Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
Ukpol, human rights
@blepharon @neil
RAF ‘Voyager’ A330 aircraft (including ’Vespina’) are leased from & operated by AirTanker Services Ltd. The contract between MoD & AirTanker may not compel AirTanker to operate the flights. Apart from the Titan operated A321 (mini ‘Vespina’) & the Centreline AV FalconJets (baby ‘Vespina’) I don’t believe there are any other RAF/gov aircraft suitable for pax service.
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When I was a physics undergraduate, my supervisor was known for writings "WORDS" and "DIAGRAMS" on everyone's work, because students tended not to explain what they/we were doing. This was good advice.
Today when marking, I'm forever writing "BE SPECIFIC", because there are plenty of words and diagrams, but OMG the content is often so vague and it's unclear whether there is any meaning at all. All puffed up and completely empty.
Is this what the internet and marketing speak has done to us?
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
— P. J. Plauger
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My favorite CPU - yes, I'm weird, I have a favorite CPU - is being discontinued after a 48-year run. FORTY. EIGHT. YEARS. #Z80
https://www.hackster.io/news/zilog-calls-time-on-the-venerable-z80-discontinues-the-standalone-z84c00-cpu-family-723594464754
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#Flipboard seems to be doing a pretty good job of easing into federation slowly. I think they had an established product and market first, though.
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@ScottStarkey @fediversenews Agreed, @Flipboard is a model at how one does this....
@blog
Must give this topic some attention, have recently moved into a house with a trendy square seated toilet. Not so satisfactory but improvements might be possible.
@jon concerning shipping…
As I live in NI, some GB suppliers insist on using delivery services other than Royal Mail & Parcelforce who, both, have flat rates for BT postcodes as GB ones.
In occasion, to avoid outrageous surcharges I’ve arranged collection & at my cost by RM/PF (reasonable cost). Perhaps that’s an option available to you?
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@ricmac@mastodon.social ActivityPods is an intriguing project along those lines! https://activitypods.org/
The replies to your post are interesting. I'm in the camp that agrees that point about needing separate accounts was a very strong one -- okay, I buy that it's not an inherent problem with ActivityPub but it's very much an issue with today's actually existing fediverse. So the responses saying that it's not an issue, or not a big issue, strike me as somewhat in denial.
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@freemo European humans? ( /S )
@ispreview
Starlink do CoS?
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Virgin Media O2 Use Starlink for UK Mobile Backhaul in Rural Areas https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/04/virgin-media-o2-use-starlink-for-uk-mobile-backhaul-in-rural-areas.html
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We have just released @geopandas 1.0.0-alpha1, the first of the pre-releases of the upcoming major version of the package 🚀. It comes with some changes you may notice in your workflows.
Here’s a short blog post highlighting the most critical bits - https://martinfleischmann.net/geopandas-1.0-is-coming.-what-will-change/
Please, help us test the pre-release and let us know if something doesn't look right!
```
pip install geopandas --pre -U
```
🐍
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For anyone who still thinks that biofuels are going to be better than electrification, here's a couple of statistics from the World Resources Institute:
- Producing just 2% of the world's energy needs from liquid biofuel would require agricultural production to increase by another 30% by 2050.
- Even on the best lands, a hectare of modern solar voltaics can generate 40-100 times more usable energy than biomass
Here's how we use our land already.There just isn't room for that.
@bensmithuk @neil
Our, yet young, whippet will undoubtedly catch one of the pheasants visiting the garden.
The neighbouring farm/estate (unrelated, a Game of Thrones location) raises the birds for shooting.
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
