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by boygobbo 5y ago
Also In Our Time (another great BBC radio discussion programme) on Songs of Innocence and Experience : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gh4pg
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by boygobbo 5y ago
This reminds me of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence (~1803): To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
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by boygobbo 6y ago
And let's not forget that Bertrand Russell was also a very principled man - he was imprisoned for his pacifism during World War I and for his involvement in anti-nuclear campaigning in 1961 (aged 89!).
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by boygobbo 6y ago
Well, we often talk about morality in terms of our emotional and physical response - e.g. revulsion ('disgusting behaviour'), fear ('recoiling in horror') and pain ('pangs of conscience'), etc. It's also p
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by boygobbo 6y ago
4 boxes at 4 corners = 9,999
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by boygobbo 6y ago
The forums are live: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/
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by boygobbo 6y ago
That's a really useful comment - thanks!
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by boygobbo 6y ago
You might find this an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
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by boygobbo 6y ago
> the OS was a quick hack job You mean Arthur? I have to agree - the only impressive thing about it was that it was written in BBC Basic. I also spent too much on an A440 (and a multisync monitor that literally made my hair stand on end
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by boygobbo 6y ago
Then I recommend https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm
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by boygobbo 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. BTW I agree with tome - your comment above would make a great blog post.
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by boygobbo 6y ago
Does this approach avoid the issue of substrings preventing the strings they refer to from being garbage collected (e.g. as in Java's substring() before JDK 7)?
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by boygobbo 6y ago
cf. ColorForth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJoRyxRcj4A
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by boygobbo 6y ago
In case anyone's interested, here's a Ruby version: (1..10).select(&:odd?).map{|x| x*x }.select{|x| x < 50 }
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by boygobbo 7y ago
They might go exclusive to BBC Sounds. The BBC has already started pulling its services from those they perceive to be competitors, like TuneIn[1] and Google Podcast[2]. [1] https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to
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by boygobbo 7y ago
A couple of name suggestions from Latin: - cortex (means husk or shell) - nux (nut, i.e. a fruit with a shell) 'Murex' by the way means the sea snail that Tyrian purple dye was made from.
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by boygobbo 7y ago
https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/4f853252f715132e...
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by boygobbo 13y ago
Agreed. One of the best links I've ever followed from HN.