urban_winter

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by urban_winter 1mo ago
https://archive.ph/mi3zu
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by urban_winter 3mo ago
I find it very hard to believe that someone who has never done any CAD could design that with Fusion 360 in a day. I do lots of 3D design with Fusion and there is a serious learning curve. It's not something you can pick up in a day. S
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SilentGlass actively blocks malicious HDMI and Display Port connections(ncsc.gov.uk)
7 points by urban_winter 5mo ago|5 comments
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by urban_winter 5mo ago
Google suspend email accounts that get lots of spam reports. It happens a couple of times a year for salespeople in my company who use Gmass (a bulk email sending tool). I mention it only as a useful data point, and in the absence of anyone
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by urban_winter 5mo ago
Yes! Ask anyone with 30 years in the industry whether "agile", for all its problems, was a force for good or bad, and the answer will be an emphatic Good! If nothing else, it gave us ammunition to argue against the impossibility o
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by urban_winter 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/wXvF3
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by urban_winter 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/GzT9E
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week(newscientist.com)
11 points by urban_winter 7mo ago|3 comments
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by urban_winter 8mo ago
> and people strongly prefer the taste and texture. ...and _people in the USA_ strongly prefer... Although, I don't know how solid the evidence for even that statement is.
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by urban_winter 10mo ago
I am puzzled that the media is widely reporting that the issue was caused by solar radiation, and that the immediate fix is to revert to the previous version of software for the ELAC (Elevator Aileron Computer). The only explanation that se
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The JetBlue A320 Mid-Air Flight Control Issue: What We Know So Far(theaviationbrief.com)
5 points by urban_winter 10mo ago|1 comments
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by urban_winter 10mo ago
If you're in the vicinity of the road called London Wall (where the car park referenced in the article is) then it's only a short walk to London's Roman amphitheatre [1]. It doesn't seem to be very well known but is quit
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by urban_winter 1y ago
You don't need a removable wheel to sharpen a pizza cutter on a stone. That's actually pretty clear from the video showing the sharpening of the removed wheel - the fact they the wheel is not in the handle isn't material to t
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by urban_winter 1y ago
The dominant themes in the thread relate to using existing WiFi infrastructure in real world environments. I thought it would be obvious that I was critiquing this line of thinking. Obviously not.
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by urban_winter 1y ago
This is just a dedicated RF emitter combined with a dedicated receiver. The fact that is it uses WiFi hardware is probably just because that's the cheapest and most available hardware for the researcher to work with. There is no indica
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by urban_winter 1y ago
> You'd be surprised by how many amateur cyclists ride more than that each year. You wouldn't. As an 8k km/yr cyclist with a lot of cycling friends, I can tell you that 12.5k/yr is extremely high for an amateur. Sure,
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by urban_winter 1y ago
Yes. Are you confusing "adventurer" and "explorer"? There are plenty of contemporary adventurers (motivated by ego, fame, personal achievement) but explorers? Not so much.
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by urban_winter 1y ago
The idea that you can apply lower-quality engineering practices in some systems is totally wrong, I think. Good engineering practices will help you retain good developers, will allow you to maintain a sustainable development pace and will p
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by urban_winter 1y ago
Our team has thorough, high quality, automated tests. In the past 5 years we have never released such a badly broken system that emergency remedial work was required. We still don't release on Fridays. It's just common sense, risk
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by urban_winter 1y ago
I am a runner. I had proper flu this year for the first time. I have never been that ill ever before. I could not even get upstairs to bed one night when I was at my worst.
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by urban_winter 1y ago
Fantastic app. My wife and I are gradually becoming able to recognise more and more birds by their call. This is great because the human ear is better than the app at rejecting environmental noise - so we can spot birds by their call even c
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by urban_winter 1y ago
The preliminary report seems to suggest that the yacht's construction was at fault. I don't understand the following: "The study indicated that if the wind was blowing directly onto Bayesian’s beam and the yacht was in the ‘m
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Bayesian yacht sinking preliminary report [pdf](assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
5 points by urban_winter 1y ago|1 comments
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by urban_winter 1y ago
My 5-year-old Volvo reports 73-74 mph when GPS tells me that I'm exactly at 70mph. Similarly 21 mph when GPS says 20.
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by urban_winter 1y ago
I built something like this. I am amused that mine too was built for my wife and also was one of the few techie things I've ever done that received unqualified spousal approval. Mine shows weather and tide times at my wife's rowin
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by urban_winter 2y ago
The media coverage at the time (which I followed closely because I worked in this space) indicated that the UK was under a great deal of pressure from the US to ban Huawei. The US was allegedly concerned that the use of Huawei equipment wou
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by urban_winter 2y ago
"...energy use per unit of GDP is the lowest in the G7" The article characterises that fact as "energy starvation". Wouldn't "efficiency" be a better analysis? Low energy use per GDP or per capita is surel
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by urban_winter 2y ago
If you want repairability then you can buy a Dualit. They are unreasonably expensive but very easy to fix. Mine is 25 years old. I replaced one of the elements a few years ago. It's held together with screws and bolts - totally user-r
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by urban_winter 2y ago
My experience of apps built by "the business" is 13 years in UBS and Bank of America. "The business" cannot be trusted to understand regulatory and privacy concerns, they cannot test their apps, they do not concern thems
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by urban_winter 2y ago
$1000 is not cheap for an off the shelf wheelchair such as hospitals make available for patients (in the UK, at least). That was my first thought on reading the article - "$1000 for a wheelchair, really?" - and a quick Google show

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