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by hazeii 6y ago
Max Headroom, 1987 [0]:- Edison Carter checks out the cops busting into some girl's apartment. He and his colleague want to know the score, and the cop pulls back a cushion showing how she's hotwired her TV:- Janie Crane: "An
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by hazeii 6y ago
I'd add the "Rambo" cache to that list.
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by hazeii 6y ago
As Harry Truman said [0], "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit". [0] https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/harry_s_truman_109615
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by hazeii 6y ago
One thing about old computers is how hackable the hardware is. On old PCs, things like parallel ports, serial ports, joysticks and so on are trivially easy to interface to and have great performance. Even further back, generating and meas
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UK police warn students to avoid science website(bbc.co.uk)
128 points by hazeii 6y ago|68 comments
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by hazeii 6y ago
A couple of years ago I got to push some trapped ion's around in the quantum computer under development at the University of Sussex [0]. Very cool, seeing the glowing ions on a monitor and moving them in 1-micron steps via the cursor k
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by hazeii 6y ago
Hi! Those meets were great fun (though one or two did get a bit out of hand :) ) Just logged and checked, your account is still active on Shades. Quite a few of the old names log in from time to time, maybe we'll have to organise a vir
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by hazeii 6y ago
Way back in the day (1985) I was figuring out how to do timeslicing on a 4MHz Z80, and once I had it working on multiple terminals I slung a simple MUD on it (Shades). Connecting it to a couple of modems (this was the days when BB's we
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by hazeii 6y ago
Engines are separate from the airframe; on big commercial aircraft the engines get swapped/moved around all the time (the engines may well be on lease, separate to the lease on the airframe). Thus, in this sort of situation it's t
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by hazeii 6y ago
They normally have high-speed cameras running; that short video is a mish-mash of super-slow-mo and regular speed footage. There are much longer versions on YT, e.g. this one [0] which covers it in more detail (watch the people in the room
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by hazeii 6y ago
Plenty of youtube videos of a blade-off test - here's a short one [0] of an A380 Rolls Royce engine testing. That's about £9,000,000 of engine being destroyed in this (successful) test. [0] https://www.youtube.com/
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by hazeii 6y ago
As ever, more detail and clear explanations on pprune[0]. As one commenter put it, to an ER doctor this is a shallow wound with lots of blood. [0] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/638797-united-b777-uncon...
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by hazeii 6y ago
I thought it was 'confined' if the containment ring did its job? If it had failed (like not supposed to) it would have been a whole lot worse.
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by hazeii 6y ago
Or indeed if rewriting a block of code: #if 1 ....new code... #else ....old code... #endif Esp. for tricky stuff, it's then possible to just flip the 1/0 to easily test/compare/profile the new/old
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by hazeii 6y ago
And it was probably an E3 (Uk/Europe is E1/E3, US/JP is T1/T3)
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by hazeii 6y ago
Managed to score a lot of points once by having a columnar display collapse itself with smooth scroll to make space for additional info beneath it (define a scroll region over the centre part of the display, cursor position to the bottom
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by hazeii 6y ago
The first place I worked, the grunts got teletypes but the boss had an ADM-3A. Later on, I used a lot of different VT100 compatibles, plus genuine VT100s/VT10xs and (on occasion) ADM-3As. All connected to PDP11's of one sort or an
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by hazeii 6y ago
D == T maximises the area, and note it's not linear. If you've got 12 units to split between D and T, total return is:- 1D 11 2D 20 3D 27 4D 32 5D 35 6D 36 So inefficient to be at the smidgen end on either axis, b
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by hazeii 6y ago
Planck's Principle: "Science advances one funeral at a time" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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by hazeii 6y ago
The Polar HRM's have always been easily to hack, the older ones just send out a pulse at 5.3KHz which is trivial to pick up and process as an audio signal. Here's a trace [0] from my clubbing days :) [0] http://hazeii.n
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by hazeii 6y ago
This has long been an issue for developing nations [0], somehow the UK is well behind the curve (wood burners in town seem to be status symbols here). [0] https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/cooking-stoves-i...
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by hazeii 6y ago
Prior to moving to PDP-11's and paper-tape, the special-effects company I worked for many years ago used analogue computers stuffed with op-amps to control the motion of camera rigs - i.e. analogue motion control. I never saw one in op
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by hazeii 6y ago
As featured in the programme "A303: Highway to the Sun" [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0116ly6
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by hazeii 6y ago
Britain's longest road, the A1. Very scenic in places, and can be wild in winter. The BBC even made a series about it [0]. Apropos of the Wikipedia article and out of general interest, any HN'ers closer to the zone 2 roadsign show
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by hazeii 6y ago
For something like Firefox, pulling them out of exported bookmarks is as simple as:- grep " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= " /tmp/bookmarks.html | cut -b22-64
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by hazeii 6y ago
False alarm due to Geminids?
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by hazeii 6y ago
You may laugh, but as a teenager I rode around on a 1965 Bonneville. He wasn't called the Prince of Darkness for nothing.
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by hazeii 6y ago
We don't need to change it. Just work together and it'll come back on. After all, "many hands make light work."
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by hazeii 6y ago
Somewhat more retro, all that stops current nvidia drivers working on Xfree86 4.8 (from 2008, though we're working with an earlier version) is a single missing call, put this in a preloaded library:- int miIsSolidAlpha(void) {
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by hazeii 6y ago
Back in the day, compiling a Fortran program that didn't do any input or output would get you a "Program is trivial" message (and nothing else).

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