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by shever73 3y ago
No, they came factory fitted with an electronic fuel injection system from VW, but these were almost impossible to repair or diagnose.
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by shever73 3y ago
Having just read Breakfast of Champions, it was nice to see kilgoretrout online.
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by shever73 3y ago
The t is much shorter in comparison to b and i in Helvetica Neue and Calibri too. I didn't see that much of a jarring difference with Aptos.
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by shever73 3y ago
During the famine, Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid of the Ottoman Empire offered £10,000 to the Irish people to help ease the suffering. Queen Victoria intervened and requested that he reduce the donation to £1,000 since she had only allocated
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by shever73 3y ago
That was a fun read through with some great comments and variable / method names. I'm sure we've all had variables like this: https://github.com/Svxy/The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run/blob/eb4b34... And
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by shever73 3y ago
I remember Threads clearly, that along with "When The Wind Blows" are etched into my memory. I grew up near Sheffield, and it all just seemed so real to me. It was incredibly harrowing to watch.
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by shever73 3y ago
> I might have gotten it from teaching disadvantaged teenagers PHP Aren't they disadvantaged enough??
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by shever73 3y ago
I asked ChatGPT to write the announcement, and it was very close to this kind of language: https://chat.openai.com/share/67c7c09f-e01d-494b-aac3-0104b9...
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by shever73 3y ago
I’ll pop into Slack tomorrow to see if anyone can help me get it up and running. Using both the CLI and the GUI on Mac silicon with AWS, I haven’t been able to get a single instance working. Even just an empty folder!
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by shever73 3y ago
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing it. It looks like a nice project to keep me occupied until my Spectrum Next arrives.
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by shever73 3y ago
True. I was hoping for a conversation about it, but never mind.
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by shever73 3y ago
This is the first Louis Rossmann video I'd seen. I agree with a lot of what he's saying, but I don't like this format of delivery. Speaking rapidly, barely taking a breath, constant repetition. It makes my brain tired to list
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by shever73 3y ago
Interesting, I wonder if this could help Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl on YouTube) who has been diagnosed with long COVID leading to ME/CFS.
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by shever73 3y ago
Yes, there were occasional instances of "C Nonsense in BASIC" errors, but that was for very specific cases. Mostly, the cursor would change to a flashing question mark if you tried to enter something syntactically incorrect.
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by shever73 3y ago
Typing on a ZX family machine was different. The keys look busy because you didn’t type out the keywords like you did on most other machines. Instead, a variety of keyboard modes inserted them - along with the required spaces - for you. To
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by shever73 3y ago
I loved hacking Sinclair machines. I still have my first ever ZX Spectrum, complete with holes in the case and reset button mod. The ZX printer brings back memories too. I remember naively printing the source code for a game I created only
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by shever73 3y ago
Reminds me of XKCD 862 https://xkcd.com/862/ The alt text actually seemed like a good idea for limiting habitual checking. I found the same issue myself, so I deleted my Reddit account a few years ago. Nowadays, I don&
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by shever73 3y ago
I am happy to be completely Amazon-free (apart from using web services hosted on AWS). I can’t express in strong enough terms how much of a privacy nightmare and how utterly invasive Echo devices are.
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by shever73 3y ago
They still repeat the “Apollo threatened us” lie, even though Christian’s recordings prove that they apologised and accepted that misunderstanding.
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by shever73 3y ago
Likewise, a programmer can invent an algorithm that outlives the original code. I don’t think we’re unique in being in an industry where the things we create have a limited lifespan.
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by shever73 3y ago
They're not wrong. Saab's demise, in my opinion, started with GM. The Saab 900 was bullet-proof, but the 9-3 put me off Saab completely. It was based on GM's Opel Vectra platform and shared some components. It also has the du
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by shever73 3y ago
Interesting statistics. In Ireland, VW just knocked Toyota off the top spot. I think Toyota being late to market with a full BEV might have something to do with it (yes, I know they now have the alphabet soup one whose name would score a lo
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by shever73 3y ago
Agreed. I’m so grateful to whoever posted the archive link. The site is a god awful mess of pop up videos, scroll hijackers and overlays.
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by shever73 3y ago
Interesting. Glider 4.0 was written in Pascal ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softdorothy/Glider4 ), but Glider Pro is in C. John Calhoun did say that he's finding himself going back to C now that he's reti
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by shever73 3y ago
> No such book actually exists. It certainly does. Someone bought Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course as a wedding present for me and my wife. We were already reasonably proficient in the kitchen, but this book goes from the basic
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Oh yes, I've also added secret passages in which fish seem to die trying to find their way out :/
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For some, maybe, not for me. I switched from Google years back and haven’t noticed an appreciable difference in search quality.
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by shever73 3y ago
All this looks like to me is even less screen real estate for actual, helpful results. Google's search experience has been getting worse over time as it is.
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by shever73 3y ago
This AI sounds remarkably like my younger sibling.
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by shever73 3y ago
The rents here in Dublin are crazy! I honestly don't know how people can afford to rent, which is tragic because we also have an entire generation who cannot afford to buy. In my apartment complex, AirBnB and short-term rentals are tec

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