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The infrastructure that keeps the modern world going: a local telephone exchange https://flickr.com/photos/h2g2bob/52389503114/ #internet
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Just as "serverless" means you are using more than one server, see "driverless"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65175447 “They will have two members of staff on board.
A safety driver will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding, buying tickets and queries.”
Unexpected consequences of small businesses being exempt from VAT
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/30/vat_brake2/ #uk #economics
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Our first Bleak Weekend was a great success. I can thoroughly recommend staying in a motorway service station for a weekend https://rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/127/ #WeekNotes
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🗳️ Local elections are taking place across England and Northern Ireland this May.
🙋 8,519 councillors are to be elected, the largest number since 2019.
📝 Nominations for England close on 4 April. Our volunteers will be collecting these over the following days and publishing them for voters on WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk.
👀 Get the full details and find out how you can volunteer for democracy on our blog! ⬇️
https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2023/03/02/whats-up-for-election-in-2023/
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This is MADNESS.
"The UK government will defy scientific doubts to place a massive bet on technology to capture and store carbon dioxide in undersea caverns, to enable an expansion of oil and gas in the North Sea."
Carbon capture/removal techniques (which don't even work yet) are not an excuse to keep burning anything. They're utterly pointless until we have decarbonised everything else as much as we can. Renewables are already cheaper & better - there's no contest.
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Hello, world 🐘
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In my latest blog post, I catch up with a ride I did last year on the excellent Coundon Cycleway in Coventry.
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2023/03/cycling-in-uks-motor-city.html
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I've ported 10print, https://10print.org/, to Unix shell:
The classic C64 one-liner
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
becomes:
yes '╱ ╲' | awk '{printf $(1.5+rand())}'
The loop has become implicit, in what is essentially a pair of endless coroutines.
Farm machinery and software licences https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/
Artisanal, hand-crafted binary files: an x86 implementation of Firth https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/smithforth/ #linux
How did I not know about Text Fragment linking before? It's amazing! (Although it is not on Firefox yet.) https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/page-numbers-arent-the-answer/#:~:text=That%27s%20OK%21 #webdev #html
Clocks go forward tonight in the #uk from UTC to BST. It's all well planned in the uk, but some other timezones have horror stories: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/
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Gordon Moore was not only the co-founder of Intel and the namesake for Moore's law, the claim that every two years the number of components on a chip double, he was also, together with his wife Betty Moore, one of the donors who made Wikidata possible. Gordon and Betty Moore were known for their philanthropy. Gordon Moore died today at the age of 94.
Thank you for enabling us to make Wikidata happen.
Getting leaflets from political parties in the UK this weekend? Photograph them and upload them here: https://electionleaflets.org/ #ukpol
Homebrewing, as explained in The Guide https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A481060 #h2g2
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I'm really enjoying this episode because Melvin Bragg is so clearly following a set of notes to keep up with the mathematicians, which is very different from an episode about English Literature. It's not quite in the "why are you physicists so keen on rubber sheets" area, but it's close
In Our Time: Paul Erdős
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc68
Total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of weight of humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
Total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of weight of humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
Twenty-five years of curl https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/
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