- drivers99I forgot he was the same person who did that! I was somewhat obsessed with it earlier this year. I had found a version you can type into BASIC that pokes it into a block of memory and jumps to it, since I have access to a C64 at a hackerspace that doesn't have a floppy drive, so I've run it at least once on real hardware. (I have a new C64 Ultimate on the way as well.)
- Listened to this exact video this morning when it was among the newest videos in my YouTube subscriptions. I've had it stuck in my head since then.
- That was really interesting.
> Next time, we’ll talk more about...
Alas, there was no next time.
- “The author made this story available to Medium members only.”
- That would be the next level I should do. Maybe not RSS, but just making an html file linking to various channels (similar to bookmarks) organized by category, while removing them from subscriptions (and curate the list even further). Check out the channels when I feel like it, like how we used to surf the web. Right now, I'm seeing whatever is newest today which favors channels that churn out content like it's their job (which it is in a lot of cases).
- > On further consideration, I think what was happening with the homepage was that it was showing me videos related to channels that I subscribe to
I think so too. I turned my history back on and watched part of one video in order to make sure I had the steps right for clearing and disabling history again. In that time, after having at least 1 video in the history, the front page was like what you said. The first recommendation made me want to click on it. It was called "why c++ is terrible" or something like that. Cleared/disabled again and back to normal (blank home page).
- There are 0 videos on my YouTube homepage, just a screen asking me to turn on history. Just the way I like it. Here’s what I did:
Go into the YouTube app, settings, manage all history, under the history tab hit Delete -> delete all time.
Then go to controls (still in the manage all history dialog box under settings), under YouTube history hit Turn off. It says “pausing…” Hit Pause, and Got it.
It’s been exactly 3 months since I did that. I still watch stuff from my subscriptions and when I search for something I want to watch. There are still recommended videos when you’re watching a video but they are a lot less enticing since they are not personally targeted. I curated my subscriptions so it’s more what I would want to spend time watching instead of reaction videos for instance. My actual time watching YouTube has dropped a lot.
- > it's important to recognize times when you had a near-miss, and still fix those root causes as well.
I mentioned this principal to the traffic engineer when someone almost crashed into me because of a large sign that blocked their view. The engineer looked into it and said the sight lines were within spec, but just barely, so they weren't going to do anything about it. Technically the person who almost hit me could have pulled up to where they had a good view, and looked both ways as they were supposed to, but that is relying on one layer of the cheese to fix a hole in another, to use your analogy.
- jmb99 already said the part about cost/price. I just made a PCB for someone’s Halloween costume and it was only the 4th PCB I ever made. (So far I’ve used PCBWay for all 4 but since I’m in the US I also ended up doing a rush order from US-based Osh Park because I was panicking about how long the shipping was taking. Tariff situation has made shipping from China to the US more complicated. I found out DKRed, which is part of DigiKey, also makes PCBs in the US.)
For designing it I’d check out a kicad 9 tutorial playlist. You don’t need to know everything but it helps to know the right things, like how to run the design rules checker to make sure your PCB layout conforms to your schematic. There are a bunch to choose from but this one seems good: https://youtu.be/4YSZwcUSgJo
I haven’t done this but you can also try submitting your PCB design to /r/PrintedCircuitBoard subreddit for review, and they can also answer questions there.
- 1. yes, just do a search: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44162184
- Which camp is it if you don't even look at or read email unless you know there's something specific you need in it? I have 100,000 unread but that's because I did a concerted cleanup sometime in the last couple years. I even unsubscribed to a bunch of stuff. I am planning to tackle it again this month. I've heard of people who use Black Friday as a good trigger on what to unsubscribe from as every company wants to send you something for that.
- > it's out now
It's not out, just announced.
- You can if you script the request yourself, or you could have a front end that lets you cut out those paragraphs from the conversation. I only say that because yesterday I followed this guide: https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/ except I had to figure out how to do it with Gemini API instead. The context is always just (essentially) a list of strings (or "parts" anyway, doesn't have to be strings) that you pass back to the model so you can make the context whatever you like. It shouldn't be too hard to make a frontend that lets you edit the context, and fairly easy to mock up if you just put the request in a script that you add to.
- I loved that you could freely beam apps from one device to another via the infrared port. I remember sharing apps with my friend and my mom at one point, sending and/or receiving.
- Not sure why, they have header pins for the user port and then an adapter if you want to use things that require the original edge connector. I'm guessing (although I'm not sure what those other chips on the adapter do) you could also connect directly to the header for new stuff. https://www.commodore.net/product-page/u64-userport-adapter
- "The motherboard is a heavily modified version of Gideon Zweijtzer's original design." [0]
- Ordered a founder's edition in August. Looks like I might get it this year (originally estimated October). Retro Recipes x Commodore posted a video update about the manufacturing process recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffeaLbKHkw
(In my case, it's not about nostalgia. I actually have been using a shared one in a hackerspace to play around with 6502 machine language and want my own.)
- I wasn't familiar with (or had forgotten) those acronyms nor Archy. Looks like RCHI stands for Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces. THE stands for The Humane Environment which is what Archy used to be called. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software)
Sounds like it had the problem of not using a custom keyboard.
- > The hard part is that the Canon Cat had bespoke hardware with dedicated keys for its actions
I actually designed a PCB / custom keyboard (well, it's just a copy of the Canon Cat layout) with the Leap, Use Front, etc keys (using an ARM dev board called Black Pill, which is probably overkill, to scan the rows/columns for key up/down events) for this reason. Right now I have it sending key codes over a serial connection to another microcontroller with a display module so you can now type on it, but I really need to get started on the actual Canon Cat style software. I'm not really planning to make it USB compatible or use any existing OS though.
> Maybe predictably, early on I found myself wanting more than one text stream. I fought that inclination to discover what’s in store down the pure Canon Cat path.
I think the Cat would let you do that if you used multiple disks? I haven't used a Canon Cat, but only read the documentation. It used a single DISK button for loading and saving, based on context. The following quote is copied from the manual for reference. I think the "beep" option is for if you've made an edit in memory but don't have the correct disk in for saving that same text stream.
[quote]
The Cat has two storage places for your text: memory and disk. Memory is the area inside the Cat where the text is stored while you are working on it. The on-screen text is a portion of the text stored in memory. The memory is kept alive by the electric current coming from the wall. If the power were cut, the text in the memory would be lost, so you need to record the text more or less permanently on a disk with the help of the disk drive.
One command, [DISK], handles all operations involving disk and memory. When you use [DISK], the Cat does one of three things:
-Plays back the disk in the drive. This means copying the information from the disk into the memory, and putting a portion of it up on the screen where you can see it and work on it.
-Records the text in memory. This means transferring the information in memory to the disk for safe storage.
-Beeps. This means the Cat makes a warning sound and does nothing, because recording or playing back might lose information.
A DISK sign appears on the ruler while the Cat is recording or playing back.
[unquote]