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by stmw 10mo ago
The video version, the event at the Computer History Museum described in the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0KiizCRzI
152.
Move Expressions (Part of Ergonomic RC for Rust)(smallcultfollowing.com)
1 points by stmw 10mo ago|0 comments
153.
by stmw 10mo ago
dang - just to say, we've all done it...
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Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025(commentary.org)
3 points by stmw 10mo ago|1 comments
155.
by stmw 10mo ago
It is a very very safe town.
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Redis-rs and Redis-test 1.0.0(github.com)
1 points by stmw 10mo ago|0 comments
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SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System(ll.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 10mo ago|0 comments
158.
by stmw 10mo ago
Exactly, "losing data from acknowledged writes" is not failing to be perfect, it's failing to deliver on the (advertised) basics of storing your data.
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by stmw 10mo ago
Every time someone builds one of these things and skips over "overcomplicated theory", aphyr destroys them. At this point, I wonder if we could train an AI to look over a project's documentation, and predict whether it's
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Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code(github.com)
3 points by stmw 10mo ago|0 comments
161.
by stmw 10mo ago
Time for Intel to re-enter the memory market?
162.
by stmw 10mo ago
"Mr. Jobs reportedly asked the assembled engineers and other MobileMe team members, “Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” When one of those employees then volunteered a satisfactory answer, Mr. Jobs followed up with, “S
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by stmw 11mo ago
As a side comment, this where the original ideas for this came from in the OS, back in MacOS 7 timeframe, before OS X. https://www.macintoshrepository.org/160-dragstrip-3-x
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Georgia Gkioxari Co-Leads Major 3D Perception Model Built on AI(caltech.edu)
2 points by stmw 11mo ago|0 comments
165.
by stmw 11mo ago
From same museum, in case people are interested in a 4115 brochure https://vintagetek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/4115B-broc...
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by stmw 11mo ago
Some of the Tektronix CRT scopes had unique phosphor colors or compositions, so it adds a lot of extra cinematic flare. https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Phosphor
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by stmw 11mo ago
Agree with all of the comments there - Tektronix gear were great examples of American engineering and manufacruting excellence.
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Evidence of mass brutality accompanied collapse of first pan-European culture(science.org)
5 points by stmw 11mo ago|2 comments
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Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows(vintagetek.org)
125 points by stmw 11mo ago|31 comments
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Starring the Computer: AN/FSQ-7 of SAGE air-defense sysstem(starringthecomputer.com)
12 points by stmw 11mo ago|1 comments
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Arm's DreamBig Acquisition Reignites In-House Chip Prospects(eetimes.com)
1 points by stmw 11mo ago|0 comments
172.
by stmw 11mo ago
Try printing one at the airport - it now takes 4 clicks.
173.
by stmw 11mo ago
Yeah, don't think this was an equal 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 partnership, but in various written histories there is Apple engineering involvement: "So, with the goal of maintaining RS/6000 software compatibility, a team
174.
by stmw 11mo ago
United Airlines has been doing some similar, it takes a lot of effort to get a paper boarding pass or do anything via the web.
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by stmw 11mo ago
Re: "very unfortunate how rough their design decisions have been the past few years" - one sometimes wonders if this is the inspiration: https://vinpaq.com/compaq-collection
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by stmw 11mo ago
Apple was the "A" in the AIM alliance that created PowerPC, together with IBM and Motorola. https://wiki.preterhuman.net/The_Somerset_Design_Center
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The PowerPC Has Still Got It (Llama on G4 Laptop)(hackster.io)
53 points by stmw 11mo ago|19 comments
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The True Cost of Stateful Streaming: My Apache Flink Pains(fleak.ai)
2 points by stmw 11mo ago|0 comments
179.
by stmw 11mo ago
Wish they would make a modern iPhone that still fit into a pocket, as well.
180.
by stmw 11mo ago
some representative examples: "Kalaam.io Kalaam is a programming language in Hindi and has all the core functionality of a modern programming language, such as for loops, while loops, functions and conditional statements. Kalaam has i

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