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·30 dagen geleden·discuss
and photogrammetry from crowd-sourced disparate still images was the biggest, flashiest "public" display of the technology: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
typical implementations of apl (including dyalog) are interpreted, not compiled ahead of time.
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury:

https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/
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·3 maanden geleden·discuss
all of game boy advance and nintendo ds hardware is exhaustively documented in a single text file:

https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.txt

(but you can replace txt with htm for a fancier version)

this ranges from physical description to compact arm instruction set reference -- you really only need this document (and a way to get your console to run your code!) to program completely from scratch.

i've picked up a dsi because it can load code from an sd card, so only the console, an sd card and a computer is required for programming it, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706877 further down this thread for the case for preferring the gba.
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·4 maanden geleden·discuss
see this 2007 talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...

i remember this being available in google maps in 2008 or so. fun technology!
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·4 maanden geleden·discuss
one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.
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·4 maanden geleden·discuss
previously (1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev...

i think this is a dos port of it? http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62

seems to work for me in dosbox
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·5 maanden geleden·discuss
maybe the chicks and norman get it, but i'm currently renting an apartment in france that has a bunch of these light switches installed all upside down, with "-" at the top:

https://www.legrand.com.gh/en/catalog/products/arteor-push-b...
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·5 maanden geleden·discuss
perhaps similar in scope to the hdl used in 'the elements of computing systems' aka nand2tetris.org ?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dPj4XNby9iuAs-47U9k3xtYy9hJ...

honorary mention: https://www.funghisoft.com/mhrd
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
thank you! that is very informative.
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
for a much more in-depth description of its predecessor, see https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6...

i don't think there is a comparable book about the cray-1?
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn)

or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
see also: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout.

https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...
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·7 maanden geleden·discuss
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·7 maanden geleden·discuss
have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer.

our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had eight times the ram to match).

my ide is linux: https://plan9.io/cm/cs/upe/
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·8 maanden geleden·discuss
great to see thunderbird joining evolution in supporting ews among free software email clients.

evolution has been keeping me sane whenever i needed to use ews for years.
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·8 maanden geleden·discuss
doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point.

did the crossing of the rhine take place in 00406, 0406, or 406? what extra information do the two former styles convey?

also, what about the year 100000?

we are somehow doing just fine without leading zeroes for other quantities.

there is an argument to be made about e.g. iso8601 datetime formats that need to be lexicographically sortable; but i don't see any of the longnow fans using anything like those.
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·8 maanden geleden·discuss
> Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family.

do you really?

> you don't quite know what the panels need to look like.

look at your competition, ask your users, think?

> Most people know they can't fly a plane

this isn't how llm products are marketed, and what the tfa is complaining about.
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·8 maanden geleden·discuss
> as long as you remember what you've built

yes! like any craft, this works only if you keep practising it.

various implementations of k, written in this style (with iterative improvements), have been in constant development for decades getting very good use out of these macros.