Tag: Entertainment
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Are these results useful?
Here’s what an outstanding AI helper can do for you! Well, I wish I had trusted AI to write to write welcome I’m the guy side of back of Welcome, I’m the guy with side on the back on of my JS and CSS and Welcome, I’m the guy, HTML5 on the back of the…
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Can’t resist
Via Spokesman, More on the large news lawsuit against large Altman models. = = = = = START QUOTE: The news organizations allege OpenAI is stealing and distorting their copyrighted works, inhibiting their ability to sell their original journalism while also providing ChatGPT users reporting that’s often inaccurate. They have been joined by the Authors…
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Tailings, nuggets
SR describes a huge new $20 million house in Coeur d’Alene. The spec-built estate is spec-named Talis. Clearly the marketers gave considerable thought to the name. 1. Per the article, talis is the genitive case of tal in Latin, (‘of such a type’) which apparently acquired the connotation of ‘best of the type’. 2. Unstated…
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Another Martian dream
Odd parallel with a Martian dream last summer. = = = = = Today’s dream: I was attending an arts fair. Noticed an old lady selling typewritten manuscripts about her experience with Martians, who taught her their system of government called optothecy. I told her I was curious and asked to hear more. “Well now,…
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Understands that science is entertainment
In Preparation is a fairly new Substack publication performing a task that has been missing for a LONG time. It treats science as entertainment, parodying the bizarre excesses of Publish Or Perish and other old and new trends. The writer is extremely careful to label it as satire, which is crucially necessary in the online…
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Why I never re(re(re(re(re(curse)))))
In 40 years of active programming I’ve never used a recursive function. I don’t see why you’d want to GUARANTEE problems. I know the Turingian theorists and Computer “Science” classes advise recursing everywhere, which is an added reason to avoid it. In the AI era, text witch hunters search for em-dashes. In coding the witch…
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Blazer
Via Spokane News: = = = = = On June 15, 2026, at approximately 4:30 am, Spokane Valley Deputies responded to the report of a suspicious vehicle at the Exxon station in the 3400 block of S. Dishman Mica Road. The caller said a vehicle, later found to be a red 2007 Chevrolet Trail Blazer,…
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Cute and true
What your favorite programming language says about you. Note that Basic and Cobol aren’t even there. Basic is mostly gone but Cobol is still very much alive and modern. Google shows a dinosaur as the Cobol logo, but apparently that’s a joke, not the official design. Later thought. Most of these aren’t real logos anyway,…
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Relaxing vacation
Lately I’ve been getting some nice laughs from a Reddit section that calls out stupid computer tricks. The most common items are AI running off at the mouth, getting lost in endless random numbers or stuttering the same word forever. Especially good: Commercial display boards stuck in BIOS setup mode. This one gave me a…
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What did they see?
This morning’s walk to the store was hurried and drab. I just wanted to Git-R-Done so I could resume working. We’ve been under a slowly rotating weather system for a couple days, with rain at times and breeze at times. Fortunately the heavy part stayed well to the south. Along the way I passed through…
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Language joke
This is a bit unfair but it gave me a much needed laugh on a hard day. 99 in French is quatre-vingt dix neuf, which translates as “We do not have a functional numbering system.”
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New automotive feature
Car dreams aren’t rare. Many of the items on my bedtime playlist are auto dealer films with tech details about cubic inches and suspensions. Those details inevitably leak into dreams. In this morning’s dream I was trying out a very specific car, a ’66 Plymouth Belvedere wagon, like this except dark blue: My wife [who…
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Why I bought a house
From Spokane News: 900 East Sitka Ave, Assault Reported. Reported male cut a hole through his apartment into another apartment and was caught by the resident in the other apartment. Police arrived and male fought with Police and now detained. The new Facebook explainer bots don’t offer any fake explanations or point-missing fake questions about…
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Gernsback’s 1918 iPhone
The idea of a portable videophone was common around 1910, written and illustrated in electronics and sci-fi mags. Here’s one I hadn’t seen before in a 1918 Gernsback magazine. I’ve modeled it with one age-appropriate improvement to free up the user’s hands. Gernsback’s version resembled a vanity mirror mounted on a candlestick phone, including the…
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