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You can make your own sounds if you want :)

Or winners who got out before the losers.

No because that would require some form of energy transfer. To observe the state of the system you have to take energy from it. I suspect your very presence would likely be a big c…

No BitTorrent clients in the App Store either. So I have to watch everything on openload instead.

I go to sleep at 00:00 and wake up at 07:30 so that makes me rather happy :)

That's why you need multiple layers of protection: seller -> paypal -> card company -> real money

Paypal offers one extra thing over the top, which is the ability to easily get your money back if the seller screws up. I use this a lot with sellers in the UK. If you ask them dir…

Those are likely pretty trivial boards which you place parts yourself. I do that at home with crap equipment. It's not quite as easy if you have to have someone to place parts for …

I’d like to see that but I think the turnaround and unpredictability of third parties adds a lot of risk to a product development cycle. If you look at lead times for PCBs and popu…

Ignoring the obvious welfare complaint, which I incidentally agree with, it paints a pretty good picture of all the health and social problems leading up to this situation for a lo…

Indeed. When A is shit and B is shit then the result of your A/B testing is going to be the least shit of the two. At the end of the day it's going to be shit either way. I'm a fir…

Not what I wanted to wake up to this morning. I suspect we’re in for a rough ride for a long time thanks to this mess.

Data modes and CW are there for us unsociable individuals :)

It's the same in the UK with RSGB. Very easy.

Yep you don’t need a lot of watts either. You can get a long way on 5W.

We’re on a solar cycle minima at the moment which slightly ruins ionospheric propagation on HF which is the least “line of sight” set of bands. However it’s on the up again so in a…

Have a look at amateur radio and satellite operations as a whole. You can, with some persistence and brains have a chat with someone a vast distance away via satellite repeater wit…

I did this as well for a bit. You get to the point when carrots, tomatoes and potatoes taste incredibly sweet and broccoli, if not murdered, tastes marvellous. I ended up growing a…

Yes indeed. These were perfectly good ones but the furniture salvage people locally didn’t want them and no one came on gumtree or freecycle :(

Where I live in the UK we just put the clothes in a bag next to the recycling containers and they get taken away. They also take away car batteries, car oil, small appliances, batt…

Duke Nukem Forever for example

MSFT got into the office.

Starbucks street cred. It annoys me that mine lights up like a Christmas tree.

I managed to break my 2013 15” retina MacBook Pro a couple of days ago. It slid off my lap and down my legs and gently hit the floor from about 6 inches up. This managed to critica…