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Ben Cox

ben@s.djehuti.com

<p>Non-fungible engineer</p>

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    The Commodore Macro Assembler is an interesting beast, largely because the machine has no built-in text editor except for editing BASIC programs by line (cc @joe@f.duriansoftware.com. So, how do you enter assembler source on the C64? You load a little wedge which adds a couple of BASIC commands like auto and renumber (which the C64 doesn&#39;t already have), and it turns off line tokenization. And then they just reuse the BASIC editor. You just enter the assembler program with line numbers li...

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    Oddball requests that won&#39;t actually happen: I&#39;m looking for any photographs taken of the Miles Davis concert on June 5, 1989, at the Chicago Theater. Or the Auditorium Theater on March 27, 1987. (Extra points if George Duke is soloing.)

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    The war on spam is over and we lost.

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    Henceforth, THC vapes shall now be called &quot;knuckle&quot;s. Because they are digital joints.

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    That realization that most developers in industry today don&#39;t think about software the same way I do at all. (As a liability.)

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    Do you trust an elevator without a human operator?

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    Dear mobile app (including OS) developers: It is EXTREMELY user-hostile to sign me out of an app when I update it. That is all.

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    There are a hell of a lot of tools that exist only because someone didn&#39;t learn Make. Being a developer in 2001 and not knowing Make would be like becoming a C++ programmer without knowing C++. Oh. I get it now.

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    Due to our lovely weather, I have to hose out my trash cans every week after collection because of nasty things growing in them. I&#39;ve just done this week&#39;s iteration and I feel like I&#39;m gonna need another shower before I can sit down, even though I can&#39;t really say I touched anything but the hose. Eww.

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    So, last night I fired up AmiBerry and created a couple hard drive files (&quot;System&quot; and &quot;Work&quot;) and installed AmigaOS3.2 and then Picasso96 (booted just fine for a while) and then later I edited my user startup script and now it simply doesn&#39;t boot anymore. Black screen, not even a kickstart splash. Booted from another disk, edited the change back, no help. Half of the preset configurations on the amiberry quickstart list don&#39;t actually succeed in booting, even when p...

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    My bank emailed me &quot;AI is changing check fraud. Here&#39;s what you can do to protect yourself.&quot; Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don&#39;t externalize that cost onto me? I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like &quot;oh sorry we got a new computer system&quot; or &quot;we can&#39;t do X anymore because of the computer&quot;. How you do business...

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    &quot;The company announced Thursday that it has completed the first fully humanless, over-the-road commercial truckload in American history.&quot; Uhh. No. We did that 368 days ago.

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    @sean_ae@post.lurk.org Appeasing recruiters.

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    @sean_ae@post.lurk.org It is a bog of buzzwords.

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    The ENTIRE WORLD must come together to stop this.

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    AIUI, current theories are that the development of human consciousness is an emergent result of humans living in groups and learning to communicate with each other. You know how to buy enough bricks for your herringbone sidewalk because somebody figured out a long time ago, building upon earlier discoveries like how to count and language, and then used consciousness, language and intelligence to teach that insight to others. Why would we defeat the very mechanism that brought about civilizatio...