PoachedSausage

Maybe not trade deals but the Anne Sacoolas[0] case of using diplomatic immunity of dubious legality to flee from justice probably tends to irritate the British judiciary.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-52630...

I often find it easier to grok things like circuits and logic visually, certainly when in circuit design/PCB mode.

Does anyone know of any open source software for taking smallish chunks of Verilog/VHDL and making a visual representation/schematic?

Another way of saying received wisdom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_wisdom

I believe it was a mistake to decommission eLORAN (both US and Europe), for the reasons you mention. Thankfully we still have terrestrial frequency and time standards (although there was talk of shutting down WWV).

Now that the UK has been kicked out of Galileo, perhaps the government might think about reinstating eLORAN, it would be a good use for some the Longwave AM broadcast infrastructure that will be surplus in the next 10 years or so.

I use for it for the various RF/EE/Controls related matrix stuff, as others have said it is often quicker to use to do some sanity checks even though at work we have actual MATLAB/CST Studio etc.

I think the usual way of handling stuff like that in the embedded world is with an RTOS. Something like FreeRTOS or RTEMS (both have ARM Cortex ports). Also, depending on complexity of the system (more actuators) you might have the individual steppers/servo motors etc run by their own microcontroller and being fed commands centrally.

Matthew Boulton was also pioneering mass production prior to making steam engines with Watt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soho_Manufactory

The guy was really a master story teller, whether you take what he was saying seriously is up to you. Saying that, he did a lecture in New York when Giuliani was mayor and makes a quip about "the consciousness of Giuliani administration". I could not help being reminded of it when Giuliani resurfaced recently.

Thanks. I'll have to check that out.

I don't think we have fully grasped what information really is yet, almost like fish that have just become aware of the ocean. After finishing James Gleick's excellent The Information (mentioned recently on HN), I came away wanting more. There doesn't seem to be more because humans haven't figured it out yet.

So you are saying that life is effectively a Dirac Delta Function. I guess I always knew that infinity was buried in there somewhere.

I learned to drive in a Mini Mark IV. After passing my test I had all sorts of near misses with it. One particularly hairy one was coming round a bend to find traffic queuing at a junction, I locked the wheels and hit the curb, spinning 180 and finishing inches from a wall, no damage.

Coldstream Guards must get through a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards

And the cops don't appreciate fish driving around, they frown on that.

>On top of that, climate change is a slow moving disaster, and we are typically good at mitigating long term changes (at least way better than urgent crises).

That statement is laughably incorrect, in fact the complete opposite of what is pointed to by the evidence. Humans are much better at dealing with urgent crises than long term threats due to our evolutionary history. We even have three branches of emergency services and the military that are trained to deal with urgent crises.

Everyone has a differing body chemistry. I can only speak for myself. I do have some mild symptoms when starting a fast, but they go away quite quickly. It could be related to the fact that I'm not usually hungry in the mornings (excluding having done heavy exercise) and can quite easily go most the day without eating and from there it is not much of a stretch to go another day and another...

Where is the evidence that a 15 day fast is dangerous?

The figure I have seen is that muscle wasting drops to less than 0.2 kg per day once the body fully enter ketosis. Obviously, anyone considering a fast longer than a few days should do so under the supervision of a doctor who can monitor electrolyte levels etc. They can also check for the rare enzyme defect called Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, those with it are unable to fast safely.

I have a book called Fasting and Eating for Health by Joel Fuhrman MD (ISBN 0-312-18719-X). In it, he recommends fasting for between 10 - 15 days around once every 10 years.

I have actually completed a 10 day water only fast a few months ago (good use of lockdown), it takes my body around 4 to 5 days to switch completely to ketosis, then to the end of the fast I was burning through 1 pound/~0.5 kg of fat per day. You can watch it happen every morning when you weigh yourself.

Someone recently posted a link on HN to a book by an Herbert Shelton MD that you might find interesting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110222200902/http://www.soilan...

>t feels like hackerspaces and certain scenes still have the same energy of the web's early days.

I'm not so sure. Maybe 10 years ago. I used to be involved with the hackerspace scene in the UK but I got sick of the politics. Like all subcultures, past a certain point it starts attracting the sociopaths.

Great movie.

"Cattle mutilations are up."

Has Dan Akroyd ever played a bad character?

>surveillance tech was in the stone ages.

I believe it is a mistake to think that. I have some notes from an undergraduate course in digital signal processing, dated 1979. There is a section written by someone from "Joint Speech Research Unit, Cheltenham" there can only be one organisation in that town interested in researching speech, good friends of No Such Agency.

I'm surprised that it is not possible in US to buy air time on commercial stations for exclusive use of the buyer and their customers. Surely it would be similar to buying an advertisement.

Here in the UK we already have data transmission over AM radio[0], nominally for remotely switching electrical equipment on and off but could be used for anything that only needs a low data-rate channel. I would not be surprised if the HFT people are using it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch

There are currently no signs that Longwave and Shortwave AM broadcasts are going away here in the UK. If Droitwich Transmitting Station[0] can stay operational for another 14 years it will be 100 years old!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Transmitting_Station

Nice. There is also:

"Who Dares Wins"

The motto of UK elite special forces regiments of the Special Air Service.

It must be getting pretty crowded up in LEO. How long before we get a Kessler Effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Fermi can blast out "Hi" with a 100GW of power and he is unlikely to be heard in Andromeda, which for all we know could be teeming with life and host to something like an Iain Banks Culture series space opera.

I wonder where Jordan from the film Real Genius fits in to that. She was definitely manic in the film.

It is not that much better here in the UK for specialised things like mental health. My local private specialist for ADHD charges around £1500 for the consultation, and it is hard to justify risking that much money to just be told you're lazy.