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by timthorn 3y ago
There's an installation near Cambridge that uses the heat to warm industrial greenhouses. It has a methane powered generator which runs the heat pumps and releases its exhaust CO2 into the greenhouse to promote growth. https:/&#x
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The New ROM Antics – Building the ZX Spectrum 128(theregister.com)
11 points by timthorn 3y ago|1 comments
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You make it sound as though the pastoral and spiritual care of their congregations was worthless. In a world where belief in God was widespread and living conditions tough, the value of a parson was not just in their scientific or artistic
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From the paper's abstract: > This both increases the maximum payload mass of a launch system and allows for the miniaturization of launch vehicles so they may be used as nano-launchers for the rapid access of small satellites to low
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Autophage rocket engine consumes plastic fuselage for fuel(theengineer.co.uk)
149 points by timthorn 3y ago|67 comments
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Nick (and two former subpostmasters) gave a talk to the University of Manchester a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkSIGd7Z68
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That's why there is an option of a no investigation settlement. But if that were the only option, postmasters who felt that it didn't compensate them adequately would have reason to complain.
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It's an immediate 150k payment, followed by a further settlement figure. I think that's a choice between either 600k without question, or an investigation to assess actual loss.
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And Cambridge doesn't have a cathedral. That would be in Ely, though Great St Mary's is a big church.
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The guidelines you link to are produced by the Active Travel Academy, a body with an explicit goal of reducing car use. The Orwellian tactic of first controlling the language has been well learned.
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Accident implies that it was unintentional, not that no one was to blame. If I drop my mug in the kitchen that's an accident too.
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Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more(politico.eu)
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National Grid has operations in the USA these days, it's no longer a UK only business.
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IIRC, in real world installations the Cray would have been paired with a minicomputer or mainframe.
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I'm referring to the same page, under the "Background Activities" heading
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The author's CV is as interesting as the benchmarks
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I lived there too. When I was at school, our morning break was timed so Concorde would take off while we were out of lessons. Every now and then we'd have an extended playtime because of delays at Heathrow.
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Poor children's school struggles not about character, attitude or growth mindset(cam.ac.uk)
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So please respond to the consultation: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/storage-and-rete...
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SaxaVord granted spaceport licence by UK Civil Aviation Authority(caa.co.uk)
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That's not just "A man stands beside a closed doorway" - he's a porter: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/nov/04/working-life-u...
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There was also the Dolphin network in the UK, offering a public national subscription TETRA network. It didn't prove commercially viable. https://www.rcrwireless.com/19980309/archived-articles/dolph...
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Redesigning mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses(cam.ac.uk)
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They were recruiting when I was at university. Their big selling point (other than the really cool technology they couldn't talk about) was that if you worked there, when you left the office in the evening that was it for the day. No t
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Naming things.
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I'd have called an EVSE a charger - I might be naive but what's the distinction you're trying to make?
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Well, it worked if that was the goal - this is one of the leading articles in the Times today: "In Praise of Nerds" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-apples-...
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Boy, 10, starts petition to get Apple to change 'nerd' glasses emoji(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by timthorn 3y ago|4 comments
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AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms(cam.ac.uk)
271 points by timthorn 3y ago|140 comments
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> All of our competitors are working towards a family of aircraft going upwards of 200 seats Isn't ZeroAvia tackling smaller aircraft?

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