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I refuse to accept that the lack of spelling mistakes and the careful use of language is evidence of AI. I can be sloppy, but I've known Real Humans to take great care with their written language.
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The Dick Smith Funway books were a gateway drug for this primary school nerd. They were so simple even a parent could participate. https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsv...
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And The Hollowmen, which is set in the Prime Minister's Office and is made by the same team.
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I use an analogy with perfect pitch to illustrate colour-blindness to those with regular colour vision.

People with perfect pitch can be played a note on a piano, and identify it sight-unseen. "That's a C-sharp", they'll say confidently. Most others can tell if a note is higher or lower than another, or can pick an interval.

Regular colour vision is perfect pitch for colours. Most folks can identify a blue or a green in isolation, but some like me can only see relationships between colours (one is "bluer" or "greener" than another).
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Could be Australian. But we also use "Seppo", from a fairly tortured rhyming slang etymology: "Yank" -> "Septic Tank" -> "Seppo".
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> One of the stories I heard about the 50 is that if you threw it into the ocean it would sink intermittently.

Great computing joke, love it.