Mastodawn

Startled to find out that there are young people who haven't read James Iry's magnificent "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages". Please drop what you're doing and head over.
https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...

Mihai Christodorescu Apr 13

John Regehr Apr 13

youtube peaked around 7 years ago and this is the actual pinnacle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOfSVULtsU

Pachelbel's Chicken

YouTube

Mihai Christodorescu Apr 10

Matt Blaze Apr 10

Artemis II will splash down in less than two hours, but if we hurry we can probably get the Statue of Liberty partly buried and round up some ape suits before they get back to shore.

Mihai Christodorescu Mar 26

Layoffs will continue until the AI agents are happy.

Mihai Christodorescu Mar 18

New AGI definition: AI whose errors are no longer detected by human review of the output.

Mihai Christodorescu Mar 10

Nicholas Weaver Mar 10

An interesting thing on EVs. For the rest of the country they are cheaper than a gas vehicle per mile. But here in CA our electricity rates are SO outrageous that a gas burner can be cheaper per mile!

Mihai Christodorescu Feb 22

scy Feb 22

It's nice that music player software has "play next", i.e. "insert into the play queue after the currently playing track".

Now, can we please also get an extension to the pause button that does "pause after the current track"?

I don't know about you, but I'm fairly often like "I want the music to end, but at a natural moment, not now in the middle of the track", but I also don't want to camp in front of the player to push pause at the correct moment.

Mihai Christodorescu Jan 8

Re: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/115860061627547920

Privacy puritans are out in full force today.

Taggart (@[email protected])

Let me reiterate: ChatGPT Health is a dangerous product and a terrible idea. Keep it away from everyone you care about.

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Mihai Christodorescu Aug 7, 2025

Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥Aug 7, 2025

eliza should be enough for anyone.

Mihai Christodorescu Apr 22, 2025

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Steve Bellovin Apr 22, 2025

@mattblaze @chris Here's a short video I took of the Solari board at Newark Penn Station in January 2018, shortly before Amtrak decommissioned it. Sound on.