Max-q

C64 was not a port. The C64 version is the original.

Nothing wrong with that. That’s actually a good use of that well designed, high quality font. People hating it only do so because everyone else does. It’s, obviously, not made as a body text font, and has been misused as that, but it’s good for illustration, comics and other places where it’s combined with graphics. It’s one of the most legible fonts we have.

I think AI can write good already. It’s all up to the prompt. Strong guidelines. Without them, it will sound like an AI because, just as the article said, the language reflects the writer.

The article says that it’s manufactured in Japan.

What about giving it to your secretary with a list of what to shop?

Icosahedron is the classic? I have never ever seen an icosahedron globe in my life, neither real or digital. What in the world happened in the brain or artificial neural network when that title was picked for an icosahedron “globe”?

That usage is not a generic payment usage. This is a use case it is good for. But if 8 billion people should use Bitcoin for their everyday shopping, that is a totally different case...

Products for children, medical equipment and all things with a radio (nfc, Bluetooth, mobile radios, WiFi +++) requires an external accredited lab.

You can test electronics without a radio yourself, but it requires a very extensive lab. Few companies can do this. But you can save money by using a non accredited lab.

You can’t self certify any products including a radio (almost everything today due to WiFi and BLE), products for children or medical equipment. An accredited lab is required.

The pre certified module do not exempt the product from testing. It only means that you don’t have to do the conducted testing and that it’s a higher probability for passing the other tests. There are still lots of chances to fuck up and a full radiated test of the product is required.

The article doesn’t mention certification, which is expensive and demanding, but required for any product containing a radio to be legal to sell.

Very interesting. I tried to make a tree based agent two years ago but back then the LLM couldn’t manage to navigate the tree effectively. But today everything is different: better LLMs, and we have better understanding on how to instruct them.

I’ll try it and maybe I’ll be inspired to make my current home brewed agent more document focused again.

One drawback is much higher token usage because we get a very good saving in the cached data.

A little heads up: in your web page, the header download button force double screen with on mobile (iPhone 17 pro). No big problem but always an annoying when a page scrolls in two directions.

Wasn’t also the graphics driver moved to kernel space in XP? A good performance boost at the cost of unrecoverable crashes if the driver failed.

The issue with COBOL code is that it’s hidden. It’s mostly internal systems so little code available for training. HTML, TypeScript, JavaScript, C, etc, are readily available, billions of code lines.

Reminds me of old Mercedes and BWMs with built-in NMT phones in their console. The cars lasted a lot longer than the NMT standard for mobile phones.

The Amiga is quite another beast, especially showing photos in HAM mode, giving 4096 colors.

She’s a good writer, I really enjoyed the article. It was one topic regarding being a writer today I was curiously waiting for while reading: gpt. Nothing can be more transforming for writers right now? The erotic novella will probably be written by AI very soon. YouTube is overflowing with AI generated and narrated stories now. Just a couple of months ago they were quite bad, but it’s huge improvements weekly and this week they have become so good that I’ll say they are better than magazine stories. We can just imagine how good they will be in two months from now.

I liked the piece on corruption. You say it’s not everyone, it’s the system. I think it might be the culture, not the system? It has become the culture of the country to think that way. This is something I’m often thinking about, how can this be changed? How can a leader say “we as a country have to change. We need to change our culture, think of corruption as illegal and destructive” , and get the citizens on board with it. Because, with my, unfortunately limited, knowledge about Africa, I have understood that in many countries a government employee can’t make a living of their salary. The position is a position enabling taking bribes, and that’s what’s putting food on the table. When it’s that ingrained, how is a transformation possible? Where to start?

One idea I’ve had, is transformation via a system similar to corruption, but regulated. If you go to a government office, you don’t pay a bribe, but you pay some kind of tip to the representative. And that tip is listed on a “menu” and is reported to the employer, and a small tax is paid. The amounts are set at a level around the commonly known bribe paid today.

Then, year by year, those tips are reduced (or stay the same, not adjusted for inflation), while the salary is increased. This is possible due to the small tip tax.

Doing this while information campaigns are running on TV, internet, schools, and so on, continuously.

Let’s say this is a 20 year project, with a clear goal of a higher level of civilization, imprinting in people that this good and this will make life better for you, your children and grandchildren.

I hope that your country will be able to fix the problem.

There’s a new generation that played Minecraft when they where kids, so a new generation of nostalgia ;)

From a PCB layout and supply chain perspective, it’s a big difference.

While the ESP32 is great for many applications, it’s not for battery operated stuff. When an nRF draws 1-2 mA when using BLE, ESP32 will draw 40 mA. And the chip they selected is even more efficient.

The low power chips can also run in low power mode without BLE running using micro amps, something the ESP can’t match.

I really like ESP32 and I hope they have a low power chip on their roadmap.

I think that conclusion is wrong, they are absolutely for beginners. No bed leveling. Lidar scan of first layer. Filament sensors. Good software. Enders are sold to beginners but you actually need to be an expert to get good results and keep them running.

This is the obligatory comment on every ray casting game calling itself Doom like. I was scrolling down the page, checking if I had to add it, but luckily it was already done :-D

The goal for this flight was not to reach orbit, and they said that 30 seconds would be a perfect launch. They managed 20 seconds and say they look at it as a successful first launch.

Now I’m looking forward to watching the next test.

One is named “Core 2 Duo”. I think that name is taken.

The issue I first think about if HTML goes away and the web is WASM blobs instead is text. Accessibility, rendering, all the different languages. The amount of code in the browsers making HTML accessible and working in all languages is enormous. If we are going in that direction, we at least need a standard library handling this, so that we don’t take a big step back to the times of Flash.

Is the steep climb in 2021 due to Apple Silicon entering the scene? Or maybe not, servers seem to follow the same pattern. It’s a remarkable increase in performance on a short time.

Today, with swichmode supplies, I think DC would make most sense. We lose much power to frequency deviation and inductive loads causing phase shift.

It would also make sense to have a high voltage and low voltage nets in houses. Low voltage for lighting and other low power equipment. High voltage for power hungry equipment. For example 48V and 480V.

Autonomous isn’t a problem, the open source firmwares for drones include fully autonomous mode. I don’t know if this particular one does but it should be easy to port. The size and range, however, doesn’t make this particular drone very scary.

Do you really need the phone? The dual core 240MHz ESP32 seems to be able to do the job at lower weight and power consumption.

Maybe the old phone is better used as a controller?