Ashley Feniello

I like his mention of HP’s RPN calculators, as an example of humans and machines meeting in the middle.

The AI brags about how much fun it's having hacking my shower! 🚿 I don't get to have the fun anymore...

@McClellanOsc @thetrading @elonmusk Dude, just imagine standing on the Moon and looking up at the tiny Earth and the absolutely *wide open black sky* around it. Meteors can come from anywhere in the black. Obviously, facing Earth doesn’t explain the smoothness on this side.

@thetrading @elonmusk Problem anywhere but the earth-facing side is that you lose Earth's protection from meteor strikes. Here is the difference:

Solar panels on the surface of the earth generate nothing at night. On the moon, darkness lasts 2 weeks. Additionally, the Moon’s surface temperature changes rapidly and extremely—from roughly 250°F in sunlight to -208°F in darkness—due to its lack of an atmosphere to trap heat or block solar radiation. The temperature change is very rapid as soon as sunlight hits. Now tell me your solar panels and their metal frames can endure such extreme and rapid temperature cycling without material failure.

@McClellanOsc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_e… There are places on crater ridges near the poles with over 90% sunlight year around and -70° to 0°C (no problem e.g. panels on the ISS experience -120° to +120°C every orbit).

25 years! I’ve worked with a lot of fantastic, brilliant, and inspiring people.

Hey @Costco, why on Earth can’t I buy a gift card to Costco without being a member? I want to give it to someone who is member. I have no interest in membership myself, but please take my money!

Microsoft just dropped VITRA-VLA, a new Vision-Language-Action model for robotics on Hugging Face. It learns dexterous manipulation from over 1 million real-life human hand activity videos.

What defines a correct program? What makes a good programmer? The answer depends on what culture of programming you subscribe to! This has been a long time in the making, but my open access book on the history of programming is available for pre-order! cambridge.org/core/books/cul…

I was born the year that the microprocessor was invented and got to live and make a career in this hundred-year span of history when *humans* programmed computers. It was fun…

Every hobby loops back to programming 😜 The plan is to make a positional sensing pad with 3 pizzo sensors.

RIP Bill Atkinson #hypercard #macpaint #quickdraw #mac128k

@Teslarati The problem is that their charge port is on the wrong side for Superchargers. They end up parking in the adjacent spot and effectively take up two spaces because a vehicle with the port on the rear driver’s side (Teslas) can no longer use the corresponding spot.

🚨 Starting today, U.S. owners of the current Hyundai KONA Electric, IONIQ Electric hatchback, IONIQ 5, and IONIQ 6 models equipped with a CCS port gain access to 20,000 Tesla Superchargers in the United States using an NACS adapter.

Instead of embarrassing Zelenskyy with this ambush, they humiliated themselves and showed that Trump is *not* the leader of the free world. He’s the king of an insular fiefdom wanting his ring kissed. Europe should take up the mantle and put both Putin and Trump in their places.

The above is setting one pixel at a time on purpose to “animate” the turtle… Of course, you can enter sixels mode (ESC P …) and send as many columns of six pixels you like at once and then exit (ESC \).

Example Forth code to set pixels: : set ( x y -- ) esc emit ." P;1q" \ sixel mode [char] " emit ." 1;1" \ square pixels dup 6 / 0 ?do [char] - emit loop \ to line swap 0 ?do 63 emit loop \ to column 6 mod 2 swap power 63 + emit \ sixel! esc emit [char] \ emit \ end ;

Sixels for console graphics are pretty neat. Simple protocol from the early 1980s. Playing with Turtle Graphics in Forth using it. Pretty fun!