The accent attempt is at 1m30s but that's an Essex accent from the towns, and largely the result of Londoners moving out to Essex, if you head into the countryside, Essex sounds like this:
Nah, I played it in the 90s. £2 per game, I think. That arcade was also the first place I got to try a VR headset. It had a full scale Ridge Racer too. Looking back, somebody there was quite invested in trying new things.
There are two sorts of Essex, the countryside version that straddles south Suffolk and the London imported one that has become the stereotype, that appears to be estuary on the map. Both have massive crossover depending whether you're in town or village. A rather difficult mapping task!
I've used Apple's Automator app to add a new custom Quick Action which does exactly this. After right-clicking a folder, the right-click menu shows my custom Quick Action to create an empty text file.
This requires about 5 to 10 minutes to set up. You'll find instructions for this on the web or via some LLM. I've looked right now for a suitable article, but the ones I've found are subtly different from my Quick Action. I've asked ChatGPT and its instructions seem to be correct.
Switch back to windows - for me that is one of the things I struggle with on MacOS.
Creating a file at a path where I have my file explorer is so ingrained in me. It feels awful when I have to open an app then click through to save file where I want all those clicks are supper annoying because I already was in that place.
Awful thing getting current path from Finder to paste it in save dialog is also not really easy. So I am just not creating new files on MacOS.
On one hand I kind of get the idea that well you start with opening an app and then save your work and most likely it could be in default documents folder.
But years of other way I was used to work it feels annoying.
Basically I use Windows for like 30 years now and in that last 10 I use MacOs as primary OS for my personal device.
there a hundred or more scrolls, so it would be tragic if the whole library was the product of a very specialized philosoher with money and ocd....obsesive collectors dissorder.
The ancients had a penchant for burnung each others citys , we can hope for other librarys
to have been carbonised.There are still much
more unexcavated space in herculium and pompei.
And fire is what baked the tablets that have given us what we know of mesopotamia.
Our present era will be different in that almost nothing will be readable over the same time span, in complete dissregard for its vollume and the value we place on it, and the "protections" we give it, the scrolls were on an open shelf, likely
in a room with no door, and yet here they are.
Great article, does anyone have a breakdown of the programs babbage wrote? It always seemed odd that Lovelace was the first programmer, suggesting Babbage created a machine without thinking how his it could be used.
Lovelace seems to be the first to use loops. Babbage clearly created something first, but without any looping they were by nature much less complex, and so you could make an argument they don't count as programs ("hello world" would only count as a program because the library print function is likely to have some loop in it by this argument). Of course not all of Babbage's programs survive, it is entirely possible Babbage did have loops in some earlier programs that Ada knew of when she wrote her programs. Ada had much correspondence with Babbage, so it is possible she wrote programs before the ones we know of, but they are lost as well, who knows. Bottom line Ada and Babbage were working together (though countries apart) and so would have been thinking about what this new thing could do while it was in design the phase.
You can make whatever argument you want about first programmer. Ada was a smart person who clearly understood what this machine could do and had visions of the future of this machine. Even if you decide she wasn't actually the first programmer she is worth knowing about as an early pioneer.
Ada was clearly incredibly intelligent. I can't source the original texts for Babbage's program, but it does seem that he was aware of loops, and might have implemented them:
"In the absence of other evi-
dence I have had to adopt the minimal default assumption that both the operation and variable cards can only be turned back-
ward as is necessary to implement the loops used in Babbage’s sample programs cited in Ada Lovelace’s notes (originals in L series notations)"
Babbage also wrote more than twenty programs that he never published.[19] So it’s not quite accurate to say that Lovelace wrote or published the first program, though
This is excellent and makes a good case for Ada being the first programmer, many thanks for sharing. I've also stumbled across the science museum Babbage archive:
https://youtu.be/1xxRdiiyT70?si=PlBnim1PW_y8nh5I