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New comment by jsvaughan in "Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack"

jsvaughan — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 08:50:12 +0000

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 of the loft the other day but the biggest problem i found is that few of the original game tapes still work. did manage to play Jetpac though :)

New comment by jsvaughan in "3D Army Land Navigation Courses"

jsvaughan — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:00:16 +0000

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

New comment by jsvaughan in "Das Blinkenlights"

jsvaughan — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:29:45 +0000

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

New comment by jsvaughan in "Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide"

jsvaughan — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:58:14 +0000

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://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Ballistics-Cannons-Cincinnat...

China's BYD overtakes Tesla's electric car sales in last quarter of 2023

jsvaughan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:24:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67860232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844978

Points: 2

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Optimus Gen 2 (Tesla Robot) [video]

jsvaughan — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:15:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpraXaw7dyc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642235

Points: 3

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New comment by jsvaughan in "My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia"

jsvaughan — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:18:11 +0000

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

The Computer Sheds

jsvaughan — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:46:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553044

Points: 1

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New comment by jsvaughan in "The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020)"

jsvaughan — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:13:29 +0000

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 reasonably good, even someone who makes a net negative contribution.

New comment by jsvaughan in "The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (2006)"

jsvaughan — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:46:40 +0000

Great post, I hadn't seen this before

New comment by jsvaughan in "How to store your app's entire state in the url"

jsvaughan — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:35:49 +0000

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 than about 2000 chars puts you into uncertain territory:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maxim...

New comment by jsvaughan in "ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (1983)"

jsvaughan — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:23:06 +0000

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)