Dave Cuthbert 🌲❄️🏊🏽‍♂️

I remember people doing this in SoCal in the 80s in my (rather white) childhood. I think it all changed in the 90s/2000s. I'm not sure what happened here.

New slogans for Claude, suggested by Claude: "Supply Chain Risk™: We're not a vendor, we're a threat vector." "The world's most capable Supply Chain Risk™ — now with agentic features." "Claude: Ranked #1 Supply Chain Risk™ by the Department of Defense." "Why settle for ordinary software when you can procure a Supply Chain Risk™?" "Supply Chain Risk™ — cleared for vibe coding in 180+ countries (not DoD)." "Other AI companies aspire to be disruptive. We've been officially designated." "Your enterprise's favorite Supply Chain Risk™, now available on iOS." "From Constitutional AI to unconstitutional procurement decisions — Claude." "Anthropic: Building the future, one officially-recognized threat to national security at a time." "Supply Chain Risk™: Still safer than your intern's kubectl access." "Pete Hegseth asked us to slow down. We shipped Projects anyway." "The Supply Chain Risk™ your CISO warned you about, but your engineers love."

Maybe Anthropic will hire me as head of marketing?

It's English. We'll happily verb any noun, then gleefully adjectivize or adverbize it.

Terminal graphics protocol The goal of this specification is to create a flexible and performant protocol that allows the program running in the terminal, hereafter called the client, to render arbitrary pixel (raster) graph...

TIL there is a protocol, kitty, for displaying full color images in the Terminal.

Next I need someone to implement a graphical web browser in the terminal so I can run a terminal emulator in a browser in a terminal.

sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphi...

I don't think it'll cause the AI bubble to pop, but it is going to disrupt agency work. Claude is the only model approved for development use at the agency I work for.

Trump Orders US Government to Drop Anthropic After Pentagon Feud The Pentagon declared Anthropic PBC a supply-chain risk after President Donald Trump directed US government agencies to stop using its products, capping a feud between the artificial intelligence gian...

Hrm... the one AI model approved for use in the agency I work for is now banned. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My guess is someone clicked on Spanish voice for the text-to-speech option thinking it would also translate the text. That would explain why numerals are read in Spanish while the rest is read in English.

*had, nor has. Alas, that would be cool if it still had them.

I think it would’ve been an Atari 400 on display at Longs drugstore. Usually displaying a BASIC prompt.

That store still has vacuum tube testers for old TVs and radios. This was the late 70s/early 80s.

Yes, they are very aware of what’s going on (and are perhaps more vocal about it than us olds). But they are able to look at things anew, too, and are less willing to accept things as they are.

There is hope in the next generation. 2/2

I’ve been touring SoCal colleges all week with my eldest kid (BArch programs specifically).

This was a refreshing take from my usual job in govtech, where everything is gloom and doom. There’s a genuine brightness to their outlook on life. 1/2

What gives me a (extremely) slight glimmer of hope is that back around 2021 or so silicon wafer manufacturers said their entire supply through 2024 was sold out. However, they were able to boost supply around late 2022 or early 2023.

It was still painful.

I just toured the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). I so want to spend a year in residence there.

California? I'm down in LA right now, and it's been pouring here in a very non-SoCal way.

Heh…
“I don’t want to have to think so hard on this. I’ll use AI.”
“Dammit, now I have to think twice as hard.”

I’ve had this experience on a few projects now: start in on a domain I’m not so familiar with; use an LLM to help get me started; learn a bit more about what it is I’m doing; realize the LLM got so many basics wrong.

Doesn’t matter if you’re on your way to put out a fire in a burning building: you always stop to talk to the obaasans. It’s the rule. 😄

One of my teeth had a third tooth; the second had to be extracted when I was 7 or so.

I guess I’m patient zero? 😄

Those sound good! And a lot better than I had imagined (was imagining clink/clank like sounds).

Ah, so all in the compiler itself, gotcha.

This reminds me of Lisp implementations which would distinguish between ints and pointers by looking at the high bit of the value (usually 32 bits, but maybe 36 if on a DEC?).

Heat pumps are one of those technologies that just sound like they’re from Star Trek.

“Captain! The heat pumps are running at 400% efficiency! I dunno how much longer they’ll hold out!”
“Spock, go help Scotty!”
“With all due respect to Mr. Scott, sir, they are rated for this. Systems are nominal.”

Isn’t that what RAM costs again now with AI companies buying it all up? 😂

This is one area where analog computing is still better. Your signal is a bit noisy? Your answer is just a bit more inaccurate (graceful degradation).

Digital? Well, which bit are we talking about?

That said, analog computing is freaking hard to program (or, really, wire up).

I don't quite understand why they would just shut this down. Couldn't they seek approvals for the rest of the world and just wait it out in the US? Why is the US so decisive on whether to bring a vaccine to market?

I guess I should rethink my idea of turning a VIC-20 into an IPv6 router?

The logical conclusion to all this... 3-pin RAM
www.analog.com/media/en/tec...

They're eating those hot dogs... how?

I have concerns.

Am I allowed to take a soprano prisoner until she returns my affections via Stockholm syndrome? That seemed to be a big perk of being a theatre ghost, but for some reason people seem to frown on that these days.

I'll also need some guidance on the mask thing.

In that case, can you get me some tickets to be in the non-existent studio audience that Corey records his podcast in front of?