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Dual batteries: my X250 on Linux, I'd like to set it up so when the external battery gets to 20% or less, the internal battery starts draining and the external no longer discharges. Can't work out how to do it. Tried Gnome/KDE and Debian/Fedora. Anyone cracked this?

PS: Mine was £100 as well, seems to be the going rate here in UK or was.

Might be worth mentioning that Tim O'Reilly himself co-wrote a book about typesetting with troff. Unix Text Processing by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly, Hayden Books, 1987. This text was subsequently provided free under the Open Books Project.

Larry Kollar has provided a recreated source code repository at

https://github.com/larrykollar/Unix-Text-Processing

I recollect compiling the source from the github account having only to sort out one font path issue.

I was glad to see this page about groff, which is much underrated as a publishing system. The perl script for replacing some markdown markup with chosen groff macros is very interesting. I was however wondering about why the OA chose to write their own macro set rather than simply using the mom macros? Was it simply the need for German markup (and I take the point that languages other than English is an issue)?

Nils Holm (https://www.t3x.org/) also publishes ebooks using groff, but he does not (so far as I am aware) publish his markup or macros.

As to the writing: I'm still working on the sentences, so 45 pages is a distant goal.

I noticed that according to the article the re-interviews were cancelled after a meeting of the board (which includes some pretty notable people).

I gather that the current CEO holds a majority of the shares. Is he susceptible at all to wiser counsel?

The work for the Meningitis Now charity after his brush with meningitis won't have done Mr Tumber any harm, although the 2020 citation is indeed for services to the Cybersecurity Industry when he was the Cybersecurity Executive for Ernst and Young:

https://wearebayleaf.com/honours-database/?view=single&id=37...

His personal Web site does suggest a certain self-confidence and concern for his public persona.

> "Her team's findings have prompted German health insurance companies – who, among others, initially funded the research project – to invest in setting up bird feeders and viewing areas in more than 400 nursing homes across Bavaria. "It was so effective, it just economised money," Kals says."

Perhaps we need to provide opportunities for less well off people to access nature? It might have a positive cost-benefit. And design care homes around gardens? 'forest bathing' is apparently often recommended in Japan based on studies of blood pressure and other physical indicators.

Munlochy: if you ever saw a geezer wearing an ex-army parka, builders safety boots with Opticron bins it might have been me. I don't get up there often enough to warrant the pricey stuff.

Physicists use LaTeX and less often plain TeX a lot as you say because of writing papers. I think that the basic LaTeX book document style provides a workable set of features, and that lets the author just focus on the content. I'd imagine that commercial publishers e.g. OUP would redefine the basic macros to produce output in their house style.

The speculation about future evolution of bacteria that can digest plastic by using similar enzymes was thought provoking. The actual paper is open access as well and the 'extended pdf' has introductory material that I found interesting.

Looks like they combined Maths and CS into one school

https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences

The course offer looks to be mainly applications, which does tend to fit the profile of this particular university in the UK. The staff list looks to be roughly balanced between mathematical sciences and CS.

https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/people/.... Totally random professor (in UK professor is a job description and very senior)

https://le.ac.uk/people/sergei-petrovskii

He does ecological modelling. One paper that caught my very superficial eye

https://chaos1.la.asu.edu/~yclai/papers/PLR_2020_MACFGHLPSZ_...

So to answer your question: going strong, mostly applications.

Use of the passive voice is a giveaway. People seem to write as if these are large corporate projects with managers and all, not volunteer driven.

London is a very old city. One of the Wren churches has a crypt from an earlier church, so 21st Century, then into 17th century then down to something like 13th century. Another staircase down under that and you are standing in a Roman structure.

Oxford: On the main road through the centre is an old tower, the Carfax Tower, 11th century so 900 years old. You can sit in the churchyard outside that tower and have a coffee and pastry. People have been stopping for a while outside that tower for a long time. It is nice on a sunny day towards evening when the warmth of the stones staves off the chill from the rivers.

Chester: Pop into Superdrug on Northgate Street for toothpaste. Medieval chapel, wool exchange, theatre and music hall. Dickens did a reading there.

What qualities do the recruiters at OpenAI value in the mathematics and physics graduates that they hire?

And how do you see these qualities changing over, say, the next decade?

Just wondering if MacOS people have looked at Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox application? I was a happy user back just after the Millennium.

(For me on Linux it is a directory full of text files with markdown and sometimes a groff pic diagram or even a metapost diagram (just starting with that one))

What grounds would you have for putting a tariff a specific contract between two parties? Is it not the case that tariffs need to apply to categories of trade and to countries?

"I think the government should probably tax the diff in salary in those cases"

How would that work if the remote people were employed by a different company that was given a contract by the home company to provide certain pieces of software or specific computing services?

T.I.L. about photopea, and I have disabled Ublock Origin for the site. I see a static 'slide show' column of non-video adverts on the right hand side of the screen - about 10% of screen width.

Best of luck with the copyright complaint.

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.