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Roman Roads Research Association (UK)(romanroads.org)
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by countrymile 1y ago
I used to work with the most amazing blind COBOL programmer on CICS code. His speed in finding and fixing code with a screen reader, was mind blowing.
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by countrymile 1y ago
I was working on CICS in the early 2000s. An insane amount of live COBOL code still moving things around (and algol and Fortran). We occasionally found bugs in code written in the 70s.
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1969: Nellie: English School Computer – Tomorrow's World(bbc.co.uk)
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by countrymile 1y ago
For anyone who hasn't seen the detectorists, it gives a very British perspective on this sort of work, and is one of the best British comedies of the last ten years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
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by countrymile 1y ago
I know that part of the world quite well, it's from a local historical society, I just searched for them. They don't advertise well!
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by countrymile 1y ago
The accent attempt is at 1m30s but that's an Essex accent from the towns, and largely the result of Londoners moving out to Essex, if you head into the countryside, Essex sounds like this: https://youtu.be/1xxRdiiyT70?s
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by countrymile 1y ago
Where is the European one based? Apparently there is only one left.
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Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine(philwip.com)
248 points by countrymile 1y ago|52 comments
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Christianity Was Borderline Illegal in Silicon Valley. Now It's the New Religion(vanityfair.com)
2 points by countrymile 1y ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 1y ago
There are two sorts of Essex, the countryside version that straddles south Suffolk and the London imported one that has become the stereotype, that appears to be estuary on the map. Both have massive crossover depending whether you're
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by countrymile 2y ago
R is beautiful for writing data rich books and websites. I started with rmarkdown but believe that most of the new developments are now in quarto?
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by countrymile 2y ago
There are packages for that. Copilot is well integrated in Rstudio.
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Of Stars, Seagulls, and Love: Loren Eiseley on the First and Final Truth of Life(themarginalian.org)
1 points by countrymile 2y ago|0 comments
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by countrymile 2y ago
And it is also the goto tool for winners of the UK young animator of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38282166
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by countrymile 2y ago
Quarto is worth looking at. Might not be able to solve you regex issue though.
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by countrymile 2y ago
How do I right click and add a blank text file to a folder?
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by countrymile 2y ago
I do hope they find something that isn't philodemus at some point!
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SAS rogue heroes season 2(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by countrymile 2y ago|0 comments
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Why R is the best coding language for data journalism(economist.com)
19 points by countrymile 2y ago|12 comments
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by countrymile 2y ago
This is excellent and makes a good case for Ada being the first programmer, many thanks for sharing. I've also stumbled across the science museum Babbage archive: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents&#
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Babbage archive – the first computer programs(collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
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by countrymile 2y ago
Ada was clearly incredibly intelligent. I can't source the original texts for Babbage's program, but it does seem that he was aware of loops, and might have implemented them: "In the absence of other evi- dence I have had to
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by countrymile 2y ago
I was wondering if there was another source for the programs? I don't have the book it references.
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by countrymile 2y ago
Great article, does anyone have a breakdown of the programs babbage wrote? It always seemed odd that Lovelace was the first programmer, suggesting Babbage created a machine without thinking how his it could be used.
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Dawkins vs. Jordan Peterson: Memes and Archetypes [video](youtube.com)
1 points by countrymile 2y ago|1 comments
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by countrymile 2y ago
Would be great to see the code behind these. Is it posted somewhere?
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by countrymile 2y ago
Blender really is a gem, for beginners there really is little reason to learn anything else, fully featured, free and runs off a USB or shared drive, can run on pretty old hardware. For examples of what teenagers in the UK are making with B
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by countrymile 2y ago
I've been running Blender training for 17 years and Grant Abbitt is what we normally suggest: https://www.gabbitt.co.uk/course-filter/beginner
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by countrymile 2y ago
I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.

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