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by user2994cb 2y ago
Interesting date on that Max Newman paper - 2nd September 1942. Newman started working at Bletchley Park on 31st August, where he was deeply involved in the decryption of the Lorenz cipher and the development of Colossus.
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by user2994cb 4y ago
I like this Python3 quine, which doesn't use repr printing: (lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+b+q+s+q+c+q+e+q+q+c+q+b+q+c+q+k+q+c+q+c+q+c+q+e+e+q+k))("lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+b+q+s+q+c+q+e+q+q+c+q+b+q+c+q+k+q+c+q+c+q+c+q+
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by user2994cb 5y ago
If you don't like those hard-coded character constants, lack of newlines, and compiler warnings, here's a C quine on similar lines: #include<stdio.h> int main(){ char q='"',n='\n',b='\
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New Manuscript Leaves and the Printing of Principia Mathematica(mulpress.mcmaster.ca)
2 points by user2994cb 5y ago|0 comments
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by user2994cb 5y ago
Interesting paper here: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/view/208...
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by user2994cb 5y ago
VRML is still used as an input format for colour 3d printing, eg. https://www.stratasysdirect.com/resources/design-guidelines/...
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by user2994cb 5y ago
I'm sure there are some creative uses in C-style comments for U+2215, Division Slash: ∕
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Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips(arxiv.org)
113 points by user2994cb 5y ago|66 comments
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by user2994cb 5y ago
Lots of interesting details here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf
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by user2994cb 5y ago
And BCPL was a cut down version of CPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)
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Finally, someone put a Greggs in Far Cry 5(pcgamer.com)
2 points by user2994cb 5y ago|1 comments
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Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88(theguardian.com)
1 points by user2994cb 5y ago|0 comments
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by user2994cb 5y ago
A nice run through of the recent Met production here: https://vimeo.com/39374902
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by user2994cb 6y ago
How about a 3d model of the universe, inverted, say, in the (model) earth's surface?
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by user2994cb 6y ago
Sassoon is designed for that purpose, this version seems OK: https://www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon
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by user2994cb 6y ago
Raspbian used to have a hilarious implementation of memcmp that temporarily switched to big endian mode in a (probably misguided) attempt at speeding things up. Valgrind didn't like this very much: https://bugs.kde.org/
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by user2994cb 6y ago
A useful reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_I...
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by user2994cb 6y ago
They have tunnels through a lot of the islands as well - mostly single track with passing places (looked pretty terrifying when I was there a couple of decades ago, though I was never the one driving).
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by user2994cb 6y ago
Generating mazes on 3d polyhedra & other surfaces: http://matthewarcus.github.io/polyjs/maze.html
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Geometry Formulas and Facts(geom.uiuc.edu)
2 points by user2994cb 7y ago|0 comments
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by user2994cb 7y ago
Sirius I found deeply moving and quite different from his more cosmic novels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_(novel)
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Online Sale: The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing(forumauctions.co.uk)
1 points by user2994cb 7y ago|0 comments
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by user2994cb 7y ago
Dr. Johnson gives both spellings in his Dictionary, along with relevant quotes from Milton and Dryden, which are all spelled "spelled" or "spell'd".
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by user2994cb 7y ago
That was probably a factor - does HN do this for all newbie comments though? Most of the 'dead' comments I see are more obviously dodgy.
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by user2994cb 7y ago
I don't (it wasn't my project) but I've emailed my housemate (seemed polite, since we are talking about him).
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by user2994cb 7y ago
And this is the (now defunct) Panos restaurant, on Hills Road: https://i2-prod.cambridge-news.co.uk/incoming/article1345494...
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Centre for Computing History (Cambridge, UK)(computinghistory.org.uk)
1 points by user2994cb 7y ago|0 comments
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by user2994cb 7y ago
The Centre for Computing History is a great place to visit - lots of machines up and running you can actually use (mainly from the 8-bit era, but other interesting things too).
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by user2994cb 7y ago
Rather than Unix, our Workstation ran Panos, the only operating system that I know of named after a Greek restaurant.
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by user2994cb 7y ago
One of these: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/33101/Acorn-Cambridge... with a TI 32016 processor & using a BBC Micro for UI - except that my housemate Colin thought it was a bit expensive, so reverse en

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