Gordonjcp

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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes. "Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Patty pan squash grows like crazy in most of the UK. If you live near a farm with cows or horses, get yourself as much manure as you can lay your hands on and dig it in well, and you will be eating the damn things until you're sick of
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins. Why would that be difficult?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I love services like that. I love entering data into them! In fact, I love it so much that I wrote some scripts to do just that...
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Stuff like 6502s and Z80s are a bit like little single-cylinder engines - the world will move onto all sorts of interesting new places, but something somewhere will always be powered by a wee Briggs & Stratton that starts first pull of
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter? It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I've found them to be rock solid stable, and of course unlike AMD they are accelerated. NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide compute acceleration in Linux.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as rude as it sounds. Its primary function in
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> a cohesive desktop OS What would that look like, then?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> some prolific volunteer commenting on a bug report there speaks in a manner that comes off as brusque or dismissive Maybe they are being brusque and dismissive. Maybe they're allowed to. I know I use a somewhat different tone when
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
My toddler runs https://rangerovers.pub and it mostly holds up okay. He's not great at yaml because he can't really read so the significant whitespace is a problem, but he knows how to run the backups and ensure the ma
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The thing you have linked to is correct, but you're reading it wrong. VHS has 240 *horizontal* lines of resolution, meaning that a grid comprising 240 alternating *vertical* black and white stripes ought to be resolvable as a bare mini
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> Modern music is less harmonically complex than even early Beatles, who used more chords (and more chord progressions) than are used today. Music today is highly repetitive. The Beatles used three chord progressions for everything with
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Isn't there? What would you call a bitmapped interactive display?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
VHS is about 240 lines horizontal resolution and 40-50 lines chroma resolution. Even at 1440p the video has massive MPEG blocking, it's been heavily compressed after being captured off tape. VHS has not got MPEG-like compression. http
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Mostly this article seems to be whining about Go's file handling being more based around Unix-y stuff, and not really being suitable for Windows file systems. So what? If you don't use it as intended, it might not do what you want
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> The result? Nothing has changed, there is still the same amount of health problems in Scotland caused by alcohol. Actually, no. The price of alcoholic drinks that you and I would buy hasn't changed a bit. Pub prices haven't c
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
xneko was better, replaced by oneko.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It's a shame the first youtube link is so overcompressed because it's clearly been from very clean VHS, and absolutely destroyed when it was encoded.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The 6507 is just a cut-down 6502 without all the address pins broken out. You could fit a 40-pin chip on an adaptor board hovering above the PCB on an Atari 2600, for example. You may need to do some Grievous Bodily Metalwork to make the sc
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The WDC 65C02 is a current product which you can buy for a couple of dollars direct from the foundry. Most of the TTL stuff is current manufacture, although you may need to adjust passive components used around "straight" TTL if y
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
And just you wait until the author of the article tries to work out why the wire isn't straight across but has a bend in it when the painting is hanging on a hook. The tension on cable strung between two points is a function of the wei
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Can we just have a moment of appreciation for how clean that site was 14 years ago? No interstitials, no modal "SIGN UP FOR CONTENT! (YES PLEASE/MAYBE LATER)" popup, just simple text.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It's practically free at that price, and given that it's more-or-less a "Dude In A Shed" project it's hard to begrudge the money. If you think 60 bucks for a professional non-subscription heavy-duty media tool is go
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Does this still work? I mean, can we actually get it looked over and make sure it's not going to turn everything into a screaming botnet, and fire it up? While I applaud the idea of decentralising Internetty stuff, there are all these
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> How did it compare with Slackware? Or Yggradsil [7] or SLS [8] if you happened to have used those? I can't remember what it was like running Ubuntu 12 and that was only ten years ago, Lasermoon was 30... Everything was command-lin
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Second distro I ever used, the first being Lasermoon. Prior to that, I used something that was a Linux 0.9 kernel and a bunch of disk images FTPed from some dude's server in Finland. Back in the olden days it ran just fine on a Compaq
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> One of the few books I deeply regret buying. For me it was Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, and I begrudged every single penny of the 50 pence I paid for it in the Oxfam bookshop on Byres Road. It's the only book I've ever intentio
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
The house was a design for a "planned eco-village" called Willowater in the 1970s, way ahead of its time. I'd love to build a house like that, not least because I hate plastering corners.

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