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Cool stuff! My first computer was the Timex Sinclair 1000 (when I was 6). Good times!

We did something similar for the Apple II, to compile Merlin assembly into a running emulator instance:

https://paleotronic.com/merlinplus/

Not to be grim, but many of us will die listening to someone comfort us over a phone.

That will have none of the 'connection' you mention aside from a compassionate voice.

And, if you are one of those unfortunate people, that voice will be enough.

It will have to be.

Creative coding (still art and animations) combines these in a way, often people see something they like that someone else has done, and figure out how to recreate it in their language of choice, then put their own spin on it. Concepts range in technical complexity so it can be a great place to get started coding, there's no giant expectation of making a game or app.

The newspaper distributed the image. They said, "Here, use this image on the link to our story". They effectively sub-licensed it. If the 'owner' had a problem with that, they needed to take it up with the newspaper.

As such, the OP was under the impression the image was free to use in that context. Only once they were informed that was not the case did they become libel. They could have then licensed the photo for the 20 pounds and been done with it. Or just deleted the link off of their website (and also been done with it.)

Even in English law there's 'intent'. The OP had no intent to offend and shouldn't have paid; by feeding the troll they've unfortunately done the world a disservice, although I do empathize with their decision-making.

I don't think the troll would have gone to court, a negative precedent would have been bad for their 'business'.

I don't know if you're working with modern models. Grok 4 doesn't really know much about assembly language on the Apple II but I gave it all of the architectural information it needed in the first prompt of a conversation and it built compilable and executable code. Most of the issues I encountered were due to me asking for too much in a prompt. But it built a complete, albeit simple, assembly language game in a few hours of back and forth with it. Obviously I know enough about the Apple II to steer it when it goes awry, but it's definitely able to write 'original' code in a language / platform it doesn't inherently comprehend.

We have Claude Code writing Applesoft BASIC fine. It wrote a text adventure (complete with puzzles) and a PONG clone, among other things. Obviously it didn't do it 100% right straight out of the gate, but the hand-holding wasn't extensive.

I've been using Grok 4 to write 6502 assembly language and it's been a bit of a slog but honestly the issues I've encountered are due mostly my to naivety. If I'm disciplined and make sure it has all of the relevant information and I'm (very) incremental, I've had some success writing game logic. You can't just tell it to build an entire game in a prompt, but if you're gradual about it you can go places with it.

Like any tool, if you understand its idiosyncrasies you can cater for them, and be productive with it. If you're not then yeah, it's not going to go well.

>Commodore's Jack Tramiel never ever understood the importance of software development, and the PET fell far behind Tandy and Apple in the US; until the VIC-20 in 1980 most of Commodore's computer sales were in Europe and Canada, where Apple and Tandy didn't compete.

I assure you, Canada has both Tandy and Apple computers in the late 1970s / early 1980s. But they were much more expensive than a VIC-20.

Also, the Model 1 was a Z80 and the CoCos were 6809s, which I suspect had much more to do with the differences in third-party software offerings than Tandy's 'attempts' at obfuscation, given the competition all had 6502/6510 processors that were much easier to port between.

A quick search of eBay reveals Radio Shack did indeed sell ham radios:

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/405815708832?_skw

This is my favourite Negativland EP: https://archive.org/details/guns_20240211/

I remember going to an Omnimax in Seattle on a school trip in 1987, they were showing (thank you Internet) "Block-buster - clips from a helicopter ride around Seattle’s Space Needle, a motorcycle pursuit through downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a ride through the Kamakazi curve of the Orient Express roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, and a speeding bobsled at Lake Placid." Anyway, it made us all very queasy!

HyperCard Simulator: https://hcsimulator.com ViperCard HyperCard re-imagining: https://www.vipercard.net/

It's important to remember that the exercise of teaching children coding isn't so much about teaching them how to code, but how to think, how to plan, predict, conjecture, reason and so forth. It's just a convenient and quicker way of teaching these things than the alternatives.

If they have a good foundation in these things, then if they choose to go on to coding later they can learn all of the minutiae. But I've found in teaching it is important to stress that learning basic coding is _not_ about steering them towards coding as a career, or even a pursuit.

It _is_ important to stress that learning basic coding will help them become better problem solvers, better able to anticipate issues and mitigate them. And that this is useful to them in a wide variety of areas in which they may have interest, such as sports, engineering, adventuring etc. And yes, also learning how to guide an LLM.

So once you get those fundamentals down in the context of coding (Scratch, GameMaker, Logo, BASIC are all fine here), go practice them in more real-world applications. Those are the skills you need to foster, not object-oriented programming. And if they take an interest in going further with coding, then that's fine. They will have the tools they need to do that.

Creative coding events like #Genuary (January) and #Minacoding (June) are good ways to pique interest too, each day is a different prompt to create something new using whatever you like.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! We used to rent consoles from Blockbuster; buying an old computer off eBay for a lark and then reselling it is totally fine.

When I had a Timex Sinclair 1000, I wanted a VIC-20.

When I had a Radio Shack MC-10, I wanted a Color Computer 2.

When I had a Commodore 64, I wanted a Commodore 128.

When I had an Atari 130XE, I wanted an Atari ST.

When I had an Atari ST, I wanted an Atari Mega STE.

When I had an Atari Mega STE, I wanted a 486.

I now have all of these!

Apple II stuff...? :)

If you're hitting an endpoint labeled 'preview' or 'experimental' you can't reasonably expect it to exist in its current incarnation indefinitely. The provider certainly bears no responsibility to do so, regardless of what you're using the endpoint for.

I'm sure they can use a more stable endpoint for their application.

Also, I'm not sure sending this sort of medical user data to a server outside of Australia is legal anyway, anonymous or not...

That mouse card is tricky to emulate. I'm surprised actually that the author's shufflepuck port seems to work fine in our Apple IIe emulator, microM8, since our mouse code is a bit of a mess!

You can only account for personal tragedy and suffering, though -- it's impossible to determine how many other entities like you there are in a simulation. You could be the only one.

This is silly. If the universe is deterministic, any representation of matter can be locally simulated based on algorithmic calculation. This includes people, objects, everything. I don't need to simulate everything constantly because I know where it will be when I _need_ to simulate it.

So, any smart simulation would only be simulating a small very percentage of itself at any given time -- that part of itself being viewed or interacted with by observers. And we would have absolutely no idea how many of those observers actually reside in any given simulation. 10? 100? 1m? Who knows!

But we could take this even further and suggest that it is only the _experience_ of the universe by ourselves that is being simulated. In that case, we're not actually interacting with anything, we're only gaining the memory of having interacted with it (in 'real time'). In this case there's no physical reality at all! We're living in a large shared hallucination, that once again only 'exists' where and when we're interacting with it.

Finally, we have no idea of the time scale. The time scale in the simulation could be much slower than the outside universe. This would lower the energy required to simulate it even further.

So, no, it's totally possible we live in a simulation!

Open Dyslexic kind of looks like a kid-font while being easy to read: https://opendyslexic.org

honestly, teaching the concept of a variable in first grade might not be the worst idea in the world

I can't find any evidence that they've acquired or licensed the name / trademarks from Ziff Davis, the last known holder of Compute's IP, so I would be wary of giving them any money.

Also the content gives off strong AI vibes

If that was true then all cars should have ignition interlock devices, because it's easy for a manufacturer to foresee a user driving drunk.

But they don't, and I'm not sure if there have been many successful cases of suing car manufacturers because their cars let people drive drunk(?)

The 'wake' (eg 'Alexa') trigger match is very fuzzy (which is why other words can sometimes set it off) and there's no analysis beyond looking for that particular trigger

So not to be mean, but EcoFlow's website for a similar (slightly higher capacity) product has much lower times for how long it can power. For example, it claims 14h for a refrigerator (you're claiming 32) and 97h for a router, while you're claiming 132 hours.

Now they might be conservative and you could maybe advertise a bit more liberal times but if you're competition claims their (almost identical) product has substantially lower times people might question that. Obviously EcoFlow is your real competition here and people are going to go check them out.

So by all means claim somewhat better times ;) but maybe not as much as you are.

Don't get me wrong though, you have a cool product and there's definitely room in that space for more options!

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/delta-2-max-portable-power-s...

How many watts max output? Couldn't see it on the site. Thanks!

We have Ecoflows and they're great for keeping the internet on when the power goes out, I have one I can actually boil a kettle of water with! So I kind of know what the size vs output ratio is and my concern is these units seem too small. Unless you've solved the heating problem you need some ventilation and a fan?

They look cool, but it would need to be a bit bigger I think to realistically power an appliance like a refrigerator. And also, can you boil a kettle with it?

This. The Chinese AI is called DeepSeek FFS -- think about that one for a minute.

LLMs were never the road to AGI.