sbisson

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by sbisson 28d ago
I worked with Tim as part of the founding team at UK Online, from an old brewery in the middle of the Mendips in Somerset. I learned a lot in those three years in Shepton Mallet, as we kept pivoting to ride the wave of the early commercial
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by sbisson 2y ago
Yes. There are multiple UI projects that build on the WinUI 3 components in the Win App SDK. There's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best-known third-party implementations are AvaloniaUI and U
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by sbisson 3y ago
Someone has read the impossible game sections of Iain Banks’ Walking On Glass…
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by sbisson 3y ago
There's a fair bit of detail in the recently released Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, one of a series of in-universe documents from various Anderson shows.
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by sbisson 3y ago
I had a third-party shadow ROM kit for a BBC Micro in 1984; it let me back-up and load add-on ROMs into its memory and switch between them quickly.
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by sbisson 4y ago
It and others regularly go pat my home. It’s a great view!
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by sbisson 4y ago
Two things for me. An electromagnetics finite element analysis package that was then used to design the actuators for the landing gear for the 737NG-series; where millions of people’s lives have depended on that landing gear working. And th
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Tracking the Royal Lying in State queue with little to no budget(twitter.com)
1 points by sbisson 4y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 4y ago
I recently put Ubuntu one one. A nice little device!
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by sbisson 4y ago
Based on the classic book of computing history “Fire in the Valley”. A recommended read for anyone interested in the history of our industry.
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by sbisson 4y ago
Ringway 2 would have been right behind my home. Instead I have an electric railway and a lot of trees…
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by sbisson 4y ago
Amusing to see that the last line of the piece refers to "sci-fi on speed", as amphetamines were the drug of choice for the spiritual forefather of the movement, Philip K Dick...
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by sbisson 4y ago
Reminds me of my first car, a Mini Clubman estate with the fake woody panels on the side. The only thing you needed to know was that it had been re-engined with a hill-climb tuned Cooper S engine. Great on an island with a 40mph speed limit
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by sbisson 5y ago
It is a snakerboard
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by sbisson 5y ago
They do have their own teams, but the governing bodies don't let them play internationally.
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by sbisson 5y ago
I used to go blackberrying on the common above the cliffs at Portlet with my grandfather’s cabbage stalk cane to hold back the thorns…
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by sbisson 5y ago
Vernor is a proponent of ubiquitous sensors as an alternative or as an adjunct to AI; the example he likes to use is what he calls the "localizer", a simple sensor that can detect its position relative to other nearby sensors of t
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by sbisson 5y ago
See Azure Private Edge Zones, part of the full product. Azure is offering both network-provided and private 5G as options in the same service.
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by sbisson 5y ago
Catching up with Azure, I see. Edge Zones has been available since May. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/private-multi-ac...
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by sbisson 5y ago
An example of inner source becoming open source; YARP began as a way to unify multiple internal .NET reverse proxy projects. Once mature and used internally it was opened up to the rest of the world...
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by sbisson 5y ago
Exactly; with a credit card paid off monthly by direct debit and an interest paying current account, you're earning interest on your cash and not paying any on your purchases. What's not to like getting what's basically free
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by sbisson 5y ago
It’s not quite as bad as presented here; yes Microsoft is in the process of deprecating kernel mode drivers as part of its current security push, however it’s following Linux and implementing eBPF as a more secure alternative that runs most
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Facebook fined £50M for violating UK competion law(gov.uk)
4 points by sbisson 5y ago|0 comments
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by sbisson 5y ago
Desktop peek is now a three finger swipe down and up on your trackpad.
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by sbisson 5y ago
To be fair to the architects of the Millennium Bridge, the structural engineers used a vehicle bridge model, not one for pedestrians.
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by sbisson 6y ago
Back in the mid-90s I was running tech at UKOL in Shepton Mallet; in a converted brewery which we shared with Perihelion Software, which was the team that wrote Helios. They were an interesting bunch of smart people who were using Transpute
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by sbisson 6y ago
As an aside it's interesting to note that Collabra are working with Microsoft on a Mesa 3D/Direct X bridge. With Wayland support coming to WSL 2, it's possible to speculate that this approach could also be used to bring a Way
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by sbisson 6y ago
It gets less confusing when you realise that the original specification for containerd came from Docker (the company) and the current implementation of docker (the application) use containerd as their runtime. By using containerd (or podman
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by sbisson 6y ago
Our first Maine Coon was called Jeoffry, a big old lovable six-dinner-Sid of a cat who had several homes down the street, but always came back to us at the end of the day. He would definitely arise and do his morning orisons. His spiritual
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by sbisson 6y ago
Yes, there are a similar bunch of Falcon 20s from Flight Refuelling in the UK that are worth tracking...

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