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by nickt 11mo ago
I grew up in South Hylton where the Cretehawser was basically dumped near Claxheugh Rock (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not a Mackem!) Proper fun 70’s and 80’s adventure to be had getting on board at low tide. Can’t imagine the autho
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I defected from America to live with nomads in Central Asia(twitter.com)
11 points by nickt 11mo ago|7 comments
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Lee Felsenstein(en.wikipedia.org)
66 points by nickt 11mo ago|35 comments
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by nickt 1y ago
My home town, Sunderland in the UK, is home to the National Glass Centre and has an amazing relationship with Pyrex, until 2007. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-century-of-pyrex-i...
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Sub 9kHz Amateur Radio (2012)(sites.google.com)
3 points by nickt 1y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 1y ago
That’s a wild story I’ve not heard before, thanks for sharing.
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by nickt 1y ago
And right on cue as expected, the push for age verification to use VPNs in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo
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by nickt 1y ago
Old, but good mandatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/612/
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Metacomco / Commodore Amiga Transputer Board(transputer.classiccmp.org)
5 points by nickt 1y ago|1 comments
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The FPGA turns 40. Where does it go from here?(networkworld.com)
2 points by nickt 1y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 1y ago
Not really. https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/base-experiment-take... Not even a cool new hazmat placard.
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by nickt 1y ago
> * Auto convert all incoming letters to emails. Should save them delivery costs, especially when the sender uses the reverse service. Back in the 1990’s when I moved away from the UK they had the opposite service. You send an email and
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase(wired.com)
4 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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Build Anti-Mosquito Drones(manifund.org)
1 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 2y ago
Wouldn’t that be Fitzenglish?
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It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi(github.com)
186 points by nickt 2y ago|82 comments
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Server Starting Point(servethehome.com)
1 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 2y ago
Alongside the Unix boxen. http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html
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by nickt 2y ago
The Retro Hour podcast episode 387 has a great interview with Eva Pascoe a little while ago. https://theretrohour.com/cyberia-cyber-cafe-eva-pascoe-ep387... I was working in London in 1994 and remember visiting for the cult
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Recreating my '80s dev system(breakintoprogram.co.uk)
3 points by nickt 2y ago|1 comments
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by nickt 2y ago
If you’re interested in the backstory of how these sounds were originally made, a recent episode (417) of The Retro Hour podcast has an interview with Sam Dicker who worked at Williams on Defender and Sinistar (and then on the Amiga) which
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by nickt 2y ago
“Secret Fears of the Super-Rich” - related reading, from 13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364922
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by nickt 2y ago
I mentioned this last time around [1], Tamiko Thiel worked with Feynman and Hillis at thinking machines and is responsible, amongst many other things, for how cool the CM-1 and CM-2 looked. Also, the T-shirts! [2] [1] https://new
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Jelly-Load An inconvenient way of loading stuff into your Commodore via YouTube(tfw8b.com)
1 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 2y ago
Thanks for that, I remember watching it when broadcast and being amazed by the possibilities. I hadn’t thought about it in years.
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by nickt 2y ago
(300 BCE)
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AmigaGPT(github.com)
2 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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Fighting Fantasy Collection(michaeloglesby.com)
19 points by nickt 2y ago|7 comments
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Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule(inc.com)
139 points by nickt 2y ago|194 comments
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A.I.-Powered Trap That Zaps Invasive Lanternflies(smithsonianmag.com)
30 points by nickt 2y ago|2 comments

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