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by nickt 6y ago
A bit OT, but I would have no idea about Russian-style stoves until I saw this video a few days ago. Amazing. https://youtu.be/r_TO30jzyUA
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Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet Edition 1.1 (1993)(lysator.liu.se)
2 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
It does sound like sour grapes and the timing of the report a day before Starlink made general signups available (albeit with a limited number per geographic area) is interesting. I have a ISP in both the UK and Colorado, for similar servic
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by nickt 6y ago
e-radionica on Crowdsupply are recycling old Kindle screens for their Inkplate 6 and 10 displays. https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica
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by nickt 6y ago
I wasn’t aware of that, many thanks for the recommendation.
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by nickt 6y ago
Can confirm.
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by nickt 6y ago
Ahh, thanks for the memory - I miss Kozmo! How can it be after almost 20 years we don't have a replacement? (OK I think we know why...)
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by nickt 6y ago
almost like the FBI https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/fbi-dir...
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by nickt 6y ago
CPU pricing is weird. If you look at the 6th-10th gen Core i7s they are not too far off in price, [1] - for example the 6700K is currently $272 and for ~$30 more you can get the 9700K. The current generation usually command a bit of a premi
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by nickt 6y ago
Only slightly paraphrased but gave up on it after that.
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by nickt 6y ago
NEXTDOOR IS AWESOME WE HAVE SOME NEIGHBOURS IN RURAL COLORADO THAT MOVED FROM NEW YORK OR SOMEWHERE LIKE THAT AND THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE ANIMALS IT WAS LIKE LIVING IN A ZOO THEY SAID OTHER NEIGHBOURS SAIDTHEY COULD MOVE BACKJ TO NEW YORK
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by nickt 6y ago
Can confirm, definitely RAM pack wobble. Still makes me shudder! Memotech solved this problem by having a lower-profile RAM pack that included a piece of Velcro so the connector stayed secure. https://www.nightfallcrew.com/2
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by nickt 6y ago
Ha, yeah - though except for "the medieval London murder rate would be 15 to 20 times higher".
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by nickt 6y ago
sensor.community promotes building an open environmental data network, and has a good guide to building an ESP8266/SDS011 based node. https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/
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by nickt 6y ago
We visited the Libraries in Chinguetti, Mauritania and met the custodian in this BBC Reel video [1] It’s an amazing place. The libraries date from the late 8th century CE, and as you can see, the scientific works were ahead of their time, f
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by nickt 6y ago
It’s mentioned in the article and I recommend reading “Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser if you want to scare yourself half to death by reading about how careless we’ve been with our “toys”. https://www.goodreads.com/bo
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by nickt 6y ago
While it’s double your budget, perhaps the Clockwork Pi DevTerm is worth a look? https://www.clockworkpi.com/
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by nickt 6y ago
More about the lack of or simply bad protocols, but if you want a good read and scare yourself “Command and Control” by Eric Schlosser is highly recommended.
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Inkplate 10, an ESP32 based 9.7 inch, 1200x825 e-paper display(crowdsupply.com)
25 points by nickt 6y ago|3 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
WEIRD AL or WEIRD AI either way works...
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The KiwiSDR Time Difference of Arrival Network (2018)(rtl-sdr.com)
2 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
I had that thought right after I hit submit. Nah, not enough old British geeks around for that to make the front page... Sorry siggy, hope the zeddy is ok!
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ZX81 Webserver(zx81-siggi.zx-team.org)
125 points by nickt 6y ago|54 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by nickt 6y ago
Happy to see “You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall” is in there! Looks like a great series.
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by nickt 6y ago
Where did you go from Python?
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by nickt 6y ago
Almost sounds like openness and honesty goes a long way!
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Swing O Chucky – A Trebuchet(youtube.com)
1 points by nickt 6y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 6y ago
Thanks for the laugh!
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by nickt 6y ago
It’s a long-standing joke in the North East. https://newsthump.com/2009/02/22/geordie-man-buys-coat/

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