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   Jeff "never listens to women" Cliff, B.Sc. 😷 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇨🇦🧯🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 04:47:27 JST Jeff "never listens to women" Cliff, B.Sc. 😷 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇨🇦🧯🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🐧
   * Babbage's difference engine was a printer and a proto-computer - - the two functions weren't done by separate devices per se, ie it was one thing - a proto-computer-printer / difference engine
   
   > Babbage did not have at his disposal the modern forms of logic that arose from the work of George Boole in the late 1840s
   
   > the machine, it goes without saying in the 1833, was intended to be driven by a small steam engine.
   
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   * Before Babbage used punchcards, the way to "program" was by screwing pins into a "barrel"
   
   * "cycles" is Babbage's term for for-loops
   
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