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by nxobject 1y ago
Same for Nike, I think to LA and back – although it might have been cut as well.
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by nxobject 1y ago
I've always wondered what it would be like to "live" in ALGOL 68 for a while, because of its ambition and idiosyncrasy. With a modern perspective, what would I be surprised to actually have, and what would I be surprised to m
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by nxobject 1y ago
There's that old chestnut about how the x86 instruction format -- at least up to the 486 -- is easily hand-assembled in octal [1], and that this may be have been the legacy of a design decision made for the Datapoint 2200. [2] [1] htt
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by nxobject 1y ago
If you're going "wait, no Apple platform has first-party CUDA support!", note that this set of patches also adds support for "Linux [platforms] with CUDA 12 and SM 7.0 (Volta) and up". https://ml-explore.
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by nxobject 1y ago
This is fantastic! As someone who's used PICO-8 in after-school STEM enrichment classes (and has evaluated uxn), one of the frustrations that my students have always had is easy I/O and persisting state -- for saving/loading
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by nxobject 1y ago
Or, alternatively, why would I build a product on this service? (In this vein, xAI is introducing an aligned version for commercial use, I think.)
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by nxobject 1y ago
Incidentally, I've had the same thing too with Lisps on both o-series and smaller Claude models - always a mismatched paren or two.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Shades of 1980s Apple v. Big Blue. I can't wait for the rehash of the "1984" ad.
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Two rare fishing cats born in France(lemonde.fr)
4 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Once a forest is added to an area, it becomes completely inaccessible because of how dense it grows. All of the ones I have seen are completely fenced off. I agree: I think the podcast touched on this, but “racing towards the densest f
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by nxobject 1y ago
I understand Chollet is transparent that the "branding" of the ARC-AGI-n suites is meant to be suggestive of its purpose, than substantial. However, it does rub me the wrong way - as someone who's cynical of how branding can
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by nxobject 1y ago
As someone who cpuld have never considered Claude Code due to the cost of Max/Opus - do you notice any differences in practice with just Sonnet?
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by nxobject 1y ago
Ironically, much of the ascent of America after WWII had to do with being the only intact industrial power, which we then plowed into science and technology research. It’s a pity we don’t recognize that in our historical narratives - rather
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by nxobject 1y ago
Welp, I’ve read every newspaper article - at least I have an excuse not to read the news anymore for my sanity.
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by nxobject 1y ago
That's a useful comparison since it gives some insight to some important differences: part of the difference might be an order of magnitude increase in clock speed (say from 15 MHz to 133+ MHz); another might be an increase in I/O
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by nxobject 1y ago
One detail that I'd be interested to see are startup times for the MicroPython environment. Having compiled both Lua and Duktape (an embedded friendly ES7 runtime) for a Macintosh Classic, morally a Plus, I regularly got startup times
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by nxobject 1y ago
To be frank? I can't justify paying for a single-purpose LLM service subscription: Cursor has have a 1-year free educational plan, and for general-purpose multimodal reasoning model work (e.g. OCR, general knowledge reference, math com
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by nxobject 1y ago
Thanks so much for keeping this going, and for the late 18F for open-sourcing these implementations... I hope there's a way we can institutionalize your efforts. As a side note, when the documentation page is viewed in a dark mode brow
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by nxobject 1y ago
Note that this is only for male DB-19s (i.e. for peripherals). Alas, you'll still have to hoard your battery-bombed vintage motherboards for female DB-19s. (Or hopefully use a physically different but electrically compatible connector.
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Flock Safety's Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe(eff.org)
20 points by nxobject 1y ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 1y ago
Ironically, enough, I've made the exact same purchase (well, not the color, but still an M3 MacBook Air) -- the Apple experience for me was literally "purchase from the online store in the evening, pick up from physical store next
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Coristine received full-time employment status at the GSA late last month, as reported by WIRED. As of Tuesday afternoon, his Google Workspace account with the General Services Administration (GSA) was no longer active, according to a
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by nxobject 1y ago
I'm surprised HD20 support is listed as "not applicable" for SE, II, etc: I think all models listed except for II have HD20 boot support in ROM. I use an HD20 emulator with my physical Mac SE. It's one of the most conven
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by nxobject 1y ago
My 2c: having played around with the codebase recently (to add C++ to the codebase), I did find Cursor helpful in figuring out how to work with the bespoke build system.
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by nxobject 1y ago
One way to add devices that doesn't require ROM or software modification, but _does_ require modifying the emulator: create a virtual memory-mapped device off 68K bus, and write a driver/CDEV to drive it. The SE and Macintosh II h
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by nxobject 1y ago
It looks like that these were actually generated on an Apple II driving the framebuffer-to-CRT subsystem of a Lisa.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Do they need an intranet wiki/web page solution to replace Sharepoint as well?
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by nxobject 1y ago
The USP of Lua is the fact that's its easy to target embedded and microcontroller with funky/frozen toolchains -- that's why PUC-Rio Lua is written in C89. You're just as likely to have to use a "#pagma packed"
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by nxobject 1y ago
Yeah – as someone who works in Common Lisp, I wish there was way to do complementary training for LLMs with existing corpora of codebases. Being able to read access documentation doesn't do much, unfortunately, to help with more genera
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by nxobject 1y ago
Perfect - it works! Yes, I’m glad for all the time you’ve spent on this project: one of my ulterior goals is to make technical documentation for old systems and their programming environments accessible to LLMs, so that programming in retro

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