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Comment · 5 days ago

oh, but a unix successor from bell labs is entirely real, it's called unix (v8+).

more seriously, it's called plan9.

Comment · 7 days ago

almost completely off-topic, but the demo video very heavy reminded me of http://www.traumagame.com/

Comment · 12 days ago

it has been somewhat recently re-released:

https://rebellion.com/games/battlezone-98-redux/

Comment · 25 days ago

> the console features a built-in 5-inch high-quality IPS display with a 800 x 480 resolution

(from https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-details/)

you got me excited for a moment there.

Comment · 1 month ago

here's a nice visual explanation of what you heard: https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture...

Comment · 1 month ago

glfw! that's a bit surprising.

i'd expect sdl, given wider platform coverage (e.g. mobile), more system integration (e.g. clipboard), and an existing port (https://androwish.org/home/dir?ci=trunk&name=jni%2Fsdl2tk)

Comment · 4 months ago

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...

Comment · 5 months ago

typical implementations of apl (including dyalog) are interpreted, not compiled ahead of time.

Comment · 5 months ago

prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury:

https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/

Comment · 6 months ago

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.

Comment · 7 months ago

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!

Comment · 7 months ago

one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.

Comment · 7 months ago

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

Comment · 8 months ago

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...