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by leoc 7y ago
It should be about 4 years from now that the x86-64 patents have expired, so I wonder (not an expert on anything) if we might see Macs with dual-architecture features after that, whether full support for two instruction sets or just some mi
962.
by leoc 7y ago
(Odd website, though. It looks like something being run by an intel agency.)
963.
by leoc 7y ago
If so it wasn't the first outing: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/british-skulduggery-pr... .
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by leoc 7y ago
> MS has a long history of being a provider of tools and not really competing with partners. Windows ISVs and other OS providers excepted, of course ...
965.
by leoc 7y ago
It seem likely that negotiating Boeing's involvement is going to be tense, with things as they are right now.
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by leoc 7y ago
If so, it would be not too unlike MH17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 , and also a bitterly ironic echo of Iran Air 655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
967.
by leoc 7y ago
No denying that.
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by leoc 7y ago
Some possible similarities to the situation with the late Bill Broeksmit of Deutsche Bank and his son Val: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de... .
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by leoc 7y ago
When, if at all, did the glassmaker switch from coal to coke? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_(fuel)#Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_glass_in_England#... ?
970.
by leoc 7y ago
Just leaving "The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf67JYkUCHQ
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by leoc 7y ago
> Neither was user generated content (that's what the original web was) The fall and return of the cat picture still amuses me. In the early days of Web adoption when people would put up a personal home page just for the thrill of h
972.
by leoc 7y ago
And more, the AI hype-cycle was definitely on the upswing again already by the beginning of 2010. The Netflix Prize and the motor-vehicle DARPA Grand Challenges were all 2000s events, for instance.
973.
by leoc 7y ago
I suppose that partly depends on exactly how novel the blockchain part is, but broadly speaking the world of efforts to combine some of electronic money, cryptography, proof of work and decentralisation was not a new one in the late 2000s.
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by leoc 7y ago
Not at all unforeseen by the end of 2009 though. The GMail beta dates to 2004, while EC2 was announced by 2006, and that's aside from all older precedents or predictions. (That said, not everyone 'got' EC2 at first.)
975.
by leoc 7y ago
You know what else was written in BASIC? The original Smalltalk interpreter https://youtu.be/pACoq7r6KVI?t=1189 . ("I'm not ashamed, I got it going quickly" - Dan Ingalls.) Obviously this was just a scratch
976.
by leoc 7y ago
Thanks!
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by leoc 7y ago
If we're willing to extend the discussion to microcomputer Lisps targeting machine language, I'll repost an old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019592 : > There were various Z80 and MOS 6502 micr
978.
by leoc 7y ago
Here's a review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A-vRZth7SI . The Unicomps also feature in this overview of the Model Ms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5H58uudo1Y .
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by leoc 7y 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
980.
by leoc 7y ago
The Intel 8008 was designed for what is arguably the first personal computer, but its designers ended up going with a TTL CPU instead, partly because it was faster: https://www.righto.com/2015/05/the-texas-instrume
981.
by leoc 7y ago
> While tailors have figured out a formula for men’s suits, bra tailoring is a younger technology with a smaller market and far fewer competitors. [...] But bras, coming after the Industrial Revolution, had no such history of custom tail
982.
by leoc 7y ago
Twenty years ago, a car stereo that ran Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car https://web.archive.org/web/20000815214315/http://wired.com/... was the toast of Slashdot
983.
by leoc 7y ago
The Inkscape Sorcery! diverged significantly (and apparently increasingly) from the books though. Overall I'd rather have a computerised version that preserved the original text and mechanics.
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by leoc 7y ago
> A lot of steno's vaunted speed comes from very heavy use of macros. It's more than that: classic steno's not at all about saving operator time and labour or generating a final text quickly, and in fact it sacrificed both
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by leoc 7y ago
I assume it's just the list of examples he uses in his pep talks to startups and product teams. "Second prize is a set of steak knives."
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by leoc 7y ago
> I think the point is that these lawsuits are intended to raise public awareness of the issue which will ideally put pressure the companies being sued to institute voluntary policing of their supply chain. Beyond the legal merits, tech
987.
by leoc 7y ago
Given the subtitle, and the fact that the CIA is promoting it in their souvenir shop, that's very much as I'd expect. You'd still feel a little self-conscious, though.
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by leoc 7y ago
(Or, more specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... )
989.
by leoc 7y ago
"WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE ORANGUTAN!" https://imgur.com/gallery/lnOAS
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by leoc 7y ago
One thing that I'm not sure is generally understood is that Samsung etc. are advancing folding-screen phones, and MS is jumping back into phones with a dual-screen model, for just the same reason that Apple is apparently working hard o

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