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Funding wise I asked a year or so back about crowd funding, but hear nothing back. My means are limited but I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could band together. The …

did anything progress on trying to dig more out of the ground? i know that there was thinking that a lot of scrolls might still be down there

There's a lot of new roads being mapped in England. Interesting how the inscriptions on the map are often between roads, suggesting an unmapped pathway: https://news.ycombinator.co…

Great website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.

It's toward the bottom, the date is 24th Feb 2026. But yes, it could be from ten or twenty or thirty years ago....

It's quite a bit of money, but a lot less than the equivalent Maya licenses. It would be great if more studios did this: $240k "Press release, tech blogpost, dedicated product mana…

It's worth noting that R has a great duckdb API as well. Saved me a lot of time when dealing with a 29GB CSV file and splitting it into separate parquet files on a low RAM ONS serv…

Also worth looking at this very UK take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622543

I think that could be part of the plan

Not sure that equivalence works, cognitive science doesn't require that people believe that computers can think; and STEM doesn't require that people think of the world in a purely…

That's my understanding too. R never seems to make these lists.

The IBM school's computer. Developed by IBM Hursley in 1967, it was years ahead in its design, display out to a television and storage on normal audio tape. Would have kick started…

He was great, had always done his homework!

Nice, a few English schools were running the programma 101 at a similar time. The use of a CRT and tape drive was about 10 years ahead of its time. I do wonder what would have happ…

Absolutely essential if you want to play dk. It fixes the graphics issue and some glitches in the game. With this dk1 becomes a much better game than dk2