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by andrehacker 2y ago
Nice! No Sankey though ?
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Triumph of the Nerds (1996)(archive.org)
2 points by andrehacker 2y ago|1 comments
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by andrehacker 2y ago
To celebrate archive.org’s reopening here a great piece of computer history: “Triumph of the Nerds” from 1996. The series is 3 episodes with interviews with the great ones of the personal computer revolution: amongst others the maker of th
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Does that mean that U2 will no longer be a Dutch band ? https://taxfoundation.org/blog/u2-abandons-ireland-name-taxe...
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by andrehacker 2y ago
There is a great model kit made in England for the "Televisor". Got it years ago and it was minutes of fun. Apparently still for sale. The input is audio, got it to run from my iphone at the time (as opposed to using the supplied
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by andrehacker 2y ago
- Make a list of the most common (spoken) words - Sort them by usage frequency (most used words on top) - Associate a unique sequence of 0 and 1 (dot and dash) - Use shorter sequences for common words, longer ones for the words below - As y
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by andrehacker 2y ago
Maybe he'll get to use the "that would be impressive except if they had known what they were looking for,they would have seen it written on my dorm room window" quote later today.
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by andrehacker 2y ago
This is cool. I found that the first line didn't work but: curl " https://phoboslab.org/q1k3/ " > index.html did the trick...
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by andrehacker 3y ago
O wow. I was not aware of the NASA plugin. I wanted to build a simple dashboard on a separate screen for a while (I run X-plane with a cheap projector which is good enough for the scenery but not for the 6 pack). Each time I explored this I
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by andrehacker 3y ago
I was surprised that some author said that on the Dutch TV show "Lubach" earlier this year. He stated that the (absolute) number of copies sold to get in the top list of the Dutch market is about the same as the number of copies t
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by andrehacker 3y ago
Sure, but, the relationship was symbiotic as it didn't seem that Gordon would have been able to build "the Giant" (PC) or other substantial project without the vision, push and the acquired funding (at ANY cost) from Joe. Th
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by andrehacker 3y ago
O, this show, basically the Forrest Gump story of computing in the 80's/90's: the main cast somehow is a significant part or straight out inventors of every piece of technology of that timeframe: on-line gaming, social networ
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by andrehacker 3y ago
Ken: big fan of your and Marc's work, would be so great if you guys could give the Ken&Marc treatment to the "Nortronics NAS-14V2 Astroinertial Navigation System", The R2-D2 unit from an SR-71. Well, here's hoping.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
You'll add in the 6502 but more importantly items like the Globus (fascinating!), the Apollo equipment, the DX7 and the electromechanical Central Air Data Computer and you got yourself a best-seller, I predict 10 copies at least.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
Ken, please tell us you have a book deal, this is just awesome stuff.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
Talk about Climate Change: How is the A.I. Winter working out for y'all ?
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by andrehacker 4y ago
Note that for the banking industry various “semi regulations” have been in place spawning a cottage industry for “Model Risk Management”. Basically you have to explain how you (attempt to) keep bias out of your training, re-test often, etc.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
Now.. for those interested in this: with the KIM Uno you can actually run the Apple 1 software https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/kim-uno-apple-... Look on Ebay for kits, then a cheap USB-to-TTL connector an
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by andrehacker 4y ago
This is an excellent way to do what-if scenarios https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
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by andrehacker 4y ago
Maneuvering a camera that’s roughly the size of a small refrigerator through a film set with puppets that are 1/6 human scale requires precision, expertise, and ingenuity. In the newest episode of the LAIKA Archive series, Steve Switaj
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Laika: The Evolution of Motion Control with Christopher Covel and Steve Switaj(youtube.com)
1 points by andrehacker 4y ago|1 comments
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by andrehacker 4y ago
From Ken Shirriff's blog: https://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ance... When you run the simulator, it executes a short hardcoded program that performs shifts of increasing amounts. You don&
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by andrehacker 4y ago
> If you want to know how the Hewlett-Packard Company Archives was saved after enduring a major spinoff, 6 CEOs in 10 years and a company split, read my 2020 article. These Hewlett Packard archives ? https://www.pressdemocrat.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
That is very cool, a bit of Google Foo then gave me this: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-V14n0_048hOUR1Ymdv... That and Google Translate will allow you to build your own.
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by andrehacker 4y ago
The interesting thing about that book is that there are two versions that are significantly different, the wikipedia page "The Road Ahead (Gates Book)" describes this quite well (20,000 words were added mostly regarding the intern
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by andrehacker 5y ago
It seems that A-Frame (built on top of three.js) would be the way to go if Javascript is your thing. https://aframe.io/
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by andrehacker 6y ago
Ah, but the link to the model seems to be broken. This is where waybackmachine comes in handy: https://web.archive.org/web/20160401173732/http://homecomput...
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by andrehacker 7y ago
Ah, yes, there was an article here a year back about the original Furby using that same configuration. The article actually had the annotated 6502 source code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751599
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by andrehacker 8y ago
There is a community around this in England: "Narrow Bandwith TV"( http://www.nbtv.wyenet.co.uk/ ) Enthusiasts build working full size replicas. A "build it yourself" kit ("Televisor") was availa
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by andrehacker 11y ago
Interesting, I don't see anything of John Lasseter in there, not even this gem: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/671/readings/lasseter87.p...

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