Supernaut

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by Supernaut 3mo ago
> generally we hope vacuum tubes last for years If I may offer an anecdote, the output stage in my guitar amplifier is powered by a GEC tube that is now 55 years old. It sounds great. When I found the tube, it had been rolling around for
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
> What you’re seeing there, isn’t a giant sticker being applied. I thought it worth mentioning that stickers were in the mix too. In the town I grew up in, there was a printing company that made them for Atari. I recall being brought to
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
As objets d'art . The thinking is that owning (and crucially, displaying) vinyl records marks you out as being more discerning than the rest of the herd.
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
Further down the page, there's a link to an article from a couple of years ago, titled "Migration isn’t increasing". So which is it?
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
I've heard a lot of vox pops in recent years on the subject of why young couples where I live are not starting families, and by far the most common reason given is that the cost of living has risen to such an extent that they feel that
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
It's a shame we can't ask Genghis Khan for his thoughts on the matter.
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by Supernaut 3mo ago
> They're still free to move about the continent, make investments, do whatever Except that's not true at all, is it? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...
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by Supernaut 4mo ago
I just want to add that I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I would hate for anyone who's losing their hair to conclude that it's the end of the road for their love life. Good grooming, a good sense of humor, and most importantl
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by Supernaut 4mo ago
Good for you. I always did notice if there was a spark between me and someone I encountered. I wasn't going to act on it if I was already in a relationship, but I found it nice to feel that I had some physical appeal.
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by Supernaut 4mo ago
> baldness, and the downside of the condition for sexual attractiveness of its bearers Just a guess, and I highly doubt there are any reliable statistics on this, but perhaps balding men are less likely to be tempted to abandon their fam
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by Supernaut 5mo ago
The real question is why the Portuguese government is allowing this to happen?
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by Supernaut 5mo ago
When I read the headline, I pictured something like the flying cars from "Blade Runner". What I see in the video is a helicopter with six rotors. I get that the leap forward here is that it's battery-powered. Still, I can&#x2
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by Supernaut 6mo ago
It's amusing to see comments implying that the TB-303 is some kind of neglected classic. In reality, it can only be considered to have been forgotten for perhaps the two years after Roland ended production in 1984. "Acid Tracks&qu
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by Supernaut 6mo ago
Yes, there are many problems with the planning process, but as you conceded in another comment, the actual reason that we don't have an LNG terminal is that Eamonn Ryan nixed the possibility. As usual with the Greens, perfection was th
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Sure, I get that. I was just aiming for comic effect in pointing out that the player's initial reward for having made it through all the levels of a very difficult game is "lol, do it again". I did work my way through it a se
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Just want to say, I hadn't encountered your website before, but it's an absolute treat. I'll be working my way through your Timeline over the next while!
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Okay, that's interesting. I was in my early teens when it was released. Absolutely everyone I knew had either a Spectrum or a C64, aside from the one rich kid who owned a BBC Micro. I just had a look at Wikipedia, which says, "the
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
> excruciatingly difficult As the author of the article notes, the NES was not popular in the UK or Europe as a whole, and indeed, I've still never seen one in the flesh, so to speak. But we did have arcades in the town I grew up in
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
> It’s the same for his cars, they haven’t suddenly got worse at building them. Actually, they demonstrably have. The Cybertruck is a technical and commercial disaster. You're correct that most people don’t want to buy from someone
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
> They keep a skeleton crew office in the EU for compliance purposes only According to LinkedIn, they have over 2,000 employees in Dublin alone.
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
If "50% of all jobs will be completely eliminated in two years" comes to pass, then there will be a violent contraction, perhaps even a total collapse, of all advanced economies. In this eventuality, the venture capitalists who fu
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Those who are cold won't find their situation improved if an undetected Russian submarine sabotages the country's natural gas interconnectors.
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Nicely set out. I completely agree with you. I'm also pretty certain - and I say this both as a lover of the arts and as a taxpayer - that I will see no benefit whatsoever in my life, or to society in general, from the works produced u
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by Supernaut 7mo ago
Hmm, I'm pretty sure there was something else going on in this instance. Baseball caps are an extremely common sight in Dublin. I frequently wear one when I'm out and about here, and nobody has ever taken umbrage or passed comment
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by Supernaut 8mo ago
What do you mean, at a practical level, when you set out your "priority list" above? Are you referring to the use of congestion charges to discourage private motor vehicle use?
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by Supernaut 8mo ago
Absolutely. Our thought leaders have been pushing functional programming for a long time now.
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by Supernaut 8mo ago
Well, those are common talking points in some quarters, but I can tell you they're false, because I live in a southside suburb, the kind of place that journalists describe as "leafy". For the last couple of years, a large imm
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by Supernaut 8mo ago
> it's very important that no residents of South Dublin should be inconvenienced What's that supposed to mean?
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by Supernaut 9mo ago
> CDs are really susceptible to bitrot Define "really susceptible"? I've bought hundreds of albums on CD over the last four decades, and only one of them has ever gone bad on me. The first CD I ever purchased, manufactured
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by Supernaut 9mo ago
> Was there more money to spend? In California, there certainly was. The US economy had already started its decline, but from such a high that well-to-do Americans hadn't noticed. By contrast, because Europe had had to be rebuilt af

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