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When British Railways deliberately crashed a train(therailwayhub.co.uk)
130 points by timthorn 2y ago|65 comments
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by timthorn 2y ago
One other fun type are the user operated gates. Normal farm gates on both sides of the railway, with a red/green aspect light telling you if it is safe to open the gate. Once you've driven through you have to stop and then close t
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by timthorn 2y ago
Not just indie coffee shops - chains too. Pubs, clothes shops... Even the Raspberry Pi store
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by timthorn 2y ago
At least they'd take cash if the computer wasn't broken. That's getting quite rare in the UK.
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by timthorn 2y ago
Also to the works of R.A.Penfold, such as "An Introduction To Z80 Machine Code": https://archive.org/details/an-introduction-to-z-80-machine-...
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The Flexipede Revisited(chilton-computing.org.uk)
68 points by timthorn 2y ago|2 comments
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by timthorn 2y ago
Gordon Corera wrote a good book covering their use in WWII: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37933332-secret-pigeon-s...
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by timthorn 2y ago
Looking at the GitHub, the code downloads aircraft movements to avoid false alerts.
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by timthorn 2y ago
Plenty of room for other satellites, maybe - but they are having a real impact on astronomy.
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by timthorn 2y ago
Many authorities can issue fines in the UK without court approval. There's always recourse to the law though, if you want to appeal.
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Ron Ayers obituary, designer of the world's fastest car(thetimes.com)
2 points by timthorn 2y ago|1 comments
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by timthorn 2y ago
Far more repossessions took place in the 80s and 90s. Times were/are different, but it wasn't easy back then either.
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by timthorn 2y ago
They'll have had mortgages at 10% or higher, and tied to endowment policies that were often missold. Mortgages weren't easy for boomers, even if house prices were lower.
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Cement recycling method could help solve one of the big climate challenges(cam.ac.uk)
324 points by timthorn 2y ago|197 comments
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by timthorn 2y ago
At least in the UK, almost all the induction hobs on the market have touch controls. Not having a knob per ring is a massive issue for some users.
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(Pi5) M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12(raspberrypi.com)
68 points by timthorn 2y ago|27 comments
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by timthorn 2y ago
I did too. I also visited Hinckley Point as a teenager, but for that we could just turn up whereas for last year's trip we had to book well in advance and submit ID information for vetting.
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by timthorn 2y ago
> that to live next to a data center causes illness? The claim is the construction is causing illness - the DC isn't yet built.
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by timthorn 2y ago
While an individual fact can't be copyrighted, a collection of facts does have database right protections in the EU & UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
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by timthorn 2y ago
The PSTI Regulations that the bill gives legal effect to are here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1007/schedule/1/mad... (2) Passwords must be— (a)unique per product; or (b)defin
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by timthorn 2y ago
> One obvious reason for my refusal so far is that I supported Leave, although regretted it almost instantly, and while my opinion on that referendum tends to change every few weeks, I’m still of the view that it was a bad move. He doesn
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by timthorn 3y ago
The Channel 4 drama, Shackleton, was also very good.
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by timthorn 3y ago
> Of course, to the extent that the bellhead culture did have awareness of what was on the horizon, the connectionless communications paradigm enabled by packet switching was viewed as a threat to their revenues, as was the idea of a dum
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by timthorn 3y ago
I miss SGI for many reasons, but their industrial design (and that of pre-HPE Cray) is one of the big ones. The 19" rack form factor is the shipping container of the computing world - practical, standardised, sensible... and dull. The
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Quarterhorse Mk 1 puts Hermeus on route to hypersonic flight(theengineer.co.uk)
1 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
Ah, Scotland is a whole different country... :) Charging networks in the UK evolved from a set of regional schemes commissioned by the Government under the Plugged-In-Places programme. At that time, it couldn't be assumed that drivers
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by timthorn 3y ago
> Most apps/chargers only link your bank account That's just not true of the UK market. Most fast chargers accept credit cards using a contactless reader - indeed, by law, they will soon all have to. Of the main charging networ
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by timthorn 3y ago
I grew up with sheets and blankets in the UK. Can't beat that tucked in feeling.
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Talking on the Moon: The quest to establish a lunar mobile phone network(bbc.com)
4 points by timthorn 3y ago|0 comments
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by timthorn 3y ago
The undercarriage didn't retract in the video. Was that just an artefact of the stages of flight the film came from or was the undercarriage fixed for the maiden flight?

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