boygobbo

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by boygobbo 2y ago
I think that was meant to be CBPV (Call-By-Push-Value)
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by boygobbo 2y ago
Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino
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by boygobbo 2y ago
Nice reading!
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by boygobbo 3y ago
You can get RTF or Word versions from the project home page: http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/rom-dis/ and a complete ROM disassembly in assembler format (with most of the same info as the book) here: https://git
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by boygobbo 3y ago
A vacuum cleaner described in 'words that are four letters long or shorter': a tool to suck dirt and dust into a bag ;)
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by boygobbo 3y ago
"London’s thriving economy generates a £26.5bn surplus that is recycled by the government to provide financial help to Britain’s less well-off regions, according to an official breakdown of the public finances." and "Every Lo
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by boygobbo 3y ago
confabulate: to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true (Collins)
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by boygobbo 4y ago
Even older. Maurice Wilkes first proposed the concept in 1951 & the EDSAC-2, the first computer to use microprogramming, was operational by 1958.
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by boygobbo 4y ago
It wasn't banned in the UK & the BBFC passed it uncut. Stanley Kubrick himself requested it be withdrawn from distribution after some copycat incidents.
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by boygobbo 4y ago
The speed limit is a bit of a red herring. The average speed of traffic in central London is about 9 miles/hour & inner London about 12. The average speed in the suburbs (outer London) is about 20 mph, even though the speed limit i
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by boygobbo 4y ago
> Ruby developers didn't change the behaviour of these characters because Ruby has \A and \Z to match the boundaries of a string
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by boygobbo 4y ago
The Psion 7 (& Netbook) have IMHO the absolute best keyboards for their form factor. I still use my Netbook for distraction-free writing. It doesn't run on AA batteries but will easily last a couple of days on one charge. At just o
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by boygobbo 4y ago
And Emacs
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by boygobbo 4y ago
And most people couldn't tell the difference between a genuine paper on quantum mechanics and one generated by a machine. Would that mean machines could write genuine papers on quantum mechanics? This article says more about most peopl
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by boygobbo 4y ago
Don't envy them - they are deluding themselves.
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Ceefax: The Dawn of Interactive TV (BBC 1977)(youtube.com)
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by boygobbo 5y ago
Glacier is for storing records that by law you have to keep for a certain period of time (e.g. 6 years for expenses, tax & accounting, etc.) but that you have no intention of ever retrieving yourself. It's not a cheap backup soluti
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by boygobbo 5y ago
As someone who did use an Archimedes A440 when it came out (late 1987 I think), it was plenty zippy enough. It's original desktop shell Arthur was written in BBC Basic, so I think it could have handled Smalltalk. There is a port of Squ
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by boygobbo 5y ago
"This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics."
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by boygobbo 5y ago
Emacs has a mode for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/En...
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by boygobbo 5y ago
To be fair, the paper is by a mathematician, not a philosopher. The question is valid - what /do/ mathematicians mean when they use the term 'morally'? It doesn't seem to have much to do with what most people (inclu
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by boygobbo 5y ago
> My personal wish for gauging this work (once it's complete) would be more quantitative: a "classical music earworm neural net" plus a "composer uniqueness rating". This sounds a little like marking your own hom
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by boygobbo 5y ago
There's a Wikipedia page[1] which covers the general background and a copy of the SCRIPT/VS Text Programmer's Guide[2] (which was my bible back in the day) on archive.org, which should give you a pretty good overview. [1] ht
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by boygobbo 5y ago
This looks very similar to me to the mainframe manuals I am familiar with from this time which were written using SCRIPT/VS as the printer control language & GML (which begat SGML) as the document markup language (implemented as SC
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by boygobbo 5y ago
I'm wondering what they would do to your lungs if you inhaled them...
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by boygobbo 5y ago
It's called 'market segmentation'. It's why there are different brands of soap powder from the same manufacturer even though they are all essentially the same.
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by boygobbo 5y ago
Did you mean the Acorn Archimedes? (The Acorn Electron was a cut-down version of the 8-bit BBC Model B. The Archimedes was the first ARM computer (32-bit RISC CPU, full colour WIMP interface, anti-aliased fonts, etc.).
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by boygobbo 5y ago
I've just read it myself and was very impressed by Richard Hipp's calm, courteous and honest demeanour. I would recommend this to anyone as a paragon of how to respond to a difficult situation.
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by boygobbo 5y ago
ndjson appears to be a fork of jsonlines with the addition of a spec (see https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson.github.io/issues/1 )
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by boygobbo 5y ago
I find the 'expensive tissue hypothesis' (based on brain/gut ratio) quite persuasive. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_tissue_hypothesis

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