DonHopkins

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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
The disqualifying problem with VRML was that it was not extensible, and at the time it had no integration with JavaScript, Python, Lua, TCL, or even its own bespoke scripting language, and absolutely no plans to do so, so that made it TI (T
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Gnu Emacs Doctor actually recognizes RMS's name, and has canned responses for it. So I fed his 1993 Kabuki-West Natalism Flame to it (the inappropriately announced baby in question is 33 years old now!): http://www.art.net&#
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
AI was always awkward! Long before I ever encountered Richard Wallace's AIML (which was quite unintentionally silly, but not actually a joke, unfortunately), around 1996 I wrote some joke web pages to parody VRML, announcing "AIML
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary%27s_Mind_Mirror https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/Timothy_Learys_Mi... https://news.ycombinato
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Careful, you're going to trigger all the Kiwi Farms trolls, who will insist on "Master", then they'll demonstrate their commitment to free speech by downvoting and flag brigading us.
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
>Please do not abandon decades of UX tradition in favor of inserting tautologies into your programs. Not just the File menu, but also MVC is one of many examples of decades-old UX tradition that should not be treated as sacred merely bec
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
I once heard a non-english speaker say "logining", and that made so much more sense than "logging in".
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Doctor Bronner was right! Peppermint - Pure-Castile Magic Soap: Cool, Refresh, and Awaken with Invigorating Peppermint https://www.drbronner.com/products/peppermint-pure-castile-l... Dr. Bronner invented the peppermint
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
What's the actual game? Try not to step in doo-doo?
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
The classic paper about this topic is: Buxton, W. (1983). Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures. Computer Graphics, 17 (1), 31-37. https://www.billbuxton.com/lexical.html TL;DR: "It's complicate
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Naw, we just need better software and slower computers, like the PDP-1, that don't require such fast refresh rates, just slow phosphor. But slow computers still need fast and reliable user interfaces, like radial pie menus. Flight of t
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
I think of ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing Network at the MIT-AI Lab) as the first social network. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31807854 Artisnal means "the algorithm" and "chat" is written in
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
We don't need faster refresh rates, we need slower phosphor. https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw?t=832
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Why blame the book for giving the author credit, instead of the author for giving himself credit? Admittedly the book did take on a life of its own, and he wrote it in Mathematica and built it with his own hand rolled CI/CD pipeline (F
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
>Another egregious weakness is biology. Wolfram displays absolutely no understanding of evolution, or what would be necessary to explain the adaptation of organisms to their environments. This is related to his peculiar views on methodol
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLO7VrRij_M
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Now how can I draw Vantablack text on HD white for the highest possible contrast? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
I know, me too, which is why I named my cat Emacs! He's awesome.
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
In the age of graphical user interfaces, direct manipulation, info visualization, WebGPU in the browser, and frontier AI, it seems ridiculous to have a VT100 escape code interpreter between you and your LLM. Like Brooke Shields, I'd ra
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
44 years ago I was operating in the mindset of a high-trust arpanet that no longer exists, connecting to the MIT-AI Lab's PDP-10 (@L 134) through the NBS TIP (301-948-3850) at 300 baud with no password, asking nicely for an account to
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Pangram sucks as much as humans who think they're perfect llm generated text detectors, too. As qarl2 wrote below: >See how perverse this "I hate the way AI sounds" thing is? >In the end everyone accusing everyone of be
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
If God meant for people to be naked, we'd all be born that way. By the same logic: If God didn't mean for people to cannibalize each other, we wouldn't be made of meat. Flanders and Swan: The Reluctant Cannibal: https:/
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
I'll see your CD cover with three people in their underwear, plus a hologram of the top half of a possibly naked baby on the Microsoft Windows box, and raise you the top half of several naked SGI "Skinny Hackers" in a project
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
At least you didn't install BSD! https://halfblog.net/2011/12/04/daemon-worship/ >I just got a call from the owner of a hotel for which we provide hotspot service. She says that a guest spotted t
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
The original 1989 SimCity box was a Rorschach test that cost Maxis $50k. The cover was a Bakelite toy city simulator appliance with a red MONSTER disaster button, and a stompy T-Rex-looking creature waving over San Francisco on its TV scree
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Are you saying that fake, stylized hypothetical image will have much lower impact reducing the impact of all the fake, stylized hypothetical images in Facebook? Maybe they should insert disgusting slices of actual carcinogenic lung tissue i
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
You've curiously left out which platform it's not weird to write software for. Is there only one platform that's not weird, or is MacOS the only weird platform? Some of the best platforms and software are weird. Get over it.
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
I made a housefly simulator on the Mac once, using a visual programming language called Bounce / Body Electric, developed by Chuck Blanchard at VPL Research, originally used for VR simulations with the DataGlove and Eyephone and a pair
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by DonHopkins 2mo ago
Cigarette packages have disgusting photos of carcenogenic lung autopsies to discourage you from smoking them, so Facebook and TikTok etc should have similar disgusting photos and vidoes of what happens to you if you use their product, that
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Unless you make beautiful tombstones to die for.

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