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The SNP have won a lot of seats through the voting system because the other parties split the non-independence vote. The SNP have never had a majority of votes, even with an overwh…

Not a new thing. "a 2024 study by researchers at Clemson University has estimated that 4% of content relating to independence were linked to one Iranian-backed bot network of aroun…

As a Scot, I would assume it's an attack on the UK by supporting attempts to break up the UK. That seems credible. Who's behind it, is speculative.

I particularly notice it's messed up YouTube for me. There's a lot of content that seems interesting on the surface, but it's clearly AI generated and the quantity of recent upload…

Dr James Tour posted his recent presentation suggesting doing compute in memory could save energy, and that they have a way to do it that's TRL Level 4.

I put the top 250 lines from my unwieldy todo.txt into an AI and asked for advice, and I could jump for joy with the simplified list of priorities it generated. I think this could …

The best thing in their favour is how standardized and simple a wind turbine tower is. They know the requirements and their customers. It's much easier than a skyscraper, and it mi…

"Steel is very strong per volume, so steel is a good choice when strength per volume is one of the main constraints. However, wind turbine towers are essentially empty inside so th…

I like mindmap software for how intuitive it is, but if I want to enter and manipulate data that's a graph rather than a tree I haven't found a tool I like. Any recommendations? If…

Cynical theory, the UK is now full of the descendants of all those who said "Emigrating? That will never work", and that's set the culture. Grafters and optimists have had many opp…

If a 300mm wafer is 125g, that's $200k per kg. Right now gold per kg is $61,562.

https://embedded.fm/ If you are interested in embedded software, and by extension all the stuff that software goes into.

It might be worth thinking about where there were successful electric vehicles before cars. All the scenarios I can think of are times the vehicle purchaser is willing to deal with…

Writing things down to remember them, you feel like you've dealt with it. Which can be a great help since you can empty your brain of distractions that pop up and do so in a way yo…

Sign language has a different grammar. At least in British Sign Language. Simplistically, put the object of the sentence first so it's clearer what's being talked about. For someon…

I've tried apps for tracking habits, which was great as it freed up Todo lists and Todo apps from lots of daily habit type tasks, however I stopped looking at it after maybe a year…

An overlooked comment from the announcement at 28:50 "It's possible with a laser system at scale to generate hundreds of megajoules of yield so there is a pathway to a target that …

Kitchen use cases for voice for me: Setting multiple named alarms while cooking and often my hands are not clean to handle a phone or they're holding something going in an oven or …

Search Jason Lewis Mind Amend, music on YouTube that I find really helps me focus. Working on something that's grabbed my attention, and understanding what it is that grabs my atte…

They plan one shot every thirty seconds. But the gun is for research, the plant concept is an electromagnetic accelerator of some kind. https://firstlightfusion.com/technology/powe…

Practice by trying to explain things in meetings or make sense of things. Started with MS Paint and drew terrible (but effective) images for years live in meetings. Later moved ont…

Thanks, have you got a link to that because I'd like to read it? I assume the primary counterargument would be that hydrogen production can be either onsite or local so in practice…

Weight: 3D measurement Height: 1D measurement Better to use Waist circumference, since it's a 2D measurement, combined with one of the others if you want a linear scale. The Japane…