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Royal Mint to build plant to turn electronic waste into gold(insidermedia.com)
1 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
In defence of Gy, it isn't meaningless in astronomy - it's a very well used unit. Though I do agree that it might be less common in code.
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by timthorn 5y ago
I don't think right wing media hold a particular candle for John Major.
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by timthorn 5y ago
I did my work experience at SGI the week that the first Reality Center was opened. A side room held racks of Power Onyx and Infinite Reality2 tin to drive the wraparound projection screen, and there were some very impressive demos. Six year
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by timthorn 5y ago
There's a brilliant phrase in the referenced Radio 4 documentary, where a former senior military officer described the responsibility of writing the letter as "awesome, with a capital F"
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The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill Factsheet(gov.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
I read the criteria but still am amused that Take That are described as a one hit wonder. Some of us in the UK during the 90s perhaps wished that it was so.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I'd misunderstood what was happening as a forced 2G downgrade, whereas it was much simpler in reality. However, it was necessary to edit the title as the original article had a verbose headline that wouldn'
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Russian military's encrypted phones intercepted after destroying 3G/4G towers(datacenterdynamics.com)
39 points by timthorn 5y ago|9 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
The reporter got hit and wounded, the cameraman got two hits to his body armour.
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Cliff Stanford, high-living founder of Demon Internet – obituary(telegraph.co.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
> The probability of winning in two guesses is about 2%, so the answer is: mostly lucky That's for any given game, so presumably if your statistics over time are significantly higher than 2% then the answer is mostly good? Or perhap
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Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by timthorn 5y ago|2 comments
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Arm can flex extra muscle and bloody Intel’s nose in server market(businessweekly.co.uk)
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Clone of Newton’s Apple tree falls during Storm Eunice(granthamjournal.co.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
The report calls for pricing to be dynamic based on time/congestion and take into account geography - a straight annual mileage report would not allow for this.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Note that the proposal comes from a Select Committee of MPs - this isn't the Government. Select Committee reports often propose recommendations that the Government disagrees with and does not implement. Actual report is here: https:&#
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by timthorn 5y ago
The pleasure of a manual gearbox is being able to select the response of the car on the road to your foot on the accelerator and clutch. I don't care if that is implemented by gears and cogs or adjusting computer control of an electric
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by timthorn 5y ago
If it's contributing to the enjoyment of driving then it's a pretty good use. I really miss having a manual gearbox in my hybrid and would be prepared to pay for this system.
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by timthorn 5y ago
JET is based near Oxford, and in an article from the BBC provides useful geographic context for the UK audience. I don't think it is mentioned because Oxford is "famous".
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by timthorn 5y ago
> would be only a few weather APIs and some speech synthesis away Find me a speech synthesizer that can recreate Zeb Soanes and you might have a case.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Does ecosympathetic work for you?
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by timthorn 5y ago
> All the proposed carbon tax schemes I've seen are a carbon tax and dividend - you tax carbon, and redistribute the profits to those who can't afford the higher prices. UK energy bills are something like this. About 15% of a d
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UK Government Cyber Security Strategy: 2022 to 2030(gov.uk)
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Arm 30 Years On: Episode One – Small Beginnings in Cambridge(youtube.com)
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Open consultation: Proposal for legislation to improve the UK’s cyber resilience(gov.uk)
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Watch iconic fusion energy machine’s 100,000th ‘pulse'(gov.uk)
2 points by timthorn 5y ago|1 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
Given its proximity to Cambridge, there'll likely be a goodly number of folk here who live nearby. I'm only a few miles away.
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by timthorn 5y ago
I'm rarely understood when I ask for a Mountain Dew in US restaurants, even when I try to adapt and say "Doo" instead of "D'you"
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by timthorn 5y ago
In the UK, about 500 navvies a year died building the railways here. Even recently, 10 workers were killed during the construction of the Channel Tunnel: https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/navvies...

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