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by jtotheh 3y ago
I think this is good. people should read this and share it with management/suits.......
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by jtotheh 3y ago
This is really good!
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by jtotheh 3y ago
essentially the computer I'm typing this on is $1829 at B&H - I know it's an M1 not an M3 but it's a very nice machine. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1668189-REG/apple_mk1...
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I have an M1 MacBook pro and the screen (16") is wonderful. I have an external 4K monitor that was only 400$ and it is not as nice a screen, I'm not sure why-refresh rate? underlying technology? Anyway, I mostly use it with no ext
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I think the reaction to this and other things about their business practices led him to change his ways, or maybe just work on making it look like he changed his ways. At least he wants to look like a good person now, maybe he even is one.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Thank you.
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Ask HN: Were There Precursors to CPAN?
5 points by jtotheh 3y ago|3 comments
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by jtotheh 3y ago
That's something I think about a lot. I don't know how we could do it but I think it should be priority to try and figure it out. Social and psychological question rather than technical/engineering.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
My killer app for X11 is XScreenSaver. Wayland can't run it, so forget Wayland.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I just read the book "The Innovators" ( https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Created-R... ) (although I got it from my public library) -- some great stories in there, although not about bezos/mu
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by jtotheh 3y ago
If you use the Apple ecosystem (Apple TV, iPhone and so forth) it all works together really nicely. And it's very reliable. I don't think the same is true of Linux with Android or Pine Phone or whatever. Also the devices tend to b
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Looking into this more, I see that Lotus 1-2-3 is considered to have greatly helped the IBM PC become dominant, and it did not run on CP/M-86 (i would be interested in any confirmation or rebuttal of this though). So Microsoft's s
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by jtotheh 3y ago
It is a strange turn of events that DRI did not supply the dominant OS for the IBM PC. Before watching this I didn't know that CP/M-86 went for $240 and PC-DOS for $40. Gates' shrewdness (I'll call it that) enabled him
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I hope you pursue your dreams! If they change then so be it, but if they continue to be about tech, I hope you don't let this stop you. The industry needs motivated women!
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I totally agree with this. As streaming migrates to > CD-quality bitrates, and Dolby Atmos and such emerge, the idea of using physical CDs seems silly. I can understand that it might be possible to have a completely analog chain from mic
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I tried to install Debian 11 on an Early 2014 MacBook pro and it didn't have video at all for me in the installer. I didn't pursue it after that. You have done a lot to get this to work. I've tried different Linux distros on
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Ask HN: Is Bletchley Park worth a visit?
4 points by jtotheh 3y ago|3 comments
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Oracle JDK 8 includes something called Web Start, which was a cool way of having a client Java executable that would be updated when you reloaded it from a web link. It used to be a real pain to manage updating clients in client-server apps
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I watched this, having had it recommended elsewhere. It's a pretty amazing story. It is a bit long but very entertaining. The achievement it eventually explains is amazing,especially for those of us who have had dual-boot Windows/
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by jtotheh 3y ago
modern users (for example, kids) are able to get by with their files in the default folders of the applications and no concept of a directory tree. And with performant search they don't worry about it, they just search for the file. I
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by jtotheh 3y ago
You can write your own apps for your personal iPhone on a mac (with Xcode,which is free) - granted you have to own a mac. Also, the iPhone can do things the Jornada can't.......
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by jtotheh 3y ago
That's pretty scary.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Looking around Knuth's web pages after checking out his questions for ChatGPT, I found this, which really surprised me. I didn't know he was so thoughtful about such things.
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Infrequently Asked Questions(cs.stanford.edu)
2 points by jtotheh 3y ago|1 comments
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by jtotheh 3y ago
I clicked around on the timeline to sample this at different points. Can’t imagine watching it for any length of time. Interesting that they were kind of making the same kind of music with 1970 instruments (including flute, drum set)
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by jtotheh 3y ago
That was my reaction as well. It really doesn't say much of value, just regurgitates some facts about both languages.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
modern word and excel really started on the mac, earlier than that.
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by jtotheh 3y ago
Robert Crumb depicted PKD's religious experience in comic book form, here is a link: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/07/r-crumb-weirdo-phi...
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by jtotheh 3y ago
This is pretty funny. The rest of the stuff on the site is good as well.
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Show HN: A simple iOS app to go from music to Wikipedia(apps.apple.com)
1 points by jtotheh 3y ago|0 comments

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