PoachedSausage

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by PoachedSausage 4y ago
It is also a good signal to use for frequency calibrations as the carrier is derived from a Caesium reference.
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by PoachedSausage 4y ago
Only 639 years? It would take approximately 1.3m years to ring every permutation of the 16 bells in the tower of the church of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, UK.[0] I'm not sure the bells, tower or ringers would last that long
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by PoachedSausage 5y ago
We could go for ecological and climate collapse instead. I hope there is a middle way.
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by PoachedSausage 5y ago
Reminds me of the hardcore raver Tyres from the sitcom Spaced (genius British comedy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk Saying that I have had a similar thing with tracks that have police sirens in them when list
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by PoachedSausage 5y ago
It is the annual creative writing exercise known as appraisal time at many organsiations, including mine. Why not get some inspiration from HN? Actually this year has never been easier for appraisals, all successes have been despite the gre
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
There is also the excellent "The Jet Engine" book by Rolls-Royce: https://hermessuspendeme.com/DOCS/GrevaEdgar/greva%202B/2B/S...
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Did people really believe that dietary fat was stored by the body without any kind of biological processing? If you examine it from a thermodynamic perspective (I know that is simplistic for human biology), weight for weight fat has double
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
A good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Biosynthesis
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Maybe not. The Dutch police appear to be using wicker riot shields in 2021. Good for the environment. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/25/nation/weekend-riotin...
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Maybe there has been some sort of accident of scale, like the intergalactic fleet in Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy that arrives to destroy Earth but is eaten by a dog. There could be a banging ET party going at the Planck scale and we wou
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
He mentions a site near Slough, west of London but doesn't give an exact location. The photo looks like magnetic loop antennas. Slough has a large number of data centres, would that be the location of the servers for London Stock Excha
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I'm curious as to UK end of the link now. I would guess somewhere on the hills around London to get line of sight for a microwave link down to the city. Having just checked the Ofcom Spectrum Information System [0], it does not appear
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I found it sometime last year, looking for data on a Philips video IF processing chip, I thought about posting it. Great site from an interesting guy, a rather sad history of the decline of electronics manufacturing in western europe though
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I agree that it ought to be that way, however those with power tend to want to hang on to it. How do you solve it? The US has a term limit for the President, but you can stay in Congress/Senate/Parliament for life if re-elected.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
That might have been true in Jefferson's day, lifespans were shorter. Now most western democracies are effectively gerontocracies, the young are bound to the wishes of the old. See Brexit.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
No, not a specific political difference, more of a differnce of socio-economic/age/class/possibly even race. As we saw at the last election Corbyn wasn't that popular with some traditional Labour voters. Perhaps we will
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
The kind of civil liberties they like are the rather limited kind, or only for the right kind of people (their voters). During the debate on the November lockdown, the word 'arbitrary' was used a lot, yet they are quiet on the arb
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
>The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past. If only. In the past it was common to provide schematics of your hardware in order that people could repair it. This was common for consumer products, industrial, instrumentation,
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I had noticed that the UK distributors that I use on a regular basis, RS and Farnell, have stopped hosting TI's datasheets on their sites. It makes it quite annoying to make a quick check to see if the part does what I want. Whats up a
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Why use the Rpi at all (Nothing against them, I have a few)? If the Pi is just writing graphics to a screen, why not handle that directly with the STM32? Running an RTOS, it should be able to manage a low priority GUI task along with the re
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
What do Ofcom do to enforce it? They used to have a number of spectrum monitoring stations, however they were decommissioned, I know someone that bought bits of it at auction.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Your spectrum monitoring sounds interesting. Do you have any details/write up?
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
You could island hop across the Atlantic. Bermuda -> Azores -> Canaries. Work your way up the Irish sea from the Scilly Isles -> Lundy -> Skomer -> Bardsey -> Angelsey. On up to Faroes (Bonus points for a stop off on Rocka
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
That is how it appeared to me. Like Vultures fighting over bare bones. It would have been better if they had a agreed a 10 year moratorium on fishing in EU and UK water to let fish stocks recover.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
It might be better in the short term, but after a while an angry mob starts banging on your doors.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
So, house price, Z = [Re] + [Im] Where Real part is down payment and Imaginary part is land price? Seriously though, this has been the situation in the UK for a long time. Today the down payment is equivalent to price of the house in the 19
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I've never found padded cycle shorts very comfortable and find it quite annoying that finding good quality cycling shorts without padding is getting difficult. Without padding they can also be used for other forms of exercise/spor
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
I had a feeling yosys might do it somehow. Thanks.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
Thanks. Very useful.
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by PoachedSausage 6y ago
It was suspected that the IRA Docklands bombing[0] was possibly targeting the telecomms infrastructure. I think there were also some attempts at bombing the National Grid which failed. You are correct that a lot of CNI is vulnerable due to

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