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by timthorn 2y ago
So is there a difference between a tracker and a sequencer?
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by timthorn 2y ago
And for people who did, but have never heard it referred to as chiptune nor trackers!
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Why was this barbecue on the tram tracks?(eurogunzel.com)
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'Ceefax gave you news when you wanted it' – Teletext at 50(bbc.co.uk)
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by timthorn 2y ago
What that article doesn't address is the concurrent shift to electrify domestic heating. A worked analysis of the impacts can be found here: https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2022/2/11/how-much-e
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by timthorn 2y ago
> Every magazine I checked out was MOSTLY ads Ads were always a big part of it, and indeed pre-internet were a reason to buy a hobby magazine. They carried value in a way they perhaps don't any longer - not because the print ads are
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by timthorn 2y ago
> Is there a single web magazine making big bucks? The Spectator has been growing both in print and online. The editor wrote about this, in the wake of the title's sale, this week: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article
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Working title, "Syntax Era" :)
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I agree, and it is an unusual turn of phrase these days, but I think it's the scenario here that would be confusing. The number 68 bus is a label rather than a quantity, which makes a difference.
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> German numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty instead of one-hundred-fifty-five and too many of my thoughts are in english Both are fine in the UK, though the "five-and-fifty" form is somewhat old fashioned. My Grandmother us
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by timthorn 2y ago
A new play based on her life has just opened in London: https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2024/the-lightest-...
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by timthorn 2y ago
Not that a single data point is particularly useful, but I'd never come across it before reading the article.
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by timthorn 2y ago
The article was published last month. I think the novel aspect was the completion of the digitisation effort.
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September 1946: The Miles 52, the supersonic aircraft that never was(theengineer.co.uk)
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by timthorn 2y ago
I'm pretty sympathetic to your case (I remember visiting Cape Canaveral and watching a replay of the countdown to a rocket launch in the control room, which was incredibly disappointing when they just flashed lights on the various cons
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by timthorn 2y ago
Of course, there's also afternoon tea consists of the drink as well as cake, sandwiches, fancies and scones. And the subset cream tea, with scones, cream & jam.
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Hawking Archive made available to historians and researchers(cam.ac.uk)
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Professor Roger Griffin and the Cambridge 36-inch telescope(squarewheels.org.uk)
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by timthorn 2y ago
London Bridge?
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by timthorn 2y ago
Nonetheless, there is a coincidence in that Stephen Chamberlain, his codefendant, was critically injured in a car crash on Saturday: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/mike-lynch-s-co-defenda...
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by timthorn 2y ago
I'm not convinced that's exactly what he thought, though corporates might have gone that way.
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Spacefinder(github.com)
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by timthorn 2y ago
> Oh, it's sqrt(2), I probably didn't make an error in the calculation You remind me of my university maths exam. In all the past papers, the eigenvalues came out to be round numbers. But in the real paper I sat, no matter how
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by timthorn 2y ago
Yes. Take a look at the National Trails website: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/the-ridgeway/tr... There are also plenty of Sunday newspaper articles about walking it/a section of it in the
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by timthorn 2y ago
Yes, it would. But prefix is also a verb that means to "to add something before another thing" which is the counterpart to append.
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Prefix would be the traditional term.
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Flown to the US in chains, now Mike Lynch is free and talking(thetimes.com)
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by timthorn 2y ago
It wasn't the AA phone boxes but their radio network. From the article: > Whitehall arranged for the prime minister’s car to have a radio link – with which the AA used to communicate with its mechanics – that would tell the driver t
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by timthorn 2y ago
Many also have/had their own railhead, so the road part wasn't always needed.
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Soft, stretchy 'jelly batteries' inspired by electric eels(cam.ac.uk)
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