#RetroComputing. Liberal Democrat. Caterham 7 Owner. In remission from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.
https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-dangerous-side-effects-some-covid-19-vaccines-explained
Feeling smug that I've never felt the need to join any discord server.
@rpimag I'm still working on my Sharp MZ series emulator for the Pico/Pico 2 ... Lots of pictures and notes here: https://z80.timholyoake.uk/the-pico-mz-80k/
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
More testing for my Pico MZ-700 emulator. I do like it when a computer tells me I've played the perfect game and that I'm great 😀
Just day 19 and 20 left to finish now - the weather has been dreadful and there's not much improvement on the horizon. #AdventOfCode2020 #Fortran #RetroComputing
Mark Kermode reviews (eviscerates) Mel*nia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyUni8dbkE
@ednl Wow! I suspect Mark's final two words say it all: "absolutely repugnant"
The #LFortran compiler (alpha stage) now compiles #LAPACK:
https://lfortran.org/blog/2026/02/lfortran-compiles-lapack/
A quiet design change to the #RaspberryPi 4 next, as the company tries to battle ongoing RAM component price rises caused by the #AI bubble: it can now take either one full-capacity or two half-capacity DRAM chips, just like Sinclair's classic ZX81!
What's the main use of your #raspberrypi zero?
Boosts would be much appreciated.
Cual es el uso principal que le das a tu #raspberry pi zero?
Se agradece un boost.
@joscarbanyan mine runs a BME280 temperature, pressure and humidity sensor, plus a 4x20 LCD screen to act as a barometer and zambretti weather forecaster. Code here:
https://github.com/psychotimmy/weather
If I rewrote this from scratch today I'd probably use a Pico instead of a Pi. At various times the code has run on a pi zero, pi zero w, pi zero 2w and a pi 3a ... depending on what I had available!
@loudscotsbloke looks like a non-standard power supply? Fairly neat board without too many mods though. The main things I had to sort on mine were dead RAM chips and I still need to sort the cassette interface out. Have fun!
Nemanja Trifunovic attempts a balanced answer to the question: "how much of the CP/M design beyond the API was adopted by MS-DOS?"
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/how-much-of-cpms-design-ended-up
I've been doing some further testing (playing games if I'm honest) on the Pico MZ-700 emulator this afternoon. Most things seem ok, but I found a couple of minor issues to sort out. February's job if the weather stays so bad!
My silly @2001 project is about to render one of the most famous cut shots in cinematic history. Just a few days to go! (The rest of film is going to take ~20 years) https://frames.social/@2001/statuses/01KGACXZQC8HRJZC3H6YC76VRY
