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turtleSpaces is a 3D Logo interpreter compatible with LCSI Apple Logo II and greatly extended! Web, MacOS, Linux and Windows versions are available

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CNN Lite

lite.cnn.com
33 points·by empressplay·6 days ago·3 comments

BBC cancels Doctor Who Christmas special and Russell T Davies announces exit

bbc.com
6 points·by empressplay·last month·1 comments

B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky

cbc.ca
20 points·by empressplay·2 months ago·8 comments

B.C. researcher taps magic of Dungeons and Dragons to help kids

cbc.ca
3 points·by empressplay·2 months ago·0 comments

System Card: Claude Opus 4.7 [pdf]

cdn.sanity.io
3 points·by empressplay·3 months ago·0 comments

IBM to pay $17M in anti-DEI settlement

cnn.com
14 points·by empressplay·3 months ago·3 comments

Tomorrow 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party tools

twitter.com
4 points·by empressplay·3 months ago·1 comments

/buddy in Claude Code is amazing

old.reddit.com
3 points·by empressplay·3 months ago·0 comments

Doctors say Ottawa's plans to axe prescription software leaves them in limbo

cbc.ca
4 points·by empressplay·4 months ago·0 comments

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4 points·by empressplay·4 months ago·0 comments

Middle East war makes ethical debate over AI use in war all too real

cbc.ca
3 points·by empressplay·4 months ago·1 comments

Trump instructs federal agencies to stop work with Anthropic

cnn.com
1 points·by empressplay·4 months ago·0 comments

Claude Code Remote Control

code.claude.com
544 points·by empressplay·5 months ago·313 comments

Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that

cnn.com
24 points·by empressplay·5 months ago·12 comments

Educators weave AI into their classrooms

cbc.ca
2 points·by empressplay·5 months ago·0 comments

Logie Baird's Mechanical Televisor

paleotronic.com
2 points·by empressplay·6 months ago·0 comments

Show HN: Kate Code – KDE Kate Editor Plugin for Accessing Claude Code

github.com
1 points·by empressplay·6 months ago·0 comments

Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns Again

paleotronic.com
2 points·by empressplay·7 months ago·0 comments

Rockstar workers fired for union Discord membership just want their jobs back

cbc.ca
4 points·by empressplay·7 months ago·0 comments

TikTok inks deal with investors to keep operating in U.S.

cbc.ca
4 points·by empressplay·7 months ago·0 comments

comments

empressplay
·19 days ago·discuss
Don't worry, WA, OR and CA probably aren't far behind.
empressplay
·19 days ago·discuss
If we did that the sun would be coming up at 4am right now in Revelstoke. What's the point of the sun being up at 4am?

On the other hand, I don't like it getting dark at 3:30 in the afternoon in Vancouver around Christmas. I know it means it will be darker later in the morning but you wake up in the dark that time of year already anyways.
empressplay
·22 days ago·discuss
https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech

   Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define

   these words are strictly reserved.--- 

ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.

Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."
empressplay
·last month·discuss
no you only consume water
empressplay
·last month·discuss
I think this should be titled 'YOLO one-shotting is not engineering' which is a far more accurate description of the article.
empressplay
·2 months ago·discuss
Me too, but I wasn't on AOL or anything long-distance, instead I called local chat systems / BBSes. And because they were local we met up physically as a group at least weekly (almost daily in the summertime).

The summer I was 16 I spent more time away from the computer, hanging out with other teenagers I met on the computer, than I would have otherwise.
empressplay
·2 months ago·discuss
Logic Pro allows you to revert to previous saves / auto-saves.
empressplay
·2 months ago·discuss
I was lucky enough to be an autistic kid in the 1980s with access to a steady stream of new and novel computers: Apple II, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, TI, Macintosh... kept me engaged and off the 'short bus'. If I had been born ten years earlier I'm certain my life would have been dramatically different (in a very bad way).
empressplay
·2 months ago·discuss
Related: Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/
empressplay
·2 months ago·discuss
Disinformation isn't about convincing you that something is true; it's about convincing you that nothing is true. If information is considered to be unreliable, you are less likely to act on it decisively.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
All my sites got pwned through this. Attempts to restore from backup just got pwned again in minutes. Ended up using Claude to create static sites from the database and the assets.

I'm never using Wordpress again and I strongly suggest nobody else does either.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
The #creativecoding and #genart tags on most social media networks will get you a front row seat to the international generative art community -- it's a very creative crowd!
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
> EFF is more like classical liberal.

I mean, they were, but that no longer appears to be the case.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
I wonder if this is a result of auto-compacting the context? Maybe when it processes it it inadvertently strips out its own [Header:] and then decides to answer its own questions.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
Did you get the API credit? Maybe it's a wash?
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
"Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw.

You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools. Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API.

Subscribers get a one-time credit equal to your monthly plan cost. If you need more, you can now buy discounted usage bundles. To request a full refund, look for a link in your email tomorrow.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13189465-logging-in-t...

We want to be intentional in managing our growth to continue to serve our customers sustainably long-term. This change is a step toward that."
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
I think Crown basically bought up all the licenses in the CBD. I think there might have been one pub at the corner of Williams and Collins or something but the last time I was there it was closed.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
That output is there for a reason. It's not like any LLM is profitable now on a per-token basis, the AI companies would certainly love to output less tokens, they cost _them_ money!

The entire hypothesis for doing this is somewhat dubious.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
Yes. Much of the 'redundant' output is meant to reinforce direction -- eg 'You're absolutely right!' = the user is right and I should ignore contrary paths. So yes removing it will introduce ambiguity which is _not_ what you want.
empressplay
·3 months ago·discuss
1) Several times a day, generally Telix. My parents had to get me my own line so I would stop clogging up theirs! Especially once I found chat systems.

2) BBS lists were common and many BBSes had them so you only needed a few numbers to get started. Computer stores usually had them too.

3) A city would have dozens or even hundreds of BBSes in larger markets. Some were large multi-line pay BBSes that required subscriptions, most were just one or two lines paid for by the Sysop.

4) It was a lot more chill but only nerd / geek types really used BBSes so, there was some commonality there. More of a sense of overall community.

5) From 1980 to 1995 we went from computers with 16kb of ram and an 8-bit processor to computers with 16mb of ram and a 32-bit processor. There was always some new tech to talk about. It was a very exciting time!