Starwatcher2001

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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Peripheral vision (or averted vision as it's usually called) is useful to master in astronomy, often used when looking at feint defuse objects like galaxies through a telescope. As you say, the rods at in peripheral part of the eye are
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by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
You might find this talk by Paul Reading interesting. Paul is a consultant neurologist who specialises in sleep disorders, and who is a past president of the British Sleep Society. Don't let the amateur video editing put you off, the c
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by Starwatcher2001 9y ago
Love it. It's stuff like this that got me interested in science. I remember seeing the same thing (larger object through a smaller hole) demonstrated on "How" in the 1970s, which was a TV show with a quirky mixture of science
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by Starwatcher2001 9y ago
That's a helpful post. We do a similar thing in scuba diving: run through a checklist and then do "one final check" to make sure there's nothing obviously out of place. Changing your mindset is another good piece of advi
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by Starwatcher2001 9y ago
This is mentioned in the release notes: "AMD VP9 hardware video decoder support for improved video playback with lower power consumption"
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by Starwatcher2001 9y ago
I think not. Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. [1] Atheism: Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. [2] [1] https://en.oxforddictionarie
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by Starwatcher2001 9y ago
TRS-80 Model 1, Level II. Taught myself BASIC then assembler. Hacked the electronics to provide lowercase and inverse screen. A few years later I interfaced it to an Amstrad CPC464 via the parallel port so I could store amstrad programs on
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
"The plasticity changes as we get older, but the human brains does not lose the ability to learn things, counter intuitive or not." Perhaps not lose entirely, but certainly age can dramatically reduce the ability to learn certain
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I used a similar hack to persuade an Epson MX80 printer to produce slashed zeros by sending '0', <backspace> '/'.
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Does the Kobo have bluetooth? I bought this keyboard around 8 months ago and the internal batteries last weeks between charges. https://www.amazon.co.uk/IVSO-Lenovo-YOGA-10-1-Inch-Keyboard...
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I do similar, bed around 10pm and sleep until I wake naturally. I have my watch alarm set for 7:30am (just in case), but haven't needed it for months. I just wake up when my body is ready, usually around 5:30am. Not having an alarm jol
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Really? Do you have a reference for this?
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
In the UK, we have the right to remain silent when questioned by a police officer. But in 1994, the wording was changed to include: "You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned s
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
My story is pretty similar and I agree with your comments. If I had to sum it up as "the one most important thing", it would probably be "curiosity".
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I recall using Archie, Wais and Gopher under MSDOS using clients pulled from FTP sites. Although useful, it wasn't until I discovered usenet that the world really opened up for me.
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I tend to be discrete when discussing any medical issues with my doctor or pharmasist as it's no business of anyone elses. Why should any online conversations I have be any different? I don't want third parties listening in and sw
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I'm 57. I've been programming since I was 19 and I'm successful. Never made pots of money, but it's kept me in comfort. Success for me is having a lovely wife, great kids, roof over our heads, food in our tums, enjoying
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I use simple text files, one per project, and UltraEdit (with tabs set to 2 spaces for brevity as I go up and down my stack). UE allows lines to be bookmarked, which works nicely for highlighting "to do" stuff. What is missing is
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I've been keeping one since 4th Feb 2008. It's simply a Word document stored on an encrypted drive. Currently 153 pages, with my last entry 5 days ago. It's intended for my eyes only. I record my moods, personal battles, heal
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
I do mind mapping extensively, both on paper, and using Mindjet's "mind manager". I use mind mapping to brain dump everything relevant about a project. The free-form approach helps me get stuff down in whatever order my brain
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
That's pretty much what I do, except using UltraEdit as the editor. Virtually everything I've needed to make notes on over the last 22 years are in a folder hierarchy of flat text files. Over the years I've tried HTML, DOC, W
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Nice one for offering her help. I was taught to ask if the person would like "a sighted guide", and if they respond positively to follow up with "would you like me on your left or right side?"
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Not coming out as transgender through fear about what other people might think. Getting involved with religion. Sticking with comfortable old technologies for too long (VB6) before moving on. Not cracking procrastination.
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
You could have then gone to the duty free shop and purchased two glass bottles of vodka. Smashed together they would likely make much better weapons.
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Haha... I took up scuba diving after astronomy too. Maybe there's something similar in wanting to see stuff for yourself, rather than television or photos. Coolest thing I saw was a star disappear for a few seconds as it was occulted
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
"Even with a telescope your human eyes are limited to planets and the moon, that's it." Andromeda, M42, star clusters, can all be seen with the naked eye, but only from a dark location, and unfortunately not in most cities. I
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by Starwatcher2001 10y ago
Stepping to the side isn't practical when you've paid money for a seat to see a band, and can't actually see for the sea of cameras and phones.
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by Starwatcher2001 11y ago
As gh02t says, this sounds very much like synesthesia, which my wife also has. Her colours differ to yours, she sees Tuesday as blue. May I ask if it causes you problems reading, particularly coloured lettering? Words written in colours are
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by Starwatcher2001 11y ago
"I'm sorry sir, the system shows you were driving 2mph over the limit when that drunk driver wrecklessly hit you, therefore you're partially to blame and we won't be paying out the full amount..."
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by Starwatcher2001 11y ago
I built a nine inch "Dobsonion" type scope many years ago, whch incorporated many of his ideas, and have spent countless hundreds of hours since observing the heavens and the amazing objects that can be seen from my own back garde

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