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I’m still amazed that the first dozen programs I ever wrote back in 1963 for an IBM 7090 (or 7094) ran first time. (They were trivial programs). I’m also still pissed that I never got to debug the 13th, in FAP (Fortran Assembly Program), which had a minor syntax error – a comma instead of a period, or vice versa. NASA had just launched a weather satellite, which monopolized computer time, leaving zero minutes for high school students.

One dentist has a much bigger mortgage payment than the other.

The ad blocking in Wipr 2 makes the Apple News app tolerable.

So the land tax does away with zoning?

A bug in the scriptlet I used to post it, which truncated the title as “Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone els...”, which I didn’t notice had dropped the third line of the title.

Then again, different people’s minds work very differently. My verbal SAT was low 790’s, yet some of my best thinking is purely kinesthetic.

Different people’s minds work very differently. More differently than most people imagine.

AI is currently a massive money sink. Yes or No?

Who needed leaks to know that?

It blocked me, because I was running an ad-blocker. Then I got around the block. Safari’s Reader mode is often useful.

I remember walking the last couple miles of the Garden State Parkway a week or two before it opened. Could a youngster do such a thing today?

After checking the Wikipedia page, I realized that I was only 10 or 11 at the time. Somehow I remembered it as having been older – high school age.

Actually, the product they should build is an ebike. They should buy Weel.[1]

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/614379/weel-evb-electric-concept-...

Note that the title is probably an allusion to Ray Bradbury’s collection “The Illustrated Man”.

And, before major purchases, check to make sure that private equity firm has not bought them.

First iPhone had no App Store: no third-party apps.

Apple _is_ a software company: everything it sells is based on a Mac OS X foundation.

“Make people want something, and sell it to them”.

Is there an open—source Swift IDE that can modify itself without restarting? (written in Swift) I loved Oberon µSystems Oberon/F aka Component Pascal for that capability.

Or am I going to have to vibe-code one.

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

I prefer Richard Hamming’s take: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30

Interesting: 1729 gave me a Database Error the first time, then came back with 34 previous searches

I remember being shocked, albeit not surprised, when I read that he had quite a lot of contact with Ron de Santis.

https://americanoversight.org/email-suggests-that-supreme-co...

Except for both its legs being on the same side of the bike.

Just wait ‘til Gas City ships.

It depend upon how many agent workers they allow per coder…

18.7.3 is still available for download via a paid developer account, not sure about a free one.

26.3 ß 2 still shows the blue background on my iPad.

So that bright tweens can get a practical introduction to hacking.

Back in the early ‘70s, I worked at a computer network that had remote clients up and doen the Eastern seabboard, from Maine to D.C. They used a circular buffer for output from client submitted jobs. One day the buffer lapped itself. Panic ensued.

The substack app really sucks. It tries to make me turn on notifications with a fullscree modal.