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by 2b3a51 3d ago
Hang on, 105 800 / 46 = $2300 per machine. Good heavens, when I was partially responsible for hardware refreshes in a UK public sector organisation with around a thousand endpoint PCs we budgeted something like £600 a box. Have prices
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by 2b3a51 5d ago
Amateur bread baker here. Ships three times a week from Halifax docked at Birkenhead's grain elevator. The flour was then transferred to the mill over the road. British wheat flour (refined) at that point in history (60s) could not get
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by 2b3a51 7d ago
Just a data point: UK Mobile Broadband resolves the product site fine. (I have not registered with my credit card so the 'adult and malicious site' filter is still in place). As other posters have mentioned perhaps the name itself
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by 2b3a51 8d ago
Andrew Wiles was also careful about communicating progress on his Fermat's Theorem proof during the years in his attic. So yes I take the point. I read the Mastodon thread as more about the 'flattening' and 'rawness&#x
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by 2b3a51 11d ago
UK police officers are not routinely armed, but there armed response units, and under certain circumstances in e.g. railway stations and airports you will see pairs of officers walking about with machine guns on a regular basis. Accountabil
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by 2b3a51 12d ago
" Research has shown that being creative through art projects can help promote stress relief, increase self-esteem, help connect with others, and boost intrinsic motivation. So, participating in mindful art projects can open one's
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by 2b3a51 12d ago
> "The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit." Mr Krebs is dealing with all this
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APOD's main NASA site is moving(asterisk.apod.com)
4 points by 2b3a51 13d ago|1 comments
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by 2b3a51 13d ago
Forum discussion shows how readers of a site have diverse concerns that the designers may not always forsee.
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by 2b3a51 13d ago
Downloaded the AppImage, chmod +x and ran it from my user space on Debian Trixie under Gnome. I went for light, colourful and modern UI, skipped the login/cloud invite, disabled the telemetry and started it up. Quite chatty when runnin
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by 2b3a51 14d ago
Perhaps Tir by Carwyn Graves would engage the interest of the Monbiot generation and lead them into a slightly different framing (and introduce some Welsh)? (Your quote reminded me of Thomas Hobbes)
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by 2b3a51 16d ago
The last point in the OA about rounding the estimate of the time spent on the assigned tasks. Just wondering if the response would depend on the wording of the instructions to participants and the nature of the incentivisation. Me being a
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by 2b3a51 16d ago
OA makes no mention of Fred Hoyle's 'three hours with a calculator' to check Hawkins figures (and being generally unimpressed). Also nothing about the Thoms (Alexander and Archie) who surveyed many other stone circles, or per
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by 2b3a51 17d ago
The photos in the team's actual paper (linked in OA) are hilarious and lovely - real pride there. Citizen science projects have educational value as well as the data.
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by 2b3a51 26d ago
Berger's short pieces are worth tracking down. He could write in a spare and direct way about people and the web of social relationships they occupied. Confabulations is a recent favourite of mine, but it might be an old man's b
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
> Calculus: The Princess of Mathematics by H.C.Verma et al. Garudalife have a store on Abebooks, so available in the UK at under £12 per volume (each circa 340 pages) but inevitably £18 postage. These look interesting and one day we&#x
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
Replying to my own post as well past edit timeout. I can't find anything about niche occupancy replacement at all on the Web. Searches lead to information about the trophic decline in prey species after an initial boom when the North A
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
And Dillo is the equivalent of a shepherds hut in the back garden.
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
I'm filing a bug report... Steps to reproduce: Open terminal emulator and type; $ w3m https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ I can read the same content as I can read in Firefox. What I expected to happen: See conten
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
My understanding is that the cod fishery decline in Atlantic waters has had limited recovery because the ecological niche that the cod fish occupied has been taken over to some extent by a small shark species. The wikipedia page mentions &#
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint). So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis?
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by 2b3a51 1mo ago
All true, but I can't help pointing out that the code name for this new OS came from Plan Nine from Outer Space , a film (which I gather the gang went to watch and found hilarious, although it appears that the film was mainly shown on
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
A bit more niche but Slackware (both the 15.0 released version and 'current' development version) have x86 support (i686). Void Linux and antiX Linux also provide i686 isos. But, yes, we are in the long tail.
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
Interesting comment, but I'm thinking of the time scales involved. Farming 6 to 8 thousand years ago, simultaneous development in several areas. Before that millennia of hunter-gatherers (with technologies thrown in like stone shaping
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
Not, I trust, in the UK
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
Yes, I was wondering exactly that. Would the mysterious bankers who tasked 'Ray' with this job even know the physical location of the servers in the data centre? I'd like more information about these 'technicians' a
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
I'm just wondering if a reading pipeline could include converting documents being consulted to plain text. Then malicious sections imported to a document being edited would be obvious to human(s) involved as they would no longer be in
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
Vibe away. Vibe code like a teenager with leather trousers and a top with zips (punk days). Just don't put it in production or in a work flow where there could be consequences if (randomly) nondeterministic.
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
TIL. /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Exists on Slackware64 15.0 but /etc/machine-id Does not.
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by 2b3a51 2mo ago
Perhaps 'Error' in tasteful smoked glass overlay, but with a QR code that encodes an error number? (Spent some time last year supporting students online - noone was going to take a screen shot of their laptop so we ended up with t

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