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Twitter Selects AWS and Graviton Arm Instances to Serve Timelines(hpcwire.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
My hours playing Colin McRae Rally 2.0 with a force feedback wheel possibly saved my life. Driving on a motorway one winter coming round a bend, I suddenly encountered a patch of snow that hadn't been cleared. There was no time to slow
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by timthorn 6y ago
> or before that You forget Colin McRae Rally, surely?
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Gaia Early Data Release 3 published(cosmos.esa.int)
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30 Years in and Arm Looks Stronger Than Ever(forbes.com)
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King's College London: Digitising collections opens whole new areas for research(jisc.ac.uk)
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Another update on Janet’s traffic levels as the autumn term ends(shapingthefutureofjanet.jiscinvolve.org)
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Ten Devices that Define 30 Years of Arm(arm.com)
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Arm at 30: From Cambridge to the world, one plucky UK startup changed everything(theregister.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
> OK so take this code below, strip off the leading spaces (thats important) and paste it into the box. I'm sure you really mean print it out then type it in, line by line.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Ampere and Marvell have already.
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by timthorn 6y ago
> An unnecessary additional failure point seems counterproductive One of the leading reasons for using USB attached storage on the Pi is to avoid SD card corruption issues.
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Britain’s £40bn space race boom: Shetland spaceport to launch in 2022(politicmag.net)
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by timthorn 6y ago
The BBC has also commissioned a bus ride and a reindeer trip as well as the canal boat in the Youtube links above, under the series name "All Aboard!" - the sleigh ride is very good for a Christmas background and is on DVD. They a
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by timthorn 6y ago
RevK tried taking this even further: https://www.revk.uk/2012/06/new-type-of-email-address.html
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by timthorn 6y ago
I use OpenHAB purely as a ZWave I/O engine for Node-Red which works quite well for me.
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by timthorn 6y ago
It wasn't even a digital camera for that system - it was an analogue CCTV camera hooked up to a framegrabber. Digital cameras weren't really a thing at that time.
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by timthorn 6y ago
It might be unusal for them to have dedicated parking facilities (though there are a good number of Starbucks and Costa drive thrus now) but outside of London and city centres there is almost always shared parking close by.
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by timthorn 6y ago
HS2, under construction in the UK, is 155 miles long, with a total budget of £55bn but currently expected to cost well over £80bn - some estimates have it as north of £100bn. $1bn per mile is in the same ballpark.
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by timthorn 6y ago
But it is also true that Hoyle made many important contributions himself. For instance, he posited the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. We're all complex beings.
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by timthorn 6y ago
That happened regularly in the transition from 680x0 to PowerPC.
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by timthorn 6y ago
The term itself was coined in order to disparage the idea by Fred Hoyle, who was a proponent of the Steady State Theory. He never accepted that the Big Bang happened.
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by timthorn 6y ago
I thought it was originally started in their bedroom - the Darlings were still at school when they started out IIRC
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by timthorn 6y ago
Ahh, I did work experience at SGI in the UK and one of my tasks was to process the BABT approval invoice for the Indy's ISDN modem. Four days of fairly boring tasks, and one day of wonder spent in the Reality Centre in the week before
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by timthorn 6y ago
The BBC has been explicit that it is about data collection. You don't need a licence to listen to the BBC radio stations but they have switched to requiring a login: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets
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by timthorn 6y ago
A "git repo" isn't completely neutral either, at least in the UK.
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Experian to appeal ICO enforcement notice over data protection failures(complianceweek.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Music magazines - give Sound on Sound a try. High quality content and has a long pedigree. https://www.soundonsound.com/
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by timthorn 6y ago
> Most FOSS projects would be destroyed if all of the EU countries suddenly depended on a "hobby" project Can you expand on this? I haven't understood your argument as to why it would be the case.
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by timthorn 6y ago
The Cambridge Philosophical Society is actually a general science society, but being over 200 years old took its name from the era before "scientist" was an established term: https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.or

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