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   Is being less tasty vegetables our best strategy?(blogs.harvard.edu)

   12 points by nickt 6y ago|1 comments
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   by nickt 6y ago

   Hi Dan, Thanks for sharing, it’s a great insight into getting a book done, especially a proper overland one. Nice to see Chris here too, I wonder how many of us are at the intersection of geekery and overlandery?
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   by nickt 6y ago

   The Z88 came pretty close to that, though the keyboard was better. It's 34 years old, wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
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   by nickt 6y ago

   Real coders use Velcro ;) [EDIT] actually, the Memotech units shipped with a piece of velcro to eliminate wobble. I think that Memotech kit had a great aesthetic. https://www.nightfallcrew.com/27/09/2013/memot
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   by nickt 6y ago

   Great point. I just had a look in my C128 and they are just regular branded Zilog Z80s. I sure there's a story there too...
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   by nickt 6y ago

   Thanks! I had no idea.
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   by nickt 6y ago

   I recently restored a ZX Printer, bit of a pain but mostly because the belts disintegrate on touch. You can buy new ones though [1] and you see them on eBay too sometimes. Worth the resto for the wonderful noise they make! [1] https:/
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   by nickt 6y ago

   > imagination amplifiers Thank you for that, yes - that explains them perfectly. Probably explains why I've always felt more at home in the terminal.
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   by nickt 6y ago

   Again! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25638936
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    by nickt 6y ago

    > Commodore had the largest warehouse of these in North America by 1984 That sounds like a story, have any more details?
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Looks very retro cyberdeck!
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    by nickt 6y ago

    In terms of ROI, the best £69.95 I ever spent (I still have the receipt from WH Smith). It wasn’t the first computer I ever used, but it’s the first one I ever owned at age 9 and it led me down the path that’ll be familiar to many here... I
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Slightly OT, but for anyone using Safari "Hush Nag Blocker" is highly recommended. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Don’t forget Quaking Houses and Unthank!
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    Armachat – Long Range Radio “Doomsday” Communicator(pemi.technology)

    2 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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    Marsmare: Alienation – A New ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum Next Platform Game(kickstarter.com)

    1 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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    by nickt 6y ago

    The OpenEnergyMonitor emonPi has been around a while and also quite good, and supports MQTT which I don't think IoTaWatt does. https://guide.openenergymonitor.org/technical/emonpi/ https://openener
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    Quantum Interconnects (QuICs) for Next-Generation Information Technologies(journals.aps.org)

    2 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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    by nickt 6y ago

    > Juki 6100 daisywheel printer Ahh, thanks, I’ve been trying to remember what that printer was for about 30 years!
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Thank you. That is a very strange way to look at the Earth.
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    by nickt 6y ago

    While that may be true there are plenty free or close to free resources on the internet on in libraries and plenty of local friendly groups that often have a focus on advanced riding. For the folks who are riding around on $20-40k worth of
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Training quantifiably lowers risk - I'm talking about training for motorcyclists. We all have to do some training pretty much everywhere in the world before we become licensed drivers and riders. In both the UK and US, advanced trainin
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    by nickt 6y ago

    That “loud pipes save lives is rubbish” [1]. Even if it were true the ROI on some training and awareness would be far higher. [1] https://www.quora.com/Do-loud-pipes-really-significantly-sav...
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    by nickt 6y ago

    I live near a highway in Colorado which is very quiet except for summer weekends when the noisy motorbikes turn up and it becomes borderline intolerable (I’m not against motorbikes, I ride, I just hate the lack of consideration for others p
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Just read the comments, that’ll fix your optimism!
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Or perhaps an explorer? Richard Garriott was recently elected president of the Explorers Club. https://explorers.org/news/news_detail/richard-garriott-elec...
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Perhaps the Inkplate 10 or 6 would work for you? https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-10 https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6
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    by nickt 6y ago

    tl;dr 3 pages of pointless chat over 17 wasted minutes to cancel a sub that could be a single click and losing a customers business forever. About what you’d expect.
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    by nickt 6y ago

    Recently discussed here, conventional ISPs moaning about Starlink. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085577
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    by nickt 6y ago

    I’ll always have a soft spot for VMS, the first “big computer” OS I ever used. And perhaps did a bit of hacking (allegedly) back in 1990. Did the hobbyist licensing [1] get resolved? I was inspired by the work of Andrew Back [2] getting VMS