stevekemp

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by stevekemp 6d ago
"Oh no" is so memorable, but it's also goes hand in hand in my memory with the "Oh ho" from the Worms games. Both games have a lot in common now I think about it, tiny characters and interactive environments.
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by stevekemp 6d ago
Listening to a Finnish children learn English there are some cases where they struggle and perhaps some of it is vocabulary, "fall" vs "fell", "freeze" vs "froze" (i.e. past tenses). But there are lot
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by stevekemp 7d ago
> I just can not really see myself using or needing "warez" on linux I remember switching to Linux around 94 and at the time one of the things that annoyed me was that there was very little commercial software to patch registra
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by stevekemp 13d ago
Interestingly if you get an allergic reaction to apples you get that same reaction to cherries, something I only learned recently.
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by stevekemp 16d ago
Paying a few hundred dollars for a watch is cheap, compared to the prices for mid/high-end mechanical watches.
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by stevekemp 16d ago
Watches are fashion, for most people, rather than a necessity. That said there are definitely days when I wander out of the house with a watch and no phone. Fewer these days as I use an app on my phone to pay for bus/tram/train f
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by stevekemp 16d ago
The watches I wear are mechanical, and most of them are older than I am, made by companies that no longer exist! I can see the appeal of smart-watches for some things, but I'm too attached to my (small) watch collection to ever conside
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by stevekemp 17d ago
That's certainly how it is for me; mentally I think sauna is an hour, of 5-15 minute chunks inside the warm room, but sometimes it might be more. There are days when I walk in and immediately nope-out after a couple of minutes, and tha
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by stevekemp 17d ago
Generally I assume "sauna" will take an hour, or ninety minutes, but the process is pretty much: 1. Have a shower. 2. Sit in the sauna, and throw water on the stones. Stay there for 5-15 minutes, drinking a beer and sometimes l
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by stevekemp 17d ago
I have a dodgy thermometer on the wall, and I tend to enter the sauna when it shows 80, by the time I leave it's usually been showing 90 for half the time. Celcius.
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by stevekemp 18d ago
I made the mistake of looking at /r/sauna on Reddit once or twice recently, and there was a lot of people doing very similar things. "I take my preworkout, do my exercise, then I sit for 12 minutes at 90 degrees in sauna, bef
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by stevekemp 24d ago
Sure, but ten minutes was the benchmark of the original site!
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by stevekemp 24d ago
Hey now! The C64 might have been technically better with sprites, etc, but the Spectrum was way more quirky and British. Something about the scrappy underdog making awesome games despite the attribute clash, and having the terrible keyboar
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by stevekemp 24d ago
A doddle is the same as a piece of cake, or a walk in the park; something that is simple & easy.
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by stevekemp 24d ago
Perhaps not, but I'm sure you'd never be more than 10 minutes walk from a sauna. Unless you're somewhere pretty remote.
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by stevekemp 25d ago
A similar on this very site too, of course.
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by stevekemp 27d ago
Take a look at the collections by the same author: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/home.html There are some more complete programs there.
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by stevekemp 27d ago
I still run Borland's Turbo Pascal on CP/M systems, and many programs had setup/configuration programs which would rewrite binaries for specific input/output devices. Choosing between ADM-3A or ANSI terminals by running
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by stevekemp 29d ago
I think the only answer is that all dating sites are full of dark-patterns, and promise to promote your profile if you pay more money. Linkedin isn't a dating site? Sure it is. I've seen the messages friends receive, and the way
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by stevekemp 29d ago
Cool, and loved by some. Annoying and disliked by others. I understand why people choose it, but if I see the catgirl I close the tab - same is I get the test from cloudflare.
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
And that episode was stretched out into a novel which I linked to above - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99852816-mutant-59
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters, a 1971 British sci-fi environmental disaster novel written by medical scientist Kit Pedler and television screenwriter Gerry Davis. No wikipedia page, but goodreads has it here: https://www.goodread
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
This is obviously regional too; here in finland all stores that sell "drinks" have a machine for accepting returns. It doesn't matter what kind of bottle it is, or which company made it, all returns are accepted at every poin
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
I cut my teeth writing assembly on a ZX Spectrum (mostly hacking games for infinite lives, etc). Over the past couple of years I've gone back to the Z80, working on CP/M emulation, testing, and similar things. It's fun to pl
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
Honestly unless I'm planning on quitting my current job, or if I were unemployed, I just ignore the linkedin. Sure they spam you with "XX wants to connect", or "I'm awaiting your reply" emails. But real contac
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
It's nice to see that has a brainfuck interpreter. I wrote a lisp compiler recently, then used that to write a lisp interpreter, and in both cases have a version of brainfuck in it. That said interpreting the brainfuck mandelbrot prog
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
And don't forget to engage your "TURBO" button, to make the playback slightly better!
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by stevekemp 1mo ago
I have a small collection of "curated" CP/M software, which works alongside a CP/M emulator I wrote: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist The distribution of Borland's Turbo Pascal v3.01A is approxi
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C(bbc.com)
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
If you have 30 minutes to spare the old program "The Secret Life of Machines" has an episode demonstrating how sewing machines work, in a delightfully quirky way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lwI4TSKM3Y

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