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by leoc 4d ago
Its YouTube channel has some nice video, including footage of the KL-10: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSXexPtkcnmJ59mPoeZyGDWQ... .
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by leoc 4d ago
If you're serious about doing OO with static typing as well as (of course) mutability, you basically have to have something like flow typing to keep away the circle/ellipse nonsense. (In so far as flow typing is really static ty
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by leoc 6d ago
One thing that the Special Edition did for Star Wars was make clear that it had borrowed the Humphrey Bogart and "Little Pete[r Lorre]-Big Syd[ney Greenstreet]" characters which came from The Maltese Falcon via Casablanca . S
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by leoc 7d ago
For the Duo to make sense at all, it basically has to fold out into a screen which is big enough that (quite often, at least) you don't feel obliged to bring along a second, larger device anyway, or to wait until you get home or back t
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by leoc 7d ago
And this isn't even the real cult PIM application from Lotus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Agenda https://www.dreamingincode.com/
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by leoc 8d ago
Apple is probably also waiting for increased RAM supply to start making high-quality local inference a viable mainstream option.
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by leoc 12d ago
Sure, but that's not the "just a solution in search of a problem" claim made in the article. I don't think anyone including Ted Nelson has ever claimed that Xanadu was sufficiently complete at any point.
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by leoc 13d ago
I think the prices are still really modest if you look at them in perspective. One of the small, irreplaceable stock of surviving PDP-10s could be had for less than the cost of a mediocre used Ferrari.
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by leoc 14d ago
In general I have about zero enthusiasm for trying to find defensible interpretations of things that Ed Zitron said, and I generally agree that the name of Zitron just largely needs to stop coming up in anti- and anti-anti-AI arguments sinc
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by leoc 17d ago
> Reals numerical systems are much more diverse than that. For instance, Babylon used a base 60 (hence our minutes and hours). But there were much less than 60 numeric symbols, since they had a symbol for 1 and 10. So 2 symbols for a bas
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by leoc 22d ago
And except at the beginning, the Mac Minis of the past weren’t famous for being cheap, but rather for being disappointingly, unattractively expensive and, over time, apparently increasingly forgotten by Apple.
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by leoc 1mo ago
Speaking of core memory, it was a magazine ad for Deltamax which got Jay Forrester to start his work on core memory: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2408s , 40m08s). Ernst Albers-Schönberg https:/&#
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by leoc 1mo ago
> If you read the article, it's ideologically consistent - the main motivation in abandoning Fraktur was strategic (i.e. military), not ideological. But that isn't quite what it says either. Pragmatic considerations may have gi
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by leoc 1mo ago
It's not surprising though. Branding, marketing and style seem to have been his core competences.
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by leoc 1mo ago
Plenty in Ireland as well. The craze certainly seems to be more subdued here, though some of the posh delis in Dublin, in particular, seem to be riding the wave. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/CannedSardines/comments&#
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by leoc 1mo ago
Right, it's clear that nVidia is taking care and trying to position itself so that it can continue making sales if and when inference goes local. And it's in a much better intrinsic position to do that than the LLM SaaS vendors ar
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by leoc 1mo ago
No-one cares anymore about ancient computers or weird specialist systems of course, but don't neglect my important requirements by breaking compatibility with any the platforms I am relying on at any point in time. We also need all
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by leoc 1mo ago
Shrinkflation implies a furtive change that the customer is supposed ideally not to notice, but the big 2002 revision of the Mars recipe wasn't that. Masterfoods felt (no doubt with good reason) that consumers were turning against the
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by leoc 1mo ago
I'd be relatively surprised if the Mars bar's calorie density went up after it was ruined in 2002. The old Mars bar was a beast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245791 .
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by leoc 1mo ago
The old, pre-2002 https://www.just-food.com/news/uk-mars-re-branding-offers-co... UK Mars bar (not to be confused with whatever thing the US had) was both horrifying and glorious, an incredibly heavy and filling thing
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by leoc 1mo ago
Very common in Japan, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got%C5%8D_(surname) . (Confusingly there is both a Mariko Goto who used to be the singer in a band named Midori and a Japanese-American violinist named Mido
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by leoc 1mo ago
There's some discussion of how C29 defer ended up in a TS at https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its... .
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by leoc 1mo ago
A video of an 1994 presentation put together for Hot Chips VI on the 21164: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OHupqMbLj1g An April 1992 University Video Communications presentation on the Alpha architecture https://you
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by leoc 1mo ago
Well, the Chinese manufacturers are certainly coming, though CXMT seems to be being careful not to rock the boat, at least yet https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinese-cxmt... .
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by leoc 1mo ago
I'm a bit out of energy at present but I'll try to put together a comment. From the point of view of a learner it's unfortunate that macrons (diacritical marks for long vowels) have not been added to the text, and that '
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by leoc 1mo ago
So I won’t have switch to Fchte or Schlirmchr?
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by leoc 1mo ago
It seems reminiscent of the Green Project/FirstPerson episode that led to Java https://landley.net/history/mirror/java/javaorigin.html , and I'm sure many another attempt to keep some unhappy star p
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by leoc 2mo ago
While a worse format surely could have won something like the video wars, it doesn't seem that VHS was in fact the worse format overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60 (Part 2: https://www.you
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by leoc 2mo ago
No thanks. We've spent enough decades living in squatter camps built on the ruins of other people's lazy decisions. It's past time to move out now. Worse is worse; worse is shit. And there's nothing endearing or funny ab
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by leoc 2mo ago
The final irony is that if they'd just maintained G+ a bit better and kept it around after 2018 it's likely they'd eventually have had a decent chance to pick up a number of waves of unhappy people leaving Facebook or Twitter

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