Lorenzo C.
@lorenzogc.bsky.social
I can't stop watching it! 😆 I CAN'T STOP!
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I can't stop watching it! 😆 I CAN'T STOP!
Apologies for butting in but I have a related question: why are light switches placed nearly 2 feet higher than door handles? In my 1991 terraced house that's the case.
Why different height? Why making the lights inconveniente to switch off and on?
Why different height? Why making the lights inconveniente to switch off and on?
December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Apologies for butting in but I have a related question: why are light switches placed nearly 2 feet higher than door handles? In my 1991 terraced house that's the case.
Why different height? Why making the lights inconveniente to switch off and on?
Why different height? Why making the lights inconveniente to switch off and on?
Do relatives necessary share the ethos of the founders? What even is a "family business"?
And if we were to give legal value to such norm, should the CMA block acquisitions which prevent relatives to get hold of a "family business"?
And if we were to give legal value to such norm, should the CMA block acquisitions which prevent relatives to get hold of a "family business"?
December 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do relatives necessary share the ethos of the founders? What even is a "family business"?
And if we were to give legal value to such norm, should the CMA block acquisitions which prevent relatives to get hold of a "family business"?
And if we were to give legal value to such norm, should the CMA block acquisitions which prevent relatives to get hold of a "family business"?
The inventor and industrial designer James Dyson sounds deranged: "And who wants to start a family business if you can't leave it to your children, if it can't carry on in the same ethos to which it started?"
Did he set up Dyson Ltd planning for his wife to take it on after his own death?
Did he set up Dyson Ltd planning for his wife to take it on after his own death?
December 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The inventor and industrial designer James Dyson sounds deranged: "And who wants to start a family business if you can't leave it to your children, if it can't carry on in the same ethos to which it started?"
Did he set up Dyson Ltd planning for his wife to take it on after his own death?
Did he set up Dyson Ltd planning for his wife to take it on after his own death?
“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Your objectivity takes all magic out of Christmas!
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Your objectivity takes all magic out of Christmas!
When? During COVID lockdowns... at least according the the trend discovery team at Waitrose. Once identified it spread into new products 😖
At 28' 48" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I want to make clear that the statements about what Italians "historically" did with pizza is libellous 😤
At 28' 48" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I want to make clear that the statements about what Italians "historically" did with pizza is libellous 😤
The Food Programme - Food and AI - BBC Sounds
Jaega Wise considers the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the food industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
When? During COVID lockdowns... at least according the the trend discovery team at Waitrose. Once identified it spread into new products 😖
At 28' 48" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I want to make clear that the statements about what Italians "historically" did with pizza is libellous 😤
At 28' 48" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I want to make clear that the statements about what Italians "historically" did with pizza is libellous 😤
I would have rated this C64 better if they had included an alternative, something like the BBC BASIC or, possibly, what the cool kids use now... micropython.
Any opinion on that?
Any opinion on that?
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I would have rated this C64 better if they had included an alternative, something like the BBC BASIC or, possibly, what the cool kids use now... micropython.
Any opinion on that?
Any opinion on that?
I have fond memories of the C64 as a kid but I also remember the frustration of trying to access the extraordinary audio and video capabilities of that device through the Commodore BASIC: it always ended with a bunch of PEEK and POKE! 😆
I then approached machine language but I couldn't go far.
I then approached machine language but I couldn't go far.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have fond memories of the C64 as a kid but I also remember the frustration of trying to access the extraordinary audio and video capabilities of that device through the Commodore BASIC: it always ended with a bunch of PEEK and POKE! 😆
I then approached machine language but I couldn't go far.
I then approached machine language but I couldn't go far.
Thank you for the review and thank you for being objective and helpful about the price.
I'm not among the potential customers of the current Commodore but I quite like what they are doing or trying to do.
There's something that makes me a bit perplexed though: what makes this truly a 2025 product?
I'm not among the potential customers of the current Commodore but I quite like what they are doing or trying to do.
There's something that makes me a bit perplexed though: what makes this truly a 2025 product?
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thank you for the review and thank you for being objective and helpful about the price.
I'm not among the potential customers of the current Commodore but I quite like what they are doing or trying to do.
There's something that makes me a bit perplexed though: what makes this truly a 2025 product?
I'm not among the potential customers of the current Commodore but I quite like what they are doing or trying to do.
There's something that makes me a bit perplexed though: what makes this truly a 2025 product?
I (mis)used "consumer" as "not industrial". An industrial application would be controlling a production line or being at the core of a processing hub for many years.
The A3000T was to be used by a single person at a time and likely to become "dated" fairly quickly.
The A3000T was to be used by a single person at a time and likely to become "dated" fairly quickly.
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I (mis)used "consumer" as "not industrial". An industrial application would be controlling a production line or being at the core of a processing hub for many years.
The A3000T was to be used by a single person at a time and likely to become "dated" fairly quickly.
The A3000T was to be used by a single person at a time and likely to become "dated" fairly quickly.
It seems to me that it was a commercial/strategic decision to stick with the legacy "single board computer" concept and, possibly, tie the most valuable Amiga assets (audio & video capabilities) to the main board so that they could not be replaced by 3rd party add-on cards.
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It seems to me that it was a commercial/strategic decision to stick with the legacy "single board computer" concept and, possibly, tie the most valuable Amiga assets (audio & video capabilities) to the main board so that they could not be replaced by 3rd party add-on cards.
Amiga engineers must have known that it was possible to adopt an architecture which did not rely on a single gigantic board: A3000T has Zorro III slots, which are for the very high speed I/Fs you refer to, and PCs had been using storage controller cards and graphics cards since their inception
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Amiga engineers must have known that it was possible to adopt an architecture which did not rely on a single gigantic board: A3000T has Zorro III slots, which are for the very high speed I/Fs you refer to, and PCs had been using storage controller cards and graphics cards since their inception
That thing's massive! I saw the 1st video 😄
Who in their right mind would come up with a consumer product based on a single huge PCB? Any mistake must have cost a fortune to fix.
Who in their right mind would come up with a consumer product based on a single huge PCB? Any mistake must have cost a fortune to fix.
December 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
That thing's massive! I saw the 1st video 😄
Who in their right mind would come up with a consumer product based on a single huge PCB? Any mistake must have cost a fortune to fix.
Who in their right mind would come up with a consumer product based on a single huge PCB? Any mistake must have cost a fortune to fix.
Cutting corners in the components while placing ever increasing demands on the performance is not good 😆
I fear that at no point in the evolution of the PC someone ever wondered "will this change in the technology of the processor negatively affect the reliability of the electrolytic capacitors?"
I fear that at no point in the evolution of the PC someone ever wondered "will this change in the technology of the processor negatively affect the reliability of the electrolytic capacitors?"
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cutting corners in the components while placing ever increasing demands on the performance is not good 😆
I fear that at no point in the evolution of the PC someone ever wondered "will this change in the technology of the processor negatively affect the reliability of the electrolytic capacitors?"
I fear that at no point in the evolution of the PC someone ever wondered "will this change in the technology of the processor negatively affect the reliability of the electrolytic capacitors?"
Cheap = just about good enough until recently
Here is the voltage regulation stage of an Asus P4P800 SE (2002). I took the picture when I went to check my P4 Northwood system in my parent's basement last year.
Asus shoving the caps between the power ICs and the heatsink of a 68W P4 did not help!
Here is the voltage regulation stage of an Asus P4P800 SE (2002). I took the picture when I went to check my P4 Northwood system in my parent's basement last year.
Asus shoving the caps between the power ICs and the heatsink of a 68W P4 did not help!
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cheap = just about good enough until recently
Here is the voltage regulation stage of an Asus P4P800 SE (2002). I took the picture when I went to check my P4 Northwood system in my parent's basement last year.
Asus shoving the caps between the power ICs and the heatsink of a 68W P4 did not help!
Here is the voltage regulation stage of an Asus P4P800 SE (2002). I took the picture when I went to check my P4 Northwood system in my parent's basement last year.
Asus shoving the caps between the power ICs and the heatsink of a 68W P4 did not help!
with much, much higher ripple current which, in turn, lead to more self heating. I guess that, together with dodgy cost-cutting, caused an increase in failure rate.
I worked in rolling stock where, like automotive and aviation, reliability is regulated and we had to apply massive de-rating to caps
I worked in rolling stock where, like automotive and aviation, reliability is regulated and we had to apply massive de-rating to caps
December 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
with much, much higher ripple current which, in turn, lead to more self heating. I guess that, together with dodgy cost-cutting, caused an increase in failure rate.
I worked in rolling stock where, like automotive and aviation, reliability is regulated and we had to apply massive de-rating to caps
I worked in rolling stock where, like automotive and aviation, reliability is regulated and we had to apply massive de-rating to caps
It may sound like I'm shilling for rubbish electrolytic caps but National Semiconductors introduced its Simple Switcher line in the early '90s. At that time SMPS became manageable even without needing specialists in feedback loop controls and it meant an explosion of products demanding the caps deal
December 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It may sound like I'm shilling for rubbish electrolytic caps but National Semiconductors introduced its Simple Switcher line in the early '90s. At that time SMPS became manageable even without needing specialists in feedback loop controls and it meant an explosion of products demanding the caps deal
But that's just OCR? Do you mean creating the description of a picture?
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
But that's just OCR? Do you mean creating the description of a picture?
@davidmcraney.bsky.social
these are shortbread biscuits and not 'cookies' but they would suit the podcast, wouldn't they?
these are shortbread biscuits and not 'cookies' but they would suit the podcast, wouldn't they?
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
@davidmcraney.bsky.social
these are shortbread biscuits and not 'cookies' but they would suit the podcast, wouldn't they?
these are shortbread biscuits and not 'cookies' but they would suit the podcast, wouldn't they?
It may not apply to the entire range of providers but S&S ISAs generally have significant fees. Finding a suitable provider with, possibly, an introductory offer cancelling/discounting the fees requires just a tad more extra effort then choosing a cash ISA.
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It may not apply to the entire range of providers but S&S ISAs generally have significant fees. Finding a suitable provider with, possibly, an introductory offer cancelling/discounting the fees requires just a tad more extra effort then choosing a cash ISA.
The people of this country have had enough of (services) exports!
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The people of this country have had enough of (services) exports!