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Might anyone be able to find the BBC Basic source of "A Meagre Demonstration" which is a Boing demo for the Archimedes - from back in the day? Asking for a friend.
As seen on the BBC’s computer news programme Micro Live. Broadcast on BBC One, 14 December 1987, presented by Fred…
Do you know your (prime) sieves?
300BC maybe: Sieve of Eratosthenes
1934 Sieve of Sundaram
1979 Sieve of Pritchard
2003 Sieve of Atkin
I wrote some unimpressive code and made a post:
Wheels, Sieves, Primes, and Pritchard - adventures and c…
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116667218484408879
Great thread on the perils of using LLMs to write test suites.
See also
Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@vcfe/116663354197785854
I saw an MP/M system demonstrated today at #retrofest in Swindon (UK) - an Altos system (demo by Dave Williams, I think)
#retrocomputing
RE: https://digipres.club/@philpem/116613275145567112
There's an approach to Conway's Game of Life which computes small rectangular tiles of results, with a cunning coordinate transformation such that each tile depends on just 4 predecesso…
This is for anyone, but retro platforms preferred: Weekend coding challenge: fun with prime gaps
The challenge is to make something exciting. Have fun.
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The prime numbers look like this
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, ...
and the gaps betw…
RE: https://social.v.st/@th/116441525330892659
> No wonder the ship tipped to the port side when the winds hit. But why was the ship so lopsided? While examining the ship, Hocker discovered four rulers the workmen had used. Those rulers we…
A nice Pi benchmark in a more or less universal Basic. As noted downthread, this isn't an invitation to compare methods, but a fixed method to compare platforms.
But of course the temptation is very strong! The BBC Micro runs this versi…
"Apple's new macbooks have no annoying fans"
From MeFi:
> "I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best under…
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