Ian Craggs
@icraggs.modelbasedtesting.co.uk
Eclipse Paho lead & C maintainer. OASIS open #MQTT-SN chair. Eclipse Sparkplug.
Blog: https://modelbasedtesting.co.uk/
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Blog: https://modelbasedtesting.co.uk/
Github: https://github.com/icraggs
Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@icraggs
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
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Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Smol in space and in time :-) One orbit of the sun around the galactic centre takes 225 million years (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galacti...). 225 million years ago was bang in the middle of the Triassic, with all the land mass gathered into one continent, Pangea (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic).
Galactic year - Wikipedia
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October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Smol in space and in time :-) One orbit of the sun around the galactic centre takes 225 million years (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galacti...). 225 million years ago was bang in the middle of the Triassic, with all the land mass gathered into one continent, Pangea (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic).
I don't know if you've seen this already but there's a good diagram here: "Where are Earth and the Sun located in the Milky Way?" | BBC Sky at Night Magazine share.google/HIONODvYE6Rb...
Where are Earth and the Sun located in the Milky Way? | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Where is Earth in the Milky Way? It turns out that far from being the centre of the Universe, our planet is in one arm of an average galaxy.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I don't know if you've seen this already but there's a good diagram here: "Where are Earth and the Sun located in the Milky Way?" | BBC Sky at Night Magazine share.google/HIONODvYE6Rb...
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At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.
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Been bad for a long time now (e.g. Redcar Borough Council), really recommend reading Kevin Beaumont on this: doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...
The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…
Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…
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September 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Been bad for a long time now (e.g. Redcar Borough Council), really recommend reading Kevin Beaumont on this: doublepulsar.com/the-elephant...
I saw an article written soon after they were introduced which gave the impression of wanting to find universal opposition. The conclusion hidden away at the bottom, was that people were in favour of them where they lived, but not where other people lived.
July 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I saw an article written soon after they were introduced which gave the impression of wanting to find universal opposition. The conclusion hidden away at the bottom, was that people were in favour of them where they lived, but not where other people lived.
Our biggest remaining natural resources are wind and tidal power. Economic nationalism would point to using those, surely. Why not use Quebec as an example rather than Texas, which has over 90% of its electricity generated by hydropower?
July 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our biggest remaining natural resources are wind and tidal power. Economic nationalism would point to using those, surely. Why not use Quebec as an example rather than Texas, which has over 90% of its electricity generated by hydropower?