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2 years ago
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on: Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024
Ah thanks for this clarification - I was wondering what the need was for the RF modulation and if it was necessary for just plain old TV use. Great project and thanks for bringing the possibility to my attention!
paulcapewell
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2 years ago
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on: Coffee in a Can
paulcapewell
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2 years ago
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on: Coffee in a Can
I've never seen it in the UK, but having seen it in Cyprus, I will have to check out Greek Cypriot stores in London now...
paulcapewell
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2 years ago
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on: VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode
Took me way too long to realise this was about VSCode, not the image editor VSCO. I need a coffee.
paulcapewell
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2 years ago
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on: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
The redirect has always been a bit annoying and I found on mobile if you click a link, see it load the t.co URL, then quickly go back and click again, it instead loads the actual linked URL. So I just instinctively do this now.
paulcapewell
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2 years ago
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on: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
Today I learned what a green username means
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: Is AM radio dead?
British guy here: sorry if this is a silly question but are you talking about an actual radio station which is just people talking about repairing cars? That’s so interesting! Nothing like that here. Maybe the odd specialist show once a week like Gardener’s Question Time or whatever.
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: Is AM radio dead?
I can’t readily find when these became a thing but search for ‘pantry transmitter’ - I’m fairly sure that, whether for kids to muck around with, or to play the sound of your own vinyl records on another radio in your own home, these kinds of micro transmitters have been in use for decades.
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3 years ago
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on: No Start Menu for You
No, I know - thank you - but I mean there is no Explorer at that path in regedit for me.
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: No Start Menu for You
I don't see an Explorer folder under that path on my installation.
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
This is stunning. Thanks!
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
367 comments here, and not a single one left at the original article's own blog! What a missed opportunity.
paulcapewell
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3 years ago
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on: Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too
This is so valid.
I first encountered this in Songkick's gig archives, which - correctly, I would say - would update the names of venues when they changed. Unexpectedly - and I would say incorrectly - my archive would then occasionally show I had been to a gig at a venue but under its new name. I presume this also happens with band names, and so it's possible that one's gig archive might reflect that one had been to see Sea Power at the Camden Assembly, when one had in fact been to see British Sea Power at the Camden Barfly.
It's edge case stuff, but it does become more and more of an issue as time goes on. I fear for our ancestors working on their family trees and piecing together lives whose metadata make no sense. I presume we'll have solved it all by then though. Of course we will.
paulcapewell
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4 years ago
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on: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
Amusingly, given this topic, when I clicked your ello link, I had to accept a cookie consent, ignore a request to 'join the creators network' (whatever that means), and the page itself has a floating header.
Oh, and yes, on Chrome on Android I can see a tiny scrollbar when scrolling, but I can't interact with it.
paulcapewell
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4 years ago
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on: Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
That's really cool. So your tracked tracks (so to speak) helped inform maps of the trails you walked?
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4 years ago
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on: Fifteen Years Forsaken
If it's the one that features a line like "gin-fuelled despair", then it's the one I thought of as well.
Edit: huh, it's not. I'll try and find the one I'm thinking of.
paulcapewell
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5 years ago
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on: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
This is true but I think the point is about not having your email touch Google's servers - forwarding from your Gmail account means Google still gets to see your incoming email.
