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naveson Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops

It also has another name: enshittification. Apple should be ashamed of what it has become in software.

You should then give NEXTSPACE a try: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

I think it’s the closest thing to that dream today.

naveson A new book on Steve Jobs at NeXT

Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing by Randall E. Stross covers the NeXT years extensively and in period. Highly recommended also to do some “archeological” read/research into what it was like to sell computers in the late 80’s, early 90’s

naveson I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXbuik3dgA

naveson Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

It truly looks like they didn’t learn anything from Clippy…

naveson Installing and using HP-UX 9

Yes, everything at CERN, at least in the 2000s, was in AFS. Fermilab was also using AFS extensively.

I remember compiling AFS from source for Scientific Linux 3.x because there was a weird bug that didn't let the machines mount AFS when they were integrated with LCG (before it was renamed to WLCG: https://wlcg.web.cern.ch/)

Oh my... this comment really dates me...

naveson iPhone dumbphone

+1 to this.

naveson Office on HP-UX and Unix

Thanks a lot for going through this rabbit hole for all of us. Comments like this is why I am here every day!

naveson Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive

Jobs tried to hire Torvalds to work on Mac OS X and Linus declined: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/22/steve-jobs-tried-to-hir...

naveson Obscure islands I find interesting

Cabrera is also an interesting one. With a sinister history in the XIX Century though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrera,_Balearic_Islands

naveson Obscure islands I find interesting

Truly unexpected. Thanks for sharing!

naveson Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts

I’ve been lucky enough to see in person many of these pieces when they were exhibited in DFJ’s offices in Sand Hill Road (~2017-2018). It’s an extraordinary collection.

naveson Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance

It was Theo Gray:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfGsOKXO5M&cbrd=1

naveson Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine

I can imaging Apple mulling about the same for iOS. Microsoft is on a roll and they have the money to challenge Google’s default place in our pockets.

naveson The Joy of Computer History Books

Steve Jobs & the Next Big is a great read with tons of context about the tech world at the end of the 80’s/beginning of the 90s. Also, a candid view on Jobs’ reality distortion field.

naveson The Joy of Computer History Books

+1 on this book. It made me realize how brittle ARPANET (and the internet, by extension) was at its inception

naveson The Joy of Computer History Books

A History of Modern Computing, Second Edition by Paul E. Ceruzzi (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262532037/a-history-of-modern-c...) is a joy to read and a masterpiece, only second to The Dream Machine imho.

He has a new book on the topic, A New History of Modern Computing (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542906/a-new-history-of-mode...) but unfortunately, I have not read it yet.

naveson Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center

Local Calvinus Blanche and Calvinus Ambrée are pretty good for Swiss standards. And the country is starting to produce great biers, e.g. JA-MoM: https://www.brauerei-oerlikon.ch/shop/JA-MoM-p285045816

naveson Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center

If my memory does not fail me, that would be Feldschlösschen: https://feldschloesschen.ch/

(2003-2007 period)

naveson The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

+1 to this. I remember installing software in 1998 on Red Hat and it was absolute hell. It was a hit or miss endeavor and when it failed, it failed badly. All those broken dependencies took ages to resolve.

Then I switched to Debian Potato and never turned back. It was such a clean and sane experience.

Unfortunately, I could not scape rpm hell at work as Fermi Linux, and then CERN Linux, were both based on Red Hat.

naveson Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers

Spotify has folders. I have been using them for years:

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/playlist-folders/

naveson Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

Two years ago, he used macOS on a 13" MacBook Air and an iMac, as per his conversation with Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=2523

naveson AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

Just imagine if the tech world puts all programatic advertising development on hold for a year and the collective brain power is channeled to science instead…

naveson Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

Yeah, everyone has a second chance but Microsoft has had n-th chances.

Make no mistake, gravity will always pull MS towards their default behavior. Just wait for VS Code becoming a subscription-based product.

Yes, there will always be a community maintained project. But it will not be MS Certified…

naveson GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment

For a while, GNUSTEP Live CD was the best option to try and test GNUstep. Latest version is even available for Raspberry Pi: http://www.aiei.ch/gnustep/

naveson Why we don’t understand heavier-than-air flight

Because there is not up or down for the wing when its cutting through a fluid. It is not that we have seen planes flying intercontinental flights upside down.

And those upside down events do not happen at 10 feet above ground. There is plenty of fluid (air) above and below the aircraft and power (fighters jet engines are the most powerful ones on aircrafts) to be able to correct any up-downward force with flaps (basically walls to air)

naveson Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics

Indeed :)

naveson Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics

I could not thank you enough for this. I regularly browse Nature and Science myself to read the reviews and find my next read. Simply amazing! Thank you, seriously.