MaggieL

Something very interesting happened to me yesterday.

I'd been having conversations with ChatGPT about OpenClaw, nothing remarkable or extraordinary. Then I started a new conversation to talk about a different aspect, and GPT assumed I wanted to talk about some old PC game.

To disambiguate, I now had to refer to OpenClaw.ai. I asked it if it had some new system directive about this, and of course it denied it. Today we learn OpenAI has hired the OpenClaw developer, and he's "turning the project over to a foundation"

A true pioneer.

And a radio ham.

Also don't miss https://wizardzines.com/

Looks interesting, but the license is a show-stopper for me. I can't expose my employer to that kind of risk. I poured a lot of time and effort into learning Akka and has to throw it all away.

Yes. The current Flipper app store has an app that spams from a library of known codes until you tell it to stop

LadyAda of Adafruit got her start with such a device.

> Sorry, but I cannot get past the fact that so many Americans openly refer to undocumented migrants as "illegals". >

It's because their presence in our country is not legal. In fact the full term in our law is "illegal alien", Genesis even wrote a song with that title.

"Undocumented" is a euphemism coined by leftists to try to make illegal status seem trivial and unimportant.

It's propaganda

All kinds of detailed urbanist transit engineering economics planning and rationales... very pretty indeed. While the reasons to avoid the city altogether grow. Policing has surrendered. Hotels filled with illegals squeezing out the homeless, their lodging, food and pocket cash provided at taxpayer exoense. Dystopia is now.

> I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy. > I had keyed the machine code to the CP/M version of figForth in on my Xitan Alpha. I sent it over a serial line to pip running on my Osborne after I bought one. Patched the console vectors and it was up and running.

> Back in the day I got to go to a demo and presentation about the machine. > > An interesting thing about the design was that it had a 5” screen, but it could only show about 50 columns at a time of the 80 column display. There was a knob you turned to pan the display.

On mine it's keyboard ctl-left/right arrow. Paint is worn off the metal surround as a result. I don't recall a knob.

"Regional international governing body"

I remember when regions were smaller than nations...

The cost factor of international complications along with the impossibility of meeting every country's speech restrictions simultaneously may be why Elon is reducing Twitter's offshore presence dramatically. It could easily become a US-only platform. Which may be the only way for it to survive financially while meeting free speech goals.

The abort engine burn apparently used up the solid fuel engine, so the capsule landing wasn't gentle either. Looked like it dug a substantial hole.

It seems to be written for an audience which doesn’t know the first thing about science.

Because it's written by people who don't know the first thing about science.

I just use Librarything

Drivel. Intro is global warming alarmism.

Political screed not up to AOs usual standards.

Paywall.

The same reason Facebook and Linkedin do the same thing. They get more access to your personal data.

"Learn to code."

Real 1980s programmer: sits down at IBM 3278 mainframe terminal, edits resume into text file containing DCF/Script markup. Prints mailing copies on IBM 3800 laser printer using typewriter font, hoping operations staff running printer doesn't notice (unlikely considering speed printer runs at).

               --signed, real 1980s programmer

(also 1970s programmer, 1990s programmer, 2000s programmer, 2010s programmer)

   current resume http://linkedin.com/in/maggieleber

Somebody got paid to find out if water in plastic bottles has plastic in it.

There actually are people who worked on 1970's mainframes who understand modern software tech. This author isn't one of them.

Better not tell SF; they'll want you to pay SF taxes.

"average daily budget derived from national GDP per capita figures" sounds...erm...almost meaningless.

I would still be on delicio.us except for the scare that Yahoo was going to shut them down. I moved on to Diigo.com and never looked back.

Nobody "has to use it". Furthermore several JVM languages are developing LLVM-targeting compilers like ScalaNative and Kotlin Native.

RUBOUT punched all the bits on punched paper tape. You could use it to actually edit the tape by feeding the tape back into the punch, if you created slack space with some NULs, which didn't punch any holes at all. RUBOUT the characters you didn't want, and punch the replacements into the NUL spaces.

Important to remember that ASR-33s weren't designed to be use with computers.

Switzerland: 15,940 mi²

Texas: 268,597 mi²

U.S.: 3,797,000 mi²

AAPL only?

I was still doing it at 56...eight years ago.