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by tomalpha 4y ago
Not the bulk of FTTP connections in the UK, to which this article refers, which run over Openreach’s common last-mile or Virgin Media’s DOCSIS cables. They’re the only National operators offering gigabit, or near-gigabit speeds. There are p
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by tomalpha 4y ago
> both of which are just numbers pulled out of thin air The living wage is not in the UK. Dispute the method all you want of course, but there is a method: https://www.livingwage.org.uk/calculation
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Elon Musk to quit as Twitter CEO when replacement found(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by tomalpha 4y ago|6 comments
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Airport security 100ml liquid rule to be scrapped in UK(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by tomalpha 4y ago|0 comments
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by tomalpha 4y ago
The BBC has always had a public education mandate in some form. My memory is hazy but I feel like it’s faded somewhat in the last couple of decades. Specifically here the BBC Computer Literacy Project ended up creating a line of home comput
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by tomalpha 4y ago
This brought back some memories. We had a 6502-based BBC micro at school. I remember the first time I was so hooked trying to understand how comparisons really worked, the caretaker didn’t realise I was still there and locked the doors fo
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by tomalpha 4y ago
> Blockchain is entirely irrelevant I believe that’s exactly what the OP said above > You make the mistake I think it might be the other way round here - do go and reread the post you’re replying to :)
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by tomalpha 4y ago
This is what happens (in theory) with GSM mobile phones. GSM devices have a serial number in the form of an IMEI which can be blacklisted from networks if stolen [0]. There are, of course, still ways round it as detailed in the wikipedia e
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by tomalpha 4y ago
I was going to quibble with your use of "microprocessor", given that you seem to be implying that it wouldn't include more powerful CPUs, but that got me thinking: given the change in transistor sizes since that name was coin
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by tomalpha 4y ago
I hate to be pedantic but surely you mean “cue”?
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by tomalpha 4y ago
More likely this kind of “typed”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing Where “typed” here likely implies “strongly typed”.
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by tomalpha 4y ago
It doesn't inspire much faith in article's author when its title is: 1 in 20 workers will quit if transparency laws reveal they are paid less than co-workers and that is expanded lower down to be: 4% will quit if re
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by tomalpha 4y ago
Ah, but what happens when a deepfake video of that professional journalist starts going round saying 'today this presidential candidate said X, and I heard it myself' that matches the previous deepfake? I guess the counter (which
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WhatsApp goes down for users globally(theguardian.com)
229 points by tomalpha 4y ago|220 comments
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by tomalpha 4y ago
I didn’t downvote you, but if folks are coming here looking for answers then a simple “my guess” based (apparently at least) on pure speculation and without inside knowledge of how Google’s setup _actually_ works, doesn’t add much to the co
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by tomalpha 4y ago
It’s possible I understand this differently to the way you meant it, but other sections of the Underground have National Rail trains running on them, and visa versa. For example, the Wimbledon Branch of the District Line : https:/&#x2
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by tomalpha 4y ago
Ford made a big thing of this a couple of years back[0]. Don't know how many of their models now have it though. [0] https://www.ford.co.uk/support/how-tos/keys-and-locks/door-l...
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by tomalpha 4y ago
I don't think it's going out of its way to hide the fact that it's an opinion piece. I wanted to highlight to someone unfamiliar with the case and issues (however few that may be around these parts), that it is an opinion p
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by tomalpha 4y ago
The author is clearly against the extradition of Julian Assange, and the piece comes across as very much written in that context. To be clear: I'm not offering an opinion either way on the rights and wrongs of that, but the piece itsel
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by tomalpha 4y ago
"Get a win, then get another win." Not OP but I interpret “win” in this context to mean something more like “success” and not strictly about winning or beating someone else. It’s certainly a turn of phrase that I’ve heard used in
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by tomalpha 5y ago
The original blog post that this is based (verbatim?) on is here: https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2021/11/22/PCIE-ETHERNE... Besides being the original source, it loads much faster (at least for me)
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Magawa, the landmine-sniffing hero rat, dies aged eight(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by tomalpha 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomalpha 5y ago
I love this quote, but to be fair it's immediately followed by: A team of palaeontologists were brought in for a closer look. Which, assuming it was done by Rutland County Council, is actually pretty cool. (Edit: where "i
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by tomalpha 5y ago
I didn’t get that vibe, and the wording of the reference suggesting writing some code at interview seems pretty mild too. You could read something between the lines perhaps, but the wording doesn’t seem unreasonable. To me, that doesn’t see
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by tomalpha 5y ago
That may or may not be the case, but I worked with someone back in the early 00’s who named all their variables things to do with the planet or sky, actually including both of those words too. Everything was $sky, $cloud, $mist, $hill, $rai
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by tomalpha 5y ago
But shares do have an inherent value. Owning them gives you a right to a share of the profits. You own a share of the company. You can vote on who you choose to run it - i.e. the board of Directors. Now many companies recently have chosen
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by tomalpha 5y ago
Is this a change of company name or is the Facebook product/app/site also changing? (As an aside the GDPR popup still asks me about “Facebook” cookies)
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by tomalpha 5y ago
An extract from the summary page suggests a few things went wrong, but it seems like the fire was caused by liquid and electricity mixing: > ESV found a Megapack cooling system leak caused a short circuit resulting in overheating that le
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by tomalpha 5y ago
Or booking flights, filing taxes, signing up for shifts at work: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...
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by tomalpha 5y ago
It's an interesting point, but I buy from Intel or AMD - I don't buy from TSMC. Intel and AMD supply me the product and set the pricing. As a simple consumer, I perhaps don't know about their upstream suppliers (granted the H

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