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I visited a couple years ago - it was lovely to finally touch an authentic Spectrum, 3 decades after spending my early life hacking around on various clones. Was well worth the 30 minute ride from Coimbra.


Really? That sounds strange to me. I still have one somewhere.


Yep, some of us only had access to what is on the long list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones


oh, I get it now. Thanks for the answer.


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Apparently "update and shutdown does a restart instead" was very recently finally fixed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797934



That looks pretty close to what I want. Thanks!


I initially built Spegel to deal with a series of GHCR outages along with rate limit changes in Docker Hub. I am a bit biased but it is a no brainier to run Spegel to mitigate these types of issues.


Thank you. Question, how large of clusters have you deployed spegel to? I run clusters which are well beyond the defined k8s limits and sometimes when we put stuff in there it blows up as it wasn’t ever tested at those scales (for example Cilium) https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...




Ahh, the Spectrum screen pixel math, oh the memories.

Once upon a time a much younger myself obtained a dot-matrix printer that I managed to wire up to my computer. Sadly, it was meant to only print text, and having a fancy typewriter definitely wasn't very much fun to me. Somehow, I figured out that the printer actually supported defining custom fonts! After some reverse-engineering of the format I ended up with a program to slice the screen into rectangles matching printer's letter sizes (which were not 8x8 pixels, to make it extra fun) and sending them as custom font definition for each symbol of the alphabet, then printing "ABCD..."

Getting a paper printout of loading screens or in-game screenshot art was mind-blowing.


The company I work for open-sourced a straightforward library that does exactly that: https://github.com/embrace-io/s3-batch-object-store



Franz Kafka is certainly not unknown, ever since long before people who worked on K8s were even born.

See previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296969


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