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by baud9600 10d ago
We seem to be very sensitive to style. It can be rather distracting. This writing contained 7 exclamation marks and 9 colons. As for em-dashes, there were 7.
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by baud9600 12d ago
In 2006 there was the documentary, “Who killed the electric car?” about the GM EV1 vehicle and the lobby to limit the adoption of this tech. Among other topics, the film covers the zev mandate and its reversal after pressure from the indust
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by baud9600 26d ago
Good points. I’ve tried this a few times and I’ve been impressed by the dialogue. Given this was a very simple prompt, I am convinced a more precise version could be developed, including a rubric, a library of course content, starter questi
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by baud9600 26d ago
I am waiting for AI Viva Voce (“AVV”). I am really surprised we aren’t hearing more about this idea? Try it for yourself by making a prompt like this (adapt as needed): Pretend I am an undergraduate student of Computer Science. I am learnin
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by baud9600 1mo ago
It would be interesting to install os8088 on a later series, like a Pentium III 500mhz or a modern Intel i7! Would it even run? I guess os8088 could not harness the CPU power to make it usable. Instead, could a modern CPU run multiple insta
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by baud9600 1mo ago
> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing, is…”
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by baud9600 1mo ago
This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somewhat similar with 16 task slots, calculator app and task mana
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by baud9600 2mo ago
Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice
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by baud9600 2mo ago
One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs deeper. This goes on for say 8-12 questions, getting deeper
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by baud9600 2mo ago
One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators don’t have the ability to design their own protections agains
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by baud9600 2mo ago
Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers
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by baud9600 2mo ago
It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed reading the comments here and I think there’s truth in how the te
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by baud9600 2mo ago
I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobile devices from participating. His solution? To adopt the lat
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by baud9600 3mo ago
Daft! And very strangely true. I recognised several moments and events in the story
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by baud9600 4mo ago
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people crawling the Li
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by baud9600 5mo ago
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
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by baud9600 5mo ago
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the frameworks releases
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by baud9600 6mo ago
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which buf
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by baud9600 6mo ago
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
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by baud9600 7mo ago
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
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by baud9600 7mo ago
Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world. Perhaps I should look at BEAM and see what work comes alon
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by baud9600 7mo ago
Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to fix the problem for now. There is a reader mode that can go
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by baud9600 7mo ago
I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.
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by baud9600 8mo ago
This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…
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by baud9600 8mo ago
In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story
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by baud9600 8mo ago
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make a casserole and take
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by baud9600 1y ago
I wrote sound-sampling software for Atari using Action! and Mac/65 by OSS, using my own DAC+ADC hardware (8-bit of course). They were fast tools, it was very productive.