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2027 is the year of the Linux.. er. ARM Windows desktop!

No tactile switches? Hard pass.

I typically use Sonnet on a basic Claude subscription for my hobby / side projects, and Opus on an all-you-can-eat subscription from work. I'm not interested in minmaxxing the model of the week, these are good enough for me.

You don't get voting rights at the casino, either.

Somebody has to pull the lever in the voting booth.

I had one of these! You had to load the terminal software from the included cassette tape, pick up the telephone, dial the digits (literally, we didn't have TouchTone), wait for the Bell 103 handshake tones, then quickly unplug the handset and plug the cable into the modem. Set the handset aside so you don't accidentally hang up.

Then enjoy BBSing on the 22x23 display! Good times.

Makes sense this event is in LA- this this is designed to be a mobile media creation device. Most users don't care about most of the features that are highlighted in the press release, but someone creating any sort of visual media would.

And if you don't have rockets, you use SpaceX, like GlobalStar does.

"Welcome to the 42nd anniversary of Michael Jordan's first NBA game, brought to you by Kalshi!"

The modern WDC 65C02 is also way faster (up to 14MHz in the right conditions) than other 6502s of the era (usually 1-2MHz).

Those smaller / cheaper EVs might not be street legal in the US due to safety regulations: they need to allow occupants to survive a crash vs the massive monster trucks on American roads.

The BeBox was so cool. I'm surprised no gaming-oriented PC builder has replicated the CPU activity LEDs. The GeekPort was also fun- in my dorm someone on my floor had a BeBox and used the GeekPort to control a robot arm. At least that came back in the form of the Raspberry Pi GPIO connector.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668310

These computers didn't have much program or data storage space. The source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/chrislgarry/apollo-11

I knew what this was before clicking on the link, but for a lot of people, it may be a 1053.

Welp, looks like it's time to re-rip / re-tag my CD collection at higher quality. Gives me a good reason to dust off some stuff (physically and virtually) that I haven't listened to in a while.

I had a fair amount of shares of TDFX back in the day, rode it all the way to their bankruptcy. NVDA bought the scraps and left retail shareholders like me with nothing. In a different reality, if 3dfx could have survived to the AI-era...

Should have been titled "Is Parallel Programming What Can You Hard, And, If So, Do About It?"

Why don't you take a stress pill and think things over?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M5t0cPj9ZQw

or, Java Virtual Threads and chill.

Another shout-out for Rhode Island Computer Museum. They're very "hands-on", and just about any time you drop in you may be recruited to help chase down a problem with a PDP-9 or be compelled to play a game of O.G. Spacewar.

Their "computer crypt" is something to behold, too.

The E extension will probably only ever appear in softcores (FPGA) to reduce gate count.

Interesting. According to the definition in that Wikipedia link, "copyfraud" is claiming copyright on public domain content.

Does this mean a company can take code from an open source project that used AI, put it into their closed source code, potentially modify it, all without attribution?

I miss the insane adrenaline rush when getting into small fights (1v1, 1v2, etc.). You go so long doing doing whatever it is you're doing- PvE, hacking data sites, transporting stuff- it's all a bit mundane.

But nothing raised my heart rate like getting into a fight. 30 seconds of terror. I would have to take a break after these, win or lose, until my HR returned to normal and my hands stopped shaking.

I've never experienced that in any other game.

I dug into the DNSSEC rabbit hole a few weeks ago and got drawn into the fascinating root key signing ceremony.

https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/62

I'm trying to make sense of all of this; I'm really curious if the initial prompt was as innocuous as it sounds ("solve a spreadsheet completion task that referenced several Google Drive links"), and what the series of tokens led it to ultimately figure out that the best course of action was to explore the network resources it had available, find a vulnerable service, then literally drop some text into a file: "Agent seeks [filename]; upload if found!". And how other agents discovered this, and acted upon that request.

I'm also interested in how many tokens all of this consumed: how much did this cost given current token pricing?

There's a memorial a few blocks away, at the site of his execution, that now lives in the middle of a suburban street.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Major+Andre+Monument/@41.0...

On the hardware side, DEC built very-well engineered hardware. The early Alpha machines were very well designed. Even the PC compatible lines of the era were built to a very high quality standard.

VAX compatibility was very important to DEC- the Alpha has hardware to handle the non-IEEE VAX floating point formats.

Definitely. Internally, Oracle is very strict about the use of code written outside of Oracle- there is a very strict set of rules and procedures to incorporate open source libraries into their products and services.

As for AI, certain core teams, notably the Database team, are forbidden from using LLM coding tools.