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14,547karma·4,845submissions·June 3, 2013
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How was it tunnelled, most tunnelling machine are large, large enough for things to have enough space to work. The conveyor belt to remove the debris, the machinery to place the concrete segments to f…
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Tandem bike or a new SCP variant.
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Fascinating technology, whilst great to watch, it would be good to have some numbers; or are they just in the early stages of the process. I wonder how quick their iteration process is, I’ve wondered …
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Manchester is burgeoning, still someways behind London. It’d be super, smashing, great! for the cities to be far better connected together across the Pennines.
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From Gridlock to Grid Power: The Promise of Superconducting Cables https://ee.eng.cam.ac.uk/index.php/2025/09/22/from-gridlock-... An interesting article, I’ll dow…
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No version for the ZX Spectrum?
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“As Lord Mayor (and therefore chief magistrate for the City), one of his first acts was to refuse to enforce Admiralty warrants to press gang Londoners into the Royal Navy, and he ordered constables t…
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Amazing visualisation, an excellent tool. Are there other sites that can suggest how much of an issue it is, and how much flight plan tweaking could improve this. Remember kids a 1° C rise in temperat…
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Impressive piece of work, first time I’ve heard of this. I had heard that tunnels were a good first step for rolling out super conducting cables, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing. Superconducting c…
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Seems this was discussed in 2020. I not only upvoted it, but favourited it too; yet I have no memory of it... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726762 …
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Who is stupid enough to buy that?
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strangely no emoji for it, yet.
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The number of outdoor market stalls I’ve seen with diesel generators, noisy, smelly and polluting. Happy to see people using all electric.
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Queuing for the phone box to call home once a week, grim, especially when you miss out on your grandfather passing away.
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I was thinking that with a number of Private Equity companies having financial issues there’d be less funding avalable, and that IPOs would be a probable route. I am not a finance guy, just seems like…
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Key part seems to be: “SmartValves are a type of static synchronous series compensator, or SSSC—a solid-state alternative to PSTs that employs power electronics to tweak power flows in milliseconds.” …
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Absurdly although I’m, currently paying for a BBC TV licence, I use an Apple TV but they have not, and will not provide UHD content for it on their streaming app. Either I can do the stupid thing and …
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Will Apple be able to ramp up M3 Ultra MacStudios if this becomes a big thing? Is this part of Apple’s plan of building out server side AI support using their own hardware? If so they would need more …