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They weren't all destroyed, some were moved to what became GCHQ (UK's equivalent to the NSA)

See Influence and Fate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

It's Tommy Flowers I always felt sorry for, after the war he wanted a loan to build a computer was refused on the grounds that what he wanted to build was impossible. He knew it was possible but couldn't disclose that due to secrecy laws

I adored my MiniDisc too but the limited storage of a single disk makes it easy to find the music you want

Given how much we can store in solid state not sure I’d want to navigate my library without a screen

Lack of tradies is part of the problem but house builders tend to rely on sub-contracting so they don't have to bear the cost of employment, training etc and want someone else to solve the problem for them

House builders essentially buy land, get planning, pay a bunch of sub-contractors to slap together a house and then sell it to some poor sap

Saying they build houses is a bit of a misnomer in my view

But what problem does move to the US actually solve in this case?

House builders don't seem to have a problem acquiring land and rights to develop it

Indeed there're permission granted for over 1mn yet to be build residential properties in the UK

The problem is UK house builders drip feed houses on to the market to keep their profits up, and slow down building when house prices fall

<input> with <datalist> can provide a combobox

Missing part is dynamically updating the datalist in an efficient way

And they claimed their TAM was 20% of world GDP!!!

> And no, that launch rate does not "wreck the planet".

What's the impact of the atmospheric pollution from both launches and the burn of space craft and satellite's burning up on re-rentry?

Although it's a bit rougher design wise I prefer https://traksy.uk/live

Amongst other things it shows all the signalling segments so you can actually see where your train is when waiting e.g. https://traksy.uk/live/T+CDU+BRI+d+@2026-07-06T15:00/S+G1548...

Buy two dishwashers — one of clean stuff and one for dirty stuff — my brother’s seriously thinking about doing it when his kitchen is remodelled

More posts about British politics than SpaceX recently!

Are you hypermobile?

My son is and once subluxed his shoulder while running

How are you going to get rid on the heat?

And they won't all be in constant unfiltered sunlight some will be in the earth's shadow

20,000 launches is 11 Starship launches a day for 5 years

It's an unsustainable rate and even if we do get to that rate it'll wreck the planet

According to the authors numbers it'll take at least 20,000 launched to put a million satellite's in orbit

And that's before you consider the issues of operating a DC in space

It's just a a load of nonsense

A TAM that’s equivalent to 20% of worldwide GDP is just nonsense

They’re not long term contract though… some might only be 90days

> The valuation of SpaceX is due to AI, namely the revenue they get for renting out their GPUs to companies that actually have AI customers, as their own AI tech has not panned out.

Renting them out for 90 days!

When people talk about breaking Google up… YT has always seemed an obvious candidate for separation

His former manager left Google last week

Last I heard they were migrating to WASM based edge compute that could read Varnish configs but not sure how far they got

A Tu-22M3 going down makes it better day for Ukraine

I’ve got a Pixel 4a as a second phone just for work… it’s a perfectly fine phone

I’ve stopped using it because Google abandoned it after 18 months

There are plenty of Android phones out there that are usable but get abandoned by the makers

Immigrants don’t get a vote in many countries

For example Europeans were excluded from the Brexit vote

Bootstrap was originally built so internal Twitter apps had a decentish UI

Ikea relies heavily on Edge Side Includes, assembling static pages from parts at the CDN level and then having small islands of JS interactivity

Which CEO?

And yet Akamai is profitable… whereas Cloudflare is not…

Power plant - the car company is owned by BMW

Why do the Army Corps of Engineers get so involved in civil infrastructure in the US - thinking of the Mississippi in particular?

In other countries the government would be involved but it would be a civilian rather than military role

An article on theming without any visuals :-(