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- Similar for me but maybe on a 386; used this 1989 book which had its own version of quickbasic called qbi since qbasic only got added to ms-dos in 1991.
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Basic-Now-Mike-Halvorson/dp/155...
- >(my understanding of claude code is that it's a non-interactive agent, which is worse for what i have in mind. iteration and _changing my mind_ are a big part of my process, so even if I let the computer do its own thing for an hour and work on something else, that's less productive than spending even 10 minutes of focused time on the same thing.)
Just use 'plan mode'; it will ask clarifying questions.
- Ruby has https://github.com/bokmann/business_time but when I looked at it, custom code was needed to calculate holidays that were offset because they are on the weekend.
- I started tracking everything I ate three years ago and even posted about it via this comment: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=32552288
I updated it substantially via AI this summer (includes micros, compounds, and various other stats and a webpage with charts now) and then I started making diet changes based on these new features. Is really neat to compare data from before and after those changes. And like you suggested, I keep making improvements to the system and to myself and it becomes really satisfying / motivational.
Is still driven by simple text files.
- Tried saving on jsonformatter right now and I see this:
"We are stopping save facility to prevent NSFW content and working on to make it better.
We understand this may be inconvenient, but we're taking proactive measures to ensure our platform remains safe and appropriate for all users. "
- A neat part of this is it mimics how people get onboarded onto codebases. People usually aren't figuring out how to write tests from scratch; they look at the current best practices for similar functionality in the codebase and start there. And then as they continue to work there they try to influence new best practices.
- I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help make life decisions like this. You just need to know how to use AI, although people on average will misuse it in various ways.
But those people will probably make similar mistakes making decisions in other ways anyway.
I think there might be issues, though, as a lot of people initially trust AI as some oracle instead of using it to help organize their thoughts. And some people will likely never be able to use AI properly.
- > has become the new "cloud-based"—a meaningless marketing term often used to justify a price hike for a feature that is, at best, a glorified if/else statement
Cloud-based isn't a meaningless marketing term - it means you can (or have to) visit a website instead of installing an app locally - made things easier to distribute/update compared to desktop apps. Also probably means you might have to keep paying for it regularly and if the company goes away the app will stop working.
Some meme sites might be somewhat similar to this.