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* Explain the result to me as if I'm a 10-year-old. * Create the infographic for this result. * Make a Khan Academy-style video to teach me this result.

I would really be pleased to read a logical summary of this article!

They deserve recognition for maintaining the standards of good journalism in what is, by any measure, a difficult era.

My Egg McMuffin will never look the same!

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fixing-retail-with-land-v...

There's a healthy number of comments on SlashDot: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/1637238/fixing-retail-wi...

The comments open up a Pandora's Box of many valid complexities. All indicative of why it has become so difficult to get things done these days.

Gemini responds:

Conceptualizing the "Millipup"

https://gemini.google.com/share/b6b8c11bd32f

Draw the five legs of a dog as if the body is a pentagon

https://gemini.google.com/share/d74d9f5b4fa4

And animal legs are quite standardized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_l...

It's all about the prompt. Example:

Can you imagine a dog with five legs?

https://gemini.google.com/share/2dab67661d0e

And generally, the issue sits between the computer and the chair.

;-)

https://gemini.google.com/share/1a6663a83898

Schrodinger and Penrose: pro. Einstein: con.

My favorite part is the debate between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Donald Trump on Maria Strømme's interesting effort.

The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern.

Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise.

There are dozens of frustrating all-nighters and near all-nighters in my timeline.

And, dotted in and about, there are those several times when, half-asleep, you press the enter key, look up and gasp "OMG, it's working!"

I was 54. my wife called it quits on me.

These days, my former wife and our three daughters are probably as happy and as communicative as we've ever been.

Mutually, putting our children as a high priority helped.

The first "blog"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger

https://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/

https://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/

https://www.wired.com/2005/07/robot-wisdom-on-the-street/

Perhaps the most interesting quote in an interesting article.

Leaves me speechless or something

So anyway, here we go again: OMG!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

He was a digital hoarder sharer. See:

https://fourmilab.ch/

Now, once out of the box and having responded, willy nilly, to numerous dubious questions, you are presented with a screen full of all sorts of strange things, and nothing happens when you use the keyboard.

Compare and contrast with:

  >

Of course, I am but a single stack developer, so your experience may vary

  <canvas id="myCanvas" width="500" height="300"></canvas>

  <script>

  const ctx = myCanvas.getContext( "2d" );
  // Draw the line
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.moveTo( 50, 50 ); // Starting point
  ctx.lineTo( 200, 150 ); // Ending point
  ctx.stroke();

  document.write( "Hello World" );

  </script>

Nonetheless, I (born 1947) too miss the simplicity of BASIC, the plethora of magazines for beginners, the many shelves of "for dummies books". And, especially, that we were all beginners.

These days, full stack developers and AI are priestly classes that that, currently, do not facilitate the investigation by newbs of the black boxes they create.

Nonetheless, I look forward to AI being able to read aloud Python, Rust, Cobal, Euler notation, Greek or whatever in ways that I may understand.

Here is a link to a photo of my balcony in San Francisco during the initial stages of the virus

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xhDt7rmr7shjJbhu7

* Overflowing with optimism and "can do" * Equal protection under the law no matter the origin * Max tax 15% for all * Education and health benefits for all (accepting always flaws somewhere) * Anti-corruption was effective (ICAC) * Straightforward process to become a voting legal immigrant for non-Chinese * Many people speaking English, various Chinese dialects, Tagalog and more * Springboard to helping adjacent countries modernize * Unparalleled Eastern and Western food and housing and sociability

I moved to San Francisco only because I was a techie and had a need to change the world. If there had been the Internet, I might still be there...

;-)

> A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple does because of an understanding it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/microsoft-tech-outage...

Tech, caring and humor in butt one in and out

And there's even an acceptable self-plug!