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Missing the point a little, tsunami's are not comparable to ocean waves. They ARE more like a huge, very fast, rising tide, modelling is not the same as a breaking ocean wave. This…

My partner didn't drive until my daughter was 8yo. They bused around most places, as a result, daughter and wife now refuse any offer of a bus journey...

I was a postie for a short while. A particular row of houses had no number 63, 61 and 65 were next door to each other. I always wondered if I posted something to 63 would it land i…

The first commercially available Acorn RISC processor was released as a co-processor for the BBC Micro. Acorn always had processors on the mind it seems as the Tube interface and p…

I feel like I was shown the event in a public service broadcast type documentary at school. Sticks in the memory. Along with the nuke Sheffield film, which didn't seem too much off…

My mum has told me about her shopping habits in the 70s, she would have a list of everything they needed, she would walk around the first shop writing all the prices down. She woul…

Which meant that everyone around got the tinny dings of your music, so it was quite anti-social and you were asked to turn it down (by family or companions, rarely strangers) which…

Frequently used those headphone jack splitter things so two people can listen to the same thing.

>There's a long list of incredibly damaging fuckups by software companies, Just one example - Fujitsu, associated with the biggest ever misscarriage of justice in England because o…

I played through the game a couple of years ago. I really enjoyed it, thank you very much for creating and sharing it. Seem to remember getting stuck on level 2 for longer than is …

In England, if no contract exists but rent is being paid a tenant has quite alot of implied rights in law. Though enforcement of these rights would normally fall to larger organisa…

Just to be clear, a tenant cannot be kicked out after a month. A section 21 notice requires a tenant to hand back possesion in 2 months, if a tenant does not the landlord may make …

Acknowledge the use of disrespectful as not ideal language. And I've nothing against moving cars into front gardens, living in a car dependant society is not any individuals fault.…

There are government resources available which give also give daily pollution forecasts and all bathing water quality testing data, overflow locations etc. The testing is pretty go…

I feel that a good build is just as important as a high price. Above the very cheapest bso (bicycle shaped object) a reasonably priced bike can be amazing, but it might need stripi…

I had a solar powered project setup with environment sensors in my shed. After a while the bugs moved into the elctronics, corrosion ensued and caused shorts which killed everythin…

Conversly, my observations from Cornwall have been the opposite. I haven't seen cuttlefish bones in the numbers I would expect over the last few years. And the ones I have seen hav…

3.5 floppies were the peak of media for me. Built in case, small enough to fit in a pocket, small and light enough to carry a handful around all the time, cheap enough to share fre…

Focumon .... I read as f^©k you man .... Kind of the antithesis of productivity!

Continuing this thought, consider a photo may be genuine but the actual scene is faked. Will pass all tests.

Further aside, it's possible to have both Docker Desktop and the normal linux Docker.io installed on WSL. They work in isolation, the easy way to know which is active is to check i…

Coincidently, they also discovered 'living fossils' amongst the entertainment acts at Butlins Minehead. Some were said to rival the tree fossils in age.

I like to think that each individual has a limit to their ability to access the physical world around them, which will likely go up and down through their lifetime. Factors which m…