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by forinti 3y ago
That's it then. I was missing the sync pin. Thank you.
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by forinti 3y ago
I've been looking for a detailed explanation on this, because I would like to know how they read the PC. The New Advanced User's Manual describes the flag at &FE34 on the Master and B+ and I've read this thing about using
633.
by forinti 3y ago
I read the book a long long time ago (highly recommend it) and only now, watching the video, recognized Stoll as the Klein Bottle guy.
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by forinti 3y ago
People should first try the simplest most obvious solution just to have a baseline before they jump into the fancy solutions.
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by forinti 3y ago
Having read Nick Wallis' excellent book on this matter, I think that, although the PO and Fujitsu acted in a despicable and criminal manner, the institution that really failed was British Justice. People were sent to jail on the basis
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by forinti 3y ago
It might be too soon to tell. We might start creating them ourselves.
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by forinti 3y ago
Life is a great entropy accelerator.
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by forinti 3y ago
The Sun outputs 3.9 x 10^26W, but it weighs ~10^30kg, so that would mean 10^-4W/kg. Human beings are closer to 1W/kg at rest.
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by forinti 3y ago
In the 1980s a friend of mine had a German radio which had a larger array of frequencies than that available in my country. It allowed us to listen to the police. Curious, but not interesting. In the 90s my brother had a portable TV/Ra
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by forinti 3y ago
Maintenance of 20k POSs might be a pain, but writing the software is not that hard, especially if your budget is in the billion ballpark.
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by forinti 3y ago
It seems to me that the Horizon system is just a simple accounting/POS thing. I can't understand how it could be built so shoddily. It doesn't even have that many clients: there are less than 12k post offices in the UK.
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by forinti 3y ago
I manage a small (understaffed) team and we managed wonders during the pandemic. Other teams in our company also kept producing like crazy. Now that we are forced back into the office, morale is crashing.
643.
by forinti 3y ago
Basic was actually a 16KB ROM. MOS occupied another 16KB ROM.
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by forinti 3y ago
You wouldn't believe what an issue this can turn into. Some parents will fight for their kid's right to use cellphones.
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by forinti 3y ago
I wonder if you could provoke the doubling bug until you got to a ridiculous amount or an overflow that would be just too ridiculous to not be considered a bug. If a post office owed a billion pounds then that would be impossible to blame o
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by forinti 3y ago
The judge should have asked for an accountant to review the books. Surely the system must be able to spit out what services and products were sold and how much they would be worth.
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by forinti 3y ago
I don't think you know rudeness until you've had to deal with Portuguese bureaucracy. It's so blunt it actually makes me laugh.
648.
by forinti 3y ago
I'm just speculating here, but in a normal database you would have different processes writing the wal files to the database or archives. You don't have that with sqlite, so I don't see an obvious advantage for this, except i
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by forinti 3y ago
I really don't have enough numbers to single out a cause, but I have the feeling there isn't a single cause. Even if more housing were built, the job market was never really that good in Portugal, compared to central Europe. I wou
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by forinti 3y ago
It's not only that, many Europeans have houses in Portugal. Some have summer houses, others retire to a better climate. Many well-off South Americans move or retire in Portugal too, because of climate and safety. I guess it adds up. I
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by forinti 3y ago
And judges sent people to jail based on that. They should all lose their positions.
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by forinti 3y ago
Fun fact: in Brazil they are called Pará nuts. Pará is a state, but the largest producer is the Amapá state.
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by forinti 3y ago
Surely they could have checked the accounting and then verified what products and services were sold and what the total owed should have been. If there were duplicated entries, they would have stuck out like a sore thumb. So even before the
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by forinti 3y ago
One has to wonder how bad the justice system has to be if a trial is unable to surface the truth in this rather trivial case. And it failed multiple times.
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by forinti 3y ago
So if you show your fist to a child or to Mike Tyson it's the same threat?
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by forinti 3y ago
In Brazil a lot of shops closed during the pandemic and it seems like they continue to close, although slower. Some of the smaller malls in my state are nearly empty. The larger chains consolidated inside the bigger malls, even closing stre
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by forinti 3y ago
It's a shame about the difficulty in using the cassette interface. Maybe they should have just added a button to dump all the memory to tape. Even at 300 bauds it would take seconds.
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by forinti 3y ago
> It could end up akin to classical music, contemporary art, and literary fiction — important for a few in the upper crust, marginal to the lives of the majority of the public. Most journalism nowadays is like pop music: it does not real
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by forinti 3y ago
I've seen some weird sentences in the French course. I have the impression they were written by a French speaker who needs to improve their English a bit.
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by forinti 3y ago
It all depends on one's expectations. I have no expectation of speaking a new language correctly or with a decent accent (I'm probably too old). I've being using Duolingo for some time and I complement it with Youtube videos

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