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While there are many possible AIs out there, people are saying, including me, why should I pay $10 or more per month to use one? I'm trying the AIs out right now -- here's why, if …

In short, for free, let's try it out -- the short take: What it does do well, I threw programming prompts at it such as "Write me a function that takes a Golang struct, and convert…

Yes, this does remind me of the Carterphone case I believe it was called, or Napster in some ways. Apple, and its typical arrogance, is ignoring these cases. Yes, legally, I could …

Of course, and as I recall, it had Perl code in it. Classic SciFi in the sense that you take reality, break one and only one rule, and see what happens as you move through time.

A blast from the past, but you have no idea how jealous I was that the PC users had "Good Basic" but not the Apple. They could use "Real Pascal" -- I think that's what drove me to …

Very cool -- shame I don't have a wall TV to just run it on. I was however, disappointed -- I saw it as a T-shirt brand "Particle Life" for physicists. The T-shirts would have slog…

Well, I don't know how advanced I am (except in age). But I have found the best advanced training is the same as it was in college. No book makes up for the late night hours. I fin…

I don't know if I qualify for a CTO though people call me one (people have called me names since I was a kid but Mom always said to ignore them...) But let's tuck at that first wor…

BASIC itself can't be defined -- which basic? Altair 4K, Apple ][+, Microsoft QuickBasic? Some BASICs are quite advanced, others not so much. Honestly, later versions of QuickBasic…

This is probably not possible due to copyright issues, but assuming I've purchased a large number of Kindle books over the years, is there a way I can feed them into an AI such tha…

Also, look at iVentoy. It's not free but it's not expensive, and it is "Ventoy over PXE boot". It takes a bit to set up, but I have it running on a Linux box and I can boot any mac…

Oh, agreed -- I am not suggesting one take the first job. I went through six months of interviews before taking this particular job. I am only saying, don't discard all jobs becaus…

Another candidate for the old-time stories would be Internet before the public Internet. Back then, as noted, we have several "nets" connected by everything from fixed circuits, to…

No one's more old-timer than I am! I am the ultimate legacy system. Just ask my grandkids!

Despite all the talk, believe it or not, there are still open positions -- I work for a large telecom in the Bay Area, and I'm told we have 8,000 unfilled positions. But let's dril…

Also, Jetbrains does not indicate if I can build my own "private AI" with just my materials -- companies are concerned about what the AI knows and doesn't know, and where it gets i…

I love the idea of an AI assistant for coding -- the ability to check references on the fly, the ability to not have to sift from through Google and StackOverflow which aren't that…

Another item (HN won't let me post a long reply), is a programming environment called Onyx. (After my grandson in Africa, who has NO interest in it whatsoever as he intends to be a…

Well, a very long time ago, in a company funded far far away (and since defeated by the empire), I had the "joy" of working with Sendmail. For you youngsters, back then, back when …

That depends on what we mean by feature of course.... let's assume we mean concepts... here's my list: Believe it or not, Cobol's formatting for printed reports -- we still do prin…

Absolutely it is -- your talking to a neuroscientist who did just that, sort of.... But it does help to take the classes. You can learn a lot of music theory in books, but until yo…

There was another reason Usenet died -- people want other people to do the work. Oh, they'll pay for it to a degree, but Usenet wasn't plug-and-play. To make Usenet work, everyone …

Per the whoe whietspace idea -- techniaclly not a feature, just a policy statement. "This language has chosen manditory tabs at three spaces. It's not that this is better than anyt…

And now that I think about it, other than negative lifetimes, where variables reappear in code after a defined time because you might need them again, I propsoe the hidden segments…