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by leoc 1y ago
Here's a head-to-head video demonstration of the Lisa and the Xerox Star 8010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtcOvRBQ7pE And a dedicated video on the Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzYRgmnJrE
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by leoc 1y ago
Page and Brin have consistently escaped blame for things that Zuckerberg and Musk are excoriated for. It turns out that you just have to lie low, instead of jumping up and down for attention in the press or on social media, and people will
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by leoc 1y ago
Oh no, not again. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1970/11/05/the-gentle-nietz...
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by leoc 1y ago
> You could probably define a Baby Python subset of the language that's just as simple and rigorously defined as Scheme and teach that Pyret https://pyret.org/ started out with more or less that ambition I think. II
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by leoc 1y ago
“Software Engineering” tends to be about project management: schedules and organisation, estimation, defect rates and so on. For vocational training on existing IT systems (including some coding), which I assume is more what the course focu
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by leoc 1y ago
> and had all the problems of a young language like poor library support for just about everything I know you didn't say otherwise, but for anyone who wasn't there it should be emphasised that many of the deficiencies were core
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by leoc 1y ago
James Watt of steam-engine fame was one of the first people to try to mechanically reproduce statues: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/sj.20...
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by leoc 1y ago
Right: bascially, 1980s-vintage William Gibson is a post-New-Wave SF writer who's a fan of hard-boiled novels and of New Hollywood "outlaw" bohemianism, so his heroes are pimps, thieves and murderers. 1980s-vintage Shirow is
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by leoc 1y ago
You're right; also, apparently, Gibson said he hadn't seen Tron as late as March 1983, and he finished a draft of Neuromancer before that August https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-article/neuroman
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by leoc 1y ago
Cyberspace in Neuromancer is certainly not not psychedelic, but it’s also clearly to a large extent based on Tron .
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by leoc 1y ago
Up to a point, but the early Macintosh displays were quite crisp and clinical—certainly compared to something like a consumer NTSC or PAL CRT TV—as befitted a platform which was very focussed on WYSIWYG paper-document editing.
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by leoc 1y ago
It’s also intended for medical students and other people researching anatomy and physiology, not for gawkers.
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by leoc 1y ago
To be honest I'm not sure what you're saying here, or what you think I'm saying.
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by leoc 1y ago
If the librarian's 'call for' meaning was indeed the one originally intended, then even in Mauchly's 1947 article you can already see slippage towards the more object-oriented or actor-oriented 'call to' meanin
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by leoc 1y ago
At https://youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?t=338 you can see EDSAC's original linker, Margaret Hartrey, taking a library subroutine from the drawer of paper tapes. (But you should really watch the whole thing, of course!)
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by leoc 1y ago
A catch here is that individual workers may have priorities which are altered due to the strong natural preference for assuring financial independence. Even if you were a hot AI researcher who felt (and this is just a hypothetical) that you
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by leoc 1y ago
> Probably meant 1988 (Sega Mega Drive) Yes, I meant the Mega Drive, but the PAL Mega Drive, the really relevant one here, didn’t come out until well into 1990 (if the easiest Internet sources are to be believed).
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by leoc 1y ago
> Games consoles killed the Amiga, just like they did all other home computers that were primarily used for games. Wait, which games, and which consoles? Arcadey sprite-based action games were popular on the Amiga, and there the consoles
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by leoc 1y ago
Obligatory Schwarzenegger: "The kind of people who train alongside you in a gym makes a difference. If you are surrounded by people who are serious and train with a lot of intensity, it's easier for you to do the same thing. But i
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by leoc 1y ago
I can't really name any ski-jumping results from memory, and I have only the fuzziest recall of its history. But I haven't claimed and wouldn't claim that ski-jumping is an "obscure, hyper-local" sport, either, so t
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by leoc 1y ago
I managed to get the Macintosh II FDHD emulator to boot, but the emulator menu only invites me to load 400K/800K floppies despite the Snow manual claiming that the Mac II FDHD emulator provides two SuperDrives https://docs.s
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by leoc 1y ago
Is Steve Russell—the original LISP implementer and Spacewar! co-creator—still showing up these days?
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by leoc 1y ago
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
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by leoc 1y ago
Over on the nuclear side there was SL1, which AFAICT is probably the answer to the question "why doesn't the US Army have its own nuclear systems?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOt7xDKxmCM .
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by leoc 1y ago
Indeed, though rocket engineers have historically not been particular sticklers on that score.
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by leoc 1y ago
(In fact so am I!)
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by leoc 1y ago
I’ve been hoping to see PCs in a proper cyberdeck form factor for years now, so it’s great to see them start to emerge. One thing I would suggest that creators consider is building in a smartphone or small-tablet capacitive-touch display to
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by leoc 1y ago
Were the Rasmussens who created Wave maybe earlier involved with some kind of IRC variant, by the way? LysKOM? I do seem to remember people comparing Wave to LysKOM back in the day, at least.
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"No-one ever got fired for buying IBM" etc.
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by leoc 1y ago
Here's what the foreword to Keep It Simple https://arnoldsche.com/en/vergriffen/keep-it-simple/ https://archive.org/details/keepitsimpleearl0000essl/ says about the Platinum

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