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by timthorn 5y ago
This reminded me of when film photography processors went from printing using a photographic process to digital printing. The digital process introduced a regular grid to the print which reduced the quality of the print. When prints were ma
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by timthorn 5y ago
I certainly lost something - I purchased a 3 year subscription with my first pay cheque, a month before it ceased publication :(
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by timthorn 5y ago
And mini datasheets for lots of the chips they sold - it was a proper reference manual.
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by timthorn 5y ago
The keyboard itself was almost the Spectrum's own manual, listing all the BASIC keywords - because to enter one of the keywords, you just typed the key with that label. That made programming possible for a preschooler.
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by timthorn 5y ago
The Centre for Computing History videoed Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching Micro Men and chatting for the tenth anniversary of its broadcast: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/55810/Micro-
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Rolls-Royce’s all electric ‘Spirit of Innovation’ takes to the skies(arabianaerospace.aero)
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Ofcom Begin New Review of UK Net Neutrality Rules Post Brexit(ispreview.co.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
It can also be produced from waste streams - eg contaminated plastic that can't be recycled. The process is self powering so the H2 production cycle is highly efficient as well as reducing waste to landfill. https://www.powe
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by timthorn 5y ago
The question asked by the article is sensible. The uncertainty explored is whether, having had an initial vaccination, future natural infection would produce a better defence against variants than booster shots that target the spike protein
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On Line Typeface (Rail Alphabet)(thebeautyoftransport.com)
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Web@30: 64 Bits – An exhibition of the Web's lost past(64bits.co.uk)
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Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics(theregister.com)
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Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance per Watt(blog.cloudflare.com)
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by timthorn 5y ago
Yes, it tended to be branded FastText
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Developing the first ICs to orbit Earth(news.ti.com)
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Cloud computing poses potential risks to lenders, Bank of England warns(thetimes.co.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
That's not technically correct. The difference is tiny and for most purposes can be ignored, but GMT is based on the mean solar time at Greenwich whereas UTC is based on International Atomic Time.
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Tony Hoare answers questions [video](newton.ac.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
The UK Government is also looking hard at H2 and there's a lot of industrial activity in the area. Just today, Centrica announced a £1.6Bn investment in Hydrogen storage.
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The codes helping visually-impaired people shop(bbc.co.uk)
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Carbon Impact of Video Streaming(carbontrust.com)
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Astronomers work out when the first stars shone(bbc.co.uk)
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Astronomers pinpoint when cosmic dawn occurred(cam.ac.uk)
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by timthorn 5y ago
Thanks for that, Ben. I fondly remember your emails... I organised a talk for the RTS from Simon Parnall about TV Anytime some years prior to Backstage launching and was really excited to see feeds become available from the BBC - and simila
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by timthorn 5y ago
Historic tracklistings for the Essentials Selection are still online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/petetong/tracklistings2002.shtm...
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by timthorn 5y ago
Unfortunately the project that hosted the feeds (BBC Backstage) was shut down in 2010: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/10/bbc-backsta...
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by timthorn 5y ago
Even where the BBC produces the programme itself, they can be prevented from streaming if they have included music where streaming rights weren't negotiated. Micro Men is a brilliant docudrama about the 80s home computer wars in the UK
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by timthorn 5y ago
In 1996, almost everyone in the UK was still on dialup. Real videos typically resulted in significant latency for a not great quality image. As such, streaming wasn't obvious at that time, at least as a ubiquitous access medium.
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by timthorn 5y ago
What's perhaps sadder is the number of programmes the BBC broadcast and recorded, but erased.
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BBC Programme Index: 9M listings and 221k playable programmes(genome.ch.bbc.co.uk)
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