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by vmilner 8d ago
New textbook may help https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2025-01-29-gnuradio-textbook/
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by vmilner 13d ago
Formalisation of the classification of finite simple groups must be on someone’s ‘moonshot’ list.
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by vmilner 29d ago
'Gandalf himself never uses the palantiri that Thiel named his company after, not just due to how incredibly dangerous and powerful they are, but also their corrupting nature.' Seems a bit harsh. It's chatting to Sauron with
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by vmilner 1mo ago
There's a depressing number who dismiss the benefits of things like learning times tables as 'rote learning' rather than force-multipliers that free your brain for other things.
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by vmilner 1mo ago
"There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can’t unravel the thousand and first." Sherlock Holmes, 'A Study in Scarlet'
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by vmilner 2mo ago
Takes me back to the ZX Spectrum 1980s when 128KB RAM was an unaffordable luxury. (Bit like today...) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2000237/Book/Mastering... http://www.primrosebank.net&#x2
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by vmilner 2mo ago
> FreeBSD despite its title never had something to do with Free Software The FSF disagree: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD
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by vmilner 3mo ago
Yes Minister on point as usual https://youtu.be/x-HBsT6GmMs?t=69
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by vmilner 3mo ago
Does anyone have recommendations for cheapish mechanical watches that don't cost a fortune to service? (UK based) Secondhand or new.
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by vmilner 3mo ago
"In the morning Fatty was mildly unnerved to see the other hobbits painting a large sign outside the little house with 'Frodo lives here' and 'Sauron sucks!' on it."
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by vmilner 3mo ago
Fatty Bolger?
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by vmilner 3mo ago
I remember when Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (Mix of 'Choose your own adventure' and solo D+D adventure) were big in the UK in the 80s, and teachers were sniffy about them not being proper reading. I bet they'd love their kids
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by vmilner 4mo ago
It's a superficial point but this relatively newer style (La)TeX layout makes me much more keen to read documents for some reason.
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by vmilner 4mo ago
I seem to remember some medical related multiple choice tests in the UK use a mechanism of +1 for correct , 0 for unanswered , -1 for incorrect.
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by vmilner 4mo ago
I enjoyed reading Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden after reading that in the early 90s. Also the C standard from the time and the attached 'Rationale' document https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/n
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by vmilner 4mo ago
Are there no posted birthday cards in Denmark any more?
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by vmilner 5mo ago
"Pricematch" is also common in the UK for traditional stores like Sainsburys Tesco competing with Lidl and Aldi 'discounters'.
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by vmilner 5mo ago
Isn't it common for state sales taxes to be added at the till? (I don't live in the US but that seemed to be what happened on my visits there)
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by vmilner 5mo ago
It's not as good as ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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by vmilner 6mo ago
The estimable (inestimable?) Daniel Estevez wrote excellent blogs on the Voyager comms protocols. https://destevez.net/2021/09/decoding-voyager-1/
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by vmilner 6mo ago
Edwin Berlekamp significantly reduced (by half I think) the number of transistors required for the Reed-Solomon error correcting code by telling them to use a non-standard 'primitive element'
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by vmilner 6mo ago
The weirdest thing to me is that the quantisation matrix isn’t symmetrical in the top left to bottom right diagonal.
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by vmilner 6mo ago
“Secret Army” (the “straight” inspiration of the comedy “Allo Allo”) - a dramatised version of the Belgian Comete line that returned allied airmen to Britain still stands up as a superb series from the 70s. https://www.dailymoti
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by vmilner 6mo ago
> For example, RHEL 10 has a planned support phase out until 2035, with extended support available until 2038. I wonder if that's 19 Jan 2038. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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by vmilner 6mo ago
I thought this was going to be an article by Rob Pike on control flow in golang...
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by vmilner 6mo ago
"And so the Y10K problem was born"
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by vmilner 7mo ago
"The title is the same as that of a very well-known book by Professor L. E. Dickson (with which ours has little in common). We proposed at one time to change it to 'An introduction to arithmetic', a more novel and in some way
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by vmilner 7mo ago
Looks like they're here: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/info/exercises.html https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flphandouts.html
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by vmilner 7mo ago
Unlike the commercial audio CDs of the lectures the recordings here have the chat before and after the lecture which is fun. My favourite lecture is the standalone "The Principle of Least Action" at https://www.feynmanl
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by vmilner 7mo ago
Browsing this on my iPhone shows me garbage and tells me if im not an AI scraper to contact Codeberg. Goodbye.

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