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FerretFred

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I like .. beer, coffee, trees, paganism, computing (I used to run Arch BTW, now it's Debian).

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Interesting solar power breakthrough in Yorkshire, UK

petergarner.net
5 points·by FerretFred·3 месяца назад·0 comments

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FerretFred
·8 часов назад·discuss
Very interesting and watchable. Do you differentiate between wars and "conflicts"? There's so many of the latter and everyone seems to avoid the term "war".
FerretFred
·3 дня назад·discuss
Very interesting, and as a Brit living in Yorkshire it only serves to show the massive rail transport infrastructure North of Birmingham. The North/South Divide in action!
FerretFred
·3 дня назад·discuss
I'd say "quality not quantity" but not in this case...
FerretFred
·4 дня назад·discuss
> sensorship-resistant protocol that works both online and offline

I think with the authoritarian and dystopian crackdown on parts of the Internet where people express opinions, this will be a key driver. It reminds me of Cuba's "El Paquete" system. I find it ironic that a system developed to circumvent state oppression should now find a potential use case in our allegedly civilised countries.
FerretFred
·8 дней назад·discuss
Wasn't this a case of people fitting window-mounted units without realising they needed planning permission first? I'm also in the UK.
FerretFred
·14 дней назад·discuss
WordStar was my first (WP) love and I found it on a CP/M computer which was being used to great effect for all sorts of office things. They later binned the computer for an IBM PC and I salvaged it. Worked great for a few more years and I really, really missed WS when it failed.
FerretFred
·14 дней назад·discuss
That's a real shame given the distance LW could travel: I wonder what they're going to use the frequency band for? I've tried using DAB on so many occasions and thrown it out in disgust.

> Given these factors, investing in upgrading the LW equipment is not considered a cost-effective solution for licence fee-funded services

And that's another problem - maybe the Government should step in and set up a proper Civil Defence-style warning/information system - we may well need it in a few years - it's a shame our official National Broadcaster can't fulfill the role.
FerretFred
·20 дней назад·discuss
They've somehow managed to breed several generations who's only criteria for "computing" is "it just works". All consumption, little-to-no understanding of how stuff works. As long as it does what it does, and it's "free", that's all that matters.
FerretFred
·21 день назад·discuss
"A BOM is available under production" - the subtlety is in the spelling... good fun though!
FerretFred
·21 день назад·discuss
< that's the nearest I can get an award!
FerretFred
·21 день назад·discuss
Interesting .. when we first moved to my current house we knew it was a quiet neighbourhood, helped by being set back from the main road. What I wasn't prepared for was the absolute silence in the early morning - it was what I imagine deafness would be like, if earbuds can achieve something approaching that, then take my money.
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
As always, there are some very erudite comments here on HN, which is why I like the site so much. My erudite comment, or rather question, is this: why aren't these people using AI to solve all these problems? Surely it would be a good test of The Product and maybe it would give s[ck]eptics some food for thought?
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Fascinating - thanks for sharing!
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Umm .. how about a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W powered by a 2000MaH " lipstick style" powerbank?
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Now available from my gopher server which gets a lot of traffic for an "obsolete" protocol ;)
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Quik is an abomination. I have 3 cameras including the Mission 1 Pro and am satisfied with them. I go on long mucky country dog walks and they've never let me down. Getting the content off the cameras is horrible though: no, I don't want to upload 16Gb of data to your cloud using a poor, 2-bar 4G intermittent phone connection. No. I don't want special editing effects that an only be done in app. Ultimately I pop the card out and use a USB adapter to transfer for editing, but what a pain: surely they could have produced something more user friendly?!
FerretFred
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Was that at Microsoft by any chance?
FerretFred
·2 месяца назад·discuss
"I see Mr Smith was running in [street/location] when the explosion occurred - we'd better bring him in for questioning". Maybe the Oura doesn't record that, but if they can match other metadata with Smith's ring it could put him firmly in the frame.
FerretFred
·2 месяца назад·discuss
>I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code

Good luck to those (human) teams when the briefness stuff hits the fan thanks to an AI hallucination... oh wait, the Active Individually-contributing leaders will be there to lend a hand, right?