bobosola

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by bobosola 6mo ago
A couple of days after the UK Fuel Finder service launch last month, I wrote a hobby site using its API to get the cheapest local fuel prices: https://fuelseeker.net . I too discovered prices which had obviously been entered in p
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by bobosola 6mo ago
I dunno... it feels like the same approach as those people who tell you gleeful stories of how they kept a phone spammer on a call for 45 minutes: "That'll teach 'em, ha ha!" Do these types of techniques really work? I’m
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by bobosola 6mo ago
Fascinating links, but I could not find an example of the glyph in question? My point was that a sextant is not (and cannot be) used to measure azimuth . It primarily measures the angle between a celestial body and the horizon (i.e. altit
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by bobosola 6mo ago
Great detective work re the azimuth finding for the glyph, but I believe the link to a sextant is tenuous at best. The author says it can, of course, be turned sideways to measure an azimuth with respect to an arbitrary meridian . That’s n
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by bobosola 9mo ago
My wife and I plus our (then) two small children were driving though France from the UK. I was towing a caravan and suddenly realised that the van had got a flat tyre. No worries, I thought, I have a spare, a jack and a wheel wrench. So, I
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by bobosola 1y ago
Fabulous software. I used it to create LIDAR map tiles from free UK government LIDAR data of my local area (Hampshire, UK) at https://solentmaps.uk . When used as a layer placed under standard map tiles, you can see all sorts of
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by bobosola 2y ago
I went to sea with BP Tankers as a deck cadet in 1976 trading worldwide, largely to escape my small village life. When I qualified as 2nd mate, I moved to mediterranean trade small bulk carriers, then oil rig supply ships on the North Sea.
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by bobosola 2y ago
I jumped the other way round aged 40 from non-tech into tech. I went from being a UK merchant ship captain to working as a software developer. I did it over a couple of years by increasing my knowledge in my spare time as a hobbyist until I