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I met my wife playing Star Wars Galaxies, online. She was member #4 in the guild I ran, The Trade Federation on Flurry, one of a whole crew of people I'd never met in my life. It w…

I learned BASIC in 1981 on the TRS-80 Model I with 4k RAM (later upgraded to a massive 16k), and it wasn't long before someone showed me EDTASM [1], and I was hooked. My parents co…

That was 2001 today Joel seems to think this is the future: https://hash.ai/

https://archive.is/zDhfv

Years of practice and “This won’t kill me” thinking have helped a lot. Also I watch every single talk I’ve given which is brutal but it lets me improve but also re-affirm I didn’t …

> Professional public speakers... Maybe some do, but I've never needed it. Often I actually find public speaking easier than small groups. In a small group my brain is trying to "m…

True, that said, I downloaded and compiled Perl in 1987 from comp.sources.misc, even back then, things moved at light speed compared to health and medical.

I think the most interesting thing is that it took 15 years for people to apparently take this seriously. And another 40 to recognize its impact. The original paper[1] was from 198…

Reading your link IMHO in today's world I would set a basic rule, if you're touching >20% of a Java codebase you should refactor to Rust. With AI-Native development practices it's …

Might keep this in mind if you go to tindie: > URGENT > Tindie has not paid me for the last month. They take your money for your order and then require me to ship product to you, b…

Next up, you must login to ID.me to use AI and providers will be required to retain every session for analysis.

Most security code scanning I am aware of does AST parsing of actual code before analysis; the comments won't even make it to the LLM. That said, embedded strings could cause this …

Oh, and while you're at it, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.

oh good point got that backwards… OMG my fax brain didn’t even think about it.

The sad thing is I feel trapped on all sides of the debate, I wrote a book about LLMs and human creativity (spoiler Humans win for a long time) but I was going to do it as a blog s…

> Yet, this shift made me re-evaluate the open source code publishing. Prior to that, I have been positive about free and open software, and considered this to be the default mode …

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All this said I'm more concerned about Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) on smartTV you buy in the store and never even realize it's phoning home with everything you watch...

I recently had my donation-driven site ruined by bots, it's a constant battle. I (jokingly) proposed we should amend the fax spam law to take this into consideration: https://www.k…

I wonder whether the author deliberately avoided ontology? That's what comes to mind when I read this. The age-old debate between taxonomy and ontology.

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