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by shever73 4y ago
Very fond memories of the Speccy. We got ours for Christmas 1982 with the Horizons demo cassette and Hungry Horace. I learned BASIC and then Z80 machine language (using Terri Baker's "Mastering Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum&quo
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by shever73 5y ago
Love this! I think I just got pounced by a fellow HN reader because we were both using the same strategy. I think a leaderboard - or at least a record of your wins/losses would be cool. The extra click to confirm a move isn't off-
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by shever73 5y ago
I would go with even less - a 1% to 2% dilution is what I normally go for, but only after tasting the whisk(e)y neat. Some open up better than others with the addition of a few drops of water. For example, a particularly good Balblair whisk
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by shever73 5y ago
The incorrect spelling of Islay is bothering me!
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by shever73 5y ago
Another quality product from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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by shever73 5y ago
Most of these seem like false dichotomies to me. > If you’ve never been robbed, you’re spending too much time locking doors. The time my home was broken into was a traumatic and violating experience. It caused me to increase security rat
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by shever73 5y ago
Oh...it's only after reading the comments that I know what's going on. I didn't find it intuitive either.
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by shever73 5y ago
I have an old photo somewhere of 8 of us standing on the girder-like front bumper of a 1970s Saab 900. They were solid!
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by shever73 5y ago
I've owned and loved Saabs. The 900 was absolutely bulletproof. The 9-3 I owned less so. The innovative mechanism that also locked the gear stick when the ignition key was removed was genius! Maybe it's just me, but this article s
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Pity. I used to read it regularly when I was starting in web dev in the late 90s and it was genius (even with the Metafilter thing). I browsed the archive last year during the Christmas break for a nostalgia trip!
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by shever73 5y ago
I enjoyed The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth. Also, if you are a member of a public library, you can often get free access to the full Oxford English Dictionary online, which has detailed etymologies.
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by shever73 5y ago
It seems like only yesterday! The Speccy itself is 40 years old on 23rd April this year.
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by shever73 5y ago
Yes, exactly. The article is still very wrong.
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by shever73 5y ago
Although, Timex (technically) was the manufacturer. The ZX Spectrum, at least, was built in the Timex factory in Dundee [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29122873
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by shever73 5y ago
Absolutely correct. Thank you for typing it out in such an eloquent, yet curmudgeonly, fashion. It saved me from having to do it!
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by shever73 5y ago
I ordered it from Amazon and had the same issues...the cover was terrible quality and looked like it had been printed on someone's inkjet from the 90s. It was still a great read, though.
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by shever73 5y ago
I've switched off all voice-activated devices in my home. I'm not sure how long the longest recording was...I'll go back over the data to have a look, but the one that really broke my heart was about 20 seconds during which m
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by shever73 5y ago
I had similar issues with the location verification. Dublin auto validated to Dublin (US) - probably Dublin, Georgia. When I typed "Dublin, Ireland" that returned "Location not found". I needed to type "Dublin, IE&q
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by shever73 5y ago
I had exactly the same experience when I saw Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ" in person recently. I was familiar with the image, but I was blown away by how incredible the painting really is.
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by shever73 5y ago
It was requesting my personal information from Amazon that made me decide to dump all my Alexa smart devices. We had bought one for my in-laws and the Echo had picked up entire conversations between them even though the wake word had not be
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by shever73 5y ago
The final paragraph about his recurring dream is very relatable for me: >I think this is the only lasting damage from my startup adventure. My "I didn't study for the exam" dreams have been replaced by "the app is dow
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by shever73 5y ago
This! I've had an iPhone since 2010, and SMS messages were always in green. I haven't consciously noticed the green bubble getting harsher over time, but that doesn't mean it hasn't. I rarely use SMS or iMessage now anyw
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by shever73 5y ago
This reminds me of an old electronic organiser / PDA that was available in the 80s/90s that had just five (I think) keys for typing. Letters were formed by pressing the keys in combination. Skilled users could type very quickly on
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by shever73 5y ago
I’m happy to see this comment here. The OED is a wonderful resource and, as mentioned, can often be accessed via a library membership. I just need to enter my Dublin library card number and I get full, free access. Another great writing res
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by shever73 5y ago
That's a great tool, thanks for the recommendation. Pity it doesn't work with Ecosia's image search. I wrote my own extension to remove Pinterest from image results, and I've been thinking of extending it to block Instag
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by shever73 5y ago
Yep, that's pretty much how I solved it too. I had (and still have) no idea how to apply the Chinese Remainder Theorem. Looking back at my solution, I just iterated through the input, which I'd mapped to a Python list.
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by shever73 5y ago
It's great to have AoC back again. Last year was my best yet, where I managed to get up to day 23. This year, I'm focusing on keeping the solution to as few lines of code as possible.
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by shever73 5y ago
This takes me back. A friend of mine worked in Quarterdeck's Dublin office and got me a copy of DESQview/X. It was a great piece of software.
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by shever73 5y ago
A similar thing happened to one of my photos from Flickr. It was of a riverbed dried up in the Kenyan drought. Someone messaged me to ask permission to use it in a project and since then, it has appeared in news articles everywhere - mostly
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by shever73 5y ago
We lost Daren Pearcy earlier this week - creator of the awesome RZX archive and, sadly defunct Specchums, and now Bernie Drummond. Very sad. Head Over Heels was an amazing concept and game.

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