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Nothing says you are an advanced stupid company than using AI to implement the stupid. This is security I doubt even a college student would implement. Does Meta have a CSO? The co…

I wrote my own interpreted language about 25+ years ago to write online surveys. It made it easy to create complex surveys with many branches. I think I wrote it in Objective-C. Th…

The US Air Force intended to use ADA, but had to use JOVIAL instead because ADA took so long to be developed. Most people have never heard of JOVIAL but it still exists in the USAF…

It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.

Both. He is a fool who thinks he knows better than anyone else.

While I enjoyed writing assembly on the 6502 Apple II back then, I would hate doing it today, 42 years later. Good job, though! Hard to comprehend how limited the hardware was back…

The importers would get the refunds, and any of their customers they charged more for would simply keep the refund. If you paid it directly (like international product order) you p…

For any AI post, there seems like that one person for whom it worked great, and a whole lot where it didn't. Your mileage may vary... Some things AI does well, many things it may b…

Which is the argument against flying cars. Uncontrolled flying car crashes over populated areas could be catastrophic.

I thought all measurements in data centers were in US football fields.

Amazing it runs in a browser.

Did they remove any features in Photo? Or is it basically just glommed together?

My career as a programmer started this way. The division VP would eliminate jobs in the last quarter of the year to make his numbers look good, then desperately hire people at the …

I used Borland Turbo Pascal in 1984. It was amazing to work with something so fast on a PC that was really so slow. No IDE/Compiler since then matched the speed. Today's code is ma…

I remember a friend having a 17% mortgage, which he eventually walked away from.

I make an unusual kind of art, but I haven't tried selling it, as you need a stable of interested people, and I can only post it in one place at the moment (a Facebook interest gro…

The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, whee…

Truth Social, X and Rumble are all backed by the very people who wrote the law, so will not be sued. Get Out Of Jail Free cards.

It's so interesting to see how much of a commodity charting/graphing has become. When we started building Deltagraph in late 1988, what we made become a kind of standard since we t…

I once worked a contract at a public University, and the first thing I noticed was their SSO implementation. You logged into a single page, and then it called the other application…

>Image generation may not always trigger: >The model may output text only. Try asking for image outputs explicitly (e.g. "generate an image", "provide images as you go along", "upd…

I had a shirt from a piece made at Printful, but it's way too small (even at XXXL) for a normal person. It is cool to see though. I wish I could find a tailor who actually makes dr…

I only make art designed to be printed on 10-12 color large format inkjet printers. Making plotter art is not inherently better or worse that printing, it's just a different type o…

I parsed the original Illustrator format in 1988 or 1989, which is a precursor to PDF. It was simpler than today's PDF, but of course I had zero documentation to guide me. I was mo…

I use a lot of truchet tiles in my art ( https://andrewwulf.com ), but I color them afterwards, which seems fairly uncommon (article from last year, https://thecodist.com/my-art-an…