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Marcin Wichary did a wonderful job of poking through a few of the dialog boxes revised by Adobe in recent versions of Photoshop and — surprise, surprise — they are not good in lots of fundamental ways: I know I brought up that an...
April showers and more
20cm x 22cm (8"x9"), oil on board
Not sick of looking at water and rocks yet, if you're keeping count.97 words · 1 more image
Jake Handy: An NBER study of nearly 6,000 CEOs and CFOs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that roughly 90% of firms reported zero measurable impact on productivity or employment from AI over the past three years. The...
When the world is seemingly at it's worst, we should all do what we can to spread hope
tire filtering sucks
1. Oil prices surge, and stocks make new highs nevertheless. It looks like I was right (so far) on all counts: (a) The strait remaining in some Schrodinger-like state of being blockaded or opened, possibly until 2028, as I wrote here. At...
too basic even for BASIC
Thoughts on progress.
Three soaring above at 7pm today, 30th April—much earlier than usual. Previously: 2025, 9th May (but I’d been away for the preceding week); 2024, 7th; 2023, 7th; 2022, 11th; 2021, 16th; 2020, 5th; 2019, 9th; 2018, 7th; 2017, 11th. Reply...
I picked up a boxed Timex Sinclair 2068 that wouldn’t boot. An oscilloscope, a BackBit tester, and a fresh Z80 later, it was running. Then I ported Charles Bond’s 1981 maze algorithm from the C64 to Sinclair BASIC.