coldcode

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by coldcode 4mo ago
Nothing says you are an advanced stupid company than using AI to implement the stupid. This is security I doubt even a college student would implement. Does Meta have a CSO? The correct answer is they don't, even though some body might
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by coldcode 4mo ago
I wrote my own interpreted language about 25+ years ago to write online surveys. It made it easy to create complex surveys with many branches. I think I wrote it in Objective-C. The team implementing the survey system wound up using the sam
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by coldcode 5mo ago
The US Air Force intended to use ADA, but had to use JOVIAL instead because ADA took so long to be developed. Most people have never heard of JOVIAL but it still exists in the USAF as a legacy. I worked with JOVIAL as part of my first proje
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by coldcode 5mo ago
It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
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by coldcode 7mo ago
Both. He is a fool who thinks he knows better than anyone else.
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by coldcode 7mo ago
While I enjoyed writing assembly on the 6502 Apple II back then, I would hate doing it today, 42 years later. Good job, though! Hard to comprehend how limited the hardware was back then, and how much cleverness it took to get things to work
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by coldcode 7mo ago
The importers would get the refunds, and any of their customers they charged more for would simply keep the refund. If you paid it directly (like international product order) you probably won't ever get repaid, as they probably deleted
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by coldcode 7mo ago
For any AI post, there seems like that one person for whom it worked great, and a whole lot where it didn't. Your mileage may vary... Some things AI does well, many things it may be not worth the effort entailed, and some where it down
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by coldcode 7mo ago
Which is the argument against flying cars. Uncontrolled flying car crashes over populated areas could be catastrophic.
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by coldcode 8mo ago
I thought all measurements in data centers were in US football fields.
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by coldcode 9mo ago
Amazing it runs in a browser.
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by coldcode 11mo ago
Did they remove any features in Photo? Or is it basically just glommed together?
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by coldcode 11mo ago
My career as a programmer started this way. The division VP would eliminate jobs in the last quarter of the year to make his numbers look good, then desperately hire people at the start of the first quarter to avoid projects falling too far
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by coldcode 11mo ago
I used Borland Turbo Pascal in 1984. It was amazing to work with something so fast on a PC that was really so slow. No IDE/Compiler since then matched the speed. Today's code is massively more sophisticated and complex, so there i
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by coldcode 1y ago
I remember a friend having a 17% mortgage, which he eventually walked away from.
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by coldcode 1y ago
I make an unusual kind of art, but I haven't tried selling it, as you need a stable of interested people, and I can only post it in one place at the moment (a Facebook interest group on tiling, Instagram is overrun with AI, you can&#x2
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by coldcode 1y ago
The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had str
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by coldcode 1y ago
Truth Social, X and Rumble are all backed by the very people who wrote the law, so will not be sued. Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
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by coldcode 1y ago
It's so interesting to see how much of a commodity charting/graphing has become. When we started building Deltagraph in late 1988, what we made become a kind of standard since we targeted Postscript and Illustrator output, and inc
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by coldcode 1y ago
I once worked a contract at a public University, and the first thing I noticed was their SSO implementation. You logged into a single page, and then it called the other applications with a GET putting the username and password in the clear
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by coldcode 1y ago
>Image generation may not always trigger: >The model may output text only. Try asking for image outputs explicitly (e.g. "generate an image", "provide images as you go along", "update the image"). >The
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by coldcode 1y ago
I had a shirt from a piece made at Printful, but it's way too small (even at XXXL) for a normal person. It is cool to see though. I wish I could find a tailor who actually makes dress shirts, and have the fabic made at Spoonflower.
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by coldcode 1y ago
I only make art designed to be printed on 10-12 color large format inkjet printers. Making plotter art is not inherently better or worse that printing, it's just a different type of art. I love what people do with plotters, but I just
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by coldcode 1y ago
I parsed the original Illustrator format in 1988 or 1989, which is a precursor to PDF. It was simpler than today's PDF, but of course I had zero documentation to guide me. I was mostly interested in writing Illustrator files, not impor
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by coldcode 1y ago
I use a lot of truchet tiles in my art ( https://andrewwulf.com ), but I color them afterwards, which seems fairly uncommon (article from last year, https://thecodist.com/my-art-and-color-after-tiling/ ) outsi
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by coldcode 1y ago
Funny, I wrote a recursive descent parser in 1982, in Fortran, to parse the syntax of the Jovial programming language. That was my first ever professional programming project, with no university degree in CS, or job experience. Note, Fortra
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by coldcode 1y ago
I've been doing it for 52 years (with a gap during the late 70s) and still teaching myself new things.
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by coldcode 1y ago
My cardiologist did all of these except the eGFR. My calcium score was fairly high, but not high enough to be concerning since my cholesterol is controlled and my diet and exercise regime are good now. Until the CAC was done, I had no idea
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by coldcode 1y ago
I too worked at Apple during this period (Dec 95 to May 96). It does not surprise me that code was released without anyone asking or looking at it from a product standpoint. Management of Copland for example (the new OS from hell that was e
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by coldcode 1y ago
I never trusted them from the start. I remember the hype that came out of Sun when J2EE/EJBs appeared. Their hype documents said the future of programming was buying EJBs from vendors and wiring them together. AI is of course a much bi

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