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by robterrell 3y ago
This is how I got CarPlay on the used BMW I bought. Gave some guy in Thailand my VIN and $60, he sent me firmware to install, and now I drive around with working CarPlay and the vague notion that I've maybe been p0wned in ways I don&#x
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by robterrell 3y ago
I was in college (and a physics major!) when cold fusion hit. Really similar vibe -- competing press conferences and publications, huge public excitement tempered by frowning disbelief from experts, a rush to replicate from many labs, with
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by robterrell 3y ago
I like paperclips. Should we maximize?
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by robterrell 3y ago
I mean, figure something out? Didn't Sam want to create UBI? That's one way!
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by robterrell 3y ago
> Like every time someone streams a song on sportify, the artist gets a few pennies You're thinking of broadcast radio. Streaming is a fraction of a penny! > So should they be paid a few pennies every time the LLM spits out a res
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by robterrell 3y ago
> From my point of view, it is sad that these sort of socio-political constructs (copyright) are hindering innovation Why not pay authors of the data the LLM has ingested?
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by robterrell 3y ago
"Looker" is a Michael Crichton film from 1981 that features actors getting scanned and replaced with cheaper & more compliant CGI equivalents.
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by robterrell 3y ago
Earlier this week I got spam call that was almost certainly an AI-generated human voice.
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by robterrell 3y ago
That's a possible mitigation mentioned in the article.
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by robterrell 3y ago
From the TMK ADB to USB faq: On ADB Standard keyboards(M0116) left and right corresponding modifiers are logically indentical and can not be discriminated one another by the converter. This is ADB keyboard limitation, not converter's.
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by robterrell 3y ago
Typo on row 7!
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by robterrell 3y ago
"You’re not working for equity — you are giving up equity." Bingo.
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by robterrell 4y ago
Not enough Robin Hoods. Too many halos, not enough heroes.
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by robterrell 4y ago
https://open-flash.github.io/mirrors/swf-spec-19.pdf
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by robterrell 4y ago
It was developed in 1990, at a time when Apple IIe was still in production, which means that Appler is likely the first Apple ][ emulator ever made Not to be one of those guys, but "][ in a Mac" was from 1985: https:
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by robterrell 4y ago
The microwave example reminded me of https://twitter.com/_LucasRizzotto/status/151620562566283673...
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by robterrell 4y ago
What company rents Polestars?
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by robterrell 4y ago
Fun exercise for the reader: how much of this is actually possible with LLMs and how much is not.
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by robterrell 4y ago
The current crop of transcription apps are truly awful. Trying yours now! One suggestion -- the trial is difficult to use if I have a long file, because it won't let me select a file that is longer than 5 min. Maybe let me pick a longe
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by robterrell 4y ago
Yes! I made a blockchain in Apple ][ BASIC (with one machine-language routine for hashing). And yeah, I did it because of insomnia-related boredom.
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by robterrell 4y ago
This is really impressive. There's no video on how the "Logic" editor works. Have you thought about linking something like QuickJS and allowing actual code? If one could write generic code, and if the properties of the inked
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by robterrell 4y ago
The Vintage Computer Fest has an annual event on each coast: https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/ I went last year and there was a smallish number of old 8- and 16-bit computers for sale at vendor booths. (Large numbers of
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by robterrell 4y ago
Also -- BBEdit's "Shell Worksheet" is the MPW Workshop for today. I use it for so much every day. No commando, though, that was so great.
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by robterrell 4y ago
I'm sure I've still got a bunch of MP3 files from Napster on a hard drive somewhere, but yeah, that genie was put back in the bottle. This one can too.
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by robterrell 4y ago
Would love to read these if you've collected them somewhere.
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by robterrell 4y ago
My copy of K&R belonged to my dad and was from the early 80s! My job interviews in the 80s and 90s (college summer jobs, or the one time a company tried to get me to leave college for a job) had no whiteboard-coding-style technical skil
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by robterrell 4y ago
This damn site just got me to buy something, so, well done.
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by robterrell 4y ago
I use Moom at home but can't at work, so I just started using https://rectangleapp.com instead.
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by robterrell 4y ago
It's nostalgic in the best/worst way! Anyone old enough to remember the start of the 8-bit era (not the Apple ][+ and the Commodore Pet and the SOL, but before those, the Altair and IMSAI and the Byte-8) will have memories of usin
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by robterrell 4y ago
I also continue to use Pinboard, for much the same reasons. Since 2010! I don't use the social features but it's nice to have a tool that's been constant and reliable for over a decade.

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