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by pavlov 2mo ago
It’s even worse than nobody having seen the Newton: it was actively ridiculed in the press, so a lot of people had never seen it but knew it as a joke. This was a time when newspaper comic strips were still culturally influential because th
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Japan's i-mode was a HTML-based smart mobile service that was very popular from 1999 to 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode At 80M subscribers, it was probably the most popular way in the world to access mo
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Their AI model tends to write a lot of lengthy comment blocks. That's a fine place to put the watermark to track those users who accept the code blindly and don't delete/edit the comments.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
The first version of RISC-V was released in 2010. It was based on work done at Berkeley in the 1980s (RISC versions one to four). One reason that RISC-V has so many optional extensions is that you can trust the core is very likely to be pat
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Patents only last 20 years. If you build your architecture on ideas that are documented to be older than twenty years, it greatly reduces the risk that a patent holder comes from nowhere: even if they did have the patent, it would have expi
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by pavlov 2mo ago
"Denthor? Now THAT's a name I've not heard in a long time..." Man. It's kind of crazy to think that I, a Finnish 13-year-old, was reading these ASCII tutorials written by someone in South Africa in those pre-WWW day
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by pavlov 2mo ago
I was surprised to learn the Mars bar familiar from my childhood wasn't a product of the original American corporation Mars Inc. Frank Mars founded the American company. His son Forrest invented Milky Way, but then eventually quarreled
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by pavlov 2mo ago
From Microsoft’s POV they soundly beat Unix in the 1990s because they were primarily focused on the GUI workstation market. In 1991 the market for high-end desktop software like engineering, video editing and 3D modeling tools was dominated
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by pavlov 2mo ago
I think the most confusing concept in this process for new users is the shortcut inside the disk image because it breaks the isolation metaphor. So, you download a file, and it's something called an "image" which opens in Fin
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by pavlov 2mo ago
The Byzantine Empire was Greek. Heraclius changed the official language to Greek already in the 7th century because that’s what everyone spoke. They kept calling themselves Romans, but they spoke, wrote, and governed in Greek.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Well, the Holy Roman Empire inherited the name but, as Voltaire said, "was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"... And the Byzantine Empire shrunk greatly after the first few hundred years. Most of its life it was more like a G
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by pavlov 2mo ago
"what about empires that actually survived or adapted" — which ones exactly? Empires are pathological developments of nations. They don't tend to survive all that long.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
> "men catching up with women when it comes to dumb anxieties" It's weird to watch all those fans of patriarchy step right into their own trap. Didn't they get the memo that this stuff was set up to control women? O
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by pavlov 2mo ago
OTOH many women may prefer as partner the European man who doesn't work crazy overtime every night, takes 4 weeks of holidays every year with her, uses his months of legally mandated parental leave when they have a baby... The 6/6
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by pavlov 2mo ago
This post was obviously written by Claude.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Hitler said he wanted to use the treatment of Native Americans as a model for how East Europe and Russia would be cleared out to make room for Germans.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Thank you for demonstrating what was meant by “America has yet to learn the same lesson.” The poem “First They Came” was written by a German pastor who enthusiastically supported Nazis at first, because after all they were fighting against
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by pavlov 2mo ago
There’s a reason why Germany has extremely strict laws about how personally identifying information can be collected and stored. America has yet to learn the same lesson, but has been on the road there for a decade now.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
FT2 and ST3 were released within months of each other in 1994, so they must have been in development in parallel. It makes sense that FT was primarily inspired by a different Amiga tracker.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
It's not about cultural difference but simply what's easier. Action sequences are forgiving. There's lots of motion and shiny vfx to fudge things over. Rapid cuts mean each shot can be short enough that the inevitable accumul
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by pavlov 2mo ago
One of the best-loved Maxis games of the 1990s was SimTower which was all about designing elevator flows for your skyscraper. It might be fun to revisit. The game was actually of Japanese origin. The Digital Antiquarian just wrote about it
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by pavlov 2mo ago
This post is obviously AI-written and it’s practically incomprehensible without some background context that’s missing here.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Is there a guide for how to do the “syndicate elsewhere” part? For the HN audience, the first part is trivially easy (getting a domain, publishing on it) but the second probably isn’t obvious.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
Epstein emails. Google will find it for you.
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by pavlov 2mo ago
A CLAUDE.md file has no moat, it can be read by other agents. Automemory can be weaved into the product in ways that make it harder to switch. This is a company that's looking to IPO soon at a trillion+ dollar valuation, and they need
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by pavlov 3mo ago
I made several large Cocoa (macOS AppKit, Obj-C) apps in 2004-2018 using the classic Smalltalk-inspired MVC patterns and this was never a problem. Sometimes writing the controller boilerplate was boring, but at least there were no observer
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by pavlov 3mo ago
> “Besides unconventional rickrolls and other trolling, this has no practical applications: there's no way to add timing information, so playback is entirely dependent on network delay.” A progress bar for something that’s loading
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by pavlov 3mo ago
There is literally nothing else of value on Truth Social except the president's posts. And those are considered official government communications. There's a legal ruling about that from the time of the first Trump administration.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Perhaps his best known work is the novels that were made into movies, “Crash” and “High-Rise”, and neither is science fiction. There’s also “Empire of the Sun” that was adapted by Steven Spielberg, but it’s autobiographical so doesn’t reall
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Windows Phone solved it by supporting only Silverlight apps... No Windows APIs. I also loved the Windows Phone 7 UI. But the app story was always a mess, and the competitive situation with Google meant that 2012's super-important apps

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