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How Cosmos put Carl Sagan in Miniature sets [video](youtube.com)
5 points by gdubs 2mo ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 2mo ago
I wanted one so bad but we couldn't afford it at the time, so my experience like so many others was at school. But such good memories! 512k is lucky too because as cool as it would have been to get the original, man that memory was a r
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Why every drawing app still looks like MacPaint [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 2mo ago|3 comments
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by gdubs 2mo ago
Putting this video together was fun, and as always I ended up learning a bunch of new stuff and seeing things in a new perspective. Kind of a bookend to the HyperCard video that launched my channel last year. Wish I'd gotten to meet At
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by gdubs 2mo ago
Probably not! I'd imagine that whoever did production design for the movie would have visited some of the labs of the time, or talked to people involved in AI – and the CM-1 / CM-2 were very much at the forefront of that type of c
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by gdubs 2mo ago
Thank you! My biggest regret in the video is I didn't get to touch on Brewster Kahle's involvement – especially given what he's gone on to do with Internet Archive. Would love to do a followup. Re: Search Engines, I think I m
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by gdubs 2mo ago
It was indeed a Thinking Machines CM-5 — Nedry actually mentioned them in his line about how Hammond wouldn't be able to find anyone "anybody who can network 8 connection machines". An actual assembled CM-5 actually cost clos
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Apple Predicted Siri AI in 1987(youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 2mo ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 4mo ago
As an American, I just want to say that I'm very dismayed by the discourse around this topic over the past 24 hours in particular. The polarization of politics has become so intense, that the bipartisan mainstream position of just a co
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Apple Design Awards – 2026 Finalists(developer.apple.com)
1 points by gdubs 4mo ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 4mo ago
Because absent more evidence we don't yet know if this is a different variant of the Andes virus than the one people have had experience with. A lot hinges on whether this flight attendant is hospitalized out of an abundance of caution
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by gdubs 4mo ago
Most of the public messaging I see is basically "please don't stop shopping, flying, or going to restaurants."
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by gdubs 5mo ago
Oh that's interesting because I would have assumed the demoscene stuff would have done some kind of direct signed distance field rendering and skipped the marching cubes part. And yea I remember the patent being in effect for so many y
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by gdubs 5mo ago
Ah, this is amazing thank you. I had dug and dug for some demoscene examples for the video. It turned out to be quite difficult to find many of these sources, especially the early Japanese stuff. Despite having recently done a video on The
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WTF Are Metaballs?(youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 5mo ago|5 comments
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The Forest Service–A Force Across Rural America–"Reorganizes" Under Trump(newyorker.com)
6 points by gdubs 5mo ago|2 comments
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by gdubs 5mo ago
Uploading 15 minute videos to YouTube, downloading hundreds of gigabytes of 3D assets, updating large applications, streaming movies for a 4k projector, frequently downloading beta OS updates, etc, etc, etc.
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by gdubs 6mo ago
Congrats, you've killed the idea in its infancy because you demanded answers to questions before it could even walk. Ideas need time to be explored, and given a chance.
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by gdubs 6mo ago
I really enjoyed it! Actually read it to my kids as a bedtime book, and although it was pretty advanced for them, they really stayed with it. Really too bad he's not around anymore.
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by gdubs 6mo ago
Thanks! My primary source for this was Carl Sagan's book "A Pale Blue Dot" IIRC — don't have the folder in front of me to double check, but fairly certain. Edit: found it! Here's the excerpt. According to Sagan they
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by gdubs 6mo ago
One of my favorite stories about the Voyager mission was how they wanted to grab photos of the outer planets but the click of the tape drive was enough to ruin the long exposures. I made a YouTube short about it a while back: https:/&
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by gdubs 6mo ago
Thank you so much! Even though I knew a bunch about the Connection Machine when I started making this, I learned so many new details doing the research for it. "Surely you're Joking, Mr Feynman" was a great read.
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This AI Supercomputer was 30 years too early [video](youtube.com)
2 points by gdubs 6mo ago|2 comments
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See around you: panoramic videos using Apple's QuickTime VR (1995)(halfhill.com)
2 points by gdubs 6mo ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 7mo ago
The annoying thing about corporate hiring practices is – speaking from experience – some of us would have loved your answer. But then it goes to committee and someone's like, "this iOS engineer doesn't know any javascript, an
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by gdubs 7mo ago
As I see my kids bring home Chromebooks from school, it has made me recently nostalgic for the Apple of the 90s in terms of their presence in education. Using my Science teacher's Performa to play Sim Ant after we finished our assignme
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by gdubs 7mo ago
The quote in this case is because "cringe" is what many online have been calling it. So, they're actually quoting a very common critique.
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by gdubs 7mo ago
There's a wide variance, but there's been a lot of 'title inflation' over the past decade that has more to do, I think, with giving people incentives when they don't want to stretch the equity package any further.
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by gdubs 7mo ago
One thing I've learned is, there's a ton of interesting stuff in the world. Super talented people. But, what surface and gets widespread recognition and adoption is often very much determined by luck, and these days by algorithms.
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by gdubs 7mo ago
Thank you! I had to suffer the embarrassment of a Tandy Sensation as our first home computer lol. (Sorry, Tandy Sensation – you were a very good friend and I owe you a lot.)

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