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I still go to Maplins but I think they suffer from indecision and timidity. You don't necessarily think of going to Maplin's for X or Y because you don't know if that's what they deal in. Home automation and the like is probably pointless as most people would research and buy online because of the huge range of stuff. But areas like Raspberry Pi and Arduino they could have gone all out on, as they don't go out of date so quickly and components are generic.

Celebrating and riding the wave of maker/hacker culture is something they have ignored and failed on. A place that has locations everywhere? Could have opened up for hacker to collaborate? Had tech bars like Apple? I hope they get rescued somehow.
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"Elegantly"? Economics and ecology have never worked together in an elegant fashion.

We would need orders of magnitude more hunters in order to eradicate rabbits from NZ. That's expensive. Rabbits simply aren't tasty enough to justify that effort.

If the market demand for rabbits were to increase drastically, one market response would be to raise more rabbits on rabbit farms, which is cheaper than game rabbit.

An increase demand would also result in increased rabbit hunting in Australia. So long as Australian rabbit meat is cheaper than hunting down the last of the NZ rabbits, NZ rabbits will remain in the ecosystem, ready to, ahem, bounce back once the economics changes again.

Nor are people stupid. If rabbit hunting brings in huge amounts of money, landowners in NZ are not going to eradicate all of their rabbits for the sake of short-term profits.
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It almost looks like a Pebble..
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The comments here so far about why Maplins has gone into administration miss the point. It's not just about being outmaneuvered by online shops. In their words:

> The business has worked hard over recent months to mitigate a combination of impacts from [1] sterling devaluation post Brexit, [2] a weak consumer environment and [3] the withdrawal of credit insurance.

So it's

[1] Brexit having caused the value of the £ to fall (in respect of USD). Gah, Brexit.

[2] Lack of customers. This is probably partly to do with online stores sucking up their custom but also to do with general lack of consumer spending.

[3] Withdrawal of credit insurance. Anyone able to explain this one?

For context its worth adding that Britain's ToysRUs has also just gone into administration too, following their US parent.
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On Linux you can just rsync/syncthing/whatever (using ecryptfs) the encrypted data.

On any OS, you'll be able to rsync/syncthing/whatever a VeraCrypt volume (though, you'll have to unmount it to make sure that the image is 100% consistent).

Also, borg backup will let you do a remote-is-encrypted backup, which might be what you're after - sync the remote backup instead of the files, and fuse-mount it to read. No Windows for now AFAIK.
I assume renewables and nuclear.

In my case, in an oft-forgot part of the country, 13% of my power is generated by solar and wind, 20%+ when you count in nuclear, too.
Also interesting since there's been GDPR advice from their CEO: https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/gdpr/how-to-prepare-...
Only if the pass’phrase’ is a short numeric code. iOS also allows a normal password.
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I think frozen star refers to the fact that from an outside observer's perspective, the star seems to stop collapsing at the last possible moment, suspended in time as it were, because light from the moment of black hole formation takes an infinite amount of time to reach the observer.
Same with “the Russians stole muh election”?
I would not say sales assistants in today’s Maplin know anything.
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I see this as a huge blow to privacy.

Every service will now just have a clear "give us all the rights or gtfo" and publish everything to public encrypted.

The user has allowed their private data to be published and the service has no obligations anymore.
It should be noted that there is a great Linux clone of Synthesia (which is awesome, btw!):

http://linthesia.sourceforge.net

EDIT: I wouldn't necessarily agree that learning a piece with [Syn,Lin]thesia means you don't gain any theory - its really a matter of picking your piece. Learn some great theory by loading it up with a Debussy!

Screenshots here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/linthesia
There are just too many Maplin shops around to be selling Raspberry PI’s
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It might just settle in a tiny corner of the web eventually. This is not the first wave of excitement about decentralisation. I remember there was a similar wave of excitement with torrents and decentralised file storage, but convenience and regulation helped centralised storage to win. If I'm to bet it'll be the same case with cryptocurrency
Still holding @ 2.23

Dealing with and accepting loss is actually quite difficult....
Nice, hadn't seen that. I like the comment at the end...

If approached in the right spirit, GDPR compliance can be a win-win for email marketers, quite possibly providing a much-needed correction.
Is there a link to your project?
Yeah, that’s what I am thinking: most of the places where I had visited maplin it was a small shop where you could but some nails or batteries. On the other hand I would definitely visit more often if they had larger but less frequent shops.
The key that is mentioned is only part of what you need to decrypt the data. The point of the secret key is to prevent an offline attack; you need to get the device to combine passwords or codes with the secret key to get the encryption key. That way the device can enforce speed nd maximum number of attempts.
>Why do we think that we could anymore keep guns out of the hands of criminals than we could keep drugs out of the hands of people

Your equivocation seems to imply that gun regulation would either have either no or negative effect on gun ownership and usage. Yet other countries with stricter gun laws than the US have fewer incidents of gun violence, which would appear to suggest that it is, in fact, possible for gun laws to be effective at limiting gun violence.

The question, then, is not whether gun laws can keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but whether one believes they should.
Other articles stated the unlock could also be performed on premises for a hefty sum.
Holy shit can't you read up before complaining without knowing the details? There is the exception that you may use and store data that is necessary for providing the service. Thus, since ip is necessary for talking to a server, you don't need to explicitly ask for consent. However you MUST NOT do anything else with that IP, like logging it for longer than necessary or tracking users across sites (without consent).

Why do you need to log ip? To prevent abuse? That's ok. For how long? That's up do you to decide, but it must be motivated and documented.

What's so hard to understand? How is this not perfectly reasonable already? Why are you entitled to not respect other's personal data?
I've been using a Unihertz Jelly Pro for a while now. That's tiny and runs android 7.

The thing that has surprised me most is that it's all utility. I can run Google Authenticator, I can read what I need to read, I can find out when the bus leaves, but the phone is no fun. The tiny screen doesn't attract or tempt me.

I thought I'd get something small that fits in every pocket, but stumbled upon something else. Maybe more.

(Same thing with more detail: http://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/unihertz)
I abandoned it after hearing about the Curl debacle, and trying to abandon it (and selling all of my $100 worth of IOTA) just validated my decision. The wallet couldn't show the right balance unless I "reattached" a bunch of times, and, get this: In order to validate a monetary transaction, the wallet transmit zero-amount "validation" transactions that refer back to the original one, essentially validating itself. Such secure.
They should have doubled down on things I can't easily know to get online. connectors, buttons, displays, enclosure, anything I'd like to get my hands on to feel or wouldn't know the name of to even search for.

I thought i'd get some buttons for a control panel, the selection was terrible and what was there was nasty and cheap feeling but cost a lot. Ended up just getting some crimps I needed and those were such poor quality I ended up re-crimping the project next day once amazon turned up.
Gravitational collapse overwhelms fusion pressure much before the black hole stage is reached, i.e., neutron stars. Also general relativity seems to indicate unambiguously that the in-falling matter collapses to a singularity, which obviously cannot have any kind of structure or process inside it. I guess only a quantum theory of gravity can clear up this enigma.
How is the interface clunky? The One Pass setup is extremely convenient. Search across services is excellent. My parents can use it without issues.

This is the first complaint I’ve ever heard about the interface. Not saying it can’t be better...but it’s pretty great. Significantly better than all of the services that insist on showing huge cover pictures everywhere.
> I do wonder if these stores may have survived if they could downsize and stick to what they started doing: electronics supplies and kits?

Is this such a large market?
They were great, I believe Roger Dean painted most if not all of them. More at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/maplinonline/retro-maplin/

But as you say, nowadays there's no reason to go to Maplin unless you need to go to retail. Online shopping, especially direct-from-China, overtook them. I think also there has been a generational shift in the people doing electronics; the old "ham" culture and the new "maker" culture look superficially like they're both doing things with soldering irons, but the people and community are very different.

Brexit and the associated fall in Stirling are mentioned as proximate causes, but they're the hard winter that's going to kill off a lot of already week UK firms.
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Oh, I don't doubt that there'd be an awful lot of impact from increasing use of the Internet for purchases. Still though, I'd rather purchase from a local retailer in many cases.
[2] is more than everything in there is exorbitantly expensive, 3x Amazon/other physical retailers isn't uncommon

I won't even enter one of their shops unless I can't wait to have it delivered
With all maker brand style revival(not that it wasn't always around) going on there should be a games workshop for electronics.
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> It is theoretically possible that the black hole is still performing fusion, and emitting light and heat, like a regular star. But its gravitational field is so intense, that even light cannot escape it.

No, it is not. In GR, once critical density is reached, gravitational collapse is inevitable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose–Hawking_singularity_th....

It's possible this doesn't hold true in some theory of quantum gravity, but you'd get some exotic matter, not "stars still performing fusion, and emitting light and heat, like a regular star".

Please note that no fusion is happening in white dwarfs, nor in neutron stars.
The DMCA is not concerned with the security of Apple’s devices or “Secure Enclave” as Apple never said they existed for the sake of protecting copyright - that’s iTMS’s DRM which is entirely unrelated.
> when you buy from Ali you're invariably paying steep customs fees

Are you sure? Whenever I've done it I get parcels which have completely false customs declarations to avoid the fees ("samples", "gifts", zero value declarations etc)
I read "through narrowed eyelids" as "with suspicion/mild disbelief"
If you do ICSI with sperm taken directly from the testis, which is quite common, then the sperm never travel through the epididymis and therefore are not loaded with the microRNAs. So yes, you would certainly have removed the (is life good or shitty) signal that the sperm normally would carry with them. The Rando lab at UMass does a lot of this kind of research if you want to go down the rabbit hole...https://umassmed.edu/randolab/
I don't know what a cognitive metaphor is and whether it's applicable to mathematical abstractions. I was responding to the claim that:

> Because we found no better analogy, we named them "holes" despite the fact that they are basically the opposite

Which is false.
I can save the html of any website. How does that make it 'decentralized'?
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It sounds like they're not trying to create general-purpose money. They've made a token to track influence. They use inflation so old stored influence loses half its value every year. You can't rest on your laurels, if you want influence you have to have provided value recently.
It’s not mentioned because it hasn’t been studied yet. That said, side-effects from IVF can be explained much easier, no need to invoke degrading sperm RNA (which is almost certainly not required for healthy fertilisation, and rather a side-effect): IVF is a fairly disruptive and stressful procedure for cells: Among other things, it requires processing cells outside of their natural protective environment. Even though it’s a routine procedure, there’s a high failure rate (which is why multiple oocytes are collected and fertilised, and subsequently the best embryo is picked for implantation).
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No, it is taken up by the sperm and carried within it into the egg when it fertilizes it.
If it uses IPFS as a storage backend, then why is it faster to watch the video on the website then via IPFS as hobofan did? This seems to be an indication they store that data on a server all the time.
I don't think there was much they could do, it was inevitable that stuff would shift online, the economics of selling it in retail didn't add up.
I don't know if this is the case for all Maplin's but my own associations with the brand are exclusively negative, so this is one rare case of a physical shop being outdone by online stores on more far than just price and convenience.

My local Maplin opened shop around the corner from one the oldest, most well-loved independent electronics shops in the area and drove them out of business by virtue of location and size alone. They didn't even bother to undercut them, and their staff were untrained and clueless, they were just a few hundred metres closer to foot traffic and had more shelves to browse, sparing shy customers the awkwardness of having to ask for an item from the back.

I'm actually a little surprised they've done so badly when they seem to have no competition on the street and the margins must surely be enormous given their extortionate pricing.
It's worth bearing in mind that Brexit / value of £ is a handy scapegoat because it takes the heat off the board and executive team.

I worked for a company that anybody would have imagined would have suffered heavily from Brexit but it actually ended up coming out ahead because the benefit of weaker competition getting torched outweighted the negatives of lower aggregate demand.

I'm sure Brexit had an effect, but I'm equally sure it was deliberately exaggerated. I would imagine it was nearly all online competition and their failure to respond that killed them.

3 is probably simply a tacit recognition that their situation is not going to improve and that they are not a good credit risk.
3: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/18/maplin_credit_insur...

Essentially it sounds like the insurer was worried about their cashflow and decided they no longer wanted to take the risk that Maplin would be unable to pay their suppliers.
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Community college classes are a great way to satisfy that need to learn. Usually, community colleges have group keyboard classes, which are a great, cheap, and not-intense introduction to piano playing.
I’ve used TiVo’s since their Series 2 devices (started with a second-hand Sony TiVo which I replaced the HD) and have always had the lifetime subscriptions. Easily worth the cost.

However my current HD TiVo with cable card is starting to get flaky. Changeless will go black even though they should show a broadcast. Weird UI glitches. A reboot fixes it so I’m hoping it’s the cable card and not the TiVo but cable companies seem hostile to cable card users so I’m not sure how to diagnose the origin of the problem. Unless things have changed I’m not sure they’ll let me return and replace my own cable card and I’m reluctant to schedule a service call if the problem is my hardware since they’ll charge me.

Anyone with an HD TiVo experience similar behavior before and know how to resolve?
That would be great for you and me, but "normal" people don't need such things and business customers use RS[1] or Farnell. You can't maintain a retail network selling to hackers/makers.

[1] Whose physical shops inexplicably don't even open at the weekend. Grrr.
>It seems like terrorism to actually say it(...)

It is. Let's just call a spade a spade here.. that interpretation of the Second Amendment endorses and justifies domestic terrorism. "Tyranny" can mean anything from an oppressive totalitarian state to the dehumanization of modern technological society to the existence of the IRS to too many foreigners in your neighborhood - or, of course, gun control itself. Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder.
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Implied consent is not consent.
With IPFS+Filecoin and a few other parts, it
might become quite trivial to host your own
video content.

Using Filecoin means you are not hosting it yourself.
Yet there are some resources that are hard to privatise, for instance the atmosphere. Government regulation is what turns the commons (which are open to tragedy) into either tightly regulated (for example, dumping of hazardous materials) or a free market (for example, emissions trading).

Without the government interference, the market wouldn't exist. To some extent that goes all the way down to buying your groceries, because without some government, nothing would be stopping someone with a bigger gun coming in and stealing whatever groceries they want.
"Latest figures shows there were 7,545 hospital admissions in 2016/2017 for drug-related mental health and behavioural disorders, 12 per cent higher than in 2006/2007."

Why provide a stat that includes all drugs in an article about one specific drug
All fascinating, though I can't believe that we'll have devastating general famines. Agriculture is a technical problem, and the trend has been increased yields and decreasing prices, despite the many awful choices we've made at times.

Solar energy, cheap desalination and bioscience are likely to make food ever cheaper and more abundant, wouldn't you think?
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It's a frozen (or not) ice at sea, one the most remote places on Earth. How would you suggest such device to function? (Could be possibly solved, but it's surprisingly nontrivial.) South pole is at least somewhat stable; but you can buy a cruise to the North pole on an icebreaker.
I remember buying FS back in the early 80’s. It was using CGA graphics by then.
I'd forgotten all about their catalogues, I remember spending hours going through lists of components figuring out what I could build. If only I'd spent as much time on my A levels.
It hasn’t been published yet.
It comes down to pot luck and (I think) how big the parcel is. I've had a bunch of stuff "get stuck", and the admin fee alone is usually £25.

The tricks with "samples/gifts" etc. really don't work. Either someone from customs looks at it or they don't, and because a lot of relatively expensive electronics is pretty small now, if you're not sending to a business address they will pull anything that isn't paying tax.
Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff (2017)
I’m beginning to feel that any type of gentle academic evidence of flaws in a given scheme or technology in the crypto currency space is blasted as “FUD”, so

Here’s a though exercise: if all the cryptocurrency communities call out research as paid shilling FUD, are we morally obliged to exploit weaknesses and attempt to demonstrate flaws with actual real collateral damage?
I'll agree with the other post here...where is the warmth in your own comment history?
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I think the idea is that they're carried into the egg on the cell wall of the sperm?
Yes, and...? Doesn't change the fact that they're creating congestion (not only for themselves but also for other road users); plus the return trip can be expected to be "pick me up at $location at $time", which is again a scheduling problem.
Yes, and they all seem to be prime retail, it isn't cheap in the UK.
I think to stay motivated it's important to validate your believe that it's worth building. Otherwise you'll find doubt creeping in. If you're making something for other people, then you should show other people what you're making, and get them using it early on. I find there's nothing more motivating than other people being interested in what I'm doing, asking for XYZ features, and telling me what they're trying to do with it.

Also, try to work quickly towards a minimum viable product. It helps to have something to show for your effort as early as possible. Until then, all you have is your imagination, which is much easier to be sceptical of.
For #15, if the number of elements is large, the speed will be slower than we expected, since maxx function is writren in pure python.
But in my experience, it is much faster than for loop in pure python.
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That's a really brilliant idea!! It's on blockchain too? Damn! I should have thought of this before
Science is a method, it doesn't 'know' anything. Anyway, to say that there's no competition, but argue that one school of thought is 'ahead' implies a destination that both (and potentially others) are racing towards.
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> If nature could fix everything with no intervention we wouldn't need to brush our teeth either.

Well, I'm not saying nature actually can fix everything, but in case of toothbrushing, it's dependent on your diet. There are peoples knowing nothing of brushing, but they feeding themselves different than we "civilized" people are.
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Sounds like an evolutionary explanation, or part of it anyway. We produce and radiate heat that is mostly wasted, so shared bodily heat like you said does make sense from the point of view of physics. At the same time letting someone close enough to be able to mutually benefit from heat (and get cozy) is possible when there's mutual affection.
I had a conversation with a guy creating a crypto startup recently. It only took five minutes in before the thin veneer of an actual business model fell away and the real motive—free money—starting coming out.

His position, distilled: if people are stupid enough to give me money, who am I to say no?

I suggested his easy money might not be so easy if (for US investors) the SEC, FTC, CFTC, etc. crack down and claw back investor money. Maybe that's fine if you've become hugely profitable in that time, but if you haven't...
Exactly:

https://youtu.be/oYNXVgYhPOc

Listen carefully to the choice and emphasis on words.
Why can't US investors invest? :)