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by mepian 2y ago
The title reminds me of this classic paper, "If It Works, It's Not AI: A Commercial Look at Artificial Intelligence Startups": https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/80558
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by mepian 2y ago
I don’t think any BSD uses Mach, or Quartz, or Cocoa.
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by mepian 2y ago
I'm working on a public access Symbolics Portable Genera system that will be reachable from the web, similar to Interlisp Online. The current owner of Symbolics' intellectual property gave me the permission to do this. I'm al
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by mepian 2y ago
Mojo is completely unrelated, created by Chris Lattner and his team at Modular AI.
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Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL(github.com)
18 points by mepian 2y ago|6 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
>enabled and masked by AI productivity gains. That's a fantasy, unless these are really menial jobs.
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by mepian 2y ago
>But at its core is a message that is missing a little from modern computing - the ability to jump in and just get something simple built quick. That niche has been pretty much filled by Excel, for better or worse.
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by mepian 2y ago
At this point it's a separate language from Scheme. I think Chez Scheme tends to be the "default" recommendation.
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by mepian 2y ago
Can we not overload this term please? https://www.britannica.com/technology/microprogramming
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Genera Retrospective: "the world's first commercial object-oriented OS" (1991)(archive.org)
5 points by mepian 2y ago|5 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
Some combination of [0], [1], [2], and [3] is the closest modern equivalent. [0] https://slime.common-lisp.dev/ [1] https://github.com/joaotavora/sly [2] https://mcclim.common-lisp.dev/
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by mepian 2y ago
That's not the same PPU, is it?
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The Symbolics Genera Programming Environment (1987)(archive.org)
48 points by mepian 2y ago|8 comments
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Pat Gelsinger on Intel Foundry Momentum, Progress on Plan(intel.com)
5 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
>is a VC-funded corporate network that expects return on investment while saying it is open >Nostr Do you mean the same Nostr that is backed by Jack Dorsey, the Twitter billionaire?
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by mepian 2y ago
I don't want economists to move fast and break things.
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by mepian 2y ago
There is more if you search by the tag: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Symbolics%22
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The Symbolics Ivory Design and Verification Strategy (1987)(archive.org)
24 points by mepian 2y ago|2 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
They are unrealistic in a consistently stylized way, unlike AI-generated images which are simply broken.
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by mepian 2y ago
98 was the one that introduced NT drivers (WDM).
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by mepian 2y ago
Carbon is a better Apple-related comparison since it's basically a cleaned-up version of the classic Mac OS API as a library that ran on both Mac OS X and classic.
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by mepian 2y ago
Apparently HN downranks posts using the same indicator.
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by mepian 2y ago
They were one of the first HDTV customers, along with NGIA and NRO.
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Symbolics S-Geometry manual (1988)(archive.org)
1 points by mepian 2y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 2y ago
That's not why we have fonts: http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-steve-jobs-and-...
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by mepian 2y ago
>I previously gave Clojure a try, that was a pretty good fit, but the JVM / ecosystem put me off. I recommend trying Common Lisp then. It's one of the primary inspirations for Clojure, and it's not tied to JVM - it's
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by mepian 2y ago
>how a file manager make sense as the centerpiece for building a business Well, there are Total Commander and other commercial file managers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers
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by mepian 2y ago
For what it's worth, the late Dmitry Zapolsky hinted in his book Putinburg that Pavel Durov worked with the FSB from the beginning of his entrepreneurial career in Russia.
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by mepian 2y ago
The economics of making EUV tools versus running them 24/7 at high throughput are very different.
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by mepian 2y ago
You can argue that they are actually selling the CUDA libraries, and the GPUs are just a very expensive "dongle" to enable them.

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