TomWhitwell

1000 years of English aristocracy disagrees: nobility = landowners

Looks like 4 x ADC channels again, no on-board DAC

I miss skeuomorphic calendar designs based on the Filofax

It’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now

“Birds don’t see well on the old-fashioned CRT screens—their flicker fusion rate is much faster than ours” https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...

There are contemporary first person reports from the people who collected/stole the artefacts in museums. Michael Leiris collected items - some of them ritual items made from coagulated blood - that are still on display in the Musée Quay Branly in Paris. His description from 1931 seems honest, hair-raising and hardly morally ambiguous… https://www.modernghana.com/amp/news/800468/who-is-afraid-of...

Yes, I think it's an artistic interpretation of a digital model of the stones - how the autonomous system sees them.

I went from London to Paris last week, only checked the passport once.

Is it fair to say this clones a device with one specific set of knob positions? So if I want to clone a 5 knob fuzz pedal in every possible setting, that’s a lot of cloning to do? I may have misunderstood.

I’m intrigued by how he achieved the hand-drawn sketchy line style look in his early 80s work when so much computer art was geometric lines or Mandelbrot sets

The patent for negative feedback was rejected as "another perpetual motion machine" - I’d never heard this! Do you have a reference so I can read more?

This is my favourite ‘always look down in London’ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-buried-remains-of-li... - an old road running well below street level but visible through a grate

This is great, thank you. Makes me think of all those people saying ‘you could run T_____ with 8 people’

Tell me more!

This still exists on the current Dartford Road crossing - but they just put your bike on the back of a truck and drive you over on request: https://www.gov.uk/dartford-crossing-bike

This one surprised me when it came out, felt more ‘human’ than lots of stock photos: https://labs.openai.com/s/AsRKFiOKJmmZrVDxIGa75sSA

In the UK… “The Environmental Services Association, the trade body, said that only 14 per cent of the country's 91,300 waste sector workers were female.” So 2x dall-e searches should produce 1.2 women.

Super tricky: https://thecarpentryway.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/crop...

Here’s a 1960s British power station control room - a different (‘space age’) aesthetic but still very much a designed space intended to impress: https://www.powerstations.uk/ferrybridge-c-control-room/

Search for Chelonoidis phantasticus (which would not make a good headline)

Here’s a similar DIY project (at an earlier stage) with a motor drive https://www.instagram.com/p/CTF1_fyNLtz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

As a music journalist in the 90s-2000s, we were often sent promo records - particularly 12" dance singles - with blank white labels where the title was just written on in sharpie.

Alternative headline: 75% of UK phone boxes to be removed (now=21k, future= 5k)

My favourite Paul Lansky track: https://youtu.be/SFoT3HykaPs recorded in 1988 on an DEC MicrovaxII https://www.popmatters.com/141865-idle-chatter-about-paul-la...

Bryan Boyer’s Very Slow Movie Player: https://link.medium.com/KmmRK9wA4jb (And my own Python version: https://link.medium.com/NkrysBDA4jb https://github.com/TomWhitwell/SlowMovie )

Custom logic chips, not universal DSP - this was the early 80s

“Natrium”=sodium, and it’s salt cooled. This is genius branding. Makes it sound like the nuclear reactor runs on organic oats.

Traditional power stations do exactly this - being closed for maintenance or running on low output for days, weeks or months even the interconnector cables between UK and European power suppliers have failed for months at a time. BUT yes, there's no equivalent of unexpected low wind and/or low solar for days or weeks.

I think I'd over compensated - I was surprised to find that Greenland is nearly as big as India.