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by ableal 12y ago
The Data General MV-8000 (of Soul of a New Machine book fame) also had programmable microcode, if memory serves. The feature was touted, and there were supposed to exist a few brave souls, desperate for performance, who used it.
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by ableal 12y ago
Our tools have been shaping us for millennia, something that a story by Ted Chiang highlights nicely: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of... (via HN this week). Many years ago, someone wi
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by ableal 12y ago
The chemical compounds, for instance, are phosphorous this or that. (If you speak a romance language, it jumps out at you because the adjective has an extra syllable - e.g. 'fosforo' vs. 'fosforoso'.)
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by ableal 12y ago
Shocking, cars on the way to being horizontal elevator cabins. The driver pedals on the concept are unnecessary, and will be omitted in the production versions ;-)
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by ableal 12y ago
Bullseye hit on a pet peeve of many years: the confusion between phosphorus (a noun) and phosphorous (an adjective).
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by ableal 12y ago
I not too sure about emails with ten lines.
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Braying for Battle: The Long Love Affair Between Donkeys and the Military(modernfarmer.com)
7 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
> They should be charging 3%. Low margin is where Amazon eats. That is disturbingly insightful.
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by ableal 12y ago
> Disappointed about what? Remember the feeling when you had your first bicycle? Can you get it again from another bicycle like that? (Heraclitus' river, etc. Just trying to explain, the rest of your post is quite fair.)
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by ableal 12y ago
Relax, it's a joke.
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by ableal 12y ago
"[...] have measured sulphur hydride superconducting at a temperature of 190 Kelvin (-83 degrees Celsius). There is a caveat, of course. The material has to be squeezed at pressures greater than 150 gigapascals — that’s about half the
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by ableal 12y ago
(Interstitial advertisement: "[Wrist watch brand] values your time". Indeed.) Nice piece. This is apparently the guy making things happen (at least) in the battery front, while Musk takes care of the public dog and pony show. A fe
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by ableal 12y ago
> intelligent robots programmed to prevent humans from coming to harm would become nannies of humanity Jack Williamson went to town on that. "With Folded Hands", a story later expanded into novel(s). Before Asimov, if I'm
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by ableal 12y ago
Thanks, I had a nagging feeling I was missing something. I would have recognized the British spelling ...
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by ableal 12y ago
A short story that I read many years ago, possibly in an SF anthology, has stayed with me. I've forgotten who's the author, and don't necessarily agree with his point, but it is a good parable. Briefly, a man comes to the hou
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by ableal 12y ago
"allow them to prize registration and identification information from a ‘target’" Tripped up on this phrase; dusting myself off, I believe the writer meant "pry".
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by ableal 12y ago
> Much of this was known before For a time-capsule view of the mood on the issue, there's this 1965 novel by Rex Stout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doorbell_Rang It's part of the series about sedentar
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by ableal 12y ago
I'm reminded of the "Rem acu tetigisti" that P.G.Wodehouse would have Bertie Wooster and Jeeves toss out on some occasions.
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by ableal 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
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Snapper's decisions: Whatever happened to REAL photography?(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|1 comments
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Any Ebola Czar Could Learn a Lot from Intel About Preventing Contamination(forbes.com)
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by ableal 12y ago
I was reminded of the "Real men have fabs" line and did a cursory search. Which hit a 1994 piece debating the issue, noting the downsides: http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1994-04-10/real-men-have...
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by ableal 12y ago
"But blood recipes have been part of the food of every culture in Europe that was slaughtering pigs or cows." Chicken, too. There's a Portuguese dish called "arroz de cabidela", which is rice prepared with chicken
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Apple's new iPads have begun the war that will overturn the network world(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Better details here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/microsoft-xim/36... Excerpts: • Xims only stick around for a little while so you can enjoy the moment with no storage or organization ove
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by ableal 12y ago
"They have no taste" applied in spades to most every consumer electronics company, with one exception that I noticed (yes, Apple). I had a 2007 laptop festooned with about ten of those eye-piercing blue spots, but it's hardly
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by ableal 12y ago
"If you are going to have 3D capability, why not incorporate a way to make some compelling 3D images with the phone?" That's actually a good point. Most phones are big enough that two cameras at opposite ends would be as fa
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What's Wrong with the Amazon Fire Phone?(pcmag.com)
6 points by ableal 12y ago|2 comments
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One way (maybe the only way) Yahoo can succeed(cringely.com)
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by ableal 12y ago
> I have been reverse-engineering the Z-80 processor using images and data from the Visual 6502 team. Many moons ago, I heard a seventh-hand rumor that the guy doing the layout of the Z-80 chip had a nervous breakdown, because of the dif

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