kolleykibber

This might be considered sacrilege, but the Amstrad CPC was basically a later, better executed speccy. The hardware and firmware make for a better retro archaeology experience.

Crazy to think this headline would have been satire a year ago.

Have to mention World Possible (https://worldpossible.org/) here. They are doing amazing similar work, with rpis and Intel CAP servers.

They also have Datapost (https://datapost.site/map) which uses android phones as data carriers between the remote location and the Internet, for email, stats and updates.

I'm having a play on the PPC640 with a Gotek running Flashfloppy with fd720-fat.img

It's erroring after the mount with panic:No init or sh found SYSTEM HALTED. BOOT:

The computer is unreponsive at the boot: prompt.

I've tried a few different settings in the ff.cfg, but no joy. Could it be a Gotek issue?

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler

Having played with a few of these systems, I still feel something like a slightly broken Amstrad CPC6128 or ZX Spectrum offers the better learning experience. You get to understand the minds of the designers back in the 80s.

Well that post just cost me a couple of hours.

And still 136 bytes off 431:

  #define p printf 
  int main(){const char *g[]={"A Partridge in a Pear 
  Tree.\n","Two Turtle Doves, and","Three French Hens,","Four 
  Calling Birds,","Five Gold Rings,"," Geese-a-Lay"," Swans- 
  a-Swimm","t Maids-a-Milk","e Ladies Danc"," Lords-a-Leap"," 
  Pipers Pip","Twelve Drummers Drumm"};
  const char *d[{"First","Second","Third","Four","Fif","Six","Seven","Eigh","Nin","Ten","Eleven","Twelf"};for(int i=0,j;i<12;i++){p("On 
  the %s%s day of Christmas\nMy true love sent to 
  me\n",d[i],i>2?("th"):"");
  for(j=i;j>=0;j--){p("%s%s%s\n",j>4&&j<11? 
  d[j]:"",g[j],j>4?"ing,":"");}}}

Good times. I built a wardialler out of one of those science fair 150 in one kits and an Atari st using an rs232 data line to bounce a relay. found plenty, but the fun ended when the 400 quid bill came in. Endless paper rounds.

Could you give some examples of these interesting things?

There was a Solar Powered Vinyl Tent touring the festivals in the UK last summer. A bunch of records to flick through, a player and a few deckchairs. It really was a wonderful thing.

Doesn't seem to have done Salesforce any harm.

Tellingly, those pro users would never choose to migrate back to Windows for a more consistent UI.

I've just enjoyed an hour getting chatGPT to write Simpsons episodes.

>Write an episode of the simpsons starring bill hicks

In this episode of The Simpsons, the family attends a comedy club and is pleasantly surprised to discover that the headlining act is none other than the late, great Bill Hicks. As they watch his performance, they are blown away by his sharp wit and fearless comedy.

After the show, Bart is inspired to try his hand at stand-up comedy and starts practicing his own jokes. However, his material is a bit too edgy for the school talent show, and he gets into trouble with Principal Skinner.

Meanwhile, Lisa becomes a fan of Bill Hicks and starts reading his books and watching his stand-up specials. She is impressed by his ability to tackle difficult and controversial topics, and starts incorporating some of his ideas into her own work.

In the end, Bart learns that sometimes it's better to stick to clean, family-friendly humor, while Lisa discovers the power of using comedy to challenge societal norms and shed light on important issues.

This isn't true (since 89)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...

Keeps coming up, even though it's a pretty easy google.

Be prepared to spend more on security.

It has always intrigued me how close the riff in 'Killing in the name' is to the one in 'Man of constant sorrow'.

If you want to understand how messed up the UK class/accent system is and how damaging for all sides, there's an episode of below deck med. It plays out between a private school chef and a northern stewardess.

You can't see the eyes in this pic. An ant is much cuter when you see it's big welcoming eyes.

For me, as a kid back then it was the magazines. I would wait all month and then devour the latest Felix Denis publication end to end. The editors of these magazines could be considered the orchestrators of the UK 8 bit scene. Manuals were out of my financial reach.

She mentions that this was all downloaded previously. They prob have a local server/DNS.

This thread is an amazing distillation of hard earned advice. For me. Do something physically challenging. Do a long distance walk like the Camino de Santiago, climb a mountain, do some cycle sportives. Travel, read philosophy and physics, watch Mike judge films. Live as cheaply as you can. Your brain is telling you it's time to change things.

>Lastly, and this is definitely overkill. I had a dentist take an xray of the new and old parts.

Is this a friend? Or would any dentist consider this for a fee?

I'll be broaching this subject at my upcoming clean and polish.

Are there any figures available for .net usage outside of large organisations?

Well, the parents are not happy all the time. But when the offspring are safe and happy, the parents will be generally happy. Should a threat to the offspring exist, the parents will not be happy. Seems to fit with the gene's plan.

The quality of music discussion on HN is incredible to me and some of the best I have encountered. Is there a frustrated muso in all engineers?

There quite a lot out there, few getting much use though.

List here: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ Other interesting telnet servers include JPL: telnet horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775 and telehack.com.

There's even a telnet WOPR emulator: https://github.com/abs0/wargames

I pulled an Amstrad cpc464 out of the loft at the beginning of the year and headed deep down the rabbit hole. For me the most interesting thing is interfacing with modern microcontrollers. Pics, stm32, esp(s) etc. There's something about telneting to BBS over the internet from a machine from 1985. The wargames effect maybe. Standouts for the CPC include the M4 board, the dandanator and the USIFAC. I have a lot of respect for those who built these. Despite an engineering degree and a 25 year career my low level knowledge has expanded greatly from playing with these things. It's also been a lot of fun.

It looks like gphotos-sync is the way to do this.

Must be new as I was looking for a tool like this a few years ago and nothing existed.

> Robin Williams committed suicide despite having them all, I think it's fair to assume he was not happy.

That's why I added 'Generally' and 'should be found'. It would be fair to say that Robin Williams was ill.

Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. The greatest happiness therefore, should be found in the process of breeding and caring for offspring.

Social status (consumption, skills and achievements) helps you secure higher quality mates and offers greater security to your offspring. That's why gaining social status, feels worthwhile, but without kids it feels a bit empty.

Before kids, I knew the breeding was pretty good fun, but my genes gave me no indication that having kids would be fun too.

Perhaps thats just to ensure those genes are spread far and wide and to concentrate on social status before the all consuming process of caring for offspring begins.