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by leoc 6y ago
OTOH, in the circumstances where someone is looking for the body of a fairly-recently-deceased human in a forest they're probably motivated enough to search through quite a large number of false positives to find it. And if the searc
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by leoc 6y ago
The standard Model M layout is a left-handed keyboard layout. It was a right-handed keyboard layout when the Model M came out in 1984 and very few PC users had a mouse or any kind of pointing device. But for over 25 years it's been a l
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by leoc 6y ago
And then the buyer likely had the cost of extra RAM on top of that...
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by leoc 6y ago
But Smalltalk was likely the king of language ecosystem, and even more so of language interaction, at around the time when Java first appeared. And probably its only serious rivals for that crown were even more high-end and even more now-de
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by leoc 6y ago
> or to send a simulated system a message explicitly addressed to one of its simulated system's simulated systems should read > or to send one of its simulated systems a message explicitly addressed to one of that simulated syste
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by leoc 6y ago
"Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers."
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by leoc 6y ago
Indeed from what I've heard it seems that DeWalt is despised by many professionals, while some feel that Makita is only one step up.
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by leoc 6y ago
Recursive universes don't get interesting until you start doing system calls: > So when an inevitable bug occurred in that super-duper LIFE machine, the intelligent entities in the simulation would have suddenly been presented with
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by leoc 6y ago
Not an expert, but it seems that the size of the logic wafer is locked to the size of the pixel wafer in Sony's CMOS image sensors? https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/763/iedm-2017-sonys-3-layer-s... ? It seems t
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by leoc 6y ago
I assume it's also because it's ridiculously compressible compared to more normal video of similar resolution?
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by leoc 6y ago
IIUC the short version of the story is that PAL regions got Teletext while NTSC regions ended up with NTSC closed captioning instead?
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Bletchley Park Trust to undergo organisational restructure(bletchleypark.org.uk)
49 points by leoc 6y ago|28 comments
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by leoc 6y ago
Repeating myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199343 > The classic "control fraud" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud strategy is to incentivise your subordinates to ma
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by leoc 6y ago
But the parent didn't make that assumption.
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by leoc 6y ago
> I remember hearing that the shuttle program was having to scrounge for old CPUs from warehouses because someone of the processors it used were no longer manufactured, and they didn't want to make changes to the hardware. Indeed th
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by leoc 6y ago
The link to the website was posted recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683158 . Reposting my earlier comment on it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695866 : > This wave of computer-lite
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by leoc 6y ago
Later the ARM architecture had a big breakthrough when Apple selected it for its groundbreaking mobile device: I refer of course to the Newton. :)
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by leoc 6y ago
And Itanium wasn’t Intel’s first or even second attempt to follow up x86 with an incompatible clean-sheet architecture iirc.
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by leoc 6y ago
> Why were a bunch of new Christmas songs written 60 years ago and barely a song a decade has been added to the repertoire since? George Michael is dead, and Mariah Carey seemed touch and go for a while, and those are pretty much the las
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by leoc 6y ago
That doesn't seem to be the cause. Competition from out-of-copyright traditional or nineteenth-century songs didn't prevent pop songwriters from having new Christmas hits until the post-Carey slump, and most of those commercial Ch
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by leoc 6y ago
Moving would also mean a change of diet or at least a change of food suppliers, and given how horribly adulterated things like bread could be especially in the big cities, that might have been a (probably mostly unnoticed) contributing fact
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by leoc 6y ago
Apparently the quality of the temperature control also matters quite a bit. It seems the TS100 has little problem in either of those departments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgrB5P-rDLw https://hackaday.com&#x
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by leoc 6y ago
It seems that the first realised self-balancing unicycle was built by YC’s Trevor Blackwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_unicycle#Commercialis...
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by leoc 6y ago
I don't know how much better Juniper's stuff is, let alone Cloudflare's specific setup, but classic Cisco IOS gear's approach to batching, pretesting and merging configuration changes on mission-critical network infrastr
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by leoc 6y ago
256 GiB is also supposedly a bit of a low ceiling for serious 4K video work, never mind 8K (please forgive the not-prestigious source): https://youtu.be/1LaKH5etJoE?t=926 I wouldn’t be astonished (not an expert) if unhappin
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by leoc 6y ago
The ZX Spectrum Next https://www.specnext.com/about/ has already become a reality, though it's unfortunately between batches at the moment.
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by leoc 6y ago
Gerry Sussman talked at length about IV during his DanFest https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/dfried_celebration.html talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arMH5GjBwUQ&t=295 .
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by leoc 6y ago
It's a notable omision all right. Maybe the author felt that the more-widely-known Al Gore was filling the story's human-interest quota.
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We only had one photograph of the entire Earth–until 2015 (2018)(artsy.net)
12 points by leoc 6y ago|4 comments
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by leoc 6y ago
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain https://www.drawright.com/ by Betty Edwards and Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson might be in that line. (I don't have lots of experience with them myself.) Alan Kay is a big fan

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