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I just went down a rabbit-hole, and happily I found the rabbit - an early example of this type of prompt (draw an unusual animal character in a vector graphics language). There is …

yes, that looks like the one. I think I was using the conditional jump, so it could have been djnz, but I think it was jr. 1 byte jump offset, and I recall my little function bumpi…

The Z80 has a relative jump. Teenage me was loading a hand-assembled search function as an initialised array of integers in Basic, and relative jumps didn't need to be adjusted for…

A language like E seems about the right level for a simple user-friendly programmatic layer wrapping applications, i.e. enable the users to ask a natural language question or build…

Representing that as a "climate spiral" would make it unnecessary to adjust for the seasons, and the original data could be used instead of a statistical view. It makes it easy for…

He retained the original name, from 2006 ... https://au.pinterest.com/pin/triple-dragon--1742330793037990... fractaldomains.com Triple Dragon Triple dragon fractal. Equation: f(z) …

> ... It starts by stepping into a shallow pool of golden light. > ... Together they act as both a choir and an audience I think I'm not the target audience. I guess they are going…

The risk is humans using AI to control / exploit / coerce / injure other humans. The risk of AIs being given enough agency to threaten humans comes after that - they'll only have t…

Related (posted just 2hours before this article) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086833 "Blimps lifting quantum data centers to the stratosphere? (newatlas.com)" "... blim…

I have drafted a photo gallery app in Rust / Tauri, using a JavaScript framework in the frontend. The backend can read directories and files directly, and because the backend and f…

A search for : "character studies of old farmers" yielded good results. The results are drawings / engravings, which may reflect the balance of the collection, and perhaps this sub…

The article asks what is the meaning of OpenAI's statement that "the UAE will become the first country in the world to enable ChatGPT nationwide." My first guess would be that it w…

IBM did a partial implementation of ASN.1 in Java, and released it via the IBM AlphaWorks open-source repository. I used it in a telecommunications system in the 90s. Luckily the G…

The name I recall from using it on a PDP 11/04 was 'Text Editor and Corrector' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor) I vaguely recall it had a line-open / visual mode, l…

For decades people have been dreaming of higher-level languages, where a user can simply specify what they want and not how to do it (the name of the programming language Forth der…

I am running this OK in Ubuntu 2404 : https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions From Claude I have connected to these MC…

I use this for quick comparison of minor differences in code / data (e.g. tables, DNA sequences). Variations in indentation are highlighted also, by standing out of the plane. It's…

Thanks to OP and other posters - various ideas useful in different cases. The xargs idea made me think of using bash as the parser : bash -c "exec -c bash -c 'source $CONFIG/main.b…

Extending that idea to the web, or at least to the blogosphere and information / knowledge web-sites, seems useful. I wonder if there is a web service which has calculated vector e…

D3 blocks can be viewed by replacing gist.github.com or bl.ocks.org with blocks.roadtolarissa.com, e.g. for your link : https://blocks.roadtolarissa.com/AndreaSimeone/1e9ed38b46b95…

I used the Cheq app to make UPI payments via smartphone / QR code, during a holiday in India in July. The app listed locations for completing the Know Your Customer (KYC) process -…

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Agriculture Victoria (DEECA) : Big data in agriculture | Web Administrator/Developer | Data Engineer | Melbourne (Australia) | $91,418 to $103,725 + super. | Full-time Innovative w…

This blog is reporting on doing the advent of code via ChatGPT : https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

Not OP, but I found various info about the values of Nigella as a herbal remedy, e.g. with garlic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687760/ When I read "black seed" in …