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turtleSpaces is a 3D Logo interpreter compatible with LCSI Apple Logo II and greatly extended! Web, MacOS, Linux and Windows versions are available

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empressplay··on How Protein Took over the World
> It becomes fat if you are above your caloric intake.

Uh what? No. LOL.

I eat crazy amounts of protein, it's almost all of my diet outside of fibre and I've lost 120 pounds and now sit in the bottom of my BMI bracket.

empressplay··on Atari Falcon
Falcon had an 030, 1200 an 020
empressplay··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
A D-Dial recreation with no bots and a number of regulars:

https://www.magviz.ca

empressplay··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
> could be mistaken

Could be forgiven?

empressplay··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
> We all believe what we want

- Time is strictly perceptual. The Universe as a whole (including changes in the fourth dimension) has always existed and will always exist. There is no 'end of time'.

- When your portion of the universe runs out (death) you just rerun it again. Because linear time is an illusion that helps us make sense of it (and not fear the future) and in reality we're skipping all over the place constantly. Forever. So hope your life isn't terrible. You're going to be reliving it infinitely. Enjoy.

empressplay··on Logo Programming
My partner and I develop a modern 3D web-based Logo called turtleSpaces. It has blocks and text, 2D and 3D physics engines and much (much) more...

https://turtlespaces.org

empressplay··on Show HN: Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life
I'm not convinced this is any better. A prison of stimuli is still a prison.
empressplay··on Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
> I'm not a good singer

Which is fine, but you could just use it to fix your vocal track

I teach recording, mixing and mastering and I know it's tedious but all of it is very creative and there's art in the imperfections. Sanitizing it away may make it more appealing to the 'average' listener but you won't get actual fans that way.

empressplay··on Show HN: Build your own theme park
I specified mountainous terrain but it can only seem to create a flat park, which is a little boring and more like Theme Park World than Roller Coaster Tycoon.

But it's still pretty cool nevertheless.

empressplay··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
The Supreme court disagrees with you.
empressplay··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
The Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. In United States v. Flores-Montano, the Court looked to the nation’s sovereign “interest in protecting . . . its territorial integrity” to justify such searches.3 In United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, the Court stated, somewhat more narrowly, that Congress is the source of the executive’s power. It explained that “[s]ince the founding of our Republic . . . [Congress has] granted the Executive plenary authority to conduct routine searches and seizures at the border, without probable cause or a warrant.” The Commerce Clause permits Congress to authorize the seizure of goods at the border.

https://yalelawjournal.org/forum/customs-immigration-and-rig...

empressplay··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
About five years ago I flash-fried a frozen steak.

Now I only eat steaks grilled from frozen. Get the grill nice and hot (450F at least) and throw the frozen steak on the grill. 5-10 minutes each side usually gets it nice and crispy on the outside while rare and tender in the middle.

Seriously, try it.

empressplay··on Join Me in Jamverse
Half the fun of writing science fiction can be coming up with novel concepts or 'rules', what happens when everything of consequence in the 'Jamverse' has been built out? Will they start a new one?
empressplay··on Universities would prefer no AI
The issue is more one of current passive, abstract forms of assessment. This is laziness on the part of instructors. They will simply have to move to more complex, project-based assessments and accompanying interviews, which is more time consuming but will be far more accurate than the more traditional system of assessment was anyway. On sum it will be better for everyone.
empressplay··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Great! Thanks so much, I'll let you know how it goes integrating it :)
empressplay··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
This is great, and my users (turtlespaces.org) could absolutely use this (we use three and react), but you haven't specified any license?
empressplay··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Don't worry, WA, OR and CA probably aren't far behind.
empressplay··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
If we did that the sun would be coming up at 4am right now in Revelstoke. What's the point of the sun being up at 4am?

On the other hand, I don't like it getting dark at 3:30 in the afternoon in Vancouver around Christmas. I know it means it will be darker later in the morning but you wake up in the dark that time of year already anyways.

empressplay··on Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech

   Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define

   these words are strictly reserved.--- 

ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.

Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."

empressplay··on The Causes of Long Covid
no you only consume water
empressplay··on Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering
I think this should be titled 'YOLO one-shotting is not engineering' which is a far more accurate description of the article.
empressplay··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
Me too, but I wasn't on AOL or anything long-distance, instead I called local chat systems / BBSes. And because they were local we met up physically as a group at least weekly (almost daily in the summertime).

The summer I was 16 I spent more time away from the computer, hanging out with other teenagers I met on the computer, than I would have otherwise.

empressplay··on Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
Logic Pro allows you to revert to previous saves / auto-saves.
empressplay··on Childhood Computing
I was lucky enough to be an autistic kid in the 1980s with access to a steady stream of new and novel computers: Apple II, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, TI, Macintosh... kept me engaged and off the 'short bus'. If I had been born ten years earlier I'm certain my life would have been dramatically different (in a very bad way).
empressplay··on An Apple (II) for Teacher
Related: Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/
empressplay··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Disinformation isn't about convincing you that something is true; it's about convincing you that nothing is true. If information is considered to be unreliable, you are less likely to act on it decisively.
empressplay··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
All my sites got pwned through this. Attempts to restore from backup just got pwned again in minutes. Ended up using Claude to create static sites from the database and the assets.

I'm never using Wordpress again and I strongly suggest nobody else does either.

empressplay··on Generative art over the years
The #creativecoding and #genart tags on most social media networks will get you a front row seat to the international generative art community -- it's a very creative crowd!
empressplay··on EFF is leaving X
> EFF is more like classical liberal.

I mean, they were, but that no longer appears to be the case.

empressplay··on Claude mixes up who said what
I wonder if this is a result of auto-compacting the context? Maybe when it processes it it inadvertently strips out its own [Header:] and then decides to answer its own questions.
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