benjedwards

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by benjedwards 8mo ago
Yes, it's a big problem. I call it "agency laundering" and I first mentioned it in this article last year: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/is-ai... Treating AI models as
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by benjedwards 10mo ago
That's really neat. I had no idea there was a Byte Shop in Greensboro. My wife's family is from that area. I live in Raleigh, NC. Now I am wondering if my nerdy father-in-law ever visited it back in the day.
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by benjedwards 10mo ago
Are you related to Paul? I noticed the last name. :)
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by benjedwards 2y ago
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
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by benjedwards 2y ago
I agree. Archives shutting down creates a huge risk for what I call "historical context attacks" in the future, similar to what you're describing. It's about generating false historical context to support falsified digit
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by benjedwards 2y ago
If anyone is curious, in 2009, I discovered that Jim Storer was the author of the first Lunar Lander game and interviewed him about it (and also chronicled the history of the game beyond that). He later provided the source code, which was a
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by benjedwards 2y ago
This is a fun post, I appreciate the mentions. Matt missed my later piece from How-To Geek where I talked to Stan Honey and the Etak engineers again, then interviewed Asteroids designer Ed Logg, and he sent he his original sketch for the cu
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by benjedwards 2y ago
If you enjoyed this, back in 2015 I wrote a feature about Lore Harp McGovern and her business partners for Fast Company that goes into the creation of Vector Graphic in detail: https://www.fastcompany.com/3047428/how-tw
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by benjedwards 3y ago
Fully-human author here. I wrote it as a joke (a play on a common phrase), since numeric keypads were often used as data entry for accountants and people using spreadsheets.
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by benjedwards 4y ago
I dislike this too, although I can understand arguments for it in software that keeps iterating and (hopefully) improving over time. I wrote an article about this issue for How-To Geek earlier this year that explores the reasons why the sub
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by benjedwards 4y ago
Those dates were typos and have been fixed. Discmaster launched on Oct 18th.
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by benjedwards 6y ago
I asked Woz about the TV Typewriter before. In an email to me once, he said he had not heard about it at the time. https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1303784698662055936?s...