Giacomo Amoroso @dankski@qoto.org

I did some final testing before packing it up to take to work and demo for students. #retrocomputing #Altair

I teach people certain habits to use in their work. The benefits are often a bit delayed. This leads them to wonder when they will benefit and to doubt whether they're doing it right.

Let me offer this observation: you probably care less about doing it right than you care about whether to keep trying.

Is that so? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Either way, I encourage you to clarify this in your mind, because different strategies help in each of those two mind states.

Many folks asked me about this, so I wrote a statement on why I resigned from working on Rust:

https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/

@ablackcatstail

I hope you are donating from your own pocket to help.

When I worked in China, for a multi-national, it was remarkable to see the attitude difference between the colleagues in USA and in China.

USA; a lot of talk and activism that someone else should do something.

China; individuals organized charity, from auctioning donations at work, to collecting old clothes, toys, kitchen utensils, ++ and PERSONALLY driving the collections to needing rural communities in China.

But, since I have a very offline family, I can safely share here that I just sent a "Golden Girls Clue" board game to my sister's house for her birthday, with a gift note that said, "Thank you for being a sister." In case that makes anyone chuckle!

My debut poetry book is out today with Thirty West Publishing! https://www.thirtywestph.com/shop/cloudpicker

@grumpygamer Finished RtMI yesterday. Loved it. Laughed out loud. This is nostalgia with the right amount of self-reflection.

"The problem isn’t that the chatbots lie all the time — it’s that they usually tell the truth, but then they start spouting confident lies."

https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hype-circle-6158804d1299

Yeah, it runs Crisis

Looks like they usually didn't, or if they did, they did it in a platform-specific way -- the naive approach being to probe memory with read/write checks in the banks, but that breaks if address decoding loops around.