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by timthorn 4y ago
Track and trace, including the free covid tests and the staff on the phone lines, cost about £40bn. There is a lot of spending inefficiency in government spending, including that programme, but to suggest that the app cost that much is disi
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by timthorn 4y ago
All new chargers installed in the UK must now be smart, by law.
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Hinkley Point C is being funded privately, based on a mechanism whereby the government guarantees EDF receive £92.50/MWh. This was thought of as expensive when the deal was being negotiated but the current wholesale price has been abov
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But they didn't make Mr Bean, which came from ITV
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I was reminded of this attitude last week, when I met a TV presenter from my childhood. He was known for doing daring things, the first of which was cleaning the Big Ben clockface. The Daleks were not the only scary thing on 80s BBC TV: ht
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At least one of whom has stated that the bill in question would not be taken forward under her leadership.
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by timthorn 4y ago
O'Reilly's Webmaster in a Nutshell was my bible in 1997, along with the RFCs: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/webmaster-in-a/15659232... The ORA Nutshell books were a great series for learning
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by timthorn 4y ago
Is the fee for just a single card, or do we get a batch?
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by timthorn 4y ago
As a general rule, even numbers are on one side of the street and odd numbers on the other. Some more details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering
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> Religion is faith based. Science is evidence based. No argument with that. >The premise of religion is to believe in things without evidence But this isn't fully accurate - the premise of religion is to believe in /certain
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They really aren't. Some religions or sects might be, but it isn't a fundamental dichotomy. If you look at the history of Christianity and Islam, much good science was done by the faiths.
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>in the UK, do the smart meters come with an in-home dashboard that customers are expected to read? That's the idea. >And then report back what they see on an honor system? No, the meters should report usage to the utility compan
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by timthorn 4y ago
Not great! It could require some concentration to decipher. The codec is based on a model of the vocal tract so encoding anything other than voice gives very poor results. There are some good examples of 2.4kbps LPC10 on this page: http:&#
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by timthorn 4y ago
LPC certainly worked at 2400 baud in that timeframe. Given that the line interface was typically an acoustic coupler in the early 90s, I'm pretty sure that 2400 baud and not 2.4kBps was the actual bit rate.
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How Margaret Thatcher's secret Brahms phone was invented(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by timthorn 4y ago|6 comments
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by timthorn 4y ago
Yes, here in Suffolk the starlings are demolishing all the suet we put out - I'm watching the family fight over a feeder right now.
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Open consultation: App security and privacy interventions (UK Government)(gov.uk)
3 points by timthorn 4y ago|0 comments
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The UK PSTI legislation currently going through Parliament includes penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenue if manufacturers don't live up to their product security obligations. That should be a reasonable incentive. https:/&#
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by timthorn 4y ago
Seems so. I don't know what it is, but I'd rather not Google for it myself.
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Not disagreeing with the fundamental point, but the original HoC was the first in a trilogy. The BBC made 12 episodes across the three adaptations.
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Tadpole was a different company, making SPARC portables.
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Royal Mail reveals plans for 50 new postal drone routes(news.sky.com)
1 points by timthorn 4y ago|0 comments
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> It's the equivalent of when places used to want to to give a home landline number. Or today, when companies assume that everyone has a mobile phone - if not a smartphone?
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> You just cant participate in global commerce without it. Is that still true, though?
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Yes, every day at some points they presented a graph of mobility data that was explicitly attributed to mobile phone data.
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No, that's not the universal case in the UK. My freehold gives me ownership of my house and the land on which it is built. You're right that most of the value of the property is in the land and not the building though.
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by timthorn 4y ago
They posted an engineer (and a film crew[1]) to stand on the relevant platform at Tottenham Court Road while the TBM was boring through, to watch for anything going wrong. That's trust :) 1. For this documentary. The title hasn't
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by timthorn 4y ago
It's normally 8 days of Bank Holiday in England - New Year's Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday, the two May holidays, the August one, then Christmas and Boxing days.
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Internet down in multiple cities across France after suspected sabotage(telegraph.co.uk)
13 points by timthorn 4y ago|1 comments
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It was expensive, but Dwedit's point is correct. The main competitor was the BBC Micro, the cheapest version of which cost £235 at launch, compared to £125 for the 16k Spectrum. Compared to the machines available from the big US names,

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