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by Steve44 8y ago
Having recently done this I totally agree. We kept about 20-30 books out of several hundred, the rest went to charity shops.
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This isn't destroying a book though, it's adding more life into it.
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The site https://ourworldindata.org/london-air-pollution has a chart part way down showing the suspended particulate matter (SPM) in London's air from 1700 to 2016 - basically soot. It peaked in about 1890 when GB was
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by Steve44 8y ago
I don't have sales figures but a lot of people I know who travel a lot say that, in the UK at least, the McDonalds is pretty good. It's certainly their favourite balance with price and quality, these are proper black coffee drink
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by Steve44 8y ago
Not the poster but yes, the Spectrum was at about 3.5Mhz.
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Ah OK, I hadn't appreciated that video was a remake and had assumed that they were still looking to keep a limit on loading times. Nice work, good to see these old systems still being played with and experimented on.
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by Steve44 8y ago
> If the next buffer isn’t quite ready in 1/60th of a second As a UK developer this caused a real problem writing for the US market. We'd wring the most performance we could developing on the 50Hz refresh rate we had here in
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by Steve44 8y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the rendering was even made a bit slower Trust me, everything was flat out then. I posted a link in another reply about something similar. Have a look at this flood fill, this was zipping along at ful
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by Steve44 8y ago
That is entirely dependant on the hardware. Some machines could, some couldn't, and some could but mucked it up. The Spectrum couldn't so you either wrote to the live video display or used some method of copying. The QL could in
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by Steve44 8y ago
One extreme example I remember very well is The Hobbit on the ZX Spectrum. It was an illustrated text adventure using graphics to add atmosphere and interest. I suspect they used a drawing programme with scripted commands to minimise memo
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by Steve44 8y ago
That book probably covers the operation to get fuel across the Channel for the D Day invasions. I'm fairly sure Brenzett Aeronautical Museum had a section about it along with some pipe and equipment when I went a few years ago. There
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by Steve44 8y ago
> “Must be funny in the rich man's world” I'd always taken that to be it must be odd being in a rich man's world with all that money if you're not used to it. The lifestyle, choices and pressures are so different. I
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by Steve44 8y ago
At work we've recently moved from XP to Win7 and they seem to perform about the same for heavy office use. I'm playing with a Win10 machine at home, the CPU and RAM is far in excess of our work machines but it is so slow to use.
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by Steve44 8y ago
Within the context of a game it [generally] doesn't need to be a full blown AI solution. Combining route finding, goals & priorities, situational awareness, and also adding in some flakiness so it's not perfect can give a real
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They also have a 'lively' border with Syria to add to their concerns.
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> Isn't that why security clearances exist? Clearance does not mean you can now see everything. There will be compartmentalisation and you will only see what you need to know. I remember reading about sites in WW2 where people didn
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> Blindfolds just seem unnecessarily humiliating Humiliation would be if they mocked you for being blindfolded or once you were blindfold stripped you naked and paraded you through the canteen. It's just part of the process, everyo
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by Steve44 8y ago
Search for something like "dangers of rip tide" and do some reading as it may well save your life one day.
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> But once you reach a certain age the social stigma of it will prevent you from even trying, Are you sure about that? There are a lot of people who worry about going to the gym , concerned that everyone else will be staring at them. N
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by Steve44 8y ago
I've been to see a few comedians playing small theatres whilst they are developing their acts. Sometimes you get big names who are polishing their show for an imminent TV appearance, sometime they've not been on stage for a few y
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by Steve44 8y ago
It doesn't mention it in the article but the design of Skylon is very reminiscent of the Skylon artwork installed for The Festival Of Britain in 1951. https://alondoninheritance.com/eventsandceremonies/walk-roun...
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by Steve44 8y ago
I remember getting some of those as a young kid in the mid 1970s when we were visiting something - can't remember what. I thought they were colourful and cheery and had no concept of the political message they were making.
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> I would recommend for any HN user that hasn't done it before, to go and fly a plane. 'When I were a lad' I was in the Air Training Corps had got to fly in quite a variety of military aircraft. I thoroughly enjoyed it an
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by Steve44 8y ago
In the UK you have to pay for a PRS licence and also a PPL licence. We pay about £500 a year in licencing to legally play a radio in the warehouse. https://www.gov.uk/licences-to-play-background-music > A PRS for Music
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> Obviously the overall experience on an iPhone is better than a blackberry I don't know, the iPhone has more modern apps but for typing I've not found any touch screen phone which comes close to a BlackBerry 9900 keyboard, tha
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> This from a Conservative govt. The dispute and three day week ended when they lost the election to Labour. I don't want to get too embroiled in historical politics here but reading http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday&#
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by Steve44 8y ago
Yes, I totally agree that everyone should work with the wider long term best interests at heart. This covers all sorts of areas, one I'm particularly passionate about is the disgusting states of the streets being strewn with litter.
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> From the government's own figures, a 40% reduction in working hours caused just a 4% drop in productivity. and > That lasted 2 or 3 months, It's quite possible that people 'pulled together' to get through the cri
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We don't seem to know how hard the roll-over was but we can see at least three of the doors still open. Part of that will be because they are pillar-less so less likely to jam at the top but it's still pretty impressive.
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by Steve44 8y ago
I can see for dynamic information PDF definitely has limitations but a lot of what I get from gov.uk I feel is better in PDF. The web pages are fine for navigation and overviews but for hard information I much prefer a PDF. A PDF document

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