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by jonjacky 11mo ago
Ferlinghetti was remarkable. He started before the Beats and outlived them all. He said he wasn't a Beat poet but the City Lights Bookstore he co-founded gave them an outlet and a publisher. He published his last novel, Little Bo
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I gather that the pre-freeway 1940s and 1950s were the great age for road trips in America -- for all kinds of people, including the very non-bohemian. I read somewhere that the mathematician John von Neumann drove across the country over t
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Correction: 4 bits at a time
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by jonjacky 11mo ago
I wasn't planning to use the front panel extensively because, as mentioned in the video, front-panel booting is not a practical way to start a computer. The next step up is to use a hex keypad to enter 16 bits at a time. Some single
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by jonjacky 11mo ago
The first session in my freshman Chemistry lab was on bending glass tubing by heating it to softness with a Bunsen burner. One of my classmates, with a burned finger, said that the takeaway lesson was "hot glass looks like cold glass
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by jonjacky 1y ago
Don't the Canon Cat "Leap" keys behave like the ordinary incremental search in Emacs? That is, C-s and C-r for forward and reverse search. Can't you recreate the Canon Cat experience in Emacs by editing in a single bi
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by jonjacky 1y ago
At the Computer History Museum. They have reconstructed a whole working 1960s machine room: punch cards, tapes, and line printer, of
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by jonjacky 1y ago
Here are the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in the classic 1966 film Blow Up. Beck smashes his guitar while Page looks on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
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by jonjacky 1y ago
"PL/I's return is like Vladimir Horowitz coming out of retirement in 1965"
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Forth was invented around 1970 for controlling equipment in an astronomical observatory, running on a PDP-11, a 16-bit computer with up to 64 Kbytes of memory. Its heyday was the 1970s and 80s, when it was mostly used for small embedded s
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Upvoted for the contents in doc/ and notes/ - they distinguish this project from many other hobby OS.
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In 2018 I ran across this: https://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html - Recreates (Jef Raskin's) Archy-like philosophy and workflow in emacs, including some customizations: "Ace Jump Mode ... wo
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Some simpler CPU boards for embedded systems have no onboard graphics, they just have a serial port, so you have to use a terminal or terminal emulator to talk to them.
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This is a 21 minute talk by Prof. Keith Winstein. The first half/three quarters of the talk doesn't address his title at all - he reviews his career as a student at MIT, a faculty member at Stanford, and a journalist, and his res
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In the CPython reference interpreter, that VM can be found at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/ceval.c It's 3619 lines. It's explained in this 515 line file: https:&#x2F
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by jonjacky 1y ago
This is quite a find! Thanks for posting this. Really a lot of work by the IBM people to produce just what, a half dozen actual computers? The power of this computer seems roughly comparable to the Olivetti Programma desktop computer,
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But see https://github.com/jubalh/awesome-os There are dozens and dozens of new operating systems listed here. Most are experiments -- what you might call hobby projects -- but there are some interesting ideas implemen
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by jonjacky 1y ago
Apparently this is unrelated to MyHDL, another hardware description language in Python. Searching HN finds posts about MyHDL going back 16 years. https://www.myhdl.org/ https://github.com/myhdl/myhdl
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> AI didn't even exist 25 years ago Er, the term "AI" was coined almost 70 years ago, in 1956. By the mid-1960s AI was in full career, with ChatBots (Eliza and its variants), neural nets (Perceptrons etc.), and many appl
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Another early example is Stoy and Strachey's virtual machine for running their OS-6 operating system on the Module One minicomputer, starting around 1969 [1,2]. It was written in BCPL. Butler Lampson wrote that it influenced the ea
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by jonjacky 1y ago
Normal Accidents is a classic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
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"pathos" ...Hundreds of lines of code just to cache out a bad pun! Clever name --- it's worth an upvote just for that! Seriously, it's an interesting project and I appreciate the description of your experience with the
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The article title is actually "How I use my terminal"
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This has long been recognized in literature and philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche described a 'will to ignorance': a 'suddenly erupting decision in favor of ignorance, of deliberate exclusion, a shutting of one's windows,
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This is quite cool. The CPU has only four instructions, which can be applied to immediate arguments or run in sequence to get six more, which can then be used to write real programs!
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This is the best comment -- with the best advice -- in this whole discussion.
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(1993)
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This post might be a response to yesterday's announcement of Microsoft's new Edit editor, which has some of the same features as kilo. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529
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There is Wirth's 4 page guide, How to use the Oberon System https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/UsingOberon.p... Also The Oberon Pi Quick Reference and System User Guide at this project page.
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A much earlier (2012) attempt at a Python bytecode interpreter on an FPGA: https://pycpu.wordpress.com/ "Running a very small subset of python on an FPGA is possible with pyCPU. The Python Hardware Processsor (pyCPU)

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