leoc

27 ms·

361.
by leoc 1y ago
“Busy Being Born” https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html , with its priceless early glimpses of the Lisa/Mac UI preserved in Polaroid photos, may be the best.
362.
by leoc 1y ago
The US is packed full of foreign and domestic hard-science PhDs, so surely that isn't the issue.
363.
by leoc 1y ago
It's also not nearly as good as Eric Gilliam's "How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?" https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-k... , posted here a fe
364.
by leoc 1y ago
For Japanese specifically? Try starting with https://refold.la/how-to-learn-japanese/ . (There are various people promoting similar methods, but Refold are probably by far the most pleasant and professional option.) An
365.
by leoc 1y ago
I'm not sure what the moral is from this, but if Atari games are just too easy, at the same time the response of the machine-learning guys to the challenge of the NetHack Learning Environment seems to have mostly been to quietly give u
366.
by leoc 1y ago
The quality of advice on Reddit seems to be variable, unfortunately. Apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese is full of people who've spent years doing Genki ( https://genki3.japantimes.co.jp&#
367.
by leoc 1y ago
Even at those levels there doesn't seem to be any reason why you wouldn't be better off putting your time into Dreaming Spanish https://www.dreamingspanish.com/ or Muzzy https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
368.
by leoc 1y ago
I've never had the pleasure of experiencing DuoLingo myself, but by all accounts it's an exceptionally time-inefficient way of learning a language. If the objective is to have fun playing a buzzy mobile game with the rest of the w
369.
by leoc 1y ago
> I don't know when you graduated but I've been working professionally for nearly 2 decades now and I heard the same thing when I graduated - about how it was so much easier just 5, 10, 15 years prior, how I was in for a real b
370.
by leoc 1y ago
But also, he didn't do the technically hardest and most impressive part, Quake, on his own. IIUC he basically relied on Michael Abrash's help to get Quake done (in any reasonable amount of time).
371.
by leoc 1y ago
It wasn't that simple: in practice the arrival of the 286 in 1984 was very much only the beginning of the PC's escape from the 640KiB/1MiB limit. It wasn't until some time after the promulgation of the DOS Protected Mode
372.
by leoc 1y ago
... MCP? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvayPCoHGFE
373.
by leoc 1y ago
Ive doesn’t seem to have come from an especially privileged background (beyond the obvious good fortune of being a white guy in good health born in a developed English-speaking country in the post-war era etc.) Middle-class certainly, but n
374.
by leoc 1y ago
Speaking of which https://substack.com/home/post/p-115930233 : > John Pierce once said in an interview, asserting the massive importance of development at Bell: >> You see, out of fourteen people in the B
375.
by leoc 1y ago
Eric Gilliam's "How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?" https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-k... came to a similar conclusion. (It did well here just a
376.
by leoc 1y ago
Dan Olsen ("Folding Ideas") actually uploaded a video about KDP spamming, "Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw , in September 2022 just before ChatGPT 3 hit.
377.
by leoc 1y ago
There are also Brian Bagnall's Commodore history books, of course.
378.
by leoc 1y ago
Maybe! Or maybe Henry Baker ...?
379.
by leoc 1y ago
From the title I assumed it was going to be about LLMs!
380.
by leoc 1y ago
IIRC sequence diagrams were invented by one of Carl Hewitt’s PhD students during Hewitt’s earlyish work on the Actor model?
381.
by leoc 2y ago
Here's another, recently-started YT channel focussed on mainframes: ErnieTech's Little Mainframes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdi4FOLU9-kSiiE7tVuVyjg .
382.
by leoc 2y ago
Someone finding themselves obliged to make and deliver a kilo of this stuff would be a strong opening for a shounen manga.
383.
by leoc 2y ago
The worst thing is that the TDC's calculation is very much GIGO if you get the Angle On Bow input wrong, and that's the hardest thing to get right.
384.
by leoc 2y ago
Anyone with a copy of Silent Hunter 3 https://store.steampowered.com/app/15210/Silent_Hunter_III/ can experience this for themselves. Trying to estimate another ship's heading from a vantage point near s
385.
by leoc 2y ago
Would you have the time and inclination to have a go at doing your own list sometime, perhaps? I'm sure it might be very widely appreciated.
386.
by leoc 2y ago
‘Sic transit’ is probably the Latin tag you want here.
387.
by leoc 2y ago
Is there a single more modern and/or generally better alternative, as far as you know?
388.
by leoc 2y ago
Regardless what the original story behind the Kaspersky ban was, if you genuinely don't think that a Russian antivirus company represents a state-controlled threat to US organisations, public and private, in 2025 then I don't know
389.
by leoc 2y ago
CP2077's not American but it largely came out of the usual mould of big-budget, big-studio game software, especially after CD Projekt Red ended up abandoning promises to do certain things differently.
390.
by leoc 2y ago
The final round of beta-testing has been assigned to Apple's economy-class customers.

More ›