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by mrandish 1y ago
While it's true the Amiga never got the breadth of serious music sequencing software that was on the ST, I never experienced any issues with MIDI jitter or timing. While the Amiga could do multi-tasking, applications could also optiona
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by mrandish 1y ago
> a failure of young people to study history The good news is that not only was almost all of it preserved, teenagers today are really interested in retro gaming. My 15 year-old daughter, who's not into computers more than any other
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> The Atari ST had a MIDI port: that notoriously lacked on the Commodore Amiga I never really understood why people thought this was a big deal. I had my Amiga hooked to a DX7 synth with a serial to MIDI cable that had a couple active pa
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by mrandish 1y ago
> picking up self-awareness on the way To me, the first problem is that "self-awareness" isn't well-defined - or, conversely, it's too well defined because every philosopher of mind has a different definition. It&#x27
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> And when they say it's really here for real, there will still be a year of waiting. Indeed. Although, there's a surprising number of people claiming it's already here now. And to describe the typical cycle completely, th
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For a home user, you can also set SSH to be Local LAN only, which is how I have mine set anyway.
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Yeah, that sentence was a bit severe. However, most of his observations about many journalists seemingly losing their minds over the Jony / Sam 'ship reveal and repeating embarrassingly grandiose yet vague claims without noting ho
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While the "hobby computer club culture" is known for introducing Steve Jobs to Woz, I suspect it enabled many thousands of similar life and industry changing personal collisions. It certainly did for me. In 1982 my teenage self st
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Interesting, I didn't know that. I only assumed the products that used it were using most or all of its capabilities. Do you know if there any early 80s computers that leveraged the 6845 in impressive ways?
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Okay, I didn't know that. I'll delete my comment.
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[Edit to remove: It was not clear that this was someone else's intro re-posted on Chomsky's site]
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by mrandish 1y ago
Very nice collection. I was purely focused on all-in-one 'keyboard home computers' that were designed to connect to a TV or composite monitor since that's the first kind of computer I got (circa 1981). So I have all the Atari
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by mrandish 1y ago
Interesting. I hadn't heard that about Atari. The odd thing is that the Atari 400/800 chipset couldn't display 80 column text, which seems to have been a 'must have' for IBM due to word processing and terminal emula
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'm just relating the way I personally saw a variety of professional pixel artists work creating art for commercial products on several different platforms when I was a developer at a few different companies in the 80s and early 90s. T
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by mrandish 1y ago
+1 for describing the "Apple II+ with a Z80 Softcard" as "the ultimate mullet machine, all the business software upfront, all the gaming party in the back." I agree with your point, the bar IBM was shooting for was set b
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by mrandish 1y ago
Those Loom comparisons between EGA and VGA are cool. Very impressive work that they did back then. It really highlights how much 16 color palettes forced artists toward simplified cartoon or comic-like representations yet adding just a coup
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by mrandish 1y ago
> The article was talking about the 80s I cited that article as only one example. It focused on one artist who created graphics mainly for one platform, the Amiga, which was sold from 1985 to 1994. However, graphics were made as I descri
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by mrandish 1y ago
Indeed, starting with IBM's initial 5150 design, early PC graphics made cost, memory and capability trade-offs which would soon be seen as unfortunate from a graphics and gaming perspective. Although IBM specced the platform and chos
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by mrandish 1y ago
> You didn't have to draw a pixel at a time. Back in the day I was fortunate to work with some of the best pixel artists in the industry like Jim Sachs ( https://spillhistorie.no/2024/09/13/legends-of-t
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by mrandish 1y ago
> this now-forgotten art style native to Japan is known, shorthand, as “PC-98” I'm really into retro computing having collected over a hundred 80s 'home' computers (all non-PC/Mac), including at least a dozen Japane
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by mrandish 1y ago
> intended to contrast with narrow AI I've thought for a while that the middle letter in AGI ('General' vs 'Specific') would be more useful and helpful if it were changed to Wide vs Narrow. All AIs can be evaluat
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> People often fall into the trap of thinking that because they are highly intelligent and an expert in one domain that this makes them an expert in one or more other domains. While this is certainly true, I'm not aware of any evid
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by mrandish 1y ago
Thanks! And I just saw in a parallel post currently on the HN home page, John Carmack also said a similar thing in his lecture notes. > "offline training can bootstrap itself off into a coherent fantasy untested by reality." &q
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by mrandish 1y ago
A key aspect of the Carmack approach (or similar 'smart hacker' unconventional career approach) is avoiding that situation in the first place. However, this also carries substantial career, financial and lifestyle risks & trad
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Indeed, and I'd go even further. In addition to existing, electricity is also usefully defined - which helps greatly in establishing its existence. Neither unicorns nor AGI currently exist but at least unicorns are well enough defined
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> You can perfectly try things and learn without being embodied. A brilliant 'brain in a vat' can come up with novel answers to questions but outside of narrow categories like pure mathematics and logic which can be internally
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by mrandish 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for doing this. Both summaries are serviceable and quite similar but I had a slight preference for Sonnet 4's summary which, at just ~20% of the cost of Claude 4 Opus, makes it quite the value leader. This just high
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by mrandish 1y ago
> he claims that the game’s characters are not inspired by other sources, including video games and comic books. Wow, that's a pretty implausible thing to claim under oath in a deposition. I mean, it's almost impossible to NO
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So the handwritten note literally said $150M? Did it specifically state August 1997? Did it discuss the amount of equity in Apple that MSFT would be getting and the terms for triggering redemption, conversion or repayment of the loan? No? O
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This announcement furthers my sense OpenAI is becoming a hype vehicle destined to be the iconic poster child of early AI hubris when the bubble pops. When I read the pretentious marketing copy and photo on the announcement page my first t

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