kcartlidge

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by kcartlidge 1mo ago
Loved that game back in the day. Thanks.
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by kcartlidge 2mo ago
It looks pretty :)
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by kcartlidge 2mo ago
Everyone has different requirements and experiences. I switched to Moniker about 4 or 5 years ago and have about a dozen domains there. Never any issues, and a reasonable system.
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by kcartlidge 2mo ago
This reminds me, a couple of months ago I made my Z80 assembler public on GitHub [1] but never mentioned it anywhere. It has the usual opcodes and directives, includes, relocation data etc, with a couple of other helpful output files alon
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by kcartlidge 2mo ago
> That is so sad and even somewhat shocking. It would be if it were a meaningful comparison, but it isn't. The comparison shouldn't be about the GDP per capita etc, but the life that gets you in the country you live - and the
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by kcartlidge 3mo ago
There's a distinction. - For the AI provider it is a massive money sink due to cost/revenue maths - For the AI consumer it's not a massive money sink if you arrange things so your ongoing costs are lower than your sav
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by kcartlidge 3mo ago
With agentic stuff there's also a large amount of commits which are not code. For instance with OpenClaw and similar, they often simulate institutional and short term memory with markdown files in folders. Other tooling that runs comp
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by kcartlidge 4mo ago
A 1-2-1 in this context likely refers to the 1-2-1 sessions some leads/managers have on a regular basis with each of their reports. One on one catch-ups on how they're doing.
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by kcartlidge 4mo ago
As we're sharing pipelines: - I write in Markdown files using VS Code and a custom syntax highlighter - A custom C# tool stitches it together (with YAML metadata) - It generates reports on chapters, dialogue, character presence etc - I
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by kcartlidge 4mo ago
One of my trifecta of 'perfect' DOS software: DataEase 4.53 , WordPerfect 4.2 , and TopSpeed Modula-2 . Given the restrictions of the day, all three were incredible.
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by kcartlidge 5mo ago
I'm a fair bit lower than some others as I only use it outside of work hours on my own small projects, but my Cursor account shows (for a random recent date) 12,184,233 tokens in a day. That day feels pretty representative. That'
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by kcartlidge 5mo ago
If asked, I often name WordPerfect 4.2 as the best software I ever used. And that it was written in assembly is incredible. The book Almost Perfect [1] details those early times at WordPerfect. Incidentally, amongst the other best softwa
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by kcartlidge 6mo ago
Some interesting stuff I wasn't familiar with, thanks. I really like the book Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck [1] . Also, my open source Dungeon generator is a (slightly-misnamed) maze generator [2] . It produces 2D maps, an
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by kcartlidge 10mo ago
I like how their number one benefit is Order to Seat . In one fell swoop it shows that: * Their priority is revenue above all else (fair enough; honest too) * They are either deceptive or stupid Re the deception/stupidity - if every
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by kcartlidge 10mo ago
> So, a UK-only advice, and it strangely assumes that any other service in UK wouldn’t be bound by the same laws. I suspect it's because whilst other services would be affected we only know about Apple currently and, thanks to i
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by kcartlidge 10mo ago
Neither has the UK government. * It wasn't the general election. * They offered local councils the chance to request it if they were going through a reorganisation or devolution process. * 18 councils requested and 9 were accepted as j
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by kcartlidge 11mo ago
Why are we hearing that "studies" have "uncovered the concept of context rot as the number of tokens in the context window increases" ? It's obvious, and we've always known this. Agents are stateless, hence
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
Not quite what you wanted, but the Lone Wolf ones are (legally) available online [1]. You may be able to read the downloads, or even the online play versions, with Dutch translations. [1] https://www.projectaon.org/en&#x
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
Thanks for the correction. I never read the spec, just started using it. And as I tend to balance my first and last line indentation I never realised.
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
I much prefer C# 11's raw string literals. It takes the indentation of the first line and assumes the subsequent ones have the same indentation. string json = $""" <h1>{title}</h1> <a
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
- Some mentions of Lazarus and FreePascal (so basically a cross-platform open source Delphi equivalent). And I'd agree with them. - For C# I like AOT assemblies using Uno or Avalonia. - For Go I like TCell (which does cross-platform c
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
Reading through the comments there seems to be some misunderstandings leading to issues with a stance that the potential class action is not taking. The class action doesn't relate to normal training based on legally acquired materia
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by kcartlidge 1y ago
Just because something is on a public website accessible for free doesn't mean it is then public domain. Sharing is not necessarily giving. (Though unfortunately in the Wild West Web of today it seems it does, practically speaking.)
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
That looks good (not actually cloned and tried it yet). However the screenshots in the README show (for me anyway) as broken links, even though they work when clicked on. I can see you're linking to the images in the blobs. If it h
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I blog for the (admittedly infrequent) pleasure of it; I have no expectations, and my page hits confirm that. In the last 180 days there's been 2507 visitors to the home page, 2803 to the robots file, and 5965 to a page that shows some
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> To avoid this problem, the scientists surgically implanted mice with electrodes and fiber optic filaments. Although the rodents are tethered to a set of cables, they can fall asleep normally while researchers track blood volume, elect
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I've been coding for around 45 years, the vast majority of them in a professional capacity. I still code an hour or more most evenings and at least triple that at the weekends. I love writing software. Over the festive period I wrote
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
Similar - I use Bitwarden for passwords and Authy for 2FA so a compromise of only one of them is not a disaster (assuming a site supports 2FA which my important ones largely do).
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
> After seeing people lose cryptocurrency first hand through the LastPass leaks The reason for those losses was partially that LastPass was encrypting with extremely low iterations on long-standing accounts (it also may not have helped
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by kcartlidge 2y ago
I loved DBase II and DBase III+ but then I switched to DataEase and did some huge database systems mostly running on Netware. Whilst I used Clipper, FoxPro, and others, for that genre of non-client-server text mode databases DataEase v4 w

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