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This is kind of the problem with Windows-y thinking, yes. "Oh the security stuff is in the way, why does it need that, MSDOS doesn't have it, no-one needs it"

Patty pan squash grows like crazy in most of the UK. If you live near a farm with cows or horses, get yourself as much manure as you can lay your hands on and dig it in well, and y…

It'd be interesting to compare that with installing Windows, which in 30 years of using Linux I have still to successfully do.

> First person to watch a specific youtube video, which contains the password, wins. Why would that be difficult?

I love services like that. I love entering data into them! In fact, I love it so much that I wrote some scripts to do just that...

Stuff like 6502s and Z80s are a bit like little single-cylinder engines - the world will move onto all sorts of interesting new places, but something somewhere will always be power…

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Oh you mean like the cockleburrs you get on things? Maybe more about the size of a small grape, outside diameter? It's weird, I've only ever noticed those on the west coast.

I've found them to be rock solid stable, and of course unlike AMD they are accelerated. NVidia are literally the only game in town for video editing, because AMD won't provide comp…

> Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks In Scotland it's called "Sticky Willie" which is nowhere near as …

> a cohesive desktop OS What would that look like, then?

> some prolific volunteer commenting on a bug report there speaks in a manner that comes off as brusque or dismissive Maybe they are being brusque and dismissive. Maybe they're all…

My toddler runs https://rangerovers.pub and it mostly holds up okay. He's not great at yaml because he can't really read so the significant whitespace is a problem, but he knows ho…

The thing you have linked to is correct, but you're reading it wrong. VHS has 240 *horizontal* lines of resolution, meaning that a grid comprising 240 alternating *vertical* black …

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> Modern music is less harmonically complex than even early Beatles, who used more chords (and more chord progressions) than are used today. Music today is highly repetitive. The B…

Isn't there? What would you call a bitmapped interactive display?

VHS is about 240 lines horizontal resolution and 40-50 lines chroma resolution. Even at 1440p the video has massive MPEG blocking, it's been heavily compressed after being captured…

Mostly this article seems to be whining about Go's file handling being more based around Unix-y stuff, and not really being suitable for Windows file systems. So what? If you don't…

> The result? Nothing has changed, there is still the same amount of health problems in Scotland caused by alcohol. Actually, no. The price of alcoholic drinks that you and I would…

xneko was better, replaced by oneko.

It's a shame the first youtube link is so overcompressed because it's clearly been from very clean VHS, and absolutely destroyed when it was encoded.

The 6507 is just a cut-down 6502 without all the address pins broken out. You could fit a 40-pin chip on an adaptor board hovering above the PCB on an Atari 2600, for example. You …

The WDC 65C02 is a current product which you can buy for a couple of dollars direct from the foundry. Most of the TTL stuff is current manufacture, although you may need to adjust …

And just you wait until the author of the article tries to work out why the wire isn't straight across but has a bend in it when the painting is hanging on a hook. The tension on c…