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by andrehacker 1y ago
Compare this with Google trends for grokKED (to compare with the hacker news trend): Google trend for grokKED: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=g...
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by andrehacker 1y ago
>> Or Google Maps after having used MapQuest for a few years. Google invested their resources correctly in building a product that was head and shoulders above the competition. Except that they didn't: they bought a company that
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Related, from 1959, many years before CARDIAC: PAPAC-00 A 2-register, 1 bit, Fixed Instruction Binary Digital Computer https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/11/a...
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by andrehacker 1y ago
FYI, the link to the Al Williams article on DrDobb's website from the Instructables page seems dead but.. Wayback machine to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20180306072013/https://www.drdob..
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Internet in 1997. That is when the web was small enough that you did not need Google, you just used a 1200 page "internet yellow pages" book [1] Around that time the book form became untennable so they started switching to CDROM v
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by andrehacker 1y ago
"The languages are in much flux" you meant python and not c/c++ because these aren't in flux No I meant C++. 2011 14882:2011[44] C++11 2014 14882:2014[45] C++14 2017 14882:2017[46] C++17 2020 14882:2020[47] C++20 2024 14
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Myeah, C and C++ have the advantage that the compilers support compile for old versions of the language. The languages are in much flux partly because of security problems, partly because features are added from other languages. That means
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by andrehacker 1y ago
It is regarded to be "the best" book on the topic by many. I found just like what Giles Thomas wrote that the book focuses on the details and how to write the lower level code without providing the big picture. I am personally not
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by andrehacker 1y ago
This looks very interesting. The easiest way to navigate to the start of this series of articles seems to be https://www.gilesthomas.com/til-deep-dives/page/2 Now if I only could find some time...
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Yes, I ended up exactly there... 20 years later.
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Well, the credentials defintely help to GET the first job. As a cog in the machine though you are most often valued for skills more than for credentials, at least in the U.S.
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by andrehacker 1y ago
When I was young and easily swayed, I took life advice from a well-known Dutch comedian (Youp van 't Hek) who loved to mock tourists taking those cringe “holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa” photos. The message was clear: tourist phot
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, the example actually works. A lot of my interactions with LLMs are like that and it is impressive how it doesn't care about typos, missed words and context. For regular expressions, language specific id
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by andrehacker 1y ago
He definitely left a great legacy. I still think the Fly pentop and Fly Fusion computers were amazing toys. The later Livescribe models (after the tech leader behind those products started his own company) were must-haves for me. Both the t
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Maybe change the headline now ? As-is the headline is click-baity. (spoiler alert: the contract has been extended)
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Well, yes and no. For many people in our profession, anything related to computers is thought to have started in the late 70s when computers became things that worked outside of elaborate data centers. It is somewhat amusing that the collec
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by andrehacker 1y ago
I've always been fascinated by the history and technology of microcomputers. It's similar to how enthusiasts feel about classic muscle cars. With microcomputers, you can understand every aspect of the technology, from the transist
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Really enjoyed this writeup. I'd come across Don Tarbell’s name before, but didn’t realize how influential he was in the pre-Altair era—and even in setting the stage for the Apple I. Fascinating stuff. I also wasn’t aware of this site—
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Fascinating read as always Ken. It seems that the concept of a “Chorded Keyboard” from Douglas then spawned several relatively successful successors later on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard Growing up
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by andrehacker 2y ago
>> Calculators do not accept ambiguous instructions and they work 100% of the time. That is stated with a lot of confidence :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953 https://apcentral.collegeboard.or
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Sophie Wilson (the designer of the original ARM instruction set) said this when asked which CPU architecture she admired: Sophie Wilson, chief architect of ARM and more recently of the Broadcom FirePath October, 2001 Primarily the 6502. I l
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by andrehacker 2y ago
O man, good times. I remember soldering RAM chips "piggyback" style, then upgrading to 64K of RAM, and adding 8 special-purpose ROMs (from utilities to a spreadsheet program). I even installed a color video board— all of this ins
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Hm, bad news for Oregon. From this article: https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/12/intel-sput... Oregon exports more than $30 billion worth of electronics annually, most of which are semiconductor
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Will LLMs kill software patents?
2 points by andrehacker 2y ago|1 comments
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Oops, yup, thanks, sorry title updated. I can't even use the ESL defense after 25 years.
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Title refers to "Droste Effect" see wikipedia.
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The end of infinity: Droste factory closes(dutchnews.nl)
4 points by andrehacker 2y ago|4 comments
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by andrehacker 2y ago
>> The great arc distance from LA to Sydney is just over 12km. 12,000km ?
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Intel's woes may affect the entire state of Oregon(oregonlive.com)
4 points by andrehacker 2y ago|1 comments
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Intel is one of the largest employers in the state of Oregon. In a state where most tax revenue is based on individual income tax, the layoffs hit directly but any plans of splitting or selling off parts of the company may impact the large

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