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tanseydavidon I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

I am curious how many of you other C64 greybeards got exposed to a language called COMAL (not a typo) on the C64 back in the day?

tanseydavidon Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

> making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks

I would give you +100 for that if I could.

Very well-played (and worded). I think I'm going to steal that one.

tanseydavidon I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64

I wanted an Apple II so badly and thought I was getting the short-end-of-the-stick with a C64 but I am so happy (to this day) that my first machine at home was C64.

I still have my tattered C64 Programmer's Reference Guide on my shelf (as well as Programming the 6502 by Rodnay Zaks).

tanseydavidon Why is healthcare so much slower than IT?

Because if healthcare makes a big mistake, they cannot ship a hotfix update to bring a person back to life?

tanseydavidon The Last Picture Show: A Conversation with George Lucas

Starring a very young and beautiful Cybill Shepherd as well as Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, and Randy Quaid.

tanseydavidon California authorizes its DMV to join a national ID database

Well I guess that's the end of getting a warning instead of ticket when driving a rental car in another US state from the one I live in.

tanseydavidon NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Wow that very long series of pivots in the same messaging space is eye-opening and disheartening. It is hard to believe. Thank you for sharing that.

tanseydavidon NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently.

Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed.

The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>

tanseydavidon DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety

I will guess that you are not in SF where the War on Drugs is on a cease-fire.

tanseydavidon Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

Feynman is my notion of what a "Chad" really is.

tanseydavidon Codex Micro

How long before someone shows a hobby project with a robotic arm and computer vision controlling one of these?

I am only half-joking.

tanseydavidon What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?

> Where else in our society do we justify imposing a moral wrong on a specific individual

> If you help someone, you are punishing the entire world?

You are missing (or maybe even ignoring) the huge difference between these two viewpoints.

tanseydavidon Sam Neill has died

Emphatic "SECOND" to this recommendation. This is a very enjoyable and touching film.

tanseydavidon Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

>> but not everything ought to be an always on chatterbox

Nothing deserves to an "always-on-chatterbox" unless the end-user truly chooses it because that is what they want or need.

This is part of the larger problem. How many "always-on-chatterboxes" competing for one's attention before it becomes close-to-impossible to concentrate on anything that requires some actual thinking.

tanseydavidon Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

> No one cares about the actual choice, only that it is made.

If the actual choice requires me to install an app then I care quite a lot and will probably decline to join in.

I don't think that I am the only one who feels this way.

tanseydavidon Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

> Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands.

Not to be argumentative, but why would we think that the Polynesians knew that Hawaii (as one example) was out there in the middle of the vast Pacific.

Whereas we know Mars exists and we know how to find it if we want to try to go there.

Perhaps they just were willing to gamble that surely there must be other islands out there like the ones they were inhabiting.

tanseydavidon Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

If you leave your house unlocked and someone steals your stuff AND is never caught, you're SOL.

tanseydavidon Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?

Thanks for stopping by to leave 4 separate, scathing, contempt-filled comments.

So I guess it is safe to assume that you would not be interested in a "a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

Yes, that is a rhetorical question.

tanseydavidon Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?

Can you find one? Can you hire them? It is basically a "snipe-hunt".

tanseydavidon Bonnie Tyler has died

The heads on 8-track players would move physically to access the 4 pairs of stereo and inevitably would mis-track as they aged.

This was more awful than just the marginal fidelity of a perfectly aligned 8-track machine.

tanseydavidon OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says

SAMA will Sam.

tanseydavidon EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

> Honestly where do you even go if you want to get out from under this?

Mars is nice this time of year.

tanseydavidon I think I have LLM burnout

> He who brings the slop cannon shall be drowned by slop rain.

If this approach gets widely adopted, then I think you should probably start building an ARK.

Make it big enough to hold two of every animal species. /s

tanseydavidon Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

And then you came to tell the rest of us that "you did not read it?" Why do that?

tanseydavidon AllTrails waypoints are now visible to everyone

I was almost ready to become a paying customer but upon learning of this it means I will stop using the AllTrails completely.

tanseydavidon Alleged Operators of HiAnime Piracy Ring Arrested in Vietnam with U.S. Support

Your comment could be interpreted different ways but I have to assume you meant: * Lower 90% gets prosecuted * Upper 10% gets a free-pass

tanseydavidon Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs

Scope creep. No thanks. Get a partner that is already in Pharma.

tanseydavidon Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)

In landscape on an iPhone it is very readable. In portrait, not so much as you have pointed out.

tanseydavidon U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators

Every time I see a photo of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, I instantly think I am looking at a picture of author Nicholas Nassim Talib (Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness).

Am I the only one?