Really cool computer history in the article and linked discussions. I remember typing CLS 9 on my CoCo… that Easter egg was probably my first exposure to the word “MICROSOFT”.
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2·1 year agoThis is exciting!
29·1 year agoThe original had the crawl, just not the Episode IV - A New Hope part. Source: I saw it in May 1977.
Just did this exact thing and it was a painless transition. Follow me if you like: https://bookwyrm.social/user/pelley
1·2 years agoInteresting, I didn’t know about the cardiovascular risks of DMT.
8·2 years agoI’m something of a bong soloist myself.
I’m something of a pie bush inspector myself.
1·2 years agoPeople used to say “proven.” Like, it’s been proven. But now they say it’s been proved. When did this change?
91·2 years agoMost LLMs support this. You just have to enable Jive mode.
You can leave it plugged in. Remember, this an absurd luxury!
Apple Vision Pro headset. It’s way too expensive but the quality is so damn amazing. I’m a VR developer so I appreciate its power.
12·2 years agoHe did.
But what is the word for “knowing what the user wants, blatantly ignoring it and imposing the companies will anyway”?
2·2 years agoI’ve been staring at it for five minutes, and I can’t get it to not resolve.
“We need to cut down the insane cycle of churning through personal electronics”
Translation: We need to slow down the pace of innovation!
Yeah I’m not in favor of constructive dismissal, but maybe these layoffs are justified….
Is this why they had to raise their prices again?
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.