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There's now a version of GEM you can run on a Lisa. But 68KMLA is down so I have no easy way to link to the relevant thread. :(

Whoo, has anyone actually got a working Lisa? Or is this emulation?

If I recall it's been done on both (emulator and real hardware).

The original version of GEMDOS (the replacement for DOS or CP/M when running on 68k) was in fact developed on the Lisa as a 68k dev machine [also some Motorola VME dev boards I think?) before actual Atari HW was available. So it's a full circle thing.


There are a lot of working Lisas out there.

But there weren't too many Lisas (working or otherwise) when the thing came out!

Well OK, "a lot" can mean a lot of different things depending on context ;)

In the vintage computer collector/enthusiast scene, there are probably dozens of working Lisas. How's that?


Yep, I know about all that - I had big cupboard full of the damn things in my flat in london [various ataris (6502 and 68k based ones), dragon 32 (coco lookalike), peculiar IBM pc clones, and other stuff]

A few years ago I got my nephew to do up the flat for sale, and he junked the lot - at some point you have to get rid of things.

I will never buy anything except a laptop again.


What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?

Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.

Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me.

This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)

[0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/


that's a lovely post, and I missed it when it came out, so thanks for that! but based on the logic in TFA I think an admin would have to make the claim for it to count.

TFA has curator quotes, the users are largely the curators of HN, so it should work! I can't imagine the mods ever saying anything like that. Maybe someone like pg would.

Has to be the dropbox comment

What was the dropbox comment?


Yeesh.

> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating

Yeah because that should be the end goal of everything right?

And from the response:

> 1. re: the first part, many people want something plug and play. and even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience (on windows at least) with online drives generally sucks, and you don't have disconnected access.

Bingo. I am a really quite experienced Linux user (I've been using it since it came on two floppy disks and didn't really work) and I too want things that are just plug-and-play. Time spent dicking about making things work is time not spend doing something fun, although I get that for some folk their goal in using Linux is to "Be Using Linux". For most of us I suspect that extends out to "Be Using Linux to solve problems we actually have, not just be using Linux for the sake of it".


The guy who dismissed Dropbox.

Yes!

Florida did something good for once?


If the Supreme Court justices uphold this, I'm sending the ones who vote yes emails, each with an EULA dictating that by opening and reading the email they agree to send me 100% of their salaries in perpetuity, as well as an initial, single lump sum payment consisting of all their assets thrown into a trust in my own name. If they push back on it, well they shouldn't be so upset about something they agreed to in the first place.


So now dogs are going to take my job? What's next? Snails? Rabbits? Wild salmon?


Cockroaches. Survivability, fast breeding, low resource needs, quite instrumentable.


If meta wants to cut out the middleman and let businesses pay directly for ai generated ads, I doubt they have any incentive to fix this.


This wont help the customers from the article?

The reason why they need agencies to deploy ads is thats its not their core business - so they wont be able to setup Meta ads on their own?


Facebook will provide AN AI to the ad agency client. Ad agency redundant.


Hey, working at a shoe factory is serious business. You have to be a real bootlicker to get ahead in a place like that.


And when you get to the top, you actually experience how the shoe is on the other foot. One should get out early, not waiting for the other shoe to drop.


just until you get to upper management


Mine's https://yaros.ae

I need to get back to working on my blog and projects. I took a short hiatus.


What drives me crazy is Apple redesigned their weather app not so long after acquiring dark sky. I was anticipating a polished, updated version of Dark Sky's UI. Instead we have the current design, which is quite frankly terrible.


"The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers."

-Doc Brown


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