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by mepian 2y ago
Does that effect exist outside of press releases and stock price manipulation?
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by mepian 2y ago
Ah yes, a chat bot that is consistently failing to do such advanced tasks as counting letters in words is definitely life-changing, right next to the metaverse and NFTs.
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by mepian 2y ago
Tan is much taller apparently.
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Why Go?(github.com)
130 points by mepian 2y ago|107 comments
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The mix-in revolution(technologyreview.com)
2 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
My favorite spot is the final area of Water Hazard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpGHDZSSt4
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It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety(cacm.acm.org)
76 points by mepian 2y ago|98 comments
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Building in Azeroth: A First Look at Housing(worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com)
2 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask dang: Clarc public release?
12 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
Krita is not a vector graphics editor so it is not an Adobe Illustrator replacement.
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Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
I guess the Rendition Vérité accelerator cards are also contenders.
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by mepian 2y ago
> what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s? VAX 9000, OS/2 2.0, OS/2 Warp 3, OpenDoc, Kaleida, Apple Newton, Pippin, 3DO, Philips CD-i, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Ami
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by mepian 2y ago
I believe you’re overestimating my social skills and confidence. I created an event on a meetup site and people showed up.
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by mepian 2y ago
>2. I'd search for some hobby/interest groups that would fit my interests, but nothing really fits. You can just start your own group in this case. That's what I did with Lisp Ireland.
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by mepian 2y ago
Linux started on the 386. “It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.”
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by mepian 2y ago
Is that boot tasty?
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CHERI Alliance Launches, Adds Google, to Tackle Threats at the Hardware Level(semiiphub.com)
2 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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Rockets and People: A Four-Volume Memoir by Boris Chertok (NASA History Series)(nasa.gov)
4 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
“Artificial life” can be strictly algorithmic.
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by mepian 2y ago
The original Boids program was developed by Craig Reynolds at Symbolics Graphics Division for their Lisp machines: https://youtu.be/xBniZYiyrb4
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by mepian 2y ago
According to Ken Kocienda's book (he was one of the original developers of Safari), that email is a post-hoc rationalization. The "evaluation" was literally him and another guy trying to build Mozilla for weeks and failing, a
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by mepian 2y ago
I wonder why exactly Copland went off the rails, do we have anyone from the Copland team here on HN who can share their view?
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by mepian 2y ago
I have an original "NeXTstep Concepts" manual with the NX prefix. I can't remember where I heard the "NeXT and Sun" explanation for the first time, but a Google search shows that the prefix change could've actu
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by mepian 2y ago
NS stood for NeXT and Sun. NX was the original prefix before OpenSTEP. EDIT: I might be wrong about the first part, see my comment below.
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by mepian 2y ago
It’s funny that Apple originally wanted Mozilla (proto-Firefox) but couldn’t figure out how to build it on Mac OS X in a reasonable amount of time.
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by mepian 2y ago
The PDP-10 was a mainframe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10#cite_note-1
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Lisp Ireland Meetup at Stripe Dublin(stripe.events)
2 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
"Palm now owns the former Siemens mobile patent portfolio" Man, I miss Siemens phones, they were great at the time. I wonder what they would be like today if Siemens didn't quit the market.
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Kh-69 missile engineer killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian operation(meduza.io)
7 points by mepian 2y ago|5 comments

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