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I wrote a few games on the Spectrum and as with most of its hardware limitations we managed to squeeze quite a lot out of it. My memory is very hazy, it was well over 40 years ago,…

I understand there is an common fault where something, perhaps a capacitor, has failed over the years and if you plug it in something major gets fried. If you do get one, investiga…

They are very rare these days compared to the 1950s-80. I presume it's a combination of aircraft design developing and also the scale of the military and the intense training durin…

The Avro Vulcan was similar, the two cockpit crew had ejector seats but the three others didn't. There were a few crashes where the cockpit crew ejected, this being one at London H…

Apart from the command ejection in two seaters like this one, where depending on the configuration when one person ejects it triggers the other seat, I can only think of one automa…

https://x.com/Brick_Suit/status/2056183711549608239 It doesn't look like a fancy manoeuvrer, just slow repositioning and they drifted into each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch…

I've lived in London, various places within the M25, for about 40 years now and still walk around looking up and enjoying exploring both new and old places. We do the Hidden City t…

We have a couple of large customers who will only send remittance advices as a PDF, the are several pages and a couple of hundred rows. Apparently their system can not send XLSX or…

I think the problem is that website shows NESW going clockwise, is should be the other way. > N > E W > S (sorry about formatting)

I've been playing a few times a year with family and once we got over the steep learning curve we really enjoy it and play for many hours several times a year. What has helped a LO…

> Also IT'S TABLE TENNIS, NOT PING PONG! We can also add Whiff Waff to the alternative names!

I'm not sure about the specific Atari 2600 controllers but my hazy memory has at least three types of what appear to be rotary. One is basically a self centring sprung up/off/down …

> I have a rare brand loyalty for the brand of box I use - only the "Really Useful" stacking boxes. Same here. I've been using them at home and work for years and they are absolute…

I was going to say registrars in too, I've a bottle of this I've played about with. https://www.diamineinks.co.uk/products/diamine-30ml-archival... > Waterproof archival quality fo…

> I'll never understand how people can think 'Gruyère' and then imagine cheese with holes in it I've put a lengthier response to the parent post, but look at https://classicfinefoo…

> whereas Gruyère has no holes TIL that Gruyere from France is different to Swiss and it must have holes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruy%C3%A8re_cheese > The PGI documentation …

In the UK it's fairly common to use the term "Swiss cheese". Most people would know you are talking about Emmental or Gruyere and it would have the bubbles/holes in it. Although th…

That was a TV presentor from a children's programme called Blue Peter. If you think that looks dicey, search for the video of when another Blue Peter presenter,John Noakes, cleaned…

We had an office worker who became obsessed about dehydrating, undoubtedly after watching too much social media. She carried the bottle everywhere. She arrived at work one day in a…

> food is included in this amount When my wife was ill a few years ago the doctor suggested Angel Delight[1] to help maintain fluids. Until then it hadn't occurred to me you're sti…

I don't have a lot to add other than I'm still using a T61p several times a week. It's got by far the best screen[1] I've ever had on a laptop and the keyboard is also lovely. It's…

> Finding it also odd that biodegradable plastics and safer alternatives are going quiet. They tend not to be a good solution to anything. There are a couple of ways of making degr…

I believe the issue with straws is they were hard to recycle because they were lightweight and often mingled with other materials, such as cups, napkins, and food waste. They were …

> Why we allow making packages (especially for take-away food from pseudo-paper (which is a paper with plastic coating), which is not recyclable at all and, in fact, I agree that p…

> I've also heard that unscrewed bottle-caps, or other small plastics also fall in the common waste dump at the facility. The EU, and UK, recently brought in legislation where the …