countrymile

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by countrymile 15d ago
I'm currently writing a history of this. What year in the 70s? I've struggled to find widespread logo use before the end of the 1970s.
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by countrymile 23d ago
Polars is a world away from pandas, but I feel that dplyr still offers the most simple and understandable introduction to data analysis for the beginner. The above is a good example of this.
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by countrymile 26d ago
How far is blender off this nowadays?
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What Happened to Google's James Damore?(thefp.com)
2 points by countrymile 2mo ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 3mo ago
Funding wise I asked a year or so back about crowd funding, but hear nothing back. My means are limited but I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could band together. The project seems content on the big doners right now?
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by countrymile 3mo ago
did anything progress on trying to dig more out of the ground? i know that there was thinking that a lot of scrolls might still be down there
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Only Ada?: dominance of entrepreneurial white men as computing famous figures(tandfonline.com)
2 points by countrymile 3mo ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 4mo ago
There's a lot of new roads being mapped in England. Interesting how the inscriptions on the map are often between roads, suggesting an unmapped pathway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543
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by countrymile 6mo ago
Great website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.
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by countrymile 7mo ago
It's toward the bottom, the date is 24th Feb 2026. But yes, it could be from ten or twenty or thirty years ago....
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England: Time to Replace Computer Science with Computing – Guzdial(computinged.wordpress.com)
1 points by countrymile 7mo ago|3 comments
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by countrymile 8mo ago
It's quite a bit of money, but a lot less than the equivalent Maya licenses. It would be great if more studios did this: $240k "Press release, tech blogpost, dedicated product manager for your area" https://fund.b
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by countrymile 8mo ago
It's worth noting that R has a great duckdb API as well. Saved me a lot of time when dealing with a 29GB CSV file and splitting it into separate parquet files on a low RAM ONS server a few months back. https://r.duckdb.org&#
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2025 UK Young Animator of the year winners(younganimator.uk)
6 points by countrymile 10mo ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 11mo ago
Also worth looking at this very UK take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543
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by countrymile 11mo ago
I think that could be part of the plan
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England rolls back 2014 computer science curriculum reform(theguardian.com)
3 points by countrymile 11mo ago|2 comments
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England government drops CS schools qualification(schoolsweek.co.uk)
1 points by countrymile 11mo ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 11mo ago
Not sure that equivalence works, cognitive science doesn't require that people believe that computers can think; and STEM doesn't require that people think of the world in a purely mechanistic way - e.g. historically, many scienti
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by countrymile 1y ago
That's my understanding too. R never seems to make these lists.
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by countrymile 1y ago
The IBM school's computer. Developed by IBM Hursley in 1967, it was years ahead in its design, display out to a television and storage on normal audio tape. Would have kick started an educational revolution if it had been launched beyo
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Children's Perception of the World of Technology: Through the Lens of Heidegger(link.springer.com)
2 points by countrymile 1y ago|0 comments
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Supporting Highly Able Programmers in Secondary Schools in England(dl.acm.org)
1 points by countrymile 1y ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 1y ago
He was great, had always done his homework!
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by countrymile 1y ago
Nice, a few English schools were running the programma 101 at a similar time. The use of a CRT and tape drive was about 10 years ahead of its time. I do wonder what would have happened if they'd ever commercialised it. It seemed to hav
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Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969(retrocomputingforum.com)
15 points by countrymile 1y ago|2 comments
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by countrymile 1y ago
Absolutely essential if you want to play dk. It fixes the graphics issue and some glitches in the game. With this dk1 becomes a much better game than dk2
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by countrymile 1y ago
Firefox mobile quite happy here
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Parallel Processing in Purrr 1.1.0(tidyverse.org)
6 points by countrymile 1y ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 1y ago
Lidar has been a game changer. Also, in the UK context, new developments will often require archeologists to survey the land before ground works can start. There are piles of photographs of fields from the RAF, US air force and Luftwaffe. A

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