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Was at work today so late in. To add to JKCalhoun's post, magnetic recording is pretty non-linear with a marked threshold. So a 'bias' signal strong enough to overcome the threshold was added to the current from the amplifier and passed through the recording head. That extra signal could be just a dc current as JKCalhoun mentioned, or a high frequency (mid tens of KHz, well above human hearing) current. See [1] for the details. I think that the 'dc rumble' from the magnetic grain is audible on the trailer recording in the OA, but it could just be noise from the bag the tape recorder was hidden in.

The microphone in the OA pictures looks pretty basic as well, and perhaps intended for voice recording mainly. So we have limited high frequencies from comparatively slow tape speed, rumble from the dc bias, and a microphone that perhaps isn't catching low frequencies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias

The tape recorder's manual is available with circuit diagrams [1] and more pictures [2]. I'm not seeing an hf bias oscillator in the circuit unless the manufacturers are being clever. It was half track mono with two speeds, 3.5 ips and 1.875 ips.

Someone did a lot of work to restore these recordings!

[1] https://manualmachine.com/concertone/tr100/8544644-schematic...

[2] https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/transicord_tr_100.html

> "He noticed that the scales were overlapping one another in different directions — in one, they overlapped on top of each other in a clockwise pattern, and the other was in reverse. The fresh eyes of a person who hadn’t been staring at Paulinella for hours identified a curious, distinctive trait. Were they looking at two different species?"

I found it reassuring that sketching what you see down the microscope is still part of a scientific practice. Also the 'fresh eyes' could perhaps point the way to a more collegiate organisation of research.

Debian Trixie so Gnome 48 or so. Yes, program names truncated in the overview but when I hold mouse pointer over the icon, the full name appears. Not ideal, but I'm assuming borderline acceptable for discovery of applications by examining their icons.

The worst: ImageMagick icon shows four lines of wrapped name/comment in brackets, the last line of which is unreadable as it disappears under the icon below in the grid, so very much not ideal! I'd rather the icon title appeared wider and in a solid colour over the nearby icons when moused over. I'm using a largish font on a small screen (1366x768). Most are OK.

(I have to admit to rarely using the 'Show Apps' or 'nine dots' function, I usually just mash the windows/mod4/super key and type a couple of letters of the name then hit enter)

Debian Trixie Gnome 48 or so. In Settings | Multitasking right down the bottom there is App Switching with two options: 'Include Apps from all workspaces' and 'Include Apps from the current workspace only'. Debian has the all workspaces option set by default. Gnome Tweaks is installed, and the extensions to have minimise and maximise buttons on the right of windows are switched on by default.

(I think that this situation is worth pointing out because there is potential for talking past one another as a result of the default choices made by different Linux distributions).

There's two of us. Stock T60 (3Gb ram, 320Gb mechanical hard drive, stock BIOS) with Slackware64 -current.

Nice keyboard as you say. These things are solid.

Yes, brave name choice. I went to have a look and the home page is nice, well laid out, and has links to documents. Small free tier to put your feet in the shallow end, and a couple of monthly plans, one aimed at individuals and the other at orgs. Perhaps a family plan would have benefits?

Alas no linux support, not even an api to allow the use of some terminal command to get round GUI fragmentation. Searching for 'sync online storage with linux' leads to a recent redit thread and a Mint Linux forum thread.

Hang on, 105 800 / 46 = $2300 per machine. Good heavens, when I was partially responsible for hardware refreshes in a UK public sector organisation with around a thousand endpoint PCs we budgeted something like £600 a box. Have prices really gone up that much in a decade or so, or is this some maximalist prosecution claim?

RAM thefts: Birmingham UK, Jewellery Quarter, St Paul's Square. Some may remember the solicitor's office on the corner that had 'RAM removed from PCs overnight' etched on the street level windows pre-millenium. Has been converted into posh flats now.

Amateur bread baker here.

Ships three times a week from Halifax docked at Birkenhead's grain elevator. The flour was then transferred to the mill over the road. British wheat flour (refined) at that point in history (60s) could not get to more than about 9% protein, not really enough to raise a loaf.

Common Market (? 1975) and we have tariffs &c so British wheat gets some serious cross-breeding attention. And now you can get home grown strong white flour above 11.5g. I think there was a similar story with Sugar cane and beet. The old Spillers mill is now flats, and the grain elevator was demolished decades ago.

But, yes, a few of the ships still come and yes you can get Canadian flour at 14 to 15%. One local artisan baker uses French flour as a matter of principle. Others don't specify the source. I'd say develop your recipes and go for it.

Just a data point: UK Mobile Broadband resolves the product site fine. (I have not registered with my credit card so the 'adult and malicious site' filter is still in place). As other posters have mentioned perhaps the name itself is triggering some kinds of filtering?

Andrew Wiles was also careful about communicating progress on his Fermat's Theorem proof during the years in his attic. So yes I take the point.

I read the Mastodon thread as more about the 'flattening' and 'rawness' of the proofs these systems and their operators are producing. I mean what is the cultural significance of a lean proof that is half a million lines long or something? And what tools can be extracted for further work from such a construction?

The late William Thurston wrote about the culture of mathematics in that sense.

UK police officers are not routinely armed, but there armed response units, and under certain circumstances in e.g. railway stations and airports you will see pairs of officers walking about with machine guns on a regular basis.

Accountability: misuse of cctv or bodycam footage can lead to disciplinary action of various kinds including being sacked. The link below will give you an idea of the volume of formal complaints and the 'pipeline' from complaint to potential dismissal and criminal proceedings against officers;

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-misconduct-e...

The accountability system is 'under review' (we do this a lot, slows things down nicely and looks like action);

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-to-end-review...

It isn't unicorns and rainbows by any means;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66809642

"Research has shown that being creative through art projects can help promote stress relief, increase self-esteem, help connect with others, and boost intrinsic motivation. So, participating in mindful art projects can open one's mind to more positive thoughts and offer alternative solutions to life problems."

And wise. Well done publishing the Web site which works without fuss in a calm way.

> "The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit."

Mr Krebs is dealing with all this mayhem and idiocy with remarkable sang froid if I may say so. Good heavens.

Forum discussion shows how readers of a site have diverse concerns that the designers may not always forsee.

Downloaded the AppImage, chmod +x and ran it from my user space on Debian Trixie under Gnome. I went for light, colourful and modern UI, skipped the login/cloud invite, disabled the telemetry and started it up.

Quite chatty when running it from the terminal, but seems to be working well on my Thinkpad X250 landfill laptop. Looks 'flat' and all in the modern style, but adapts to the 1366x768 letterbox that is my screen nicely.

Perhaps Tir by Carwyn Graves would engage the interest of the Monbiot generation and lead them into a slightly different framing (and introduce some Welsh)?

(Your quote reminded me of Thomas Hobbes)

The last point in the OA about rounding the estimate of the time spent on the assigned tasks. Just wondering if the response would depend on the wording of the instructions to participants and the nature of the incentivisation.

Me being a bit of a boy scout / Belbin 'company worker', I would tend to use a timer (I'm a pomodoro method person for things like marking or checking references &c).

The rest, oh yes. I stopped paying much attention to studies based on dozens of undergraduates doing weird concocted tasks years ago.

OA makes no mention of Fred Hoyle's 'three hours with a calculator' to check Hawkins figures (and being generally unimpressed). Also nothing about the Thoms (Alexander and Archie) who surveyed many other stone circles, or perhaps a passing reference to John North's chunky book on Stonehenge itself. Latterly Euan MacKie was working out how exactly you could test an hypothesis about ancient observers marking a celestial alignment of some type anywhere in the latitudes of Britain. A multi-route rabbit hole if you are in need of diversion.

The photos in the team's actual paper (linked in OA) are hilarious and lovely - real pride there. Citizen science projects have educational value as well as the data.

Berger's short pieces are worth tracking down. He could write in a spare and direct way about people and the web of social relationships they occupied. Confabulations is a recent favourite of mine, but it might be an old man's book (I'm old and male and thus swimming in the water). Bento's Sketchbook is extremely odd (Berger is imagining what Spinosa's lost sketchbook might look like, and telling Spinosa's story at the same time).

I might buy this biography. Or I might keep my version of the story. I'll decide when I walk to the bookshop to have a look.

> Calculus: The Princess of Mathematics by H.C.Verma et al.

Garudalife have a store on Abebooks, so available in the UK at under £12 per volume (each circa 340 pages) but inevitably £18 postage. These look interesting and one day we'll have print on demand in each territory!

Replying to my own post as well past edit timeout.

I can't find anything about niche occupancy replacement at all on the Web. Searches lead to information about the trophic decline in prey species after an initial boom when the North Atlantic cod went down to something like 1% of previous volume. Some mention of harp seals competing with younger smaller cod for available food (which is scarce now apparently).

Could be a case of a small effect earlier in the timeline masked by huge changes resulting from warming water &c.

And Dillo is the equivalent of a shepherds hut in the back garden.

I'm filing a bug report...

Steps to reproduce: Open terminal emulator and type;

$ w3m https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/

I can read the same content as I can read in Firefox.

What I expected to happen: See content similar to the following;

Update your browser Your browser isn't supported any more. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version. Learn more

My understanding is that the cod fishery decline in Atlantic waters has had limited recovery because the ecological niche that the cod fish occupied has been taken over to some extent by a small shark species. The wikipedia page mentions 'trophic cascade' so larger populations of prey species but does not mention the shark takeover. Either way cutting the harvesting won't bring the fish back.

Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint).

So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis? Click and add comment &c.

All true, but I can't help pointing out that the code name for this new OS came from Plan Nine from Outer Space, a film (which I gather the gang went to watch and found hilarious, although it appears that the film was mainly shown on TV by the 1980s) by Ed Wood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space

A theme in the film is the waking of the undead, and I'm wondering if this is a message from the original gang.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/PlanNine...

A bit more niche but Slackware (both the 15.0 released version and 'current' development version) have x86 support (i686). Void Linux and antiX Linux also provide i686 isos.

But, yes, we are in the long tail.

Interesting comment, but I'm thinking of the time scales involved. Farming 6 to 8 thousand years ago, simultaneous development in several areas. Before that millennia of hunter-gatherers (with technologies thrown in like stone shaping and metals?). Before that it is millions of years after chimps/bonobos/us diverged.

Something accelerated the restlessness, perhaps language?