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by ochrist 2y ago
Oh no. Acorn was - and is - the then famous Acorn Computers. Makers of the BBC computer and eventually the inventor of the ARM processor (first used in the Archimedes range of computers). Please use another name (end of rant).
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by ochrist 2y ago
Same here (on Windows). And I can't even get it to work properly in Chrome.
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by ochrist 2y ago
Came here to write this :-) Also known as the Nørrejyske Ø (North Jutlandic Island) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Jutlandic_Island
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by ochrist 2y ago
Back in the eighties the Dutch radio network NOS broadcast programs for all types of home computers. They even invented a common BASIC dialect for this to work: BASICODE https://archive.org/details/BASICODE2Manual This
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by ochrist 2y ago
How does this compare to PlayPilot?
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by ochrist 3y ago
The Netherlands have several of these, the most famous one probably being The Hague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague#Etymology Officially (in some official documents) the name of the city is "'s-Grave
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by ochrist 3y ago
Yes, this. Thank you. If I work with CSV files they are most often not comma-separated but semicolon-separated because of the numbers. An Excel installation localized for decimal comma would not read 'real' CSV files correct. If c
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by ochrist 3y ago
If you live in a place where comma is the decimal separator, your CSV files will often use semicolon as the separator instead of comma. Will this tool cater for that?
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by ochrist 3y ago
You don't have to pay for message by the kilobyte. This is only true if you use an external vendor for the conversion or use a VAN for transmission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_network Source: Worked
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by ochrist 3y ago
EDI is used in a lot of situations for machine-to-machine communications, but outside USA I believe EDIFACT is much more used (X12 is mostly used in USA). Today many EDIFACT documents have been converted to ebXML: https://en.wiki
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by ochrist 3y ago
https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...
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What Is the Encabulator? (2023)(amperesec.com)
2 points by ochrist 3y ago|1 comments
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by ochrist 3y ago
This world famous fake machine gets new life
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by ochrist 3y ago
Archimedes?
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by ochrist 3y ago
Self-employed for 24 years now. Mostly doing test management and project management, but also some coding on and off.
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by ochrist 3y ago
It still exists in Denmark and other European countries. You can even access it via the internet: https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/100
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by ochrist 3y ago
Duplo is also from Lego. It's basically just larger blocks: https://www.lego.com/da-dk/themes/duplo
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by ochrist 3y ago
There's this: https://archive.org/details/BASICODE2Manual I actually tried downloading programes from the Dutch radio station back in those days - and it worked.
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by ochrist 3y ago
To people asking why a broadcasting corporation needed a programming language you might watch 'Micro Men'. It's available on YouTube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men https://www.youtub
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by ochrist 3y ago
Greenland has four timezones in use: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/greenland
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by ochrist 3y ago
Old English was mostly Anglo-Saxon. Old Norse was mixed in later, and after the Norman invasion it became Middle English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid
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by ochrist 3y ago
Same goes for airline tickets. When you buy a ticket, the travel agency says that you should write your name exactly as in your passport, but on the ticket and boarding pass they then change it: Hyphenation is removed as well as accents.
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by ochrist 3y ago
Back in the eighties people tried to squash big games into microcomputers. I don't recall any similar technology to Z-code but I do remember that games like Citadel and Elite on the BBC micro used certain techniques to compress the gam
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by ochrist 3y ago
Well, apart from RPI - that has already been mentioned - you could look at the BBC microbit: https://microbit.org/
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by ochrist 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that: https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...
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by ochrist 3y ago
I don't think it's pure fantasy, but it's difficult to predict the probability https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/24/datacenter_solar_stor...
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by ochrist 3y ago
The mother of the oldemor is called tipoldemor, and after that you just add as many tips as you need (in Danish but probably also in Norwegian).
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by ochrist 3y ago
We use the same in Danish, but also uses: Faster = fathers sister Moster = mothers sister You can also use tante (aunt) about these A farbror or morbror is often called an onkel (uncle).
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by ochrist 3y ago
I've coded in a lot of different programming languages over the past forty years or so, some of them for fun, some of them as part of my job. I've also coded COBOL at a few places, both on PC and on mainframes years back. But I ca
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by ochrist 3y ago
Greenlandic: Anaana, Ataata (T is pronounced more like a D)

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