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The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141B on a Doomsday Machine(wired.com)
3 points by nickt 2y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 2y ago
You might be interested in the recently announced Kickstarter which explores what might have been if Commodore hadn’t suffered from extraordinary management incompetence. It’s based on plans the actual people had at the time and seems like
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Fascinating, I’d not heard of this. I did find a bit more info [1]. Seems it was used as a kiosk multimedia playback system. [1] https://amiga.resource.cx/mod/access.html
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by nickt 2y ago
I’ve been a couple of times. It’s geologically interesting, but there’s no sense of scale when you’re in it. It’s also hot, dry, lifeless and a long way to the nearest pub. But a cool place to visit, with the journey to get there in your ow
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by nickt 2y ago
“ The Man Who Broke Capitalism” by David Gelles offers great insight into the man and his actions. It actually offers some solutions to the problems Welch caused. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366216-the-ma
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Intel Pentium Pro: How it could succeed and fail simultaneously(dfarq.homeip.net)
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by nickt 2y ago
The inverted triangle piece reminds me of the Lewis Chessmen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
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by nickt 2y ago
There were some good comments last time around, I can’t believe that was 9 years ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905875
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I’m not sure that’s what DIY means! Congrats on the little ‘un!
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I’ve heard that the Long Term Servicing Channel is a decent option for a nag-free time, though I’ve no experience of it personally. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/ove...
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by nickt 2y ago
I’m amazed that in 2022 internet retail was only about 15% of the total [1]. The Dept. of Commerce stats show that Q4 2023 was at 15.6% [2]. I expected it to be higher. [1] https://www.zippia.com/advice/what-percentage-
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I love the look. They’ll be vector displays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
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I’ve used the 1M2 with my own NVMe SSD, it’s very nice. Another good option is the Satechi USB4 NVMe SSD Pro Enclosure. Both are fast and reliable.
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Local Calling Guide – North American Numbering Plan(localcallingguide.com)
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The Modern Unfriendliness of 8-Bit Keyboard Layouts(nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com)
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by nickt 3y ago
I love the World of Spectrum 404 page [1], which had a mention here last week [2]. [1] https://worldofspectrum.org/404.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870902
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by nickt 3y ago
I love it, even with the PTSD it incurs. I’m particularly impressed that they even included the jailbars.
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Thank you, that’s a great site. There goes my Sunday morning!
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That’s a nice setup. I’ve enjoyed using older professional / broadcast gear picked up used The Extron and Kramer switches and scalers are available for a fraction of the original price and perform very well. I’m using it with Amigas, o
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Gough Map(en.wikipedia.org)
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Soil-Powered Computing: Practical Soil Microbial Fuel Cell Design(dl.acm.org)
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Auto Shenanigans on YouTube recently posted a video about this https://youtu.be/DAFQZwR157E He finds a bunch of little known and mildly interesting things about the UK road network.
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Which itself has a fascinating backstory https://www.absoluteveryfirsttime.com/post/magic-roundabout
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LumaCode(github.com)
27 points by nickt 3y ago|2 comments
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by nickt 3y ago
Villa pop FTW! https://sunderlandglobalmedia.org/made-in-sunderland-the-his...
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by nickt 3y ago
Any suggestions? Is there a power delivery equivalent of Ubiquti (I know we’ve discussed their shortcomings here) that offer better than consumer grade for less than enterprise prices?
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by nickt 3y ago
There’s also some upgrades available for the Hayes Stack Chronograph. https://biosrhythm.com/?p=1546
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by nickt 3y ago
Lander was a demo which evolved into the full game Zarch, known as Virus on other platforms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
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There’s a bit more background in this Hackaday article from 2022 https://hackaday.com/2022/09/28/the-first-microcomputer-the-...
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Two rare Q1 computers discovered in London house clearance(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by nickt 3y ago|1 comments

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