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    Comment #48022488

    Maybe they've just not thought about that (yet). It looks to be mostly coded by Claude so, presumably, it been a very quick project to take from zero to where it is now, and they'r…

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    Comment #43534660

    Also in the 80s we (by which I mean other people), downloaded software from the television by sticking an LDR to the screen whilst a dot flashed black and white during the duration…

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    Comment #39904857

    Is this not something that can be addressed with cameras and (maybe) learnt approaches now? You don't need blind repeatability if you've got good visual monitoring to close the con…

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    Comment #39370451

    Another early 90s C learner here, and I also put (and still do!) parentheses around return expressions. But I do: `return( 1 );` not `return (1);` ...because the bracket belongs to…

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    Comment #33234731

    Indeed. There's also UZI - a v7 UNIX for Z80.

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    Comment #33234691

    I don't think it would be. You'd have to detect them on the data bus and also differentiate between data and instruction accesses which I don't /think/ the Z80 does, at least not e…

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    Comment #32385867

    This is only a problem is there's a clear mapping from detectable genetic feature to an expressed macro-feature like intelligence. My (admittedly limited) understanding is that eac…

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    Comment #31304388

    Folk are getting hung up on the keyboard layout and poor buttons, which are bad but only the start of the problems with these machines. It has two separate asynchronous screens, tw…