timthorn

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871.
by timthorn 7y ago
Desired by whom, and for whose benefit? Drinks I used to like no longer exist, but have just been substituted by coke so there is zero reduction in sugar consumption, but my quality of life has been reduced.
872.
by timthorn 7y ago
They introduced sugar taxes in the UK, and now almost the only carbonated drinks available with sugar are Coke and Pepsi. Everything else has swapped sugar for sweeteners, which for those of us who find their taste foul has been an unpleasa
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by timthorn 7y ago
Grid refs do a good job in the UK. Two letters (which can be omitted if you know roughly where you are) and 6 digits get you to a 100m square, 8 digits to 10m and so on. That's the system the police use as the base truth, and any other
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NHS to set up national artificial intelligence lab(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 7y ago
Students at Southampton have done a similar thing with wavefront generation and are commercialising it: http://www.audioscenic.com
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Memory Tagging Extension: Enhancing memory safety through architecture(community.arm.com)
2 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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Adopting the Arm Memory Tagging Extension in Android(security.googleblog.com)
2 points by timthorn 7y ago|1 comments
878.
by timthorn 7y ago
> someone showed me a 1960s plan that involved taking a corner off St John's. That's to be expected if you get someone from Trinity to draw up the plan! Cambridge is becoming an incredibly hostile place to get to and around in
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by timthorn 7y ago
The early Apple CDROM drives also took a caddy that you put your disk into.
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Whaley Bridge Dam Collapse: Town Evacuated over Toddbrook Reservoir Fears(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges(bbc.co.uk)
140 points by timthorn 7y ago|65 comments
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by timthorn 7y ago
The cubicles aren't really covered by the website, but I'm always struck by how little privacy is afforded by the dividing walls in toilets in the USA.
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Do our pets ever love us – or do they just stick around for the food?(theguardian.com)
9 points by timthorn 7y ago|3 comments
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Thirteen Minutes to the Moon [audio](bbc.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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Mod to support hypersonic propulsion system development(eandt.theiet.org)
1 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
886.
by timthorn 7y ago
The rough date you checked will be relevant - as CPUs move to smaller process nodes, they become more susceptible to this type of failure.
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by timthorn 7y ago
There are lots of industrial ovens around that work in the ISM bands @ eg 27MHz. A good paper on the topic: http://www.koralassociates.com/app/download/1281730/Industri...
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by timthorn 7y ago
It's not a risk factor; it's a test outcome. You would be told that you've tested positive with the follow on tests and anxiety that causes. There have been studies into exactly this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by timthorn 7y ago
What about the anxiety and distress caused to the patient? How many might undergo an unnecessary mastectomy to be on the safe side?
890.
by timthorn 7y ago
Radio 4 had a programme on mining landfill a while back: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c3cnb
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Britain planned to put a man on the Moon by 1968, lost documents show(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 7y ago
Some AMD cards have an Arm build of their UEFI firmware available, which does allow video from boot: https://developer.arm.com/architectures/system-architectures...
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UK Government to Partner with Amazon's Alexa to Offer NHS Health Advice(pulsetoday.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 7y ago
Alphablocks is excellent and is also now accompanied by Numberblocks, which was developed in conjunction with the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics. There was a big push by the Conservative government as soon as they go
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Debugging a 32-bit Fedora Arm builder issue(medium.com)
4 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
896.
by timthorn 7y ago
My token battery gets me to work 20 miles away, and I rarely fire up the ICE, but it means that I can still drive from London to Scotland with only a single stop for petrol.
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by timthorn 7y ago
I don't know where you're based, but I wonder if that's a US perspective? I've been driving a PHEV in the UK for 5 years, and perhaps 50% of my colleagues with EVs also have hybrids (including a couple with the 330e); I&
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by timthorn 7y ago
The 3-series and 5-series have had electric options (330e & 550e) for some time now.
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New Zealand Ends Involvement with SKA Telescope Project(hpcwire.com)
2 points by timthorn 7y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 7y ago
It comes from when Sirius (the "Dog Star") rises at the same time as the Sun - I think it is more about the astrological culture than the language, although that will be a vector.

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