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"Number 5 is alive!"

I lost the only recordings of my band when Myspace Music died. At one point, I also had files on RapidShare. They probably weren't of any value, but I have no idea what they were n…

I am the only Brit in the department I work in. No one gets the cultural references or British idioms I use, and I've found myself significantly changing the language I use to a ve…

I got into programming and computers due to their intellectual depth, and the exciting opportunities they opened to explore everything from electronics to obscure areas of mathemat…

Oh... I was wondering why every single chat (including "Hello") was being flagged. Seems I am barred from using Fable just for being a biologist :(

Holy shmoly... I'm a biologist who has used Thermo antibodies before, and this is seriously disappointing to see.

Just discovered the documentary, and it's such an interesting time capsule. That period simultaneously feels like yesterday, and a lifetime ago.

Exactly the same as my experience in the UK.

Ugh... that worked, but I gave up once I got to the home page. To quote the late, great, Ray Arnold... "I hate this Hacker crap!"

It can't be a good idea to condition yourself to be comfortable around an exposed wire that's near to a real power socket.

Good luck finding out how to contact customer support. The darkest dark pattern of them all.

Reminding me that early Windows versions used to have this colour as the default desktop colour -- and I remember seeing similar tones on Mac and Unix desktops in the 90s. https://…

That would require technical know-how. It's much easier for clueless lawmakers to write "the computer check the age", and make it everyone else's problem.

"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care…

The Middle English spelling and phonetic shifts are what make it so painful to read. The words themselves though are mostly comprehensible with a bit of effort. Go back another fou…

The batteries were either charged using a "telephone magneto", or were taken to a local town to be charged off of mains electricity: https://www.1900s.org.uk/1920s60s-windup-phones…

Very cool to see one comment linking to an old Sears magazine from the 1920s, showing some of the equipment people would have constructed these networks from: https://babel.hathitr…

Did you forget the /s? Some people mentioned the dollar as the global reserve currency, but there's also the use of English as the global lingua franca, the US being the largest gl…

In silico duckying

What was the reasoning behind that?

SSRIs saved my life. No exaggeration. They might be overprescribed, only effective is some individuals, and they certainly have their share of side effects, but they're still the g…

Never used a Virtual Boy, but I'm somehow nostalgic just for the development tool -- grey metal boxes with vents, LEDs, and rocker switches transport me into an optimistic future o…

The US embassy in London do this. You can take liquids in, as long as you drink from them at security.

The UK dominated the world in coal production, shipbuilding, factory machinery and textile mills before WW1, and went into steady decline post-war. E.g. https://www.researchgate.ne…

That's a sad indictment of tech. Most underlying technology is timeless (see TAOCP, SICP, CLRS, K&R, GoF, Dragon Book, Beej's Guide, Sipser,...); but we seem set on producing an en…