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by timthorn 6y ago
> Apple was actually the first company which made a marketplace on a non PC device which had a overly cheap way to get your software on it There were companies before Apple with non-PC software marketplaces, such as Handango.
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by timthorn 6y ago
She gave the Wheeler Lecture at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory on "The Future of Microprocessors" a few months back. Not the same talk, but recording is here: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/wheeler-lecture-
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by timthorn 6y ago
The ThunderX2 also has SMT4, and has been available for several years.
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Rolls-Royce eyes 'hypersonic' flight as it partners with Reaction Engines(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
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Reaction Engines and Rolls-Royce to develop supersonic and hypersonic systems(theengineer.co.uk)
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by timthorn 6y ago
The sample was of "2000 nationally representative adults" https://waitrose.pressarea.com/pressrelease/details/78/NEWS_...
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Hands free driving set to become reality(thetimes.co.uk)
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by timthorn 6y ago
What underlying data do you want to make available? There's no consistent data collection across the schools, what there is exists for internal use at a school so there's no requirement for it to be to any particular standard or o
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by timthorn 6y ago
No, it's a steal. :) The 16kB ZX Spectrum cost £125 at launch in 1982, which according to the Bank of England was equivalent to £444 in 2019.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Back in those days, computer companies named after fruit or flowers were common. Apricot, Tulip, Tangerine, etc...
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by timthorn 6y ago
Is it EVs that are heavy on tyre wear, or Teslas specifically? I've not heard issues from the Outlander, Zoe, Prius and Leaf drivers I know, and we talk EVs regularly.
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by timthorn 6y ago
If memory serves, the processor in the Newton was touted as being as powerful as a 486 (386 was the mainstream CPU at that point).
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by timthorn 6y ago
That's true in embedded and mobile, but not the case in the server space. The platform has been standardized so that the same Linux ISO will work on any mainstream Arm server. https://developer.arm.com/architectures&#x2
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Green with NVMe: AWS adds more Arm-powered instance types(theregister.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
The UK panel show "Have I Got News For You" includes a guest publication in every episode: https://metro.co.uk/2015/04/17/11-of-the-most-memorable-publ...
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by timthorn 6y ago
The article includes benchmarks of PHP8 beta on AArch64. Quoting: "PHP-8 plans to feature a new JIT compiler that optimizes the PHP byte-code in the Opcache. The JIT is currently developed on x86 and is based on Lua’s JIT. As Lua’s JIT
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by timthorn 6y ago
He's only campaigned against it at Heathrow. He has also championed the idea of "Boris Island" - a brand new airport in the Thames Estuary.
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by timthorn 6y ago
A telco was established in the UK by the National Grid during the 1990s using the high voltage distribution network as the backbone, and wrapping fibre around the neutral conductor. They called it Energis, and it had a great slogan at one p
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UK government wins stake in satellite firm Oneweb(cityam.com)
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UK wins bidding war for satellite firm OneWeb(telegraph.co.uk)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Paul is one of the lesser known players in the Cambridge tech story, and deserves greater recognition.
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by timthorn 6y ago
I think most of the gripes described are really issues that come from moving from a MacOS desktop to try a Linux desktop; if you were moving from a x86 Linux desktop to the Pi the experience would have been much less painful.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Something like the Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX700?
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by timthorn 6y ago
Step by step instructions for building an Arm-based MPI cluster using Raspberry Pis: https://epcced.github.io/wee_archlet/
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Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer(top500.org)
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by timthorn 6y ago
MS Office is ported, but it's a hybrid (CHPE). The executable looks to be x86 when examined in Properties, but if you look at the contents of the file on disk you'll find Arm code as well as x86. MS did it this way so that any x86
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by timthorn 6y ago
I also had that problem with the "ew" sound. I'm never understood if I ask for a "Mountain Dew" - I have to translate to "Mountain Doo" even when the context of a drink is clear. The other one is asking fo
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by timthorn 6y ago
The £108m is for the contact tracing service, which includes 15000 employees. The app is not part of that deal.
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by timthorn 6y ago
It was awarded to a supplier through the G-Cloud procurement framework, who obtained their place their in accordance with OJEU rules. Details here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2d8c89c5-6... Not pa
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by timthorn 6y ago
The full quote continues: "...from organisations with acronyms saying they know what is best, and getting it consistently wrong."

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