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My cousin died in 2021 at the age of 28 after AstraZeneca vaccine. Quite unfortunate, they starter increasing the age group of people receiving that vaccine literally days after he…

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it's a 2015 computer, surly we can (or at least used to be able until recently) get cheap computers in the UK

I really hate to say it, but makes it feel like not everything that Putin said was a lie.

How do you manage sending and receiving requests to multiple LLMs? Are you going it manually through multiple UIs or using some app which integrates with multiple APIs?

Raspberry pi didn't have built in WiFi until raspberry pi 3 in 2016 (of course you could use a usb adapter). I think around similar time esp 8266 (cheap microcontroller with WiFi) …

My colleagues were talking about salaries in the range of $40-60k... About 8-10 years ago. And I don't think it got any cheaper

In the peripherial Europe, like the United Kingdom, fiber optic became available only in the last couple of years, definitely not early 2000s. There are still places within 80KM fr…

National museum of computing [0] in Bletchley houses a rebuild of the Colossus computer. The people who volunteer there are great and always happy to explain the history. PS. Bletc…

On the topic, the oldest original running computer[1] can be found in the UK in the National Museum of Computing based in Bletchley Park (where Alan Turing and many others worked b…

Slightly tangential, but if anyone is wondering how profitable could be running a charity in the UK: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari... Last section sh…

We have Costco the last time I checked, at lest in the UK and Spain.

When I tried their drivers, eclipse based IDE and microcontroller pin configuration generator (cube something) 2-3 years ago it worked well on Linux

I've asked my mother the exact same question a couple of weeks ago. She said, that as salt is hygroscopic "table salt" comes with anti-cacking agents. Salt which comes as larger cr…

Can you point me to multi device, Bluetooth enabled (and reliable) keyboards in $60 range? I would see myself buying one of those if it was a bit cheaper (they will drop in price f…

Russians doing what they have been doing for a hundred years: lying, blaming, spreading clearly false propaganda, stealing, murdering and raping people. Meanwhile people in the wes…

What is needed to make energy transformation happen on such an impressive timeline rather than taking 30 more years?

And, as someone mentioned above, usually a RLC filter

The only thing I can come up with is last mile commute, but for that probably a bit larger foldable bike would do. Btw. In UK on certain routes or during rush hours you can only ta…

So why do we even allow entities which are not interested in actually delivering/receiving physical goods to trade futures? Genuine question

Some codecs might be more suitable for encoding video streams which are known ahead of time and utilize similarity of frames both before and ahead to maximize compression (multi pa…

This idea is used in some "corporate security" tools. For example companies which use ZScaler install zscaler certificates on employees machines and use ZScaler servers as MitM kin…

Cheers, good enough for me! If someone asks me about my competency I will refer them to this thread.