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To me the most interesting part is that it is an off the shelf, unmodified unit, just sent into space. I think this community would be interested - maybe reflect that in the title?

Taking their 78% figure I get 6.8 million people who would need one. I don't think I would call 1,150 even a toe in the water.

In that article I came across "of-ten". It took me a noticeable amount of time to work out what it meant.

I owe Arduino a lot though I never bought one (real or clone). I retired from commercial development in Java, saw these discussed, but looking at them I thought - that's just an Atmel chip on a b…

The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly is a great book which I have had since those days. It is incredible how much they packed into that thing, and reading through for each function your reaction is g…

Here's my suggestion: NATIONALISM,n. Discrimination which is based on geography and thus obviously superior to RACISM and SEXISM which are based on biology. Can be further refined to NEPOTISM and…

I would agree with that. I spent 43 years as a developer and I would say at the end I had 2 important insights: 1 - to always consider the person who had to pick up my work and fix it or change it. Th…

SSID is not significant. You can use a Google service to get a location, and what you need to supply is 3 or 4 mac addresses, not SSID.

The esp8266 module itself runs at 3.3V but seems happy with a couple of AA batteries. Tried with CR3032 but it can't deliver enough current. After all, it is doing WiFi.

It looks as if even in temperature zero is a bit problematic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy …

That 'nothing' is inconvenient applies the same in mathematics with zero. Why do we have to have a number we can't divide by? What is 0 to the power of 0? It's a special case we al…

In the 1980s I worked for CMG, an IT consultany here in London. Salaries were completely open, and openly discussed. However the culture was that you were expected to perform to that salary,not that t…

I want to take all the main colours in my house and get a word back! Someone work on it now.

"The Clock" is a 24 hour hour long movie made by Christian Marclay which contains thousands of film clips each with a clock somewhere in them, so that the whole thing keeps the right time. W…

My dad told me about my grandfather, who I never knew, who would pull the emergency cable at the end of his garden and be ready with the fine in his hand, before walking to his house.

IIRC in The Tin Men by Michael Frayn (1965) the computer used the number dead divided by the distance away to determine newsworthiness. Using some of the observations here I am sure we could improve o…

I am baffled by some of the twitter responses. If a real person were crossing out one drug and writing in another would people be rushing to their defence? Here is a good rule: It is never right that …

Not mention India (population 1.3 billion). All in all one third of the world drives on the left. I read somewhere that a lot of major manufacturers make about 50% of each.

Utterly brilliant - where did my time go! Feature request please - mute and randomize (at least) would sound great if you could pre-sync them with the repeat. I found myself trying to judge how much l…

Good work!

“varnished blistered wood” describes wood which is blistered, if such a thing can happen, whereas “blistered varnished wood” says the varnish is blistered which makes more sense. Just a poor example I…

I have been doing this stuff for 42 years. My advice - don't worry about the next big thing too much, it will become clear if you keep your eyes open. Avoid jumping on brand new bandwagons which …