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Stamps Back(metafilter.com)
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by z303 3y ago
Tiny Code Christmas just started today. That is geared towards beginners in the demoscene and everyone is very friendly https://tcc.lovebyte.party/
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Tiny Code Christmas 2023 Invite [video](youtube.com)
2 points by z303 3y ago|0 comments
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by z303 3y ago
Previously known as Windscale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsyMvQtlKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgSlFkv71U
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by z303 3y ago
The Q like most early KC-135 used used Turbojets(J57) later upgraded to Turbofans (CFM56) as the T J57: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J57 CFM56: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFM_
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by z303 3y ago
Patrick Boyle on the this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36kSqwjaaw
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by z303 3y ago
The SR-71 used a different high flashpoint fuel (JP-7) to most aircraft, which require separate tankers (KC-135Q) with segregated storage.
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by z303 3y ago
and run ByteJams most Monday's at 8pm UK time https://www.twitch.tv/FieldFxDemo
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by z303 3y ago
I expect you are correct. The Amiga (except some early 1000s) also had a Extra Half Brite mode that has 6 bitplanes, 64 colours with the second 32 being half the brightness of the others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
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by z303 3y ago
> I'd think there's clear procedures for pilot of such a craft? If x occurs & can't be fixed by doing y or z, then eject. Indeed they do (or at least did) https://youtu.be/Aa1Ba_NEobs
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by z303 3y ago
and a Tie https://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
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by z303 3y ago
The first to come to mind is the AGM-65 Maverick in both visible light and IR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-65_Maverick ). Later version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder also have IR imaging seekers ( https://en.w
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by z303 3y ago
Lots of resource from the demoscene, especially 1K, 4K and 64K intros - How a 64k intro is made [1] - in4k site creation of demoscene 1kb, 4kb and 8kb intros [2] - SizeCoding.org is a wiki dedicated to the art of creating very tiny programs
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by z303 3y ago
I've just moved. So I'm the same process but in a spare bedroom, not a garden office but about the same size as you office. Most of the stuff is still what I had at my last place. Current setup - Desk against the wall. Window into
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by z303 4y ago
Another was Sprint. Turning towards the target before it gets too fast. Limiting the stress on the airframe and energy required. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) https://youtu.be/YZZV464z9
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by z303 4y ago
Like most people a 747 was my first long haul flight. I've not been lucky enough to fly the upper deck but a few years ago, I did get to fly in the nose, seat 1A. A great experience, strange being in front of the pilots and surprisingl
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by z303 4y ago
I've been a fan of the 959 since seeing the Tamiya version. I'd love for them to re-release the kit so I can finally own one https://youtu.be/jtODx2kGq0E https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/5
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by z303 4y ago
I'd have a look at the various demoscene sites. https://www.pouet.net/ https://demozoo.org/ Lots of code on GitHub https://github.com/search?q=demoscene&type= The awesome demoscene
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by z303 4y ago
and the design was featured on a the mission patch years before the project was acknowledged [1]. Trevor Paglen even wrote a book about the patches "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me" [2]. He's do
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by z303 4y ago
Slate on the 20th anniversary https://www.metafilter.com/119793/Slate-celebrates-the-20th-...
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by z303 4y ago
Not to take anything away from the developers but the Amiga does have hardware sprites, hardware scrolling, a blitter, the copper and dual playfield mode to make things a little easier
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by z303 4y ago
A nice breakdown on how it was done [1] [1] https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-bea...
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by z303 4y ago
> I'd like to see someone like this really try to explain the global non-crypto currency system as it exists today in similar detail. There was a video and thread on 'How (inter)national money transfers works' a couple of
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by z303 4y ago
Slate on the 20th https://www.metafilter.com/119793/Slate-celebrates-the-20th-...
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by z303 5y ago
Isn't the SU-25 [1], a close air support plane roughly equivalent in role to the A-10 [2]? The Su-37 had its first flight in early 2008 [3] about ten years after the SR-71 was retired [4]. If you mean the SU-27 that indeed flew in 1977
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by z303 5y ago
Mentour Pilot has a more detailed look at leasing, maintenance and spares for Russian aviation industry https://youtu.be/yrgI4gB5W2o
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by z303 5y ago
I wonder what state Dead Hand/Perimeter is in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
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by z303 5y ago
At a previous place. The Head of HR emailed everyone to leaving positive reviews, a couple of days after a very negative one appeared. Proper old school astroturfing. Lots of way to game the system
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Fully documented source code for Aviator on the BBC Micro(aviator.bbcelite.com)
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by z303 5y ago
Disneyland With the Death Penalty [1] and revisited [2] [1] https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/ [2] https://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-...

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