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by timthorn 6y ago
The British Antarctic Survey has collaborated with a musician to create a work incorporating these and other Sounds of Space: https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/sounds-of-space/
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ARM has already saved Apple – twice(appleinsider.com)
1 points by timthorn 6y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
I understand (from a friend who was at the school at the time) that at least one of the authors for one of the manuals was a teacher at Netherhall, the school round the corner from Acorn. The BBC Micro was the reference point for the Comput
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by timthorn 6y ago
A film with the best working title: "Syntax Era"
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by timthorn 6y ago
The show was a successful transition to television of the Radio 4 classic, "The News Quiz"
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by timthorn 6y ago
I think it was Dayton's drug use that caused the initial situation.
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by timthorn 6y ago
It should be comfortable with a lot more than a few connections per second. I've just benchmarked my Pi4 running Nginx on Raspbian from my laptop over wifi, running Apachebench and obtained 322 requests per second with a 34kB html file
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by timthorn 6y ago
I've gone for an SSD over USB3, and get good performance - though RAMdisk would certainly be faster still and feasible with 8GB.
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8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75(raspberrypi.org)
347 points by timthorn 6y ago|229 comments
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by timthorn 6y ago
We used to have such an API in the UK with Tesco, but that looks to have withered: https://www.tescolabs.com/category/api/
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by timthorn 6y ago
I worked on an episode as part of a team reconstructing a mosaic a couple of decades back. (Basildon/"The Intercity Villa") Unfortunately, it turned out that the GWR railway line had obliterated the original villa. :(
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Sandia to receive Fujitsu ‘green’ processor(share-ng.sandia.gov)
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by timthorn 6y ago
I found that when I first moved to the area, but it's not too hard to get involved with groups like Makespace, Cambridge Wireless or Cambridge Network, CSAR or the Centre for Computing History to expand your circle.
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by timthorn 6y ago
Nope, they're trying to keep cashflow coming in.
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by timthorn 6y ago
An in depth, but paywalled, article about this: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/out-of-home-advertising-bi...
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The Spoiler Billboard(seine.site)
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by timthorn 6y ago
> settle right down as soon as a familiar human come into view After a period of sulking first, of course.
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Cambridge University: All lectures to be online-only until summer of 2021(bbc.co.uk)
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Atos Launches First Supercomputer Equipped with Nvidia A100 GPU(atos.net)
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Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning the War of the NOSes?(nextplatform.com)
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Pandemic Shows the Value of the Public Cloud(nextplatform.com)
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British research supercomputer ARCHER hit with SSH-nixing cyber attack(theregister.co.uk)
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Delivery of the Supercomputer Fugaku has been Completed(r-ccs.riken.jp)
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Getting Started with AWS Graviton(github.com)
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by timthorn 6y ago
Not only that - the next version of Logic was due imminently, with the engineering work done. It was at that moment that I grew a strong dislike of Apple, having been a real cheerleader for most of the Macintosh's existence.
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AWS unleashes custom Arm processor – Graviton2 – in new EC2 M6g instance type(theregister.co.uk)
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Nvidia Plus Mellanox: Talking Datacenter Architecture with Jensen Huang(nextplatform.com)
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by timthorn 7y ago
Also in the same game, Kite: http://www.kitenergy.net/
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It is 35 years since the Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time(theregister.co.uk)
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by timthorn 7y ago
Yes, it's legal. After all, sweets haven't been banned and they cause lots of tooth decay.

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