What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.

The cbc has repeatedly produced false news stories and "investigations", but you're too stupid to know it's false.

CBC is corrupt as f.

Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.

If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...

Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.

Being for limited government, I am also against the 10 year moratorium on AI regulation (and giant bills generally).

But also that is because what are regulations going to do? They can't stop you from accessing a web site in another country running some hyper advanced AI model, or downloading AI malware that can jack your system.

All regulations can possibly do is retard (in the classic sense of the word) tools in the states or countries of whatever places are stupid enough to even try to regulate AI. It's going to hurt enough companies that try to follow the law that it's a bad idea and would provide no benefit you are seeking through the regulation.

In fact if you really believe AI can even be dangerous at all then the only possible thing you can do is to advocate for as much AI as possible to counter the "bad" AI.

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

IMHO the fact that we have to, under criminal law, to testify against ourself is a violation of our Constitutional Rights, to not incriminate ourselves.

I'm sure there is some weird legal theory that the government uses to get around this.

The summary claimed the company had $50m in revenue (the real number, not corrected).

I can't understand how it got any revenue, ever - if you ask any real AI to produce code you'll have results in a minute or so.

But if it was backed by people writing real code, answers would have taken many minutes to hours to produce! Heck just the time to write a summary of the request would seem awfully long.

Who would use that after any trial? Who was paying them at all?

Or was it 700 engineers each with a trial chatGPT account just pasting questions and answers back and forth between user and chatGPT?

Yeah I ran into that also, very sad to see. What a crime against humanity. Thanks for the link.

Sorry I'm late to response but you simply have to pay $25 more for the ticket and get Earlybird to auto-checkin, then you are either in A or B section and can get a good seat anywhere.

Even adding that Southwest tickets are still usually cheaper than other airlines.

On another forum a user recently complained because someone had edited their question on Stack Overflow. The final question no longer represented what they were asking about and expressed distain for the edit; someone else on the forums who has enough editing powers in Stack Overflow to do such then justified it. Or tried to.

Editing a users question as if it was the original question they asked is NOT ok.

Refreshing the question and answering that version of it may be useful, but sometimes obliterates the subtleties that the original question is based on.

The arrogance of SO is extreme.

I have not looked into this myself yet, but in order to write anything GPT needs to have a direction to go in... so I assume the way it would work is you'd write a summary of the issue and chatGPT would fill out details?

Maybe an indicator that the issue was written by ChatGPT along with a link to the prompt that generated the summary. Then you'd have original intent of the issue.

I can kind of see the point where people might want to block it altogether but it does come off as a bit luddite. But I can see a very real danger of number of issues rising dramatically if they are easier to generate.

I agree with his description of Spirit and Frontier. Ultra budget airlines built around making sure the airline paid the minimum price for everything (like seat cushions) and the customer paid as much as possible (like for a carryon larger than a purse).

But Southwest? Even with the VERY UNFORTUNATE changes they are making around seat reservations, even with that I would vastly rather fly Southwest than those other two - or frankly even United.

Southwest has OK seat size and seats. They ACTUALLY HAVE under-seat storage, unlike (again) United. They have really reasonable policies around re-booking or cancelling flights. They have been to date extremely customer friendly in a way zero other airlines I have flown have been.

Southwest has been the only airline I have been on to really strike a good balance between cost and services.

Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.

And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.

This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".