MaggieL

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by MaggieL 7mo ago
Something very interesting happened to me yesterday. I'd been having conversations with ChatGPT about OpenClaw, nothing remarkable or extraordinary. Then I started a new conversation to talk about a different aspect, and GPT assumed I
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by MaggieL 10mo ago
A true pioneer. And a radio ham.
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by MaggieL 1y ago
Also don't miss https://wizardzines.com/
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by MaggieL 2y ago
Looks interesting, but the license is a show-stopper for me. I can't expose my employer to that kind of risk. I poured a lot of time and effort into learning Akka and has to throw it all away.
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by MaggieL 2y ago
Yes. The current Flipper app store has an app that spams from a library of known codes until you tell it to stop LadyAda of Adafruit got her start with such a device.
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by MaggieL 2y ago
> Sorry, but I cannot get past the fact that so many Americans openly refer to undocumented migrants as "illegals". > It's because their presence in our country is not legal. In fact the full term in our law is "il
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by MaggieL 3y ago
> I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy. > I had ke
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by MaggieL 3y ago
> Back in the day I got to go to a demo and presentation about the machine. > > An interesting thing about the design was that it had a 5” screen, but it could only show about 50 columns at a time of the 80 column display. There wa
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by MaggieL 3y ago
"Regional international governing body" I remember when regions were smaller than nations...
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by MaggieL 4y ago
The cost factor of international complications along with the impossibility of meeting every country's speech restrictions simultaneously may be why Elon is reducing Twitter's offshore presence dramatically. It could easily become
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by MaggieL 4y ago
The abort engine burn apparently used up the solid fuel engine, so the capsule landing wasn't gentle either. Looked like it dug a substantial hole.
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by MaggieL 4y ago
It seems to be written for an audience which doesn’t know the first thing about science. Because it's written by people who don't know the first thing about science.
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by MaggieL 4y ago
I just use Librarything
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by MaggieL 5y ago
Drivel. Intro is global warming alarmism.
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by MaggieL 6y ago
Political screed not up to AOs usual standards.
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by MaggieL 6y ago
Paywall.
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by MaggieL 6y ago
The same reason Facebook and Linkedin do the same thing. They get more access to your personal data.
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by MaggieL 8y ago
"Learn to code."
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by MaggieL 8y ago
Real 1980s programmer: sits down at IBM 3278 mainframe terminal, edits resume into text file containing DCF/Script markup. Prints mailing copies on IBM 3800 laser printer using typewriter font, hoping operations staff running printer
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by MaggieL 8y ago
Somebody got paid to find out if water in plastic bottles has plastic in it.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
There actually are people who worked on 1970's mainframes who understand modern software tech. This author isn't one of them.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
Better not tell SF; they'll want you to pay SF taxes.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
"average daily budget derived from national GDP per capita figures" sounds...erm...almost meaningless.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
I would still be on delicio.us except for the scare that Yahoo was going to shut them down. I moved on to Diigo.com and never looked back.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
Nobody "has to use it". Furthermore several JVM languages are developing LLVM-targeting compilers like ScalaNative and Kotlin Native.
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by MaggieL 9y ago
RUBOUT punched all the bits on punched paper tape. You could use it to actually edit the tape by feeding the tape back into the punch, if you created slack space with some NULs, which didn't punch any holes at all. RUBOUT the character
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by MaggieL 9y ago
Switzerland: 15,940 mi² Texas: 268,597 mi² U.S.: 3,797,000 mi²
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by MaggieL 9y ago
AAPL only?
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by MaggieL 9y ago
I was still doing it at 56...eight years ago.
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by MaggieL 10y ago
I had this issue too. I'm already on two-factor with Authenticator, so it wasn't a big deal. Since nothing had changed with my account, and the device history looked proper, I assumed it was a token expiration deal. Which is what

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