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by codeulike 3y ago
True but none of the posts about the recent developments have got much traction, is what I meant
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by codeulike 3y ago
This should be all over HN - the biggest news story in the UK this month is all about bugs ruining lives and we've had perhaps the first ever major TV series about bugs and the denial thereof
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by codeulike 3y ago
Context: in the UK, the Post Office (rough equivalent of USPS) has local branches called Sub Post Offices that are run by local shopkeepers. In 1999 the Post Office rolled out a new system called Horizon, built by Fujitsu. It was badly buil
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Post Office Horizon Enquiry – Fujitsu Report on Eposs PinICL Task Force (1998)(postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk)
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by codeulike 3y ago
This is a good article for HN because it features quotes from one of the senior developers To my knowledge, no one on the team had a computer science degree or any degree-level qualifications in the right field. They might have had lower-l
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by codeulike 3y ago
Its nice that all the major players seem to recognise that its better to do this sort of science in the open.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Stealing 2 million, one coin at a time, over 13 years, mostly at night, by waggling a magnetised car antenna through a small slot for hours and hours, is actually hard work. Its like the opposite of The Shawshank Redemption.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Kara was effectively stealing 20% of LRT fares over the 13-year period; one in five coins that were fed into the machines by the paying public ended up in his shaving bag This can't be right. How can one person steal 20% of the coins
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by codeulike 3y ago
Time to post my favourite short story of his: you can read it online: Crystal Nights https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html “What created the only example of consciousness we know of?” Daniel asked. “
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by codeulike 3y ago
I don't know if plodding storylines and two-dimensional characters is fair, some of his novels spend a lot of time watching characters do science (like the orthogonal triology) so it can get slow but he's still banged out plenty
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by codeulike 3y ago
They seem to define Trap as "situation with high risk of hard-to-reverse lock-ins and growing risks of negative impacts on human well-being" Here's the list: global traps 1. simplification - increasing specialization produces
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by codeulike 3y ago
erstwhile Acornsoft Publications Editor thats interesting, tell us more about how those fakes came to be?
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by codeulike 3y ago
Yeah some of it wasn't in the game: in dealing with any alien life form, for the purposes of trade, there are three cardinal rules: - Learn the body language of the alien race - Cover up your body scent - Beware of Carapace concealed
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by codeulike 3y ago
I just remember that weekend very well - "the weekend I got Elite but couldn't play it for 3 days so spent ages reading the manual"
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The trick was to get perfectly perpendicular to the face of the spacestation that had the docking slot. But that was very hard to do visually. You had to fly directly away, turn around and watch the space station very carefully as it rotate
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by codeulike 3y ago
Exactly. I never got enough credits to upgrade my ship much, so kept getting picked off by random pirates. So although the rating was only based on kills, you had to nail the trading to really get anywhere.
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by codeulike 3y ago
When Elite was released in 1984 I was 10 years old and had a BBC Micro and saw the poster in (probably) W H Smith and it looked interesting so persuaded my parents to buy it for me. In those days there weren't game trailers (obviously)
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by codeulike 3y ago
This is the 3 hour video of the final apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDGdPE_C9u8 The bit where Andrew Ngai's scores dont correctly update seems to be at about 24:00 Hope someone can make a highlights reel o
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by codeulike 3y ago
Interesting article from the launch in 1977 and some gyroscope problems they had early on https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/21/archives/voyager-heads-to...
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by codeulike 3y ago
As well as switching to 48V they are going to use Ethernet cables for most of it (PoE). So at the same time they get rid of the CAN bus wiring and have everything running on ethernet for communications and power, which means a LOT less wiri
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by codeulike 3y ago
Its not that same, that Audi still had a 12V system because all the commodity parts (control units, interior lights) are built to run on 12V. What Tesla are doing is getting rid of 12V entirely so that every little window raising motor or i
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by codeulike 3y ago
haveibeencloned dot com
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by codeulike 3y ago
We need a lot more Chevy Bolts I dont understand, there are millions of 5 door hatchback evs being sold at the moment, from all different manufacturers, its the most popular form factor for evs by far.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Culturally curious people, young and old, seem to accept that a “challenging” painting—or modern dance work, or play, or independent film—can be exciting, mind-expanding, really cool, and sort of out there precisely because it’s challengin
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Hey Meta, send a photo to Eez Discheaperon Amazon
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Desperate times
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? ? Dwayne Dibley ? ?
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by codeulike 3y ago
Now that I think about it, not many paid apps. There are some subscription ones that don't suck - Numberblocks and Alphablocks. The Duplo games are pretty good. Reading Eggs is old school but good. My kid's school got him to isnta
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Dont want to let my kids loose on Apple Arcade though. I like to curate exactly what they get to play - educational games with no advertising or bullshit.
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It annoys me on the iOS App Store you can't search for 'paid' apps. The choices are either 'free' or 'any'. The paid apps generally involve much less bullshit than the free ones but they are always lost in

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