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by leoc 1mo ago
And except at the beginning, the Mac Minis of the past weren’t famous for being cheap, but rather for being disappointingly, unattractively expensive and, over time, apparently increasingly forgotten by Apple.
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by leoc 1mo ago
Speaking of core memory, it was a magazine ad for Deltamax which got Jay Forrester to start his work on core memory: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2408s , 40m08s). Ernst Albers-Schönberg https:/&#
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by leoc 1mo ago
> If you read the article, it's ideologically consistent - the main motivation in abandoning Fraktur was strategic (i.e. military), not ideological. But that isn't quite what it says either. Pragmatic considerations may have gi
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by leoc 1mo ago
It's not surprising though. Branding, marketing and style seem to have been his core competences.
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by leoc 1mo ago
Plenty in Ireland as well. The craze certainly seems to be more subdued here, though some of the posh delis in Dublin, in particular, seem to be riding the wave. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/CannedSardines/comments&#
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by leoc 2mo ago
Right, it's clear that nVidia is taking care and trying to position itself so that it can continue making sales if and when inference goes local. And it's in a much better intrinsic position to do that than the LLM SaaS vendors ar
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by leoc 2mo ago
No-one cares anymore about ancient computers or weird specialist systems of course, but don't neglect my important requirements by breaking compatibility with any the platforms I am relying on at any point in time. We also need all
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by leoc 2mo ago
Shrinkflation implies a furtive change that the customer is supposed ideally not to notice, but the big 2002 revision of the Mars recipe wasn't that. Masterfoods felt (no doubt with good reason) that consumers were turning against the
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by leoc 2mo ago
I'd be relatively surprised if the Mars bar's calorie density went up after it was ruined in 2002. The old Mars bar was a beast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245791 .
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by leoc 2mo ago
The old, pre-2002 https://www.just-food.com/news/uk-mars-re-branding-offers-co... UK Mars bar (not to be confused with whatever thing the US had) was both horrifying and glorious, an incredibly heavy and filling thing
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by leoc 2mo ago
Very common in Japan, it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got%C5%8D_(surname) . (Confusingly there is both a Mariko Goto who used to be the singer in a band named Midori and a Japanese-American violinist named Mido
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by leoc 2mo ago
There's some discussion of how C29 defer ended up in a TS at https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its... .
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by leoc 2mo ago
A video of an 1994 presentation put together for Hot Chips VI on the 21164: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OHupqMbLj1g An April 1992 University Video Communications presentation on the Alpha architecture https://you
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by leoc 2mo ago
Well, the Chinese manufacturers are certainly coming, though CXMT seems to be being careful not to rock the boat, at least yet https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinese-cxmt... .
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by leoc 2mo ago
I'm a bit out of energy at present but I'll try to put together a comment. From the point of view of a learner it's unfortunate that macrons (diacritical marks for long vowels) have not been added to the text, and that '
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by leoc 2mo ago
So I won’t have switch to Fchte or Schlirmchr?
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by leoc 2mo ago
It seems reminiscent of the Green Project/FirstPerson episode that led to Java https://landley.net/history/mirror/java/javaorigin.html , and I'm sure many another attempt to keep some unhappy star p
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by leoc 2mo ago
While a worse format surely could have won something like the video wars, it doesn't seem that VHS was in fact the worse format overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60 (Part 2: https://www.you
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by leoc 2mo ago
No thanks. We've spent enough decades living in squatter camps built on the ruins of other people's lazy decisions. It's past time to move out now. Worse is worse; worse is shit. And there's nothing endearing or funny ab
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by leoc 2mo ago
The final irony is that if they'd just maintained G+ a bit better and kept it around after 2018 it's likely they'd eventually have had a decent chance to pick up a number of waves of unhappy people leaving Facebook or Twitter
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by leoc 2mo ago
Hah, remember the brief interval when SV got excited about hiring people with machine-learning skills again, and Google was hot, but "AI" was still a dirty name, so they started buzzing about hiring people with expertise in "
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by leoc 2mo ago
It's the result of seeking to maintain consistency with the titles of the previous books in the series. And while the platform coverage this time is very narrow, any book on assembly in general is going to have to pick some specific pl
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by leoc 2mo ago
Neither Richard Feynman nor the quantum-physics community in general reacted very well to the first efforts to test Bell's theorem experimentally, at first: https://web.archive.org/web/20250723224559/https:&#x
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by leoc 2mo ago
I think the chipmakers are pretty securely set up here, the usual cyclical issues aside. Between the stubborn resistance of the data to being compressed without significant loss, and to a lesser extent the ability to do more with more memor
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by leoc 2mo ago
Though even if there are big further breakthroughs to be made here, they won’t necessarily be made soon, and if they aren’t made in the next ~10 years then they won’t really affect the outcome of chip investments made now or in the immediat
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by leoc 2mo ago
It's called the distributed Web because we share out the buttons equally.
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by leoc 2mo ago
The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.
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by leoc 2mo ago
It would be lovely to see some of those converted into enamelled metal badges.
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Augmental: MouthPad goes public, and we introduce VOX(augmental.tech)
5 points by leoc 2mo ago|1 comments
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by leoc 2mo ago
This is actually not the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co . However a look at Henry Ford’s personal priorities shows that there’s a be-careful-what-you-wish-for aspect to this (also arguably vi

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