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At one point in the past a major UK a medical school adopted random selection for qualified candidates (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry - part of Queen Mary U…

Having an adversarial relationship with your suppliers is not necessarily the best arrangement. It means that suppliers will nickel-and-dime you for every change and ship minimum p…

I miss the quaint DVB SI (ETSI EN 300 468) Content Descriptors with values that lumped together arbitrary categories (someone's subjective opinion) like: "serious music/classical m…

I'd respectfully challenge that your opinion reflects reality. Nihilism [1] is just one philosophy amongst many. It's no more 'the one truth' than any of the others. Many of the ot…

I have struggled to understand why houses don't get built and land sits idle for years. I can only assume that it's significantly more complicated. I'm not trying to excuse the com…

No, I think he searched for the ETA App and was disappointed at the lack of emphasis on an alternative to the app once you are in it. If you just search the web for ETA and gov.uk …

I worked at a company where managers would endlessly push this argument to open a job posting. Of course there was no budget to hire, but they would delude themselves that the perf…

There is jazz improvisation handbook "Harmony with Lego Bricks" written in the 1980's by Conrad Cork in the UK. It's pretty niche. Conrad approached Lego at the time and they gave …

I'm not sure that the RK3688 and a big chunk of the article spent on its specs belongs in a "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview" given that it's due sometime in 2026. I'm sure it'…

The cheapest appliance is definitely cheap, whereas you generally have to take on trust the quality of the most expensive. The rule of thumb I use is "you don't get what you don't …

Thomann - for musical instrument stuff

I misread that as "the bassoon of security standards" and it sent my brain in a whole other direction

Most posts here seem to be offering easy on-ramp listening for jazz, but they seem at odds with the spirit of the original post. For jazz that is off-putting at first listening but…

Arm isn't competing with its biggest customers here. This doesn't affect their relationship with e.g. AWS or Azure (Cobalt) as those folks are not selling CPU chips on the open mar…

From TFA "decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive". Assuming that's not hype, let's see it have a go at Rongorongo[1] then. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.o…

As British as the British Royal Family then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

Ubuntu has historically had a business model that is more open to supporting out-of-tree kernel patches

The UK government ran an initiative in the mid 1980s to get electronics CAD into every university and polytechnic. The institution I worked for got a lab of DN300 and DN500 worksta…

This is good advice. There are many boring jobs in 'cost side' departments of big companies and the only attention they get from upper management is a continuous focus on reducing …

Here's a link to the Arm program: https://www.morello-project.org/

From TFA, "the case was a high-net-worth family matter" so probably not an existential threat to anyone.

It's not inherently ridiculous. Administration is a non-zero cost. Anything below that cost is cheaper to give rather than administer. Hip operations are a weird counter example to…

I have multiple problems with this comment > 95% of health is being proactive about your health: food, fitness, sleep, dentist, etcetera. This is a statistic pulled out of nowhere.…