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> A town, street name or postcode were omitted, but a highlighted note – presumably written by a postie – chirpily added ‘Royal Mail, we never fail!’ to the front of the letter. I …

Which one of the Markdowns should each browser support?

Alright but where is the link? Can you put in a comment?

I will try this out later, but for now the address https://mucss.org/ does not work for me. The Github link does.

In 50 years, people will be equally amazed that we could afford having our own computers on our desks.

I might be missing something, but parsing the HTML, even with the different formats, should be much simpler than the PDF form. In 20 years I would guess they used no more than 20 f…

Thanks for the information, I have observed this in some of those links before (others worked, I do not know what the diffference is) and it might be the case. I am indeed outside …

The move to Singapore has been mentioned in several comments but he does address it in the linked piece: > Some might say: “Hang on, it’s all very well James Dyson telling Britain …

I get 404 from the link.

This link shows me the paywall, I have not investigated why.

We had several Quickshot II's at home for our Commodore 64; each broke after a while and we had to get a new one. It looked and felt fantastic and was cheap, but the garbage switch…

The URL is wrong, the right one is https://rodgercuddington.substack.com/p/the-return-to-full-f... > UK retailers are reporting a striking reversal in dairy consumption patterns. W…

That comment to which you replied, and the other thread of responses to it, are quotations of the malfunctioning and homicidal HAL computer from the movie “2001: a space oddisey”.

Around the time this website was made, I was building an application for a big company in Spain that was to run as a Java applet and required the code to be signed. They did not ye…

> Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to. It is part of the submission guidelines: > Otherwise please use t…

A particularly interesting part that I did not expect from the title: > Before the rats encountered the detour, the research team observed that their brains were already firing in …

> Overall, I don’t think the LLM saved me any time. I didn’t end up keeping the code it gave me. But it got me unstuck, and that meant I actually made progress. I haven't tried LLM…

In 1984 one of the developers of Xanadu at the time, Chip Morningstar, wrote a technical description to apply for funding. In typical Xanadu fashion it was kept secret, protected b…

It is indeed the 11th of September, here is the German Government's page about it: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/leichte-sprache/11-se...

That man, Rex Malik, participated in (among other things) the 1982 BBC series “The Computer Programme” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme ), typically in a smal…

I tried it out to see if I would want to use this instead of miniz which I am using at the moment, but the example seems to be missing some includes. I filed an issue with the deta…

Ah, this fixes the problem I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501362 and was also reported in an earlier reply by someone else there: https://news.ycombinator.co…

The bottom-right camera view of Jonathan Blow and its audio do not match exactly the timing of the screen capture that fills the image. There are several seconds of delay. It can b…

> There are play, stop, fast forward, and rewind buttons on top and a volume dial and Bluetooth button on the side, along with a headphone jack and USB-C port. > ... You cannot use…

> I get now what the Voynich Manuscript says, in a way that might not satisfy all the code-crackers and linguists out there. Its enigmatic script doesn't say anything, and yet it s…