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ARM Saved Apple [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ochrist 3y ago|2 comments
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by ochrist 3y ago
A short video (25 minutes) about the start of Zinclair and Acorn, and how the ARM (RISC) CPU saved Apple.
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by ochrist 3y ago
Same with the Acorn Atom. But you could sort of get it working anyway by way of 'drawing' the characters on the bitmap screen (probably a very similar solution).
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by ochrist 3y ago
There are those who believe that English should be considered North Germanic (Scandinavian) rather than West Germanic: https://brill.com/view/journals/ldc/6/1/article-p1_1.xml?lan...
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by ochrist 3y ago
Telex predates this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex
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by ochrist 3y ago
Thanks. I had actually checked Wiktionary but only the Danish language version.
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by ochrist 3y ago
Interesting. This is about Welsh: "Likewise, diwrnod ‘day’ goes back to Latin diurnāta, apparently an alternative word for ‘day’ that also led to French journée and Italian giornata." In Danish the word 'døgn' indicates
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by ochrist 3y ago
I've been at these two places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert%2C_Nunavut And yes: It was cold. About food there were supplies almost
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by ochrist 3y ago
Maybe alcohol was the problem in the first place?
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by ochrist 3y ago
Sony Vegas was apparently released as early as 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Pro
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by ochrist 3y ago
It starts with Philip K.
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by ochrist 3y ago
I use the last name of science fiction authors for my machines, and the first character is a hint to the usage. E.g. NAS is Niven, Web server is Wells etc. (don't ask me for the name of the developer box).
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by ochrist 3y ago
It's not perfect on a phone, but I use it on my Galaxy Android phone occasionally. AFAIK it works better in desktop mode, depending on what you want to do.
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by ochrist 3y ago
Yes, you can make swimlanes in Kanboard. I've used it for several years now (self hosted), and can recommend it. Migrated from Trello some years ago. Mostly using it for small personal projects, but it seems to also scale well and has
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by ochrist 3y ago
Is this from https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/tmp/rpdup.pdf (Real programmers don't use Pascal)?
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by ochrist 3y ago
At some point in time there was something called Domino (or more precisely Lotus Domino Server). Basically it was a server for Lotus Notes solutions. You could flick a switch, and then you turned your Notes-based solutions into web-applicat
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by ochrist 3y ago
Or this: https://commoncrawl.org/ (currently on the frontpage of HN)
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by ochrist 3y ago
So if I were to replace a large switch statement with a decision table, then that's AI all of a sudden?
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by ochrist 3y ago
Interesting. In another comment user shmageggy claims that decision trees have always been considered AI. I realise that my question should have had a more precise definition of AI.
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by ochrist 3y ago
Brilliant. I don't think I have ever heard of this before. Will definitely check this out.
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by ochrist 3y ago
No, that is an algorithm. I would not consider that AI at all.
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by ochrist 3y ago
This reminds me of some of the early search engines before Google took over the world. Very nostalgic but yeah: Maybe a bit too much in the other direction :-)
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by ochrist 3y ago
Thank you. I have been looking at startpage earlier on, but will give it a closer look (currently I am mostly using DDG).
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by ochrist 3y ago
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_(search_engine)
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by ochrist 3y ago
Interesting. Care to elaborate?
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by ochrist 3y ago
Yeah, maybe my question was a bit too general. I am not sure I would consider decision trees and the like as 'AI' in any sense. They are just another form of algorithms to me. So you are right: ChatGPT and similar tools are the ty
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by ochrist 3y ago
I have a good knowledge of how search engines work (having built search myself several times in the past), but the recent use of ChatGPT and other variations of the same theme brought me to the conclusion that there might not be any pure se
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by ochrist 3y ago
May I ask why you are asking that instead of answering the question? (btw I have tried to answer some of it in a sibling comment)
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by ochrist 3y ago
Mostly I want to ensure valid and correct search results, and I'm a bit worried that apparently all search engines are now struggling to use AI (ML/LLM) in one form or the other. I don't trust 'AI' in the current st
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Ask HN: Are there any search engines without AI?
19 points by ochrist 3y ago|49 comments

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