.fnc.co.uk/media/qkleyd5d/fnc-004456-51057r-phase...
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by timthorn 4y ago
And that obituary was submitted to HN multiple times.
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Absolutely Fab-ulous – Europe’s microchips success is also its pitfall(politico.eu)
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by timthorn 4y ago
The archive of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, of which the BBC Micro was a key part, is now online. Lots of fascinating programmes: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/
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UK’s first prototype fusion energy plant to be built by 2040(belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
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PayPal has restored my accounts – Toby Young/FSU(spectator.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
Not sure about your step 1. No one has claimed that the FSU has done anything illegal, let alone called for a prosecution.
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PayPal could be banned from blocking accounts for political reasons(telegraph.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
It's about the same latitude as Birmingham but due north of London so the distance is a lot less. The property in the fens around is affordable and often comes with land; it is absolutely a commuter station.
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by timthorn 4y ago
GSM did support multiple numbers for a single SIM via ALS (Alternate Line Service), but at least in the UK it seems to no longer be offered by the operators. Orange marketed it under the "Line Two" brand.
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Energy usage plunges as Britain stops in its tracks to watch the Queen’s funeral(telegraph.co.uk)
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Typo directs mourners to join the royal queue 5k miles away in California(telegraph.co.uk)
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by timthorn 4y ago
Though if abandoned lines weren't so common, we wouldn't have nearly so many heritage lines still running steam engines in their natural habitat.
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by timthorn 4y ago
I relish the commute as the gap between personal life and work life. It allows me time to decompress and means I'm rarely thinking about the office when I get home.
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by timthorn 4y ago
This can't go without mention of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot at Cambridge University, not so much a 'Web' cam but the first widely known Internet connected camera: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/
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by timthorn 4y ago
I think this is the standard smart bulb reset procedure - IIRC, I've had to do exactly this for some Osram bulbs I have, and I think something very similar for Hue too.
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by timthorn 4y ago
Radio 4 broadcast a 30 minute programme on DeFord Bailey earlier today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00180kt
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by timthorn 4y ago
> But only when you have a noteworthy celebrity, a reality TV show, and everything that is involved in that, do you have an opportunity to even scrape the surface on many of these sites. The funding just isn't there. Or proposed bui
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by timthorn 4y ago
> It's strange that we're using the term microdose, even in scientific contexts - prefixes have meanings - it should be called a decidose. Not really - its from the Greek for small, rather than a SI prefix in this context. If t
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UK Law Commission Breaks New Ground on Crypto(cityam.com)
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by timthorn 4y ago
But it isn't just London - the UK has substantial tech clusters in Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Cambridge etc. I'd posit that the BBC Computer Literacy Project, Acorn and Sinclair were central to seeding the right skills base in en
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by timthorn 4y ago
The report referenced by (but not linked from) the article is this one: https://technation.io/a-decade-of-uk-tech/

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