AfterHIA

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by AfterHIA 1y ago
It's always worth noting that every computer you've worked with for the last 30 years has most likely been one of the Alto's grandkids. #Xerox #PARC
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I miss those free CD-ROMS on the cover. I consumed so much software in the 1990s that way. I swear I've played the Tomb Raider 2 demo for hours without ever having rented or owned the actual game.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I miss those innocent days in the early 2000's when Microsoft was still evil but the internet's non-ubiquity meant they couldn't realistically expect to force this kind of thing on their users. Reality is really in a bad plac
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
The public was sold early on the idea that if you bought a personal computer you could write your own programs and games for the thing and up until now that's more-or-less been a kind of convenient half-truth. What's, "the ma
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
In the 1950s through the beginning of the 1970's the government (ARPA) was paying young scientists and innovators to do their PhD thesis' in computer design to create the next generation of human oriented computer interfaces. Now
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
This is largely an aside but the I was at the local 50's themed diner down the street and asked for a coffee and apple pie David Lynch style and you know what those bastards brought me? One of those packaged mini pies and then they dir
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I always keep a few bucks on the PayPal card to forget about until the next time I don't have my card and I'm like, "oh shit I have enough for a beer on this bastard" and it's like a mini-Christmas. The thing that g
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
In Soviet America Pay pals you!
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Don't mess with the Zohran.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I live in a traditional middle class neighborhood and half the houses are rentals for college kids and people who can't buy. I'm not sure who to agree with here.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Shiver mi' timbers Terence; it's been a hard day and only Kraft Dinner can calm my nerves.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
It was a rhetorical question.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Yes I do.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
This is why I'm constantly asking: why aren't we planting vineyards in the Wasatch Front? Silicon Slopes didn't work out but can we at least farm some effing grapes?
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
As a committed Christian Atheist I'm prepared to devour anything from the prophet.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I'm influenced by Tom Nook's usage of the term in, "Animal Crossing" or, "どうぶつの森" for the Nintendo Gamecube.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I'd be happy to share the code when I'm back on my machine at home. I'm currently on a trip but I'll repost here when I get back. Cheers netdoll!
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I remember an older friend asking me recently; will there be a thing soon where I can make my computer go on auto-pilot? I guess I can answer, "yes I think so."
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
This is the kind of neat, small, useful tool I carouse HN for. I'm going to add this to my giant list of, "neat ass little tools that I found on Hacker News." Now if only somebody could make a tool that can audit my giant ass
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
It's a travesty that more computer people aren't familiar with Jeff and also his son Aza. Ubiquity is brilliant (I recently used Claude to create a functional Chrome port) and the idea of, "highly useable information applianc
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I agree pretty wholeheartedly but as someone who was, "trained as an artist first and a computer guy second" the ability for the LLM to provide functional boilerplate and, "hunt down" those weird problems that can only u
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Thank you for reading MengerSponge. Thank you. It means the world these days.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
Love, love, love it. You didn't need to do this but you did and it reminds me of the days when, "you needed to make things this way." Godspeed you black emperors.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
It was/is an pipe dream. The whole schtick was that links were visualized so you could, "trace" what you were researching visually without having to rely on jump links. In theory (more pipe dream) the whole topographical link
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
It'd be cooler if someone hacked the game so parents could remotely/secretly play as villagers like marionettes.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
*Technical excellence at the scale of institutions over time. Consider Hippocrates. We're all still reading Heidegger despite the hypocrisy.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
The real Web 3.0 is the Ted Nelson internet we never got.
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
I love how there's no discussion-- we're already past utilitarian justifications for the why the overall utility of these systems is somehow worth the theft. Give the code monkeys a new banana and they'll, "oh oh ah&quot
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by AfterHIA 1y ago
"This is going to get worse before it gets better." -Chief Wiggum

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