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by leoc 6y ago
He actually just released a video about that photo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pinYVZxBF2Q
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by leoc 6y ago
> If I recall correctly, this was the case 15 (?) years back I don't know for sure that it never happened, but I don't think it ever did, partly because Apple and Adobe were not particularly friendly around that time: https:
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by leoc 6y ago
(Perhaps you should ping him just in case he might be interested in dropping in to this HN thread?)
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by leoc 6y ago
You can in fact watch a professional chemist talk about a mechanical keyboard for 15 minutes on a pretty successful YouTube channel, but he's definitely going to be using his larger-than-life stage persona: https://www.youtu
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by leoc 6y ago
Sebastian and Linus Media Group seem to be pretty frank and open about a lot of this: see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA&list=PL8mG-RkN2u... on putting up gurning thumbnails and navigating the
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by leoc 6y ago
> Privateer is the basis of EVE online, Star Citizen and countless other modern titles. In terms of influence it is up there with SimCity and Civilization. Surely Elite and Elite II deserve more of the credit there?
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by leoc 6y ago
There's at least one proposal to get around this by adopting a foreign design like the Saab Gripen: http://www.stairwaypress.com/bookstore/american-gripen/ . The US could rename it the Freedom Chimera and man
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by leoc 6y ago
Chamber pots. You've invented chamber pots.
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by leoc 6y ago
>Do you think it just a coincidence that the best 35mm film also seems to top out around '12k' ? Part of the reason (AFAIK; not an expert) for the very high quality of 35mm is that it leaves enough headroom to crop the filmed i
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by leoc 6y ago
The article mentions that French was his first foreign language. He picked up Russian to read his first calculus book, then English to do an Oxford maths degree. And you're unlikely to be a doctoral student in philology and know only o
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by leoc 6y ago
The fact that computing is shot through with people who think that putting things in-band makes them go away, and that because special cases have nice properties therefore King Canute can abolish the general case with a wave of his hand, is
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by leoc 6y ago
In any case the 8-bit-micro maze games are all handily predated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War , which unlike all of them (AFAIK) is also a head-to-head multiplayer shooter with netplay, a much more direct p
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by leoc 6y ago
The sea-song trend has been simmering on social media for a while, before boiling over just now and since before the start of the pandemic. This "Drunken Sailor" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwOHnr3xVE g
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by leoc 6y ago
Nelson on HESS and his experience there: https://youtu.be/_9PmIkAYhI0?t=450
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by leoc 6y ago
It's really not uncommon. You can go a long time before you have an accurate self-assessment forced on you. https://youtu.be/jq1_2P6YWtA?t=259 is good, a typically honest reflection from Anthony Stauffer, someone who i
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by leoc 6y ago
> Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, h
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by leoc 6y ago
FWIW, the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the x86-64 specification was apparently August of this year ( https://web.archive.org/web/20120308025559/http://www.amd.co... , via WP https:/&#
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by leoc 6y ago
As SV ticker moments go, is this one second only to TWITTER ACQUIRES MAGIC PONY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937756 ? Literal Boomer meme.
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by leoc 6y ago
> The term Post-PC was first coined by MIT scientist David D. Clark in 1999 and was quickly adopted by both Microsoft’s and Apple’s former CEOs. Up to a point, Lord Copper. See (once again) Jobs' discussion of the "Digital Hub&
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by leoc 6y ago
With Google's SwiftShader Crysis is somwhat playable at low, low specs on a 64-core EPYC Rome CPU: https://youtu.be/HuLsrr79-Pw?t=705 MS also includes a SW renderer in Win10, apparently for use as a fallback: https:&#
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by leoc 6y ago
> In that regard, Burke was certainly a child of its time, as progress through many individual actions (and their recombinations) vs. centrally planned progress is essentially the narrative of the Cold War. TBF the fear of systemic colla
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by leoc 6y ago
If you like this then https://thonyc.wordpress.com/ is the hard stuff.
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by leoc 6y ago
I'm not taking any position here myself on what's possible. Similarly I can't say whether finding a theory to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics really depends on P being equal to NP, but I can say that it certain
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by leoc 6y ago
> It looks like most of the big ideas have been discovered (although physicists were saying this in the 1890s as well) Are many people really saying that now? I'm emphatically not an expert, but my impression was that it's gene
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by leoc 6y ago
> Are you sure about that 250$ number? Because I don't think that's a very realistic number. I think it's fairly realistic. The Dell Latitude 7250 is probably a good representative of what you can get used for ~$220-$300 U
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by leoc 6y ago
There are also some recent suspicions that Intel may be playing games with the Math Kernel Library (again?): https://level1techs.com/video/intel-throttling-mkl-performan... . Intel's "Chief Performance Strate
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The Bushy Tree Diagram(wiki.c2.com)
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by leoc 6y ago
From the thread: > In a report from November 2019, however, an analyst wrote that Amazon hired Pinkerton spies who were "inserted" into a warehouse in Wroclaw, Poland, to investigate an allegation that management coached job ca
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by leoc 6y ago
*but anyone who was around at the time knows that in the '90s
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by leoc 6y ago
Apparently Thunderbolt is full of low-level x86 quirks, so getting existing devices working on ARM Macs is likely to be a punishingly heavy lift even for Apple, which seems to have barely started work. And of course Intel isn't likely

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