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by spitfire 4y ago
I’d install quantrix. It’s available from the same nextcomputers.org archive that you get the roms from. Lighthouse gave away serial keys to all their products when sun bought them.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I mean the ultimate model is either a turbo cube with dimension board, or a turbo colour station. The turbo cube dimension had dual monitors (one colour one bw) in 1989 which was cool. Myself I just run a turbocolour station.
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by spitfire 4y ago
For anyone wondering nextcomputers.org has the necessary rom files available in their file section.- Along with just about all the public ally available software ever made. It’s really a treasure trove.
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by spitfire 4y ago
Yes, improv and lighthouse design quantrix (a pixel perfect clone after lotus killed improv) work fine in previous. Quantrix is also a fat binary so you can run it on x86 nextstep or openstep under in a vm.
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by spitfire 4y ago
What is a NOC agent? National occupation classification? Network operations centre?
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by spitfire 4y ago
This thread is absolutely fantastic. It's hitting all the obscure spy thrillers. First sandbaggers now Len Deightons game set match. What next, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster? ? That said, you're watching James Bond wrong. Watch it as
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by spitfire 4y ago
The sandbaggers was /fantastic/. For those who don't know, it's basically accountancy with violence.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I like the free bookmarks magazines send me. How else will someone know I read Monocle, The Economist or The Rake if I don't have their bookmarks?
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by spitfire 4y ago
> I agree. People who will carry out this activity at a high professional level in creative agencies will have to deepen in the observation and study of language. So they have to be a character out of a William Gibson novel? Do they rip
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by spitfire 4y ago
So this is a 100octane fuel? Can it be sold through regular retail chains? Since avgas is such a small market I’m thinking that might raise its TAM as a “premium plus” sort of product.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I'm using "vomit draft" from now on.
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by spitfire 4y ago
So Autodesk fusion 360 is opting out of government and defence contracts? I presume there's rules somewhere where parts for the F-22, or HIMARS can't be hosted on some random companies cloud.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I'm surprised this thread got so large without anyone mentioning Lotus Improv or Quantrix. Quantrix was the later re-implementation of Lotus by lighthouse design, after Lotus had canceled Improv. Improv/Quantrix was a multidimensi
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by spitfire 4y ago
A modern smalltalk OS.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I actually built this exact thing for myself when I was looking for property to buy. I built a VAE DNN to identify sandy white beaches, added in a bunch of data about economics and such, built a custom McPain index (Inverse of the distance
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by spitfire 4y ago
Last time I was heavily playing with IB's API they were 250ms rollups of the market. So not useful for HFT or anything, but plenty fast enough for prosumer trading.
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by spitfire 4y ago
IF it's TD, then it's AS/400. For reals.
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by spitfire 4y ago
That's one of them. There's a few more with really dark screens floating around that go into a bit more detail.
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by spitfire 4y ago
Steve Jobs demo of NeXT's interface builder and enterprise object framework. The IB demo has him building an interface without touching code. He goes on to demo a simple app without code. This was in 1989, I'm still waiting for Li
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by spitfire 4y ago
Try “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” instead. It should work better.
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by spitfire 4y ago
Apropos HN and fibre cable laying, I'm told Makailay cable laying software rents out for $20K/Month. Could be more now - this is ~10/yo information. There's lots of niche markets out there. https://www.makai.
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by spitfire 4y ago
I was thinking enterprise objects framework which came after they realized databasekit was a dud. It’s equivalent to rails or similar orms. But it integrated with interface builder. See this [1] demo about 23 minutes in… just after he demos
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by spitfire 4y ago
Steve jobs got burnt by enterprise customers at NeXT. Once he got burnt he had a habit of pivoting away and never revisiting a subject. Which is a shame NeXT (apple) had a world leading ORM and RPC system in 1990. It would still impress peo
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by spitfire 4y ago
> You can get top-tier VC returns by building a portfolio of Mittelstand businesses ($10M-$1B in revenue). Constellation software does exactly that. They've quietly been the Warren Buffet of SaaS business for like 20+ years now.
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by spitfire 4y ago
Fun fact the Hubble space telescope and now the James Webb uses NeXT computers to calibrate some of the instruments on the ground. Possibly even to test out configuration changes. In particular they’re used for the Aberrated Beam Analyser.
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by spitfire 4y ago
Not just a few words. They can form full, coherent self referential sentences. In one of the videos Bunny uses assistive buttons to ask who she is after she looks in the mirror. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEa46rl
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by spitfire 5y ago
One of the video ports. I think digital video port. The base model supported audio and "moose cam" (A webcam, in 1996!). If you paid extra you got video.
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by spitfire 5y ago
Hah. Cool. I did this in 2003. I was building visual effects for nightclubs and raves… discovered that nightclubs and raves don’t pay. Point a few cameras at a dancer Hugh voxel version was on the screen your could rotate bullet time like a
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by spitfire 5y ago
Interestingly NeXTStep (which became Apple) did it back in the 1991. http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/SWCatalogs/page274/page27... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_AppWrapper A
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by spitfire 5y ago
I'm still using a NeXT 400DPI Laser printer from 1990. The upside is that it's a software printer, so you get a NeXT Station/Cube as a print server. Edit: It uses a Canon-SX engine and HP 95A cartridges - same as HP laser jet

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