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by Steve44 8y ago
In addition to this core RAM there was Core Rope Memory[1] which was used as the ROM for the Apollo Guidance computer amongst others. The cores were hand woven to program in the binary, a core could be wired to produce a 0 or 1 and any cha
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by Steve44 8y ago
Interesting idea but there is no way you could get worldwide manufacturing to have a fixed colour scheme for products. Having said that, never say never…..
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by Steve44 8y ago
In your compost heap a plastic fork isn’t going to make much difference. In commercial composting, where it is sold on to farmers etc., I’m fairly sure there will be a specification as it’ll need to run through their spraying systems and a
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by Steve44 8y ago
AFAIK cellulose, for food packaging, is only available as a clear film and not as a firm rigid plastic. I also don’t think cellulose can be recycled so the end of life is either landfill or composting. It’s also not as functional as OPP fi
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by Steve44 8y ago
> Decomposable plastics are not new and they’re perfectly usable for “throwaway” containers. I’ve always wondered why they’re not more commonly used in these cases. There are basically two types of "compostable" [1] plastic. O
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by Steve44 8y ago
> and we did destroy all the habitats in the process. The deforestation of the UK is a lot older than I think many people realise. I used to have a really good link but can’t locate it now, https://treesforlife.org.uk/fo
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by Steve44 8y ago
Lots of people don't like fizzy water, I love it though. I find it has a really lovely taste and mouth-feel. I’ve never really been a soda drinker not do I have a sweet tooth so perhaps that is an element with it. I find waters have
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by Steve44 8y ago
The Royal Institution in London has some lovely glass objects in its basement museum. Many are originals, made onsite, and as used by scientists such as Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday. https://www.rigb.org/visit-us/
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by Steve44 8y ago
There are reports that this aircraft was trailing smoke and making unusual noises before it crashed. From my understanding of the earlier crash it was a combination of the pilot fighting an auto-trimming system and I'm not aware that w
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by Steve44 8y ago
A related one is to add a second section to the question asking how much extra rope would be needed to go round a tennis ball the same 1ft further out from the ball. For someone who doesn’t know, or hasn’t calculated/thought about it t
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by Steve44 8y ago
> "coffin corner" I watched a TV programme a couple of years ago talking about this on the U2 as the speeds were only a few knots apart and also varied with altitude and other factors. The image at https://i.stack.im
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by Steve44 8y ago
I'd say they have the same amount of time, the difference is how they choose to use it. Going away for a weekend is great use of their time if they enjoy it and also get a benefit (both physically and mentally) out of it. Doing the s
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by Steve44 8y ago
From memory the IX and IY instructions took a lot of clock cycles and I avoided them unless there was a really good reason to use them. I've just had a quick look at an instruction cycle table and it seems that without indexing they to
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by Steve44 8y ago
I learned Z80 through the Sinclair stable but did play around with the 6502 and found I much preferred the Z80 way of working. One notable thing here is they are writing a code generator and not actually programming in assembly. As a resul
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by Steve44 8y ago
> instead chooses to focus on the end result, his success as an adult. Most people have been through various levels of shit[0] through their lives. I believe one should acknowledge your problems but certainly not dwell on them and shou
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by Steve44 8y ago
There is now quite a range of low/zero alcohol beers and they are getting more drinkable. Some of them can be fairly nice is small quantities but they all lack the depth of a good beer. I had an interesting one brewed with Kombucha r
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by Steve44 8y ago
One aspect which is often not considered with alcohol is that it’s one of the few drugs where you’re not just taking it to experience its affect – to get drunk. There are so many fantastically variable tastes and mouth feels with drinks t
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by Steve44 8y ago
In addition to the concrete sound mirrors there was a lot of development work done pre radar. I'm sure I've seen the Observer Corps using them south of London in WW2 to help track incoming aircraft but can't find anything spe
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by Steve44 8y ago
Be aware that the clothing isn't made of bamboo fibres in the way someone would expect, especially based on how it's advertised. They are generally Viscose rayon but use bamboo as the cellulose source rather than wood. I think se
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by Steve44 8y ago
No, it's an additional perspective hence I said "the capital cities in particular attract a large diversity of population".
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by Steve44 8y ago
The accounting software we use has a built in calculator which has a similar problem. 5.55 * 1.5 = 8.3249999999999.... 26.93 * 3 = 80.7899999999999.... I raised it with the supplier some time ago, they said it's just the calculator app
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by Steve44 8y ago
> The percentage of foreign-born people living in the United States is the highest it's been in nearly a century. I think this is happening in a lot of countries, the capital cities in particular attract a large diversity of populat
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by Steve44 8y ago
When I stopped programming I moved more into technical testing and that morphed into 'project guru' on some quite large projects. I could understand from low level network protocols up to the big fluffy clouds, I could also pick
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by Steve44 8y ago
I used to be a games programmer, not an artist, but have always created mental models to help problem solving.
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by Steve44 8y ago
A little while ago I watched a series called The Brain with David Eagleman and one thing that really stuck with me was how the eyes and brain interact. The eyes are not connected straight to the main brain, they feed into a 'frame buff
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by Steve44 8y ago
> as soon as I become aware, they fade almost instantly I have this too. I feel that, for example, if I visualise a room of people I know but when I actually go and look at any detail then the situation goes. My hypothesis is that my im
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by Steve44 8y ago
The ending seems to have been missed off most quotes, it appears to have been "A computer on every desk and in every home running Microsoft software".
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by Steve44 8y ago
A little while ago I read that various historical records indicated that we would naturally sleep in two sessions overnight. This was changed by a combination of artificial light and also the industrial revolution giving us more regimented
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by Steve44 8y ago
> I've always said to insomniacs that they should read textbooks. I'm not a good sleeper and quite like reading. If I'm in a state where I'm very tired but also having trouble getting off to sleep then I'm gener
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by Steve44 8y ago
Many years ago when you could visit Dounreay nuclear power station I remember leaning they used liquid sodium as the main coolant. It was used to transfer heat our of the reactor from what I recall.

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