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by jsvaughan 4mo ago
might be worth trying a cheap solder sucker pen if you havent (the mechanical recoil type), significantly better than nothing
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by jsvaughan 1y ago
We've got 3x spectrums, two 48k rubber key ones and a plus2. we've even got such random things as a Trickstick :)( https://worldofspectrum.org/hardware/feat4.html ). I got them out of the loft the other day
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by jsvaughan 1y ago
Can highly recommend orienteering racing if this seems like your kind of thing
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by jsvaughan 2y ago
You could perhaps make it play a subtle background sound like the noise WOPR makes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vWTzs_bp4
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by jsvaughan 2y ago
Good book on this and similar subjects - Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Ballistics-Cannon
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China's BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jsvaughan 3y ago|0 comments
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Optimus Gen 2 (Tesla Robot) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jsvaughan 3y ago|0 comments
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by jsvaughan 3y ago
Another private collection, more mainframes and supercomputers, in the UK that I found out about recently https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/
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The Computer Sheds(computermuseum.org.uk)
1 points by jsvaughan 3y ago|0 comments
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
This is not a question of someone being 10x what you are. In our industry there are plenty of very weak developers, I bet you have worked with someone who is 0.1x of someone reasonably good, even someone who makes a net negative contributio
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
Great post, I hadn't seen this before
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
This is the critical point to make. Paste a few long texts into the boxes and the url goes into the hundreds of thousands of characters long, whereas this says that anything more than about 2000 chars puts you into uncertain territory: ht
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
I owe my career to this book. I learnt binary from page 93 when I was about 8 years old so I could draw custom graphics on the screen (an airplane that i could fly around)
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
Does anyone know whether we will see an immediate jump in transactions per second due to this?
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by jsvaughan 4y ago
this is it. also needs emphasis on getting a clean tea towel or equivalent out of the drawer, do not be tempted to use anything else.
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Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on(arstechnica.com)
28 points by jsvaughan 4y ago|9 comments
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Are large language models a good model of *human* language?(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by jsvaughan 4y ago|0 comments
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The Selfish Meme: A Simulation Theory of Everything(muellerberndt.medium.com)
6 points by jsvaughan 4y ago|0 comments
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VHS tapes sent to the South Pacific – how football's data boom began(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by jsvaughan 4y ago|0 comments
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by jsvaughan 5y ago
Have a look at the sales (lower down the page) of say these: https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks lowest price available $386k(!) or more detail on artblocks: https://www.nft-stats.com/collection/art-b
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My data is bigger than your data(lintool.github.io)
3 points by jsvaughan 6y ago|0 comments
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The water-saving device wasting billions of litres every week(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jsvaughan 6y ago|2 comments
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by jsvaughan 7y ago
Mocha | London + NYC | REMOTE We are a small company expanding our team that are developing a privacy centric commerce and ad platform, all remote working. Various roles to fill, but aiming to keep the team small and find people with a good
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Riemann Series Theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jsvaughan 8y ago|0 comments
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by jsvaughan 8y ago
Some info about the CM-1 and 2 here: http://www.tamikothiel.com/cm/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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by jsvaughan 9y ago
the wikipedia page for early world maps is worth a look, it shows how they improved over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps I was struck by how much more accurate the linked one is than the c1300
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by jsvaughan 9y ago
You could try the Aston Martin Bulldog, http://astonmartins.com/car/bulldog/
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US billionaire helped to back Brexit(theguardian.com)
203 points by jsvaughan 10y ago|135 comments
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by jsvaughan 10y ago
I've bought logos and some other design stuff on Fiverr - have had mixed results, occasional good stuff. I've also hired a couple of people to do work through Upwork (when it was oDesk) - I did have some good work done but I was n
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by jsvaughan 10y ago
Ah, brings back memories of Metacrawler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler ), which was once, pre-Google, my first choice of search engine.

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