We seem to be very sensitive to style. It can be rather distracting. This writing contained 7 exclamation marks and 9 colons. As for em-dashes, there were 7.
In 2006 there was the documentary, “Who killed the electric car?” about the GM EV1 vehicle and the lobby to limit the adoption of this tech. Among other topics, the film covers the zev mandate and its reversal after…
Good points. I’ve tried this a few times and I’ve been impressed by the dialogue. Given this was a very simple prompt, I am convinced a more precise version could be developed, including a rubric, a library of course…
I am waiting for AI Viva Voce (“AVV”). I am really surprised we aren’t hearing more about this idea? Try it for yourself by making a prompt like this (adapt as needed): Pretend I am an undergraduate student of Computer…
It would be interesting to install os8088 on a later series, like a Pentium III 500mhz or a modern Intel i7! Would it even run? I guess os8088 could not harness the CPU power to make it usable. Instead, could a modern…
> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing,…
This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somewhat similar with 16 task slots,…
Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice
One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs deeper. This goes on for say 8-12…
One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators don’t have the ability to design their…
Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers
It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed reading the comments here and I think…
I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobile devices from participating. His…
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world. Perhaps I should look at BEAM and see…
Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to fix the problem for now. There is a…
I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.
This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…
In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make…
We seem to be very sensitive to style. It can be rather distracting. This writing contained 7 exclamation marks and 9 colons. As for em-dashes, there were 7.
In 2006 there was the documentary, “Who killed the electric car?” about the GM EV1 vehicle and the lobby to limit the adoption of this tech. Among other topics, the film covers the zev mandate and its reversal after…
Good points. I’ve tried this a few times and I’ve been impressed by the dialogue. Given this was a very simple prompt, I am convinced a more precise version could be developed, including a rubric, a library of course…
I am waiting for AI Viva Voce (“AVV”). I am really surprised we aren’t hearing more about this idea? Try it for yourself by making a prompt like this (adapt as needed): Pretend I am an undergraduate student of Computer…
It would be interesting to install os8088 on a later series, like a Pentium III 500mhz or a modern Intel i7! Would it even run? I guess os8088 could not harness the CPU power to make it usable. Instead, could a modern…
> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing,…
This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somewhat similar with 16 task slots,…
Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice
One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs deeper. This goes on for say 8-12…
One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators don’t have the ability to design their…
Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers
It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed reading the comments here and I think…
I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobile devices from participating. His…
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
Very interesting. Reading this made me think of occam on the transputer: concurrent lightweight processes, message passing, dedicated memory! I spent some happy years in that world. Perhaps I should look at BEAM and see…
Mobile Safari only does this for sites that implement dark themes (and when you have dark mode enabled in iOS). But many sites don’t have these themes. The Noir extension seems to fix the problem for now. There is a…
I added the “Noir” extension to mobile Safari, now I automatically get dark mode on all websites including Hacker News.
This is such a great article! I found myself thinking, “I wonder if some of this could be used to playback video on old 8-bit machines?” But they’re so underpowered…
In Eastern Europe in 1979, those were big sums of money. What an extraordinary story
I’m loving the comments here. But I confess I exoected a ‘social technology’ solution to the problem!! Like “casserole” in the UK, which connects people in a neighbourhood with others who need food and a visit. You make…