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by taffronaut 22d ago
This answers a question that I often have in the UK - "Do I have a non-zero chance of being able to get (near to) to somewhere by bus?". There's no clear way to answer that since UK buses were deregulated in 1986 [1]. For me,
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by taffronaut 1mo ago
There is a meat option
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by taffronaut 3mo ago
At one point in the past a major UK a medical school adopted random selection for qualified candidates (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry - part of Queen Mary University of London). The approach benefitted qualified stud
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by taffronaut 4mo ago
Having an adversarial relationship with your suppliers is not necessarily the best arrangement. It means that suppliers will nickel-and-dime you for every change and ship minimum possible quality to you. The cost of loss of agility and qual
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by taffronaut 4mo ago
I miss the quaint DVB SI (ETSI EN 300 468) Content Descriptors with values that lumped together arbitrary categories (someone's subjective opinion) like: "serious music/classical music", or "popular culture/tra
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by taffronaut 6mo ago
I'd respectfully challenge that your opinion reflects reality. Nihilism [1] is just one philosophy amongst many. It's no more 'the one truth' than any of the others. Many of the other philosophies have evolved in the lig
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by taffronaut 6mo ago
I have struggled to understand why houses don't get built and land sits idle for years. I can only assume that it's significantly more complicated. I'm not trying to excuse the complications. I guess if the house prices are f
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by taffronaut 7mo ago
No, I think he searched for the ETA App and was disappointed at the lack of emphasis on an alternative to the app once you are in it. If you just search the web for ETA and gov.uk it takes you straight to the online portal (which also asks
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by taffronaut 9mo ago
I worked at a company where managers would endlessly push this argument to open a job posting. Of course there was no budget to hire, but they would delude themselves that the perfect candidate was out there and they'd 'be able to
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by taffronaut 10mo ago
There is jazz improvisation handbook "Harmony with Lego Bricks" written in the 1980's by Conrad Cork in the UK. It's pretty niche. Conrad approached Lego at the time and they gave him permission to use the Lego name. It&
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by taffronaut 11mo ago
I'm not sure that the RK3688 and a big chunk of the article spent on its specs belongs in a "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview" given that it's due sometime in 2026. I'm sure it's going to be great but I sugg
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by taffronaut 11mo ago
The cheapest appliance is definitely cheap, whereas you generally have to take on trust the quality of the most expensive. The rule of thumb I use is "you don't get what you don't pay for", which is not the same as &quot
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by taffronaut 1y ago
Thomann - for musical instrument stuff
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by taffronaut 1y ago
I misread that as "the bassoon of security standards" and it sent my brain in a whole other direction
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by taffronaut 1y ago
Most posts here seem to be offering easy on-ramp listening for jazz, but they seem at odds with the spirit of the original post. For jazz that is off-putting at first listening but rewards deeper study, consider Thelonious Monk (Blue Note s
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by taffronaut 2y ago
Arm isn't competing with its biggest customers here. This doesn't affect their relationship with e.g. AWS or Azure (Cobalt) as those folks are not selling CPU chips on the open market. Nvidia probably couldn't care less as co
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by taffronaut 2y ago
From TFA "decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive". Assuming that's not hype, let's see it have a go at Rongorongo[1] then. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
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by taffronaut 2y ago
As British as the British Royal Family then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor
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by taffronaut 2y ago
Ubuntu has historically had a business model that is more open to supporting out-of-tree kernel patches
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by taffronaut 2y ago
The UK government ran an initiative in the mid 1980s to get electronics CAD into every university and polytechnic. The institution I worked for got a lab of DN300 and DN500 workstations running various digital and SPICE-based tools. We used
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by taffronaut 2y ago
This is good advice. There are many boring jobs in 'cost side' departments of big companies and the only attention they get from upper management is a continuous focus on reducing costs. Even the most inoffensive manager can get g
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by taffronaut 2y ago
Here's a link to the Arm program: https://www.morello-project.org/
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by taffronaut 3y ago
From TFA, "the case was a high-net-worth family matter" so probably not an existential threat to anyone.
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by taffronaut 3y ago
It's not inherently ridiculous. Administration is a non-zero cost. Anything below that cost is cheaper to give rather than administer. Hip operations are a weird counter example to refute UBI. They're obviously not universally app
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by taffronaut 3y ago
I have multiple problems with this comment > 95% of health is being proactive about your health: food, fitness, sleep, dentist, etcetera. This is a statistic pulled out of nowhere. >> But we're all going to have severe medical
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by taffronaut 3y ago
> So, you're not supposed to buy stuff for your hobby nor build stuff for your hobby? I'm not sure that anyone is proposing that. > A good counter example could perhaps be table top wargaming, e.g. Warhammer and the likes.
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by taffronaut 3y ago
I learned that style pre 1980 in the UK. My writing still looks pretty childish and I don't get any compliments. I can take longhand notes at speed though.
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by taffronaut 3y ago
I've used this in the past for power cycling USB-powered embedded boards in a test farm, but the dependency on specific hubs is a pain. In the end it was easier to dedicate an RPi per board. The generation of RPi I was using could swit
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by taffronaut 3y ago
Oskar Schlemmer was most famous for designs for the "triadic ballet" staged by the Bauhaus. It's nice to see his wider work represented in the the Bauhaus-style interiors of Rabe House here.
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by taffronaut 3y ago
Stanislav Petrov, a little-known Russian whose decision averted a potential nuclear war [1]. [1] https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2017-10/news-briefs/man-save...

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