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by timthorn 1y ago
This was piloted, not autonomous. But yes, the maturity is the big thing here - the CAA was happy for Vertical to fly in open airspace meaning that they were satisfied with the reliability of the craft.
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by timthorn 1y ago
The Women's Institute is going strong in the UK. There are far more girls' schools than boys' schools. I don't think female only spaces are frowned on at all, at least here.
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by timthorn 1y ago
No, this is rare because of how how few places are called Chesterton.
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UK's Vertical VX4 eVTOL flies outside Kemble circuit for first time(flyer.co.uk)
51 points by timthorn 1y ago|27 comments
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Insect protein could be 13.5 times worse for climate than soy(feedandadditive.com)
2 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
I attend the Christmas Lectures too - I'm literally on my way home from the RI as I type :) They used to go a lot deeper and narrower, exploring a topic (eg the Standard Model or chirality) over a set of 5 hour long lectures. The targe
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The fluid mechanics of poohsticks (2020)(royalsocietypublishing.org)
3 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
You perhaps missed the key point - this was Simon Peyton Jones speaking. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience; while the talk was pitched at a lay audience, Simon is the type of speaker who can make anything engaging and enjoyable t
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Six technologies that helped win the Second World War (2017)(theengineer.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
Sorry you were downvoted - not me guv! I would say it is worth pointing out though, specifically because foreigners are most likely to be confused between England and GB. Hope you get your karma back :)
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by timthorn 1y ago
You were pretty unlucky. The basic bitrate was 9.6kbps but much higher speeds were common.
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by timthorn 1y ago
> Just a reminder, if you ever look at England on a map and try and guess where the middle of it is, that is where the tree stood, alone, surrounded by fields. The tree was located about 30 miles from the northern border of England. It c
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by timthorn 1y ago
There is the Smarter Fridgecam - not sure if you're unaware of it or just that it doesn't meet your brief. In any case, this is it: https://smarter.am/products/smarter-fridgecam
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by timthorn 1y ago
The Museum is small but well worth a visit, especially if you are interested in electronic music or telecoms.
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by timthorn 1y ago
I'm afraid I disagree. The post asked whose baby it would be, specifically in the context of the law. I don't see what other interpretation I should have made?
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by timthorn 1y ago
The Royal Institution - based around the corner from the Royal Society and the scientific home to Michael Faraday but these days is mostly about science communication. They're celebrating 200 years of the Christmas Lectures and Discour
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by timthorn 1y ago
In the UK, whoever gives birth to the child is the mother.
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by timthorn 1y ago
It's notable just how many of the shows called out in this thread have links to the Cambridge Footlights. Certainly not all, but perhaps a third have cast who came through that club.
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by timthorn 1y ago
The Lost Scientists of WWII is a good read telling the stories of a number of scientists who applied to the British for asylum but who didn't make it: https://worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0436
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by timthorn 1y ago
Have you misread that paragraph? It's saying that heat pumps are popularly known not to release such gases.
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by timthorn 1y ago
I never knew 'Eezer, but do pass on my thanks to Rich for some brilliant tunes from my younger years!
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by timthorn 1y ago
When EE launched 5G in the UK, they took out a full page ad with a massive headline saying simply "A real crowd pleaser" One of the best adverts for a long time - if you knew about the technical advantages of 5G, it had a real dou
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by timthorn 1y ago
Some more detail: https://www.iata.org/en/services/compliance/contactless-trav...
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New airport rules will get rid of boarding passes and check-in(thetimes.com)
9 points by timthorn 1y ago|5 comments
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Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America's Electric Bills(simonsfoundation.org)
3 points by timthorn 1y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 1y ago
Yup, one of these: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/32523/Acorn-Teletext...
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by timthorn 2y ago
I think officially, we called it ticker tape, as in stock ticker - it was originally used to record stock prices transmit by telegraph.
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by timthorn 2y ago
It's still singular. Maths is just a contraction of mathematics, but without an apostrophe.
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by timthorn 2y ago
Richard Turner (one of the authors) gave a talk on how AI weather prediction works to the Cambridge Philosophical Society around 18 months ago. A recording is available here: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/quiet-ai-revo
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'Beyond what we'd hoped': SKA-Low's first glimpse of the Universe(skao.int)
2 points by timthorn 2y ago|0 comments

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