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by timthorn 6y ago
The City of London Police are the national lead force for economic and cyber crime, like the Met is the lead for terrorism.
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by timthorn 6y ago
MicroLive had a feature on the Transputer back in the day: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/be4d23d20200fca1b1db963376852c3f
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by timthorn 6y ago
There are forms of super-resolution that certainly aren't guessing. For example, you can take a video of a subject and integrate over time, so that the motion of the subject over the sensor allows you to infer sub-pixel detail. https:
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New Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors(aws.amazon.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
An account of the 1984 test: https://www.railmagazine.com/trains/heritage/it-s-a-lovely-d... And the BBC Six O'clock News report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo22l4wJdx8
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by timthorn 6y ago
Arm can be seen as a direct product of the UK's Computer Literacy Project, and slightly less directly the broad base of games developers in the UK could be considered another output. The Transputer was less of a success, but left a le
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Professor Roger Griffin, Astronomer, has died at the age of 85(ast.cam.ac.uk)
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Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' cloud(theregister.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
I'm of the opinion that MPs with a continuing outside job are incredibly valuable. The obvious example are the many MP doctors (who need to keep their skills current if they are to maintain registration) but wherever they work, having
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Evil aspidistras and Noel Edmonds: An obscure quiz show shaped gaming in the 80s(eurogamer.net)
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Reflections on Ray Dolby(thetimeandtheplace.org.uk)
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Reel to Reel (The Cambridge University Tape Recording Society)(magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk)
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HPE plans second Spaceborne computer, will be linked to Microsoft Azure(datacenterdynamics.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Our astronomy society tries hard to persuade newcomers not to buy a telescope until they're sure they will actually get it out more than once, and in the meantime to borrow a club telescope. Your local club might also have a stock to l
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by timthorn 6y ago
The clip doesn't mention the importance of the BBC Micro in the history of Arm - but without the success of the BBC, Acorn surely wouldn't have been in a position to create the Archimedes with its novel processor.
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by timthorn 6y ago
> a classics degree is the easiest option I'm not sure I'd agree with that assertion.
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by timthorn 6y ago
That's been brought in - all adults are now expected to be offered their first dose by 21 July.
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by timthorn 6y ago
The UK government introduced a test to check how children were progressing in phonics. Teachers were told the pass mark to aid in assessment, but the national results showed a remarkable bump for exactly the pass mark: https://sc
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by timthorn 6y ago
The author's experiences are historic. In 2012, the notice period for inspections was reduced to the afternoon before the inspectors turned up, but prior to that it could be several weeks: https://www.gov.uk/government&
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Optical Illusions from the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contests(markpack.org.uk)
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The Sinclair Story (1985) [pdf](worldradiohistory.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Some fun ones. What was more interesting to me was that a couple of my contemporaries who were taught by him also then went on to be in top ten groups.
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by timthorn 6y ago
My chemistry teacher was in a top ten pop group in decades past. Could be a more common career ladder than you might think.
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Coronavirus human challenge study gets green light in UK(politico.eu)
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by timthorn 6y ago
The Unix philosophy of air handling.
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by timthorn 6y ago
The idea is that the fan is deployed in a closed room and over time, all the air in the room will be circulated through the filter.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Is your concept different to the National Space Centre? https://spacecentre.co.uk/
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by timthorn 6y ago
Not to mention a potential charge of contempt of court.
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by timthorn 6y ago
The cover letter is essential for me as a hiring manager. When I have a pool of ~100 applicants for a graduate role, I need something to differentiate between the candidates beyond the list of courses they've undertaken and summer jobs
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by timthorn 6y ago
You should have included some string manipulation.

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