@golemwire@fosstodon.org The first could be a good thing. Limitations is what make you creative and less prone to procrastination. Nowdays we are full of tools, upgrades and improvements, so often we end up jumping from thing to thing instead of doing what we're supposed to be doing.
@sterpeto@social.vivaldi.net That's very true, actually. Not to mention the spectacular effort required to create computers that run this fast. It really causes fun market stuff to happen doesn't it?
Ironically, I just had to restart my PC because my computer hang due to an #NVidia / #Nouveau failure. So on that... I'd love to have a simpler computer (and about that, I'm still tinkering with my #Commodore #C64U 
I think I'll find a good use for it).
Implementability is crucial. We just haven't learned it yet, and it will probably be a painful lesson.
There's a misconception people have, that computers themselves can be restricted to not be able to e.g. copy a movie, but the thing is, such restrictions misunderstand how computers work.
Computers are, fundamentally, programmable by us. Copyright law attempts to force us to only be able to run code written by the companies that create our devices, and be unable to run our own code.
Anti-#piracy law cannot work without making it illegal to write and run your own non-vetted software on your own computers.
So, basically, I'm worried that the government will make computer programming as we know it today, illegal. I don't want to lose what I love as a #computer #programmer, and frankly, humanity can't afford computers being under the control of the few at the expense of the many.
The realization has been dawning on me that social media "is not real life".
* Governments would greatly benefit from running social media bots -- so, expect their presence.
* Most social media shows you what it thinks you want to see, not what's common -- on those sites (not #Mastodon, thankfully!), expect integrated bias.
This means that:
*You can't safely get a idea of what people think or what's going on in the world by looking at social media.*
#socialMediaIsNotRealLife #socialMedia
Introducing SubSky, a new 32-bit CPU #ISA and computing environment intending to be the most amount of power you can get from the least amount of computer.
It provides you with a virtual #CPU with 16 instructions (few but versatile!), and a novel low-level #programmingLanguage between C and #assembly called Slang.
The project supplies a small set of virtual peripherals and a minimal yet useful stdlib.
Check it out!
https://gitlab.com/golemwire/subsky
#SubSky #programming #SlangLang
There are mainly just two things wrong with old computers: 1) they're not as powerful (speed and memory) and 2) they often need some repairs and modifications to continue to be used.
But other than these 2 things, old computers are generally just superior in my opinion.
#retrocomputing
Implementability is crucial. We just haven't learned it yet, and it will probably be a painful lesson.
There's a misconception people have, that computers themselves can be restricted to not be able to e.g. copy a movie, but the thing is, such restrictions misunderstand how computers work.
Computers are, fundamentally, programmable by us. Copyright law attempts to force us to only be able to run code written by the companies that create our devices, and be unable to run our own code.
Anti-#piracy law cannot work without making it illegal to write and run your own non-vetted software on your own computers.
So, basically, I'm worried that the government will make computer programming as we know it today, illegal. I don't want to lose what I love as a #computer #programmer, and frankly, humanity can't afford computers being under the control of the few at the expense of the many.
A worthy read on the frightening direction that supposed "copyright" law is taking us in.
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/
#platformDecay #centralization
There's a misconception people have, that computers themselves can be restricted to not be able to e.g. copy a movie, but the thing is, such restrictions misunderstand how computers work.
Computers are, fundamentally, programmable by us. Copyright law attempts to force us to only be able to run code written by the companies that create our devices, and be unable to run our own code.
A worthy read on the frightening direction that supposed "copyright" law is taking us in.
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/
#platformDecay #centralization
The realization has been dawning on me that social media "is not real life".
* Governments would greatly benefit from running social media bots -- so, expect their presence.
* Most social media shows you what it thinks you want to see, not what's common -- on those sites (not #Mastodon, thankfully!), expect integrated bias.
This means that:
*You can't safely get a idea of what people think or what's going on in the world by looking at social media.*
#socialMediaIsNotRealLife #socialMedia
Introducing SubSky, a new 32-bit CPU #ISA and computing environment intending to be the most amount of power you can get from the least amount of computer.
It provides you with a virtual #CPU with 16 instructions (few but versatile!), and a novel low-level #programmingLanguage between C and #assembly called Slang.
The project supplies a small set of virtual peripherals and a minimal yet useful stdlib.
Check it out!
https://gitlab.com/golemwire/subsky
#SubSky #programming #SlangLang
I typically don't use AI for anything, but today I was trying to remember a word I had forgotton which I had seen on a wiki somewhere.
After failing to find the wiki article in my browser history, I, realizing this is exactly the sort of thing LLMs are good for, spun up a local #Llama2 model using #llamaCPP , and asked it "What is a word in software engineering for an edge case?" and I rediscovered the word "pathological". Perfect word for what I'm documenting.
#LLM #AI #LlamaAI
~sterpeto
Ethan Black