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It is also a good signal to use for frequency calibrations as the carrier is derived from a Caesium reference.

Only 639 years? It would take approximately 1.3m years to ring every permutation of the 16 bells in the tower of the church of St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, UK.[0] I'm no…

We could go for ecological and climate collapse instead. I hope there is a middle way.

Reminds me of the hardcore raver Tyres from the sitcom Spaced (genius British comedy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk Saying that I have had a similar thing with track…

It is the annual creative writing exercise known as appraisal time at many organsiations, including mine. Why not get some inspiration from HN? Actually this year has never been ea…

There is also the excellent "The Jet Engine" book by Rolls-Royce: https://hermessuspendeme.com/DOCS/GrevaEdgar/greva%202B/2B/S...

Did people really believe that dietary fat was stored by the body without any kind of biological processing? If you examine it from a thermodynamic perspective (I know that is simp…

A good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid#Biosynthesis

Maybe not. The Dutch police appear to be using wicker riot shields in 2021. Good for the environment. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/25/nation/weekend-riotin...

Maybe there has been some sort of accident of scale, like the intergalactic fleet in Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy that arrives to destroy Earth but is eaten by a dog. There coul…

He mentions a site near Slough, west of London but doesn't give an exact location. The photo looks like magnetic loop antennas. Slough has a large number of data centres, would tha…

I'm curious as to UK end of the link now. I would guess somewhere on the hills around London to get line of sight for a microwave link down to the city. Having just checked the Ofc…

I found it sometime last year, looking for data on a Philips video IF processing chip, I thought about posting it. Great site from an interesting guy, a rather sad history of the d…

I agree that it ought to be that way, however those with power tend to want to hang on to it. How do you solve it? The US has a term limit for the President, but you can stay in Co…

That might have been true in Jefferson's day, lifespans were shorter. Now most western democracies are effectively gerontocracies, the young are bound to the wishes of the old. See…

No, not a specific political difference, more of a differnce of socio-economic/age/class/possibly even race. As we saw at the last election Corbyn wasn't that popular with some tra…

The kind of civil liberties they like are the rather limited kind, or only for the right kind of people (their voters). During the debate on the November lockdown, the word 'arbitr…

>The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past. If only. In the past it was common to provide schematics of your hardware in order that people could repair it. This was co…

I had noticed that the UK distributors that I use on a regular basis, RS and Farnell, have stopped hosting TI's datasheets on their sites. It makes it quite annoying to make a quic…

Why use the Rpi at all (Nothing against them, I have a few)? If the Pi is just writing graphics to a screen, why not handle that directly with the STM32? Running an RTOS, it should…

What do Ofcom do to enforce it? They used to have a number of spectrum monitoring stations, however they were decommissioned, I know someone that bought bits of it at auction.

Your spectrum monitoring sounds interesting. Do you have any details/write up?

You could island hop across the Atlantic. Bermuda -> Azores -> Canaries. Work your way up the Irish sea from the Scilly Isles -> Lundy -> Skomer -> Bardsey -> Angelsey. On up to Fa…

That is how it appeared to me. Like Vultures fighting over bare bones. It would have been better if they had a agreed a 10 year moratorium on fishing in EU and UK water to let fish…

It might be better in the short term, but after a while an angry mob starts banging on your doors.