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Takes me back to the ZX Spectrum 1980s when 128KB RAM was an unaffordable luxury. (Bit like today...)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2000237/Book/Mastering...
http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/zxspectrum/docs/Comple...
FreeBSD despite its title never had something to do with Free Software
The FSF disagree:
Yes Minister on point as usual
Does anyone have recommendations for cheapish mechanical watches that don't cost a fortune to service? (UK based) Secondhand or new.
"In the morning Fatty was mildly unnerved to see the other hobbits painting a large sign outside the little house with 'Frodo lives here' and 'Sauron sucks!' on it."
Fatty Bolger?
I remember when Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (Mix of 'Choose your own adventure' and solo D+D adventure) were big in the UK in the 80s, and teachers were sniffy about them not being proper reading. I bet they'd love their kids to be reading them now.
It's a superficial point but this relatively newer style (La)TeX layout makes me much more keen to read documents for some reason.
I seem to remember some medical related multiple choice tests in the UK use a mechanism of +1 for correct , 0 for unanswered , -1 for incorrect.
I enjoyed reading Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by Peter van der Linden after reading that in the early 90s. Also the C standard from the time and the attached 'Rationale' document https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub160.pdf (The rationale is 234 pages in). Also this 1995 book version of the comp.lang.c FAQ https://c-faq.com/book/ and https://c-faq.com/
Are there no posted birthday cards in Denmark any more?
"Pricematch" is also common in the UK for traditional stores like Sainsburys Tesco competing with Lidl and Aldi 'discounters'.
Isn't it common for state sales taxes to be added at the till? (I don't live in the US but that seemed to be what happened on my visits there)
It's not as good as ed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
The estimable (inestimable?) Daniel Estevez wrote excellent blogs on the Voyager comms protocols.
Edwin Berlekamp significantly reduced (by half I think) the number of transistors required for the Reed-Solomon error correcting code by telling them to use a non-standard 'primitive element'
The weirdest thing to me is that the quantisation matrix isn’t symmetrical in the top left to bottom right diagonal.
“Secret Army” (the “straight” inspiration of the comedy “Allo Allo”) - a dramatised version of the Belgian Comete line that returned allied airmen to Britain still stands up as a superb series from the 70s.
For example, RHEL 10 has a planned support phase out until 2035, with extended support available until 2038.
I wonder if that's 19 Jan 2038. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I thought this was going to be an article by Rob Pike on control flow in golang...
"And so the Y10K problem was born"
"The title is the same as that of a very well-known book by Professor L. E. Dickson (with which ours has little in common). We proposed at one time to change it to 'An introduction to arithmetic', a more novel and in some ways a more appropriate title; but it was pointed out that this might lead to misunderstandings about the content of the book."
G.H. Hardy and E. M. Wright "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers"Looks like they're here:
Unlike the commercial audio CDs of the lectures the recordings here have the chat before and after the lecture which is fun.
My favourite lecture is the standalone "The Principle of Least Action" at
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html
Audio: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html#Ch19-audi...
Browsing this on my iPhone shows me garbage and tells me if im not an AI scraper to contact Codeberg. Goodbye.
For UK readers, the government land registry alert service can alert you if anyone attempts to mortgage sell properties youve registered with it:
Definitely listen to the 1981 radio version if you like them.
Bilbo's Last Song scene here(spoiler warning for those who haven't read it as its at the end of the book).
'The Housekeeper and the Professor' by Yoko Ogawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housekeeper_and_the_Profes...
is a beautiful novel about a mathematician with a short term memory condition, that should appeal to HN readers.
I enjoy
from a Phd maths guy, who's worked in satellite comms, and blogs on software defined radio and comms protocols (eg error correction and radio modulation, often in space related contexts, eg decoding Voyager comms).