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I think that was meant to be CBPV (Call-By-Push-Value)

Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Jerome Carcopino

Nice reading!

You can get RTF or Word versions from the project home page: http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/rom-dis/ and a complete ROM disassembly in assembler format (with most of the same info as …

A vacuum cleaner described in 'words that are four letters long or shorter': a tool to suck dirt and dust into a bag ;)

"London’s thriving economy generates a £26.5bn surplus that is recycled by the government to provide financial help to Britain’s less well-off regions, according to an official bre…

confabulate: to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true (Collins)

Even older. Maurice Wilkes first proposed the concept in 1951 & the EDSAC-2, the first computer to use microprogramming, was operational by 1958.

It wasn't banned in the UK & the BBFC passed it uncut. Stanley Kubrick himself requested it be withdrawn from distribution after some copycat incidents.

The speed limit is a bit of a red herring. The average speed of traffic in central London is about 9 miles/hour & inner London about 12. The average speed in the suburbs (outer Lon…

> Ruby developers didn't change the behaviour of these characters because Ruby has \A and \Z to match the boundaries of a string

The Psion 7 (& Netbook) have IMHO the absolute best keyboards for their form factor. I still use my Netbook for distraction-free writing. It doesn't run on AA batteries but will ea…

And Emacs

And most people couldn't tell the difference between a genuine paper on quantum mechanics and one generated by a machine. Would that mean machines could write genuine papers on qua…

Don't envy them - they are deluding themselves.

Glacier is for storing records that by law you have to keep for a certain period of time (e.g. 6 years for expenses, tax & accounting, etc.) but that you have no intention of ever …

As someone who did use an Archimedes A440 when it came out (late 1987 I think), it was plenty zippy enough. It's original desktop shell Arthur was written in BBC Basic, so I think …

"This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics."

Emacs has a mode for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/En...

To be fair, the paper is by a mathematician, not a philosopher. The question is valid - what /do/ mathematicians mean when they use the term 'morally'? It doesn't seem to have much…

> My personal wish for gauging this work (once it's complete) would be more quantitative: a "classical music earworm neural net" plus a "composer uniqueness rating". This sounds a …

There's a Wikipedia page[1] which covers the general background and a copy of the SCRIPT/VS Text Programmer's Guide[2] (which was my bible back in the day) on archive.org, which sh…

This looks very similar to me to the mainframe manuals I am familiar with from this time which were written using SCRIPT/VS as the printer control language & GML (which begat SGML)…