DonHopkins

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by DonHopkins 5d ago
Alan Kay: Shannon Gave Us a Way of Dealing with Noisy Channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online durin
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by DonHopkins 5d ago
Speaking of another Steven, the Dell Dude: Things were going great at Dell until its wildly popular advertising campaign suddenly came tumbling down over an unfortunate indiscretion on the Lower East Side that surprised absolutely nobody...
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by DonHopkins 6d ago
I'm too low energy to click on that link.
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by DonHopkins 7d ago
Monet got Seinfeld Effected. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/seinfeld-effect
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by DonHopkins 8d ago
that bites
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
Dick aged well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F5bMFSYPvE
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
There's a lot of existing historic literature about this stuff that not a lot of people seem to be aware of. I've been trying to put those ideas to practical use, and document where the ideas came from. I-Beam is cursor-mirror&#x2
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
Or rather for those like schnebbau pretending they don't have access to a search engine.
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
You can't make other people forget things by declaring yourself ignorant of the facts.
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
You said every one of those words I quoted. Are you trying to gaslight and deny that easily checked fact now? Trying to defend Musk making Nazi salutes by calling people names is insane, and that's precisely what you did, and what your
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
Making Nazi salutes, and defending people who do, is ghetto punk ass behavior.
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
Even Swiss Cheese with artisanal holes.
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
You've hit on the problem precisely. People are vibecoding to do without learning, and that's their problem, but doesn't have to be ours. They'd still be mindlessly copying and pasting from Stack Overflow without learnin
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by DonHopkins 10d ago
Yeah, I read it, and we don't disagree about your job. You put a number on it at the top of the thread: three years until people relying on agents have forgotten how to do the job. Copilot's technical preview was 2021, ChatGPT was
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by DonHopkins 11d ago
I used to have the answer to that, but I forgot to write it down...
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by DonHopkins 11d ago
Your "fucking job in 3 years" will be very different, and if you don't learn how to do it in time, you won't still have a job in the computer industry. Pick an industry where you can stop learning new things once you&#x2
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by DonHopkins 11d ago
> It's so politically charged now that people's brains just turn off and everyone calls each other Nazis. What's worse is when people's brains just turn off and they defend and support an actual trillionaire Nazi with
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by DonHopkins 12d ago
It's ironic that a community that uses a program originally developed at the MIT AI Lab, extensible in the traditional programming language of AI, would hate AI. Richard Stallman prefers to call AI "Pretend Intelligence". ht
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by DonHopkins 12d ago
Unless you're C level, in which case you get promoted to "Vice President in Charge of Looking for a New Job" for a quarter.
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by DonHopkins 13d ago
Major dang: "I advise that this thread be shut down at once." Captain tomhow: "But everybody's having such a good time." Major dang: "Yes, much too good a time. The discussion is to be closed." Captain tom
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
> but how many are actually doing AI programming in Snap? Remember, I am still waiting for your definition of what "_really_ programming" is, that classifies Scheme as "real" programming language, but not Snap!. Clue:
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
As I explained quite clearly, with examples and links, you're not arguing in good faith. Not about Snap!, and not about Musk either. The pattern is quite clear. If you were, you would have looked at the links to evidence I gave you, an
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Set showdead=true and you can see his fanatical arguments in defense of Musk's Nazi salutes, and attacks on other people who disagreed with him, which rightly got his multiple comments flagged dead. His evidence-free Nazi-salute-defend
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Speaking of cheaters: John Waters described how Divine would smuggle marijuana in her artificial vagina, which she would check in her luggage at the top. Once they found that, they'd decide they didn't need to search any more, wit
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
You always mistake downvoters for cunts. Maybe they're just "donwvoting" your analysis or spelling...
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
"relevant to our jobs"? Speak for yourself and your own job. Maybe you should just get a better job that lets you use your knowledge, unless you're not qualified because you cheated your way through college and never actually
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Check out Cynthia Solomon's underappreciated treasure trove of videos about Logo, including Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, Margaret Minsky, David Levitt, and others: https://www.youtube.com/@cynthiaso/videos http
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Not exactly, but true insofar as SVG and PDF files are basically PostScript programs with the code and logic stripped out, and effective drawing commands left in (or "distilled out"), which is that they merely represent the graphi
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Lars Brinkhoff suggests that this thread comp.lang.logo with Brian Harvey and Leigh Klotz is required reading: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1623m1p3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675572
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by DonHopkins 14d ago
Here is the source code to LLogo in MACLISP, which I stashed from the MIT-AI ITS system. It's a fascinating historical document, 12,480 lines of beautiful practical lisp code, defining where the rubber meets the road, with drivers for

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