VSpike

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by VSpike 3mo ago
I've always loved The World Tonight. I often listen to it the next day, since it's less driven by drama than the morning news programmes. It has a sober and considered tone combined with a more global outlook, which means it often
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by VSpike 7mo ago
Site seems to be down, but here's the most recent snapshot https://web.archive.org/web/20260210041538/https://blog.tyne...
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by VSpike 8mo ago
I was surprised not to see Arthur T Murray in this list, as he was frequently seen in the newsgroups I used to read. https://www.nothingisreal.com/mentifex_faq.html
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by VSpike 3y ago
Hah, yeah I was completely wrong on that! Should have fact checked myself. That's a falsehood I absorbed at some point and didn't question.
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by VSpike 3y ago
I definitely think if you want to use `cat` then just go ahead, it's fine. Sometimes these things are a power play, a way to distinguish between people who know the social codes and those who don't. In this case, it probably had a
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by VSpike 3y ago
I had a couple of Sirius (AKA Victor) machines that were cast offs from my father's office given to me to play with. The first one was twin floppy, and the second had a 5MB hard drive. When I got the second one I think the first one go
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by VSpike 3y ago
> All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes. I was at Google Cloud Next London yesterday and I hate to disappoint you but _everything_ seemed to be about AI. The keynote was about A
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by VSpike 3y ago
A business advertising a potentially harmful product in a way that contravenes the rules.
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by VSpike 4y ago
I was at school in the 80s and 90s in the UK and this brings back very fond memories of a highly eccentric Latin teacher I had, who mastered this technique and used it frequently. The other memorable thing about him was how he'd tell u
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by VSpike 4y ago
I've noticed that the offline experience on Spotify is utterly broken and has been for a while. I remember it being quite good when I first started using it, but it just seems to have got worse to the point of being unusable. I figured
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by VSpike 4y ago
The "why" here ... or at least the reason for me to flash my Chromebook BIOS and install Gallium ... was because my Chromebook went EoL by Google and I wanted to see if I can keep it going for a while. Gallium is an amazing piece
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by VSpike 5y ago
Much more detail here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60864283 The BBC claims that the 16yo was doxxed by others in his group after falling out with them. They also say that security researchers have been trackin
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by VSpike 5y ago
I was talking to a friend recently about the hours spent playing these games, and how we'd tape or glue pieces of graph paper together to make large hand-drawn maps of the games. I wish I still had those! I have so much love for those
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by VSpike 8y ago
TIL that in the US you use a different octane rating to the UK (and Europe generally). We use RON, while you use an average of RON and MON (called PON or AKI). Our baseline fuel here is called "Premium Unleaded", despite it being
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by VSpike 8y ago
It makes me wonder what other legacy telecom systems are still in use somewhere. Are there any public X25 networks still in use? What about telex? Telex over HF? Inmarsat C? Any X400 gateways still running? Can you still send a UUCP mail? T
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by VSpike 8y ago
Ever since somebody told me the joke, I can't help thinking of it as "disk destroyer". It's a much more appropriate name.
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by VSpike 8y ago
Missing RiscOS! It would be fun to see some obscure old ones there like Flex and Uniflex too, but then you'd have to add all the DOSs and CP/M as well.
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by VSpike 9y ago
My Greek colleagues say the same about Greece, and having visited our Athens office a few times, I agree with them! Greek olive oil, cheese, and wine easily rival anything from Italy, but people (in the UK at least) tend to know the big Ita
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by VSpike 9y ago
I forgot about that. Try https://web.archive.org/web/20171114181219/https://www.jwz.o...
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by VSpike 9y ago
I wonder if this is another validation of the "worse is better" philosophy as described recently in an HN article http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/009935.html and also discussed at ht
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by VSpike 9y ago
I have a friend who uses `tac | tac` in pipelines to make the pipeline wait for all the data before continuing, which is an interesting hack.
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by VSpike 9y ago
A fascinating article. There are similar parallels with the smugglers and poachers of my area of the UK - rural Dorset. Characters like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Gulliver managed to become respectable, but at
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by VSpike 9y ago
Even though I think this was video trickery mostly, I often wonder if the later experiments with computer controlled instruments were partly inspired by this Monkey Drummer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q
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After the dust settles – Imagery analysis of the Afghan MOAB strike location(stories.alcis.org)
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by VSpike 9y ago
A friend of mine swears by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
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by VSpike 9y ago
One thing the aggregators do well is offer a consistent and more flexible search than the airlines' own sites which are often pretty terrible. For example, I live within 2 hours of about 5 airports, and when flying within Europe there
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by VSpike 10y ago
Also my first computer. Definitely a gateway drug. I was lucky enough to have a 16k RAM pack (held on with blutac). Later we had a series ZX Spectrums, the Acorn Archimedes A440, then an Acorn RISC PC. After that, boring x86 only :/
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by VSpike 10y ago
I may not be able to go with a Linux system at all since company policy is Mac only, but if I ever do manage to do it, I know that they will want me to use (1) not a Mac and (2) not old hardware. Kind of a shame since my research suggested
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by VSpike 10y ago
My boss seems unusually sensitive to high-frequency noise, and said if I got a Dell laptop for work he'd refuse to sit next to me (which would be a bad thing because I like him!) I'd not heard of the "coil whine" or &quo
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by VSpike 10y ago
I live near Salisbury and it's amazing how many locals don't know about this clock. The Cathedral is well worth a visit for many reasons, but this alone is a pretty good one.

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