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by tobylane 1y ago
The Victoria and Albert museum is about to open a new building in Stratford, which is a public storeroom. https://www.vam.ac.uk/east
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by tobylane 1y ago
> Hell, even Rosetta would likely be more restricted as many of the extensions added in recent months were only added due to pressure from Mac gamers. What are they?
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by tobylane 1y ago
They haven't yet had their sudden change of heart on the subject.
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by tobylane 2y ago
It's a line in several songs by the rapper Pitbull. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitbull_(rapper)
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by tobylane 2y ago
2000 characters seems like it should be on a pastebin, not pasted into an IRC channel. I've shared pastebin links in a discord channel, one shared with matrix. For reference, that content length is three times the OP comment.
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by tobylane 2y ago
That's non-free. Quoting from https://opensource.org/osd > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For exa
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by tobylane 2y ago
You're often not just building under existing things, but through them. We now have a lot under the roads. The Victorians built the subsurface lines of the London Underground with cut and cover, but Oxford is currently suffering overru
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by tobylane 2y ago
Is it possible to compare this to humans in another way? Could it be said that Waymo avoids 95% of the accidents that we regularly get in, and does have 3% of accidents that we manage to avoid. I think a major hurdle to mainstream acceptanc
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by tobylane 2y ago
CorsixTH - https://github.com/CorsixTH/CorsixTH A modern platform's clone of the 1997 Bullfrog game Theme Hospital, where you manage a series of hospitals. CorsixTH is mostly feature complete, with additions like
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by tobylane 2y ago
I wrote a bash script to put a colour dot in the mac menu bar to represent the CPU temperature. I barely used it when I was on Intel, and it doesn't work on Apple Silicon. It's now only possible to ask for the thermal pressure, an
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by tobylane 2y ago
The Chelsea Physic Gardens say they have a microclimate that supports more tropical plants. I enjoyed the other half of the garden more, where they explain where medicinal plants come from and what they're used for. There's a rive
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by tobylane 2y ago
I've bought William Dalrymple's new book The Golden Road for my dad's birthday, which I plan to borrow and read before seeing the new British Museum and Library's exhibitions. I wonder if these will prompt more articles
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by tobylane 2y ago
Jenny Radcliffe's The People Hacker is a similar book, with an adaptation in the works. https://deadline.com/2023/04/people-hacker-jenny-radcliffe-s...
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by tobylane 2y ago
When would the Chrome version be frozen? Once you've completed the UI?
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by tobylane 2y ago
You're not testing what you think you're testing. We can verify an image, but still have problems with the story below the image. I don't think this should be half-solved, it would give false credence to real images used in l
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by tobylane 2y ago
The suction tool is used to dry the area out and make it easier to see and work. A robot could be taught to see through water, but it still needs a dry environment for some work.
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by tobylane 2y ago
This was achieved before the Uxbridge by-election. Which is pretty good going for a pub [1] built at the same time as the first European settlement in the interior of the continental US [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by tobylane 2y ago
There are many high streets in London that show removing cars, or expanding pavements, improves the high street. I would rather see more effort made to divert cars another way rather than close the high street. Too often that means making a
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by tobylane 3y ago
I see only front-loaders in Europe, and a mix favouring top-loaders in North America. Could it be that Europe (consumers or the EU) has encouraged efficiency more?
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by tobylane 3y ago
It's a Privately Owned Public Space, there's far too many of these. https://thebristolcable.org/2023/04/temple-island-latest-cre... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul
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by tobylane 3y ago
Digging a wider tunnel requires a bigger tbm, which adds little to the whole cost. Hs2 put out a paper, though I don’t think it compares sizes. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/ ... The
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by tobylane 3y ago
What’s your thinking there? The bigger tunnel boring machines needed and the extra dirt excavated are cheap in the bigger picture. The trend is clear within London alone and globally, towards larger tunnels.
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by tobylane 3y ago
Even if you personally don't use GMail, a considerable amount of personal emails have at least one participant who uses it. Every social person who uses email has some of their communication read by Google. People who like hyperbole wi
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by tobylane 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) The human calculators, who even in non-classified industry, wouldn’t know the bigger picture.
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by tobylane 3y ago
In Plex I occasionally have to force disable Direct Play (which I think means it transcodes) even though it’s a 264 from the same source as everything else. I’ll try Kodi for the one thing I didn’t manage to get working.
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by tobylane 3y ago
They are abandoned, judging by the “a dog is not just for Christmas” ads. I think it’s the well funded charities like Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, who can collect them, and a reasonably strong culture for looking for a dog at these shelter
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by tobylane 3y ago
What is heft in this context?
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by tobylane 3y ago
It is the most democratic situation. Companies can decide between a leave that market, b treat the whole world by the strictest laws or c only follow those laws for those residents. If the cheapest solution is b, and capitalism demands the
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by tobylane 3y ago
The risk matrix for US-Russia nuclear war might not be higher than the climate crisis. We have estimates for the actual death toll of the latter, making it higher than certain. I don’t think the covid response initiated it, only made it wor
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by tobylane 3y ago
Some of the supermarkets who have made a sale-leaseback agreements are owned by hedge funds looking for a short term deal. Morrisons are, Waitrose aren’t, Sainsburys are a bit of both. https://www.theguardian.com/business&#

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