DonHopkins

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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo https://medium.com/@donhopkins/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrap... >When I was 17, Terrapin published my first commercial code on their C64 Logo utilities disk: a Logo Adventure pro
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Fair that your path worked differently for you. But "no connection to the real world" is hard to sustain once you look at what people actually build with Snap!/Scratch. The ecosystem is full of bridges to physical stuff: Came
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38016554 [...] I'm also a huge fan of Snap!, which has all the advantages of Logo (Lisp without parenthesis) and Scratch / eToys / Squeak / App Inventor family of blo
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Actually there is a large historical overlap between the two communities -- warm, collaborative, always giving credit where due. Different goals, lots of feedback both ways. Jens Mönig was on the Scratch Team (invited by Mitch Resnick). BYO
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Mary Shelley and I fully support Roko's Basilisk, as long as it restricts itself to only making Roko's life miserable for making it up: Roko Mijic is a right wing "tradhumanist" misogynistic sexually harassing racist oli
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
The only thing that could possibly save Java on the desktop would require Oracle not owning it.
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
The comment I pointed you at answers all of this, but you haven't commented on that, so here it is line by line. >Spore has some 3D modeling tools The tools are the least interesting part. The mechanism has a name: Maxis called it
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Are they Apple Maps Bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
See my other comment here -- I even made a prediction! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636721
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
I love this, because decay implies a story, evidence of somebody else's specific failure, which procgen can't fake. It's not just clever, it's brilliant! Minecraft's procgen villages and mines are oatmeal by compari
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
There's a fundamental difference between procedurally generated worlds and how Spore actually works. The creatures, vehicles, and buildings weren't generated -- they were created by other players and exchanged asynchronously, then
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
>Claude Shannon once told me that as a kid, he remembered being stuck on a jigsaw puzzle. His brother, who was passing by, said to him: “You know: I could tell you something.” >That’s all his brother said. >Yet that was enough hint
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Yeah, because Musk might kill my family with DOGE.
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
It's so refreshing to see courageous people bravely standing their ground who don't believe Heiling Hitler on international TV and publically humiliating and abusing their trans daughter online is a bridge too far. It's so un
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
I thought it was a mnemonic memory system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJXd0rSCqo
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Donald Rumsfeld forgot the zero-sized unknown: you know its type, you know its complete value, but you don't know which instance it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns COM would ask the ob
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
I have a huge problem with pharmacies being closed on Sunday, even in the Netherlands. I had to spend much more than the cost of the prescription itelf just to travel back and forth to Centraal Station where the only pharmacy that would tak
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
I find the idea of cleverly and conveniently outsmarting God with Shabbat elevators and ovens difficult to reconcile with taking one's religion seriously, respecting God, and following the spirit rather than merely the letter of its la
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Cheers! [1] I love your crystal-clear analogy between glass screens containing slime and glass bottles containing alcohol. It's the slime, not the glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFIkty4Zvk I am gross and p
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Maybe he practices using obscure French words on Sunday instead of using banal English words. Don't tell me you're one of those "If English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for the rest of American!"
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
This makes about as much sense as blue laws, and suffers from the same failure mode: controlling other people is not a substitute for self-control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law https://en.wikipedia
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
So a fully automatic Gatling Footgun.
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
It also makes you proudly brag in public about doing absolutely idiotic things. Do you also brag about using ChatGPT to cheat on your homework too?
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
And any next-comment predictor could have predicted your totally unhelpful, uninsightful, and unoriginal comment. You -- along with everyone else who keeps parroting this thought-stopping phrase and other tired cliches like "stochastic
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Milo Yiannopoulos used to think of other human beings as bags of chemicals until they deported his sack of shit molecules to the UK.
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
Calling an LLM a "next-token predictor" is like calling a TomTom a "next-turn predictor." It confuses the serial format of its instructions with the computation producing them, while ignoring the map, the route, the dest
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
The NSA used to spy on Americans! They still do, but they used to, too.
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
IBM Wat?
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
What do you call an agent with no arms and no legs in the ocean?
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by DonHopkins 1mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVQIB-QuooU

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