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I had a TI-81 (and then an 85 later on). I wrote a blackjack program. There was no link cable for the 81, so other kids had to type it in manually.

Subpixel rendering only gives you 3 effective pixels. M and N aren't really readable with less than 5.

It seems to have worked for Bill Gates as well. He definitely did some not so nice things when starting and running MS - I think it unfortunately goes with the territory of running…

When I was in the college in the early 2000s, I had a friend who ran OpenBSD. He always sang its praises, mostly because it was the most secure operating system. I tried a bunch of…

Something I find weird is that this article compares a 9950x with two different laptop CPUs and concludes that performance has increased massively in the past few years. If you com…

I haven't done this that much, but have found it to be pretty useful. When it just gives me the answer, I usually understand but then find that my long-term retention is relatively…

If someone uses AI to generate an output, that should be stated clearly. That is not an excuse for it being poorly done or unvetted (which I think is the crux of the point), but it…

My theory is that, when done properly, it’s much closer to science than engineering. And by “done properly,” i mean done in a regimented way with evals to verify that a wide range …

I had a licensed copy of Executor back in the mid-90s. It was the coolest thing ever. Thanks for being one of my inspirations to go into software development.

I think of LLMs as knowing a lot of things but as being relatively shallow in their knowledge. I find them to be super useful for things that I don't already know how to do, e.g. a…

I’m job searching right now, and it’s definitely not the doom and gloom that I’m hearing about. I think it’s a challenging environment for developers who are either inexperienced o…

I think of LLMs like smart but unreliable humans. You don't want to use them for anything that you need to have right. I would never have one write anything that I don't subsequent…

The name SheepShaver is a play on ShapeShifter, which was a Mac II emulator for Amiga. I remember running an Amiga Emulator (UAE) AND Shapeshifter on top of that since it was the b…

I have been playing around with MCP, and one of its current shortcomings is that it didn’t support OAuth. This means that credentials need to be hardcoded somewhere. Right now, it …

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I have found feature flagged rollouts to be one of the biggest advances in fairly recent software development. Probably too much to say about it in a comment, but they massively de…

About a year later, I got the P3-550 that overclocked to 733. Not quite as good of an overclock in terms of percentages, but I ran that machine for 5 years with no issues.

I played Disco Elysium when it came out and enjoyed it. In particular, I thought the Inland Empire skill was pretty awesome. I can't imagine what the game would be like without the…

This is super impressive! It's a cool POC, although it is already clear that it would be feasible for Apple to put M.2 slots in Macbooks if they wanted to. I wonder how much it wou…

AI adoption can be increasing even if progress of the base technology has slowed down. LLMs as a technology are very new, and there are doubtless tons of interesting uses we have y…

California’s state tree is the redwood, and that’s where their HQ is.

Reading this, I do get the impression that the Partially Meets Expectation was given to get more work out of this guy. It's the worst kind of manipulation - spinning something that…