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by 5- 3mo ago
and photogrammetry from crowd-sourced disparate still images was the biggest, flashiest "public" display of the technology: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
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by 5- 4mo ago
typical implementations of apl (including dyalog) are interpreted, not compiled ahead of time.
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by 5- 4mo ago
prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury: https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/
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by 5- 5mo ago
all of game boy advance and nintendo ds hardware is exhaustively documented in a single text file: https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.txt (but you can replace txt with htm for a fancier version) this ranges from physical descr
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by 5- 6mo ago
see this 2007 talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn... i remember this being available in google maps in 2008 or so. fun technology!
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by 5- 6mo ago
one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.
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by 5- 6mo ago
previously (1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev... i think this is a dos port of it? http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62 seems to work for me in dosbox
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by 5- 7mo ago
maybe the chicks and norman get it, but i'm currently renting an apartment in france that has a bunch of these light switches installed all upside down, with "-" at the top: https://www.legrand.com.gh/en/
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by 5- 8mo ago
perhaps similar in scope to the hdl used in 'the elements of computing systems' aka nand2tetris.org ? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dPj4XNby9iuAs-47U9k3xtYy9hJ... honorary mention: https://
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by 5- 8mo ago
thank you! that is very informative.
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by 5- 8mo ago
for a much more in-depth description of its predecessor, see https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6... i don't think there is a comparable book about the cray-1?
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by 5- 9mo ago
also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn) or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/
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by 5- 9mo ago
see also: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
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by 5- 9mo ago
there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout. https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...
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by 5- 10mo ago
have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer. our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had ei
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by 5- 10mo ago
great to see thunderbird joining evolution in supporting ews among free software email clients. evolution has been keeping me sane whenever i needed to use ews for years.
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by 5- 10mo ago
doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point. did the crossing of the rhine take place in 00406, 0406, or 406? what extra inf
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by 5- 10mo ago
> Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family. do you really? > you don't quite know what the panels need to look like. look at your competition, ask your users, think? > Most people know they can't fly a plane
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by 5- 11mo ago
> as long as you remember what you've built yes! like any craft, this works only if you keep practising it. various implementations of k, written in this style (with iterative improvements), have been in constant development for dec
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by 5- 11mo ago
indeed. with how good and cheap/free decompilers have gotten over the years my preferred way to read abstraction-happy c++ and rust code is to compile it with optimisations and debug symbols and then read the decompiler output.
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by 5- 11mo ago
> Zoom works but doesn’t stick. perhaps try using a user agent that remembers your settings? e.g. firefox
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by 5- 11mo ago
or ghost in the shell
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by 5- 11mo ago
perhaps it's a trivial observation that people tend to conflate the programming language in the strict sense (syntax, semantics, compiler implementation etc.) with its standard and/or community libraries and tooling. of course the
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by 5- 11mo ago
bonus: soviet star wars posters: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste... (the bbc seem to have lost the body of their original article)
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by 5- 11mo ago
> an athlete said I'm looking to go a little faster and farther with the aid of a powered device isn't that a time-honoured tradition at tour de france?
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by 5- 11mo ago
haven't had a chance to try this myself, but i've been told e70's joystick simply needs disassembly and cleaning (perhaps with a judicious application of wd-40).
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by 5- 11mo ago
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
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by 5- 11mo ago
i had forgotten about this technique when i was at the excellent https://tnmoc.org recently, looking at their sgi irix exhibit featuring a webcam. the latency of the camera feed on the crt screen was unbelievable even (especiall
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by 5- 11mo ago
> If you sit down and write out what you might want a robot to do for you: a lot of tasks end up being kind of wet. yes, but i thought this wasn't that kind of article.
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by 5- 11mo ago
great, thanks!

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