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by vk5tu 3mo ago
I designed and built my own DSL router: component selection, PCB design, and so on. When NBN upgraded the link to my home I simply went and bought a 10Gbps ethernet router. Despite any compact PC with SFP+ cages doing the same job more chea
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by vk5tu 4mo ago
Consider that Boeing once had no European rival. Europe is bulding consensus on what technology sovereignty means. This is a self-interested statement within that discussion. At some point the EU will appoint at rapporteur to synthesise tho
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by vk5tu 2y ago
Then this is to misunderstand the customer. Administration in universities is a service to the teaching and research faculties (or departments, names vary). It's these faculties which bring in the money, which produce the results. As a
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by vk5tu 2y ago
Yeah, that's an odd claim when it is more the adequate to say that MIT is closely observed by other technical institutions worldwide. The difference in approach, outcome and size of expenditure between MIT and the University of Califor
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by vk5tu 3y ago
Films used roman numerals in copyright notices because books used roman numerals in copyright notices. Books used roman numerals in copyright notices because the copyright notice was on the title page. Title pages used roman numerals becaus
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by vk5tu 4y ago
The Australia Card. This was a unique identifier for residents of Australia, for which the legislation did not proceed after nationwide protests. Protests marches featured depictions of government ministers in Nazi Gestapo dress, a referenc
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by vk5tu 4y ago
There's a trend that writing is for readers, rather than dictated by company PR. If you are writing for readers, then follow the usual rules for proper nouns where the word is a not-really-initialism which was never meant to be read a
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by vk5tu 6y ago
It feels pretty much the same, except there's no second car. The first problem is that housing stock takes a lot of modification to get to modern energy usage (essentially, 0 joules after construction). We haven't started down tha
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by vk5tu 7y ago
Having worked on Australia building sites I'd like to say that even at distances of 10m you still want to cut with a precision of 1mm. So it's common to hear that cut described as 10,000. The big jump between units (mm and m) is r
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by vk5tu 7y ago
The Canadian experience is probably the short distance from the USA. Contractors in metric Australia use millimetres. If mm get a bit ridiculous then we use metres. The translation between the two is simple (1m = 1000mm). Context is usually