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might be worth trying a cheap solder sucker pen if you havent (the mechanical recoil type), significantly better than nothing

We've got 3x spectrums, two 48k rubber key ones and a plus2. we've even got such random things as a Trickstick :)( https://worldofspectrum.org/hardware/feat4.html ). I got them out…

Can highly recommend orienteering racing if this seems like your kind of thing

You could perhaps make it play a subtle background sound like the noise WOPR makes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vWTzs_bp4

Good book on this and similar subjects - Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices https…

Another private collection, more mainframes and supercomputers, in the UK that I found out about recently https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/

This is not a question of someone being 10x what you are. In our industry there are plenty of very weak developers, I bet you have worked with someone who is 0.1x of someone reason…

Great post, I hadn't seen this before

This is the critical point to make. Paste a few long texts into the boxes and the url goes into the hundreds of thousands of characters long, whereas this says that anything more t…

I owe my career to this book. I learnt binary from page 93 when I was about 8 years old so I could draw custom graphics on the screen (an airplane that i could fly around)

Does anyone know whether we will see an immediate jump in transactions per second due to this?

this is it. also needs emphasis on getting a clean tea towel or equivalent out of the drawer, do not be tempted to use anything else.

Have a look at the sales (lower down the page) of say these: https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks lowest price available $386k(!) or more detail on artblocks: https://www.nft-stat…