theoa

Go to a bar (in America). Sit on a stool. Say "hello" to the person next to you.

It bears remembering that all of this was reported by a group of Haitians in Brooklyn who publish and staff the Haitian Times.

They deserve recognition for maintaining the standards of good journalism in what is, by any measure, a difficult era.

Posts like this are why I read Hacker News.

My Egg McMuffin will never look the same!

Agreed. And the nice thing was that they weren't just illustrations, they were metaphors, even allegories, on human and computer engagements

Today's link is an update to an article first published some time ago

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fixing-retail-with-land-v...

There's a healthy number of comments on SlashDot: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/26/1637238/fixing-retail-wi...

The comments open up a Pandora's Box of many valid complexities. All indicative of why it has become so difficult to get things done these days.

This hack has completely disrupted my afternoon! Perhaps even forever after.

Draw a millipede as a dog:

Gemini responds:

Conceptualizing the "Millipup"

https://gemini.google.com/share/b6b8c11bd32f

Draw the five legs of a dog as if the body is a pentagon

https://gemini.google.com/share/d74d9f5b4fa4

And animal legs are quite standardized

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_l...

It's all about the prompt. Example:

Can you imagine a dog with five legs?

https://gemini.google.com/share/2dab67661d0e

And generally, the issue sits between the computer and the chair.

;-)

The math was beyond me. So, I asked Gemini 3 for help. I share what they replied to my many questions here:

https://gemini.google.com/share/1a6663a83898

Schrodinger and Penrose: pro. Einstein: con.

My favorite part is the debate between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President Donald Trump on Maria Strømme's interesting effort.

Nearly sixty years of coding under my belt here.

The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern.

Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise.

There are dozens of frustrating all-nighters and near all-nighters in my timeline.

And, dotted in and about, there are those several times when, half-asleep, you press the enter key, look up and gasp "OMG, it's working!"

"Even for those relationships that were negatively strained, over time, the strained relationships mended," she says.

I was 54. my wife called it quits on me.

These days, my former wife and our three daughters are probably as happy and as communicative as we've ever been.

Mutually, putting our children as a high priority helped.

See

The first "blog"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger

https://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/

https://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/

https://www.wired.com/2005/07/robot-wisdom-on-the-street/

This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought. Most of what you remember is nothing like an approximate copy of the things you experienced in real life—even in the specific case of text, memory is not even remotely like a paraphrase of previously read words. Many of our thoughts happen in a highly abstracted and distilled form, interacting and connecting with each other as a network that simply cannot be faithfully converted into a sequence of words, however long.

Perhaps the most interesting quote in an interesting article.

Leaves me speechless or something

Browser > right click on the dot > inspect the RGB numbers

I commented "OMG" a couple of days ago, but I guess that was not enough text to count as a comment.

So anyway, here we go again: OMG!

OMG

John Walker the founder would grieve as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)

He was a digital hoarder sharer. See:

https://fourmilab.ch/

Agreed

Being a child today isn't for sissies

Bingo!

Now, once out of the box and having responded, willy nilly, to numerous dubious questions, you are presented with a screen full of all sorts of strange things, and nothing happens when you use the keyboard.

Compare and contrast with:

  >

I discovered this perhaps ten or more years ago. I have used IDs a global in hundreds (thousand?) of efforts with no issues. Ever.

Of course, I am but a single stack developer, so your experience may vary

Not short but almost understandable. Given a text editor, save the following text as drawline.html:

  <canvas id="myCanvas" width="500" height="300"></canvas>

  <script>

  const ctx = myCanvas.getContext( "2d" );
  // Draw the line
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.moveTo( 50, 50 ); // Starting point
  ctx.lineTo( 200, 150 ); // Ending point
  ctx.stroke();

  document.write( "Hello World" );

  </script>

Nonetheless, I (born 1947) too miss the simplicity of BASIC, the plethora of magazines for beginners, the many shelves of "for dummies books". And, especially, that we were all beginners.

These days, full stack developers and AI are priestly classes that that, currently, do not facilitate the investigation by newbs of the black boxes they create.

Nonetheless, I look forward to AI being able to read aloud Python, Rust, Cobal, Euler notation, Greek or whatever in ways that I may understand.

Project images from your balcony onto the underside of the balcony above you.

Here is a link to a photo of my balcony in San Francisco during the initial stages of the virus

https://photos.app.goo.gl/xhDt7rmr7shjJbhu7

I lived in Hong Kong from 1981 to 1991.

* Overflowing with optimism and "can do" * Equal protection under the law no matter the origin * Max tax 15% for all * Education and health benefits for all (accepting always flaws somewhere) * Anti-corruption was effective (ICAC) * Straightforward process to become a voting legal immigrant for non-Chinese * Many people speaking English, various Chinese dialects, Tagalog and more * Springboard to helping adjacent countries modernize * Unparalleled Eastern and Western food and housing and sociability

I moved to San Francisco only because I was a techie and had a need to change the world. If there had been the Internet, I might still be there...

https://mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/

;-)

You are only as good as your weakest link:

A Microsoft spokesman said it cannot legally wall off its operating system in the same way Apple does because of an understanding it reached with the European Commission following a complaint. In 2009, Microsoft agreed it would give makers of security software the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/microsoft-tech-outage...

One of the best posts of the year!

Tech, caring and humor in butt one in and out

And there's even an acceptable self-plug!

Wonderful!

Want more.

Every blob displays its icon

Mouseover over displays much more stuff

Right-click: the world is your oyster

Ctrl-click: make a group, etc, much much more

Ultimately: create 3D bash/OS/

Still do

Hi Dan (and Jamie again)

Because of John - and learning to code using AutoLisp - they will pull the keyboard out of my cold dead hand.

Theo

Hi Jamie

He changed my life as well. For me, the deepest game changer was AutoLisp.

Nowadays, I'm on JavaScript and Three.js, but it's much the same: code, hit enter and bingo an updated graphic appears on the screen.

Thank you, John,

Theo