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by obliquely 10d ago
from the article: "Most plug-in hybrids on the road today are essentially gasoline vehicles with a battery shoehorned in to provide a small amount of all-electric range. EREVs [Extended Ranged Electric Vehicles] flip the concept. They
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by obliquely 4mo ago
Related: the drum sound of Bowie’s Low is similar and similarity iconic/influential. It was created in a different way and predates the Gabriel record, being recorded in 1976. Plenty of geeky details at: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by obliquely 4mo ago
Minor nitpick: inline assembly had been invented already. Indeed it had been implemented and shipped for the Acorn Atom in 1980. The Atom packed a quirky but effective BASIC with an inline 6502 assembler into its 8Kb ROM. And a BASIC with r
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by obliquely 11mo ago
In the "first look video" Ash Hewson (Affinity CEO) says "“we’ve also got full scripting capability coming very, very soon” (at 21:33). What's said in the video is that this - and some other developments - will be part o
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Graphene will change the world – its use in microchips(theguardian.com)
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by obliquely 4y ago
You could just as plausibly say that Swift is a high-ish-level functional-ish language with a modern syntax. Whereas C blows up at runtime, Swift nags-and-whines at compile time - in that way it's very unlike C. All that said "in
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Software Moves – Verbing Patterns(buttondown.email)
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by obliquely 4y ago
It's not a great article, but the main line of objection in comments here seems to be "This won't happen, because AI won't do the job well and certainly not better than humans." Sadly, we already know that that&#x27
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by obliquely 4y ago
Hypercard was this and generated really rich "folk" artefacts. Filemaker ( https://www.claris.com ) is sort of this still. A modern example is Coda ( https://coda.io ) which is seeks to be spreadsheet like in t
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by obliquely 4y ago
DOLT vs DO-IT: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt