Pixelbrick

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by Pixelbrick 6mo ago
I'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)
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by Pixelbrick 6mo ago
I used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.
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by Pixelbrick 7mo ago
I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.
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by Pixelbrick 9mo ago
Isn't that what parallel construction is for?
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by Pixelbrick 11mo ago
Can't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.
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by Pixelbrick 1y ago
Banana!
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by Pixelbrick 1y ago
Too right. Never trust someone who thinks they have all the answers.
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by Pixelbrick 1y ago
Dirty money for dirty deeds...
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by Pixelbrick 2y ago
You've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.
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by Pixelbrick 2y ago
As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(
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by Pixelbrick 2y ago
Inspiration for Bruce Sterling's short 'Jim & Irene!'
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
If you enjoy the 'cute bugs doing science' SF subgenre then his incandescence is definitely worth a look. https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/Incandescence.html
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
Awesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
The same way it used to be done before we had LSI/VLSI!
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
Another one from the Center for the study of the Blindingly Obvious.
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
There's also the superfo harlequin that disintegrates the ULA into 74 series logic: https://www.bytedelight.com/?product_cat=harlequin128 I'm currently building the 48k version
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by Pixelbrick 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230607012046/https://nautil.us...
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
Take another look at the spec, looks like it has the dual core PRUs, an R5 & the A4 - whoops M4
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
Thanks OP! That was a lovely writeup.
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
+1 Measure the voltages on the connector. There's a pinout diagram further down on this page: https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-... I've seen a bad power supply kill one of the two C
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
Better they keep a cadre of smart people who can do this stuff than lose the institutional knowledge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
A concise treatment of all of metaphysics... :)
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
Well this is a pretty big deal if it works. Ischemic injury being the thing that actually kills alot of trauma patients.
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
Replacing electrolytics that'd gone bad was my entry point to electrical engineering.
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by Pixelbrick 4y ago
I think 2C-B varies in its effects from person to person a bit more than some of the others. What you describe sounds like what's happened to me when I've pushed the dose a bit high. I've friends who swear by taking it when c
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by Pixelbrick 5y ago
Well said. Also fair play to you for being prepared to openly identify as who you are, in a part of the world where it's not necessarily as easy to do so as it is for many of us.
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by Pixelbrick 5y ago
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06232003
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by Pixelbrick 5y ago
Great write up - thanks OP, I'd not seen a hybrid torn down like that before.
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by Pixelbrick 5y ago
This will come as no surprise to FE/HE lecturers the world over...
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by Pixelbrick 5y ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1732/

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