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Also have floaters, but I suspect that if you’re the sort of person who notices and is annoyed by tinnitus (like I have been in the past) then you’re possibly also more likely to n…

It's possible to be opposed to excessive copyright and also be opposed to the mass theft of media for profit and subsequent abuse of copyright that the scrapers are guilty of. The …

Memory error - it was a Seikosha dot matrix I used back then. The FX80 came later.

Grab BBC Basic manual (supplied with the computer) off the shelf, switch my Model B on (later Master). Within milliseconds a fresh working environment is created (ie a cursor start…

Apples are kept in cold storage to extend “the season” across the year. No guarantee you’ll get fresh apples in a supermarket even if you see workers harvesting them as you drive t…

We’re just finishing a two month Norway-focused motorhome jaunt. We planned the ferry from UK to Rotterdam (both directions) and two campsites in the Netherlands and Germany. After…

Relaxed mode please. Also “HEARDS” - in what language is that an acceptable word?

Most likely they’ll do both, with a straight face.

I said no such thing - the comment that you just replied to is the first thing I’ve said in this thread.

A machinist describes how he helped, in a small way, the efforts to keep the largest refracting telescope in the world working.

Didn't see this before. My dad was a happy farmer, but the stereotype holds in general. Weather, markets, governments, voters (bloody Brexit) all attract farmers' ire. And even whe…

The mechanic who repairs the cars knows how the engine works. The telco that manages loads and allocates networks knows how voice compression works. The farmers and supermarkets kn…

That was on a neighbouring farm to one of ours. It’s just a bit of concrete in the middle of their fields now. You possibly got shouted at by my famously grumpy grandad.

My family used to farm a chunk of land in Lincolnshire, UK. Many of our farms were on or surrounded by active or decommissioned RAF bases. I learnt to drive on the unused tarmac at…

My dad died of cancer(s) fifteen years ago. He spent his final month in bed at home, chatting with us and friends, knowing that he’d soon be gone, bed bound but sharp as a tack. Th…

Haven’t tried it yet, and I don’t know if it matches OP’s requirements, but the blurb says “You can even search for individual faces” https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davi…

DaVinci 21 has indexing built-in (AI IntelliSearch). Not to diminish the work you did, but this is now available to many users (probably only Studio users since it has AI in the na…

Do you not see the difference between Trumpian dictator-level “involvement” and regular day-to-day steering of legislation in a party-friendly manner? This is laughable “both parti…

Indeed and I just saw it was edited in 2012 - originally posed in 2011, answers last updated in 2014.

(2012), maybe?