grallator.bsky.social
Physicist and mathematician. Modelling, simulation and software.
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Compiler - by which I mean assembler of course - D’oh. Too many years using compilers I guess…
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“Write structured programs” 🤔 defproc didn’t stop people writing spaghetti code but it pleased the O/A level computer studies exam boards/teachers. 😁.
Anyway BBC because (a) 6502 and (b) built in compiler
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Does that let you become invisible for no more than 15 mins every day? (Testing your 70’s tv scify here😁…)
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EBay, only £1.6k - collect from Birmingham! Bit pricey for me…
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20521546...
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Fantastic sounding machine. Was the Fortran compiled? Also love the plastic page bounding - had several commodore user guides with these and they always fell apart.
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Morning
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You’ve got to do the water going down the plug hole rotation direction thing!
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True! But moot point for Maxwell - we’ll never know 😉
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I don’t know, but he did have a great intellect
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Maxwell was far too young when he died. Given a few more years he’d have surely come up with a version of special relativity
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Watch those capacitors if that thing is 30+ old!
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Great image - love making and seeing these sort of BW photos, especially taken in winter.
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Buy British 😉!
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Did you know that if you keep a tin of beans near a warm light source for a bit over 15 years it eventually explodes and sprays beans all over your home office (and dinosaurs within)?
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You’re right. The back arches drop lower on those early versions and I think it threw me
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Looks like the front springs don’t match the back 🤔
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The scale is logarithmic
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I only go in there with my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses
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Found the planning department
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Did they lift that name from Don Quixote or the Rush song Cygnus-X1 (who also lifted it from Don Quixote) 🤔?
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“Nobody likes the fat one”
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Trick question - they’re Romulan warbirds
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Morning
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Do you need a specialist supplier for tyres for the old 10” wheels?
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View (or not) from the cockpit of one of those things
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It ain’t called the vomit comet for nothing!
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Absolutely the inspiration behind the original BBC TV HHGTTG deep thought design
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Keep quiet about the use and design of carburettors on Merlins… 🤫
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Lock that in a box in a garage and keep a flamethrower and CO2 fire extinguisher nearby. And monitor it 24/7. I’ve seen too many 50’s creature flicks to take chances
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Morning
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Morning
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That’s the spirit.
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You also get to treat derivatives as fractions
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And… cue the shutdown of the UK.
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🤣
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We had an old style ‘proper’ mini with a swimming pool in the boot 🤔.
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Morning (from number 6)
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That’s terrifying
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There’s an appendix to that discussing the maths of the time dilation effects of satellites whizzing around the earth relative to the observers and the observers sitting in a gravity well.
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Morning
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A work of art.
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One does Jaguar - but only up to a certain year. Waiting to see what pops out in 2026 when they start selling cars again…
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I suspected as much 😉
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Welcome to the (un)jungle!
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Morning