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Its a way to make sure the delivery takes place. A code is sent to recipient and recipient only gives it to the delivery person once item is handed over. Delivery person cant mark …

I remember the fuss about that email. Yes thats a good point, our concept of privacy has evolved a lot since then. Privacy as a technical and political theme changed a lot post-200…

You could try this, from 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)

Yep, I think of Arthur as a sortof Beta for RiscOS I had an Archimedes A305 which launched with Arthur, when I upgraded to Risc OS (which arrived on ROMs, if I remember correctly, …

The original ARM operating system

lacking a body Just drop it into Minecraft

Incidentally I was reading the other day that in Europe kettles are much faster than USA ones (due to 240v domestic mains as opposed to 120v) and theres a small subculture of USA e…

Does it have language skills? I always thought it would be interesting to train a model within minecraft as a sortof proxy for 'embodiment'. You could then try asking it about its …

For those wondering, I found a post with a graph showing actual temperature rather than std dev from mean https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tompickerell_this-graph-shoul...

If there’s an heir to Dylan, I don’t see who it is. Great music and great art are still being made and will always be made, and one day someone of his stature will emerge. But this…

Huygens was an amazing project. It also sticks in my head as a really instructive example of "bug in production code" - the Huygens probe was transmitting on two channels to the Ca…

Because copper wires could carry enough power to make a landline work when the mains electricity was off due to a power cut Edit: also domestic routers are buggy and unreliable and…

The act of pushing a mower around possesses an almost primordial appeal No, no it doesnt. I leapt at the chance to get a robot to do it

Ancient writers were more imaginative than you think. Right, but imagination starts from what is known, so Vera Historia has wars, journeys, whales and gods. A whirlwind takes them…

Lets reflect on Aristocreon, in about 200 BC, putting their thoughts down on a scroll. They would be aware that the scroll might be kept in a library for some time. Maybe they coul…