musicale

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by musicale 1y ago
Great video (recorded in 2022?) from Bill Atkinson himself, and a nice companion to Andy Hertzfeld's account at: https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html CHM seems to have multiple videos with Bill Atkinson. Now I
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by musicale 1y ago
Why make slot machine-like gacha games when you can make and operate actual slot machines?
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by musicale 1y ago
That's good. Looking forward to Persona 6, maybe on the PlayStation 6 or 7.
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by musicale 1y ago
> It's why Apple put low paid everyday tech support staff in their stores and called them Geniuses. I always thought the geniuses were the second-level (or higher) Apple support that you escalate to when your problem isn't read
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by musicale 1y ago
Tablets and smartphones are great kitchen computers, as long as you remember to clean and disinfect them before any food preparation.
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by musicale 1y ago
BASIC is an amazing language that computing novices (including humanities majors) could learn in an afternoon, that could be efficiently compiled or compactly interpreted, that was small enough to support dozens of interactive users on a ma
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by musicale 1y ago
Who coauthored "The C Programming Language" anyway? Oh right, prof. Kernighan. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
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by musicale 1y ago
> Yes, this is what I do for fun. Don't we all? ;-)
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by musicale 1y ago
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) was another "AI" project in "automatic programming": "Before 1954, almost all programming was done in machine language or assembly language. Programmers rightly regarded their work as a
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by musicale 1y ago
I guess there are still some things that we can be grateful for.
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by musicale 1y ago
Looks like an intel Mac Pro sold in 2023 will be supported by macOS 26 (fall 2025), but not by (Apple Silicon only) macOS 27 (fall 2026), though it will get security updates through 2028? Looking back at Apple's previous architecture t
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by musicale 1y ago
It's hard to argue that AI companies aren't making use of copyrighted images to operate a business generating vast quantities of unlicensed derivative images that are often very close to the originals. And, on the other hand, it
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by musicale 1y ago
> So the question shouldn’t be, "How many people can we replace with AI? Replacing human labor with machine labor is essentially what automation is. Look what happened to telephone operators and bank tellers on one end (replaced by
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by musicale 1y ago
We can thank the linux kernel developers for implementing namespaces and overlayfs. And we can thank predecessor systems like BSD jails, Solaris zones, as well as Virtuozzo/openVZ and lxc as previous container systems on linux. Docker&
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by musicale 1y ago
"Containers" now apparently means "boot a docker image as an ephemeral VM." Which isn't such a bad idea really.
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by musicale 1y ago
That does it, I'm going back to sleep.
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by musicale 1y ago
The judge in this case made some interesting comments in 2020 regarding the "potential for significant and serious ramifications" for other game companies and platforms: > "Indeed, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all operate
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by musicale 1y ago
What about autonomy, mastery, purpose, and novelty? There is a difference between finding motivation and finding meaning (which might include looking backward as well as forward) but I think they are related. Challenge seems related to mast
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by musicale 1y ago
> MSO -> Polished turd and uberused I think this may be judgment in retrospect. The original combination of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint was undoubtedly useful and became more so with integration. It's too bad that competition fro
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by musicale 1y ago
Toy cars (tiny wheeled carts) date back at least 5000 years, but tools/technology date to the dawn of humanity.
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by musicale 1y ago
> action figures "No sir! I did not see you playing with your dolls again."
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by musicale 1y ago
Youtube (like every other popular web platform) will keep pushing the button that says "make more money by degrading the user experience" until it (eventually) stops working. It's basically the iron law of encrapification.
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by musicale 1y ago
Fortunately you can connect a replica PDP-8 front panel to an emulator! https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8 Or an FPGA-based hardware version: https://hackaday.io/project/180081-op
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by musicale 1y ago
DOS IDEs (Turbo Pascal etc.) do seem pretty great, but they wouldn't help you build GUI apps the way you could with VB, Delphi (a successor to Turbo Pascal), Java, etc. Tcl/Tk is also a product of the 1990s, both open source and c
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by musicale 1y ago
The twilight of Moore's law and diminishing returns for CPUs are driving a shift to GPUs and other accelerators. GPUs seem to do well for streaming/throughput type workloads. What's interesting that Nvidia has managed to ride
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by musicale 1y ago
Didn't someone (Aristotle, mentioned in TFA, or perhaps Aeschylus, Sophocles, ???) enumerate several dozen (or more?) classical dramatic plot structures?
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by musicale 1y ago
> I never felt annoyed by them like I do with animated and pop-up ads. How else are they going to force you to view advertisements for things that you are completely uninterested in and which are completely unrelated to the page you are
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by musicale 1y ago
90% of everything is crap (Sturgeon's law), but as I understand both commercial and free software advanced quite a bit in the 1990s: Visual BASIC, HyperCard 2.0, Java, JavaScript, Linux, MacOS System 7-9, TrueType, Windows 95, Window
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by musicale 1y ago
> A C compiler for just $495! Turbo Pascal was $49.99 though...
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by musicale 1y ago
Having functions that fit on one screen is still a good idea I think. My point was that printing, teletype-style terminals don't have an intrinsic vertical space limit like video display terminals (and eventually the printouts can get

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