AGMS

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Long time game (C++ at Artech Studios, Ottawa, Canada) and BeOS/Haiku OS (C++ apps, file system experiments, and some kernel fixes) programmer, now studying Ruby on Rails in preparation for job hunting. Got distracted making a less evil reputation system (in Rails, with a Ledger database), prototype under construction, essay inspired by Black Mirror about it on my web site.
Home Pagehttps://web.ncf.ca/au829/index.html
Show threadAGMS2d ago

Yup, still have my copy. That file system with a query language and live updates was a big factor in making BeOS fun to use. E-mail as individual files, just like any other, and still searchable.

The idea was improved as it went to MacOS and their Spotlight search system, which had plugins for extracting metadata from particular file types.

Show threadAGMSMar 11
Meta acquiring Moltbook makes sense. Advertising for ‘bots. Get them hooked on your infrastructure, then you can sell ads for services those robots use. The clueless vibe coders won’t know if they’re overpaying for a service that a ‘bot was biased to like by a carefully crafted advertisement. Doesn’t matter who makes the AI, Meta still profits. Though would it be better as a dating site (skill matchmaker), or as a ‘bot LinkedIn, or maybe a StackOverflow?
Show threadAGMSMar 9
Nice. Besides VNCServer, I also compile a PPC version of BeShare whenever I make a release. Downloadable at https://web.ncf.ca/au829/BeOS/
Index of /au829/BeOS

Show threadAGMSFeb 8
@jleiper An interesting metric would be to measure the time spent stopped versus the total trip time, should be possible to compute from your existing speed data. You seem to have a good run of green lights most of the time!
Show threadAGMSFeb 6
@rk @SpindleyQ There was a good talk about it at VCF Montreal. Besides the APL instead of BASIC in ROM, running on an Intel 8008 CPU, they made a briefcase sized portable version that got much attention from the press in 1973ish. The second tape drive is for swapping out APL objects. The university of York museum has an exhibit of it, and are recovering data from whatever tapes they could find. There’s also an emulator, so you can try out those tapes.
https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/mcm70at50/main
MCM/70 @ 50 Exhibit · MCM @ 50 · York University Computer Museum Canada

The York University Computer Museum (YUCoM) is a historical collection and a research center for the history of computing in Canada. Computer museum Canada

Show threadAGMSFeb 2
Good documentation on that GitHub page. I was wondering how they did the matrix multiplication (kind of slow on a Z80), but it’s just multiplying 2 bit numbers (-2, -1, 0, 1) which is fine with a kind of a case statement with all cases being an addition or subtractions or nothing. I didn’t see any speed measurements…
Show threadAGMSJan 31
According to Leo’s VCF-Montreal talk, It’s actually a markup language.
AGMSJan 31

Nifty to see my good old VNCServer is still around. Blurb about it at https://web.ncf.ca/au829/resume.html#VNCServer

By the way, there is a recent AI coded replacement that uses video codecs, found out about it on a Haiku mailing list.

About Alexander G. M. Smith - Résumé and Programs

Show threadAGMSJan 26
@pierrenick I had a good time at #VCFMontreal. Lots of chats, interesting talks and I even got to ask CuriousMarc (YouTuber restoring Apollo computing and digital radio equipment) a NASA atomic clock question (they used the same HP clocks he is working on, for measuring Doppler speed changes in the radio signal from the space craft). But for me, mostly #NabuPC stories and history and meeting people.
Show threadAGMSJan 25
@pierrenick I don’t know how it compares to universities, but the #VCFMontreal cafeteria has really good food at the military college, and it’s in the same building as the exhibition hall.