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The Computers That Made Britain(wireframe.raspberrypi.org)
1 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
These issues are in your control - not for the centralised service but your use of them. You can build appropriate redundancy for the components/providers in your stack and the budget you have.
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Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC(nextplatform.com)
3 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
Take a look at the Fishmongers Hall heroes. The narwhal tusk was only a 5 foot pole, but the convicted killers put themselves in harms way to protect the public.
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by timthorn 5y ago
Not quite - there are a bunch of CS2K retirements listed there, which was the soft switch evolution of the DMS100. I'm personally a little sad about those retirements as my first professional job was on the small team at Nortel develop
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by timthorn 5y ago
On the FTA point, Freesat is the satellite equivalent of Freeview and needs no subscription. Many TVs have Freesat tuners built in so you just need the dish.
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by timthorn 5y ago
I agree, and it's not just the loss of that rich communication in other languages but in English as well.
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The Navy sub commanded by artificial intelligence(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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Talking Chip with Ampere Computing CEO Renee James(nextplatform.com)
2 points by timthorn 5y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 5y ago
Hydrogen cars usually are electric cars. The main advantage to the owner is being able to fill the tank in minutes, and to society as a whole is being able to manage the H2 generation process to align with supply and demand on the grid.
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Arm Announces Neoverse V1, N2 Platforms and CPUs, CMN-700 Mesh(anandtech.com)
216 points by timthorn 5y ago|92 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
I don't think you could hash the registration plates. Users need to see the vehicles that are associated with their account, not least to select the car that the parking session is to be associated with. Although an app could maintain
583.
Beyond Star Wars: Prof Tim Willkinson on Holographic Projection Displays (2019)(jesus.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
584.
by timthorn 6y ago
Here's a currently open job role for a content assessor at the Internet Watch Foundation: https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are/work-us The stats there say they've dealt with 1.2m reports over 23
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OneWeb and Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellites came within 60m of crash(thetimes.co.uk)
6 points by timthorn 6y ago|1 comments
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VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra to experimental Arm hypervisor(theregister.com)
1 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
I heard a talk from the Space Applications Catapult about this a few months back. It isn't online any more, but some I noted some stats at the time. The station would be 1km wide and 4-5000 tonnes in geostationary orbit, producing >
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UK government considers space-based solar power for 24/7 Solar Generation(energygain.co.uk)
27 points by timthorn 6y ago|28 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
This was one of my very first shareholdings. I worked for Nortel who made the kit, and I remember an excited presentation in the staff canteen where the upcoming ISDN capabilities of the system were described. I learned from that experience
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by timthorn 6y ago
I have regularly had 2-3h (each way) commutes. It's not because I couldn't change, but because I actively enjoyed the travel each day. Dedicated, no interruption thinking space, and a clear buffer between the stress of work and my
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Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10% globally(theregister.com)
1 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
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Satellite mega-constellations are making our night skies 10pc brighter(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
The other resource you might be interested in is Minimus, designed to introduce Primary school children to Latin, and to allow non-Latin speaking teachers to lead a course. None of the interactive elements you offer, though there are CDs :)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Also new this year for Lockdown, the Oak National Academy produced an intro course: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/...
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by timthorn 6y ago
This is one of the differences between UK and US English. In Britain, the term "eye doctor" just isn't used. It's of a type with legislator vs law-maker; it's only really in the past few years that politicians in th
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by timthorn 6y ago
The day's conclusion.
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by timthorn 6y ago
> there were people using money with King George until 1952. Shilling coins were in circulation until 1997 - it is really quite recently that King George on cash was phased out entirely.
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by timthorn 6y ago
> Just like in the UK where the PM is elected by each democratically elected MP That's not the case. The PM is appointed by the Monarch, who will almost always choose the leader of the party able to command a majority in the House o
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by timthorn 6y ago
> That said, old Toyota cars are still treasury, because they just don't fail. An assertion famously tested on Top Gear: https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
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by timthorn 6y ago
Careful though - "It sounds like you're exhausted by that" can also come off as sounding quite patronising.

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