So I picked up this absolute wreck of a PowerMac 8500/120 off of eBay last week.
Seller said it “chimes, no video” which sounded like a reasonable problem for me to diagnose and fix.
Took it all apart, inspected the motherboard — looked 100% pristine — reseated all the memory, and plugged in power, keyboard, Mac->VGA video dongle, and a BlueSCSI, and wouldn’t you know it… it fired right up.
Also, not stock! Has a 604e/233 card in it!
Interesting video about design of user interfaces in VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhlw88_Beu4
norton disk doctor 8.0 for windows 3.1 let you play midis in the background while it scanned/repaired your drive 😎
i know it's been a while but i remain utterly baffled by the (not particularly even that high) popularity of coding LLMs.
when i have to solve a coding problem, i just think about it and then type some code. this has worked very well for me my entire career before chatbots were even a thing. i get a good result from doing this because unlike a chatbot, i'm actually quite good at programming.
why do we want to give that up again?
Sometimes when I have to enter my passkey, instead of the screen I watch my fingers and it always seems wild to me that I hit all at a rate of like 250 / minute, pretty much in the sequence I mean to, all the time. Somehow I can get the ordering pretty much right. Watching myself type it seems so weird I could've learned to do my keystrokes in the right order nearly all the time.
@artemist also he has a very amusing video review pride flags' color palettes x3 https://www.tiktok.com/@color.nerd/video/6969006723898150149
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess