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I went on them multiple times. When the sea was rough the crossing was incredibly rough. When it was smooth, crossing into France straight up a beach felt like magic.
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jgrahamc
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Yeah. I'm in that boat too. I receive it here in Portugal.
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I do. In fact, it literally happened to me yesterday.
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I used to have that problem but it has not been an issue since the early 2000s.
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I've built a few things with eink displays and I strongly recommend NOT using simple picture frames (unless they fit perfectly). One way to get a really good looking result is a custom frame. There are tons of custom framing company th
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What would you highlight? The big thing from my perspective was that there are no channels in the original CSP. There's just synchronization on shared events. Asynchronous queues are a good way of delaying deadlocks!
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I've changed the link to an archived version of the relevant pages.
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I studied at Oxford when Hoare was the lead of the Programming Research Group. We did a lot of CSP stuff and my entire DPhil is CSP and occam. I would recommend reading the CSP book [1] if you really want to know about CSP. [1] http:/
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I've changed it to white for easier reading.
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Complete restoration of an IBM "Butterfly" ThinkPad 701c
(blog.jgc.org)
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Barely. The software still works but I haven't worked on it for years. And no one else has. What email issues are you having?
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As a teenager Tom Scott helped write the documentation for POPFile. By chance he interviewed me years later on stage at some conference and just before we went on stage he told me that some of his very first contributions to anything on the
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Godspeed, Tom Scott (and thanks for your help on POPFile all those years ago).
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Restoration of an IBM ThinkPad 701c
(blog.jgc.org)
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Cloudflare Year in Review 2023
(radar.cloudflare.com)
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Restoration of an IBM ThinkPad 701c
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Some folks here know about my Tumblr: https://moviecode.tumblr.com and the related site https://behind-the-screens.tv/ which talks about the source code that appears on computer screens in TV and film.
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There's a direct line from Codebits to Cloudflare opening an office in Lisbon to me typing this in Lisbon.
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The search for the "perfect" Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)
(blog.jgc.org)
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True. I think the spark for me getting into computing was that my parents took me to a thing at Cambridge University in the mid-1970s when I was a child. The thing was for bright children and you could choose whatever you wanted to do and w
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Using my Minitel 1B over the phone network in 2023
(blog.jgc.org)
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By far the best summary of the situation was my interview with Steven Levy: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-man-who-made-the-uk-say-im...
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Ah. It was an appeal to people to stop naming everything after Turing because the UK went a bit Turing mad for a while.
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Yes, I know. I'm in the OOB console to the VPS looking at that right now.
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I will only accept a peerage as I wish to be known as Lord Binary.
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Streaming and longer context lengths for LLMs on Workers AI
(blog.cloudflare.com)
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My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's
(blog.jgc.org)
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Reading the Lovelace Foundation's Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer
(blog.jgc.org)
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I suppose I do, but to make you happy I've changed one use of handy to nifty.
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My 1976 KIM-1
(blog.jgc.org)
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