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itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
Snap Circuits are just ingredients - or a way to develop fine motor skills with something that is entertaining for a parent.

You wire them up to something else then blow their mind by programming an ESP32 to be a switch with a touchscreen.

itomato··on GPU World
All the world has access to forks/chopsticks/spoons, but every person has a preference that might be N+1 or 0.

Does the population-indexed GPU cluster reconfigure or autoscale? What's the tipping point before population change is gamed?

It's a weird premise, if you want my opinion.

itomato··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
The source for all the OpenGL screensavers has been available for a while from an NT SDK.

I ported GL Pipes to run in Jira and show project data.

itomato··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Any social media product will be acquired and co-opted.
itomato··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Tells me how valuable they actually are.
itomato··on Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
We're putting cover sheets on all the TPS reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo?
itomato··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
| "I'm not hosting my code with a company that creates child porn"
itomato··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Let them cook.
itomato··on Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
If you liked that, you should look into tinygrad
itomato··on Asus Bike Booster
Like when wet. Or icy or both.
itomato··on I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers
Neat. That's really fancy.

I built something similar to manage sysex messages and patch libraries for my digitech guitar modeling workstation with webmidi: https://v0.app/templates/digitech-gnx3000-sysex-tool-GC5LzXA...

My favorite part of this so far has been spanning a range of parameters in seconds that would have taken a much longer time with gdigi and a completely unrealistic amount of time with the built-in knobs.

I own that FPGA now in a way I didn't before.

itomato··on Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Not "secrets" usually, but people tend to consider the corporate IP embodied in Jira to be classified as something other than Public.

Teamwork Graph exposes all the people working on stealth products with code names right alongside their other work anyway.

itomato··on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
You’ll have to start with S1E1
itomato··on The Productivity Mirage
Systems thinking wins again
itomato··on SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications
Whose formalities? The horse still comes first.
itomato··on PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
brutalism gonna brutalise
itomato··on Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
One of the first things I did with ChatGPT was feed it source for the existing OHCI USB Host Adapter driver to make it work with more common UHCI hardware.

There are many people working to extend NeXT, Openstep and even Rhapsody. Not to mention emulation projects and deep dives into XNU source, early Darwin source and shoehorning kernels and libraries into various places.

The Epson NX was purpose-built to run NeXTStep, for example, and bringing support for machines like that and the Canon object.station into 86box is a pet project of mine.

Join us https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=5286.ms...

itomato··on What AI developers could learn from Charles Bukowski?
"Wrong! The point of the story is the wife. Listen to your wife, she'll give you perspective. Meaning, you need a break. You have to take a bath or you'll get nowhere. There would be no order only chaos. Go home, Max, and you take a bath."
itomato··on PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
Jira professional here, and OpenRCT2 has been my mental (and my agent’s) model for something similar.
itomato··on PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
Glean anything or learn something in particular?

This is a brutalist gew-gah.

itomato··on Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window
Oh, like Sun's Project Looking Glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g
itomato··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Ghost ship status is not something most orgs aspire to.

The value built on that stability was probably worth acquiring, and it’s infra will decay.

itomato··on Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
"Continue the search. Have a clear strategy obtained from deeper understanding of the problem structure."

And a new system prompt stanza was fledged.

itomato··on A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
HP-UX support might make a compelling retirement project for someone.
itomato··on Codex Micro
"Mom, I want ..."

"No, there is ... at home."

"At home..."

itomato··on Codex Micro
They asked ChatGPT for the ideal crossover product and now the dog is wagging.
itomato··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
This year, not me.

In five? Everybody but me.

itomato··on Resetting Xbox
MSFT used to be flat. What happened?
itomato··on Resetting Xbox
No “reset” can fix the Red Ring of Death.
itomato··on Half-Baked Product
" Ovens Inc. doesn’t live off selling ovens (for now). It lives off raising rounds. And rounds are raised with projections, and projections are manufactured out of whatever sales promises. The “No problem” people are also the only life raft."

Ever try make a product using Google Glass?

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