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by timthorn 8y ago
York Minster suffered a massive fire after a lightning strike, but was restored: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-2...
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Den Automation Launches UK Smart Home Range with Cool Self Moving Switches(automatedhome.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 8y ago
Ack. Thanks for that, goodness knows what I was thinking. Still, the value is high in any case.
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by timthorn 8y ago
The BBC certainly doesn’t refuse to innovate. It has a massive history of technical innovation – not least broadcasting TV over IP multicast in 1999 and launching the iPlayer in 2005. There’s no point in them offering full scale 4k streamin
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BT Tower broadcasts error message to the nation as Windows displays admins shame(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 8y ago|1 comments
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Brit rocket boffins Reaction Engines notch up first supersonic precooler test(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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UK's Sabre space plane engine tech in new milestone(bbc.co.uk)
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by timthorn 8y ago
And if you were really into Teletext (and had enough cash) you could get an adaptor to download software OTA: http://www.heyrick.co.uk/software/ttx/ttxouse.html
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by timthorn 8y ago
Was it the L-Shaped Room, perhaps? <Dusts off memory>
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by timthorn 8y ago
The programmes in question are available online: https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
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Heath Robinson: WW2 codebreaking machine reconstructed(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 8y ago
I disagree. In the public mind, Windscale isn't distinguished as a military accident; a power station was on the same site and the accident caused great public concern. It might be 60 years ago but it is still part of the PR legacy tha
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by timthorn 8y ago
> In 60 years of nuclear power, only three accidents have raised public alarm I think Windscale would count amongst such accidents, too.
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by timthorn 8y ago
If you're in Cambridge, there's an exhibition of alternative periodic tables on until Friday at St Catherine's: https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/exhibition-marks-the-150th-annive...
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by timthorn 8y ago
It is 16 logical cores vs 32 physical.
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Ampere Arm Makes the Packet Processor Rite of Passage(nextplatform.com)
3 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 8y ago
> Here's the thing... If the person's phone has a data connection - the web page can just send the geolocation directly back to the emergency services! No need even for the data connection. Any Android 2.3.7+ or iOS 11.3+ phone
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by timthorn 8y ago
Some content is developed as a co-production with other broadcasters, so the rights will be complicated by that.
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Simon Peyton Jones to Head Up New National Centre for Computing Education(schoolsweek.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 8y ago
The Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge is the first place I've come across that is cashless. It struck me that for a Foundation that is trying to promote computing to children, they're exactly one of the main demographics that won&#x
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by timthorn 8y ago
As Thatcher went on to write in her autobiography: "they never quoted the rest. I went on to say: There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look
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by timthorn 8y ago
> It doesn't address, for example, the fact that the two political factions in America now accept different versions of reality. You cannot square that circle with "better disagreement". You can't square the circle, b
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by timthorn 8y ago
British Standard Time existed all year (~50 years ago) but British Summer Time is defined as "the period beginning at one o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in March and ending at one o'clock, Gre
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by timthorn 8y ago
> I believe the UK observes GMT (UTC±0) That's correct, with BST in the Summer. It can get confusing when working with people from different countries who aren't aware of BST and who schedule meetings explicitly in GMT, thinkin
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by timthorn 8y ago
A few years ago, the Centre for Computing History (as per the article) hosted the pair. No fisticuffs... :)
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OneWeb launches mega-constellation pathfinder satellites(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 8y ago
At least on UK models, it gets set by RDS.
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Arm Unveils Neoverse N1 Platform with Up to 128 Cores(hpcwire.com)
1 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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ARM Goes to War in the Datacenter with “Ares” Designs(nextplatform.com)
5 points by timthorn 8y ago|0 comments
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Code of Conduct for Data-Driven Health and Care Technology(gov.uk)
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