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by timthorn 5y ago
The planning application was submitted in 2015, with several years preparation before then.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Every evening, I'd count slowly (~1-2Hz) and continuously until my son was asleep. It worked both to teach counting and to help him settle - even on nights where he fought going to sleep he'd usually be out by 200.
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by timthorn 5y ago
If from the UK, I'd bet on 01 811 8181
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by timthorn 5y ago
My understanding of the reason was to reduce the likelihood of phone lines swaying in the wind tapping out eg 111 autonomously.
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by timthorn 5y ago
There were loads of addons and I/O projects. For just a taste, take a look at eg Usborne's "How to make Computer Model Controllers" from https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books (
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by timthorn 5y ago
My grandmother would often use that form of words in regular speech.
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by timthorn 5y ago
> Best case scenario, the password is written on a sticker on the device. Yes, this is expected. The point is to prevent a population of devices being sold with admin/admin pre-programmed.
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by timthorn 5y ago
The bit rate of all the current streaming providers and Bluray players fits well within 100Mbps, so I'm not sure that's really a limitation?
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by timthorn 5y ago
HDMI can certainly carry Ethernet
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by timthorn 5y ago
Not sure I'd have called 20kB tiny at the time!
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by timthorn 5y ago
Take a look at the Toaster Project if you want to see building an item from scratch carried through all the way: http://thetoasterproject.org/
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by timthorn 5y ago
That's in terms of operational payphones. Phone boxes that are decommissioned can be adopted by community groups typically for £1, to turn into eg a defibrillator station, mini library, etc. so of those 75% a good number will remain in
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by timthorn 5y ago
The Cambridge City Deal assigned £8M to install 5 new off road cycle lanes around the city, IIRC. I don't have the actual costs and delivered distances to hand (the data is online to be found somewhere), but we're talking about a
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by timthorn 5y ago
The UK Government set up a commission to look at how to improve the quality of places, which reported last year: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/building-better-buildin...
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by timthorn 5y ago
Octopus Energy in the UK has a tariff that charges half-hourly rates. They also offer an API to interrogate current pricing and usage and encourage their customers - including domestic users - to take advantage of it: https://dev
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by timthorn 5y ago
There is a specialist UK Government IaaS provider: https://ukcloud.com/ But AWS and MS have both deployed dedicated DCs for sensitive UK Government cloud requirements: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers
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by timthorn 5y ago
At least we still have the oldest site used for bookselling in the world (and perhaps the most interesting bookshop to browse in): https://www.cambridge.org/en/about-us/visit-bookshop
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by timthorn 5y ago
The model is still on display in the Cavendish Laboratory, along with several other seminal artefacts from the history of Physics.
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by timthorn 5y ago
I think you make your own luck for things like this. I was a technology architect which had the advantage of being quite broad in scope. I came to the company with a deeper technical background than some which helped, but I also built a spe
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by timthorn 5y ago
Consultancy might have a boring image, but the work can be extremely varied. I was at one of the big names and got to go behind the scenes at a major theme park, spend a night with police officers on blue light calls, watch open heart surge
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by timthorn 5y ago
The commentary in the report states: "The rate of a positive COVID-19 test varies by age and vaccination status. The rate of a positive COVID-19 test is substantially lower in vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals
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by timthorn 5y ago
The Amazon Fire Cube now supports Zoom, including video when paired with a webcam. It's a low cost way to get a room system.
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The new public health despotism(unherd.com)
9 points by timthorn 5y ago|30 comments
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Space based solar power: de-risking the pathway to net zero(gov.uk)
3 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
TrustZone is used to secure the boot but can be used for other purposes too.
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by timthorn 5y ago
You can collapse a thread by clicking the - in a post's header.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Environmentalism as currently practiced is a liberal issue, but protecting the environment is a deeply conservative notion - the mechanisms by which it is achieved may differ, though. Margaret Thatcher, a Conservative to her core, raised en
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by timthorn 5y ago
They're allowed, but it is courteous of them to refrain.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Yes, it can do. Without the real threat of UKIP taking votes from the Conservative Party in the UK, David Cameron would not have promised the in/out referendum on EU membership.
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by timthorn 5y ago
The ads were really valuable. Back in the day they were one of the main ways of learning what was available.

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