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@manton Thanks! It was an experiment (both in lens and processing) but I think it turned out well.
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@dwalbert Alas, although I’m out hiking today, I don’t move that fast! Enjoy the fresh bread though. Maybe I’ll make some myself when I get home.
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@mitch My own internet is pretty free of AI slop. But: that’s because I only read a few carefully chosen sites, and never look at things like Facebook feeds. I’m not missing content that I already like. What I’m missing (and used to have) is the joy of serendipity and discovery of new things.
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@JohnBrady @dwalbert I could talk about bootstrapping the OS on to a Heathkit H89 I guess. Or the horrors of using cassette tapes for storage on a timeshare system. But we’re gonna drive all the kids out of the room at this rate!
The long-term experience does tend to give some perspective, for sure. Also: I don’t see how anyone learns to code these days! It was easier when you could understand everything from the logic gates on up.
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@dwalbert Oh yeah, I remember those giant drive platters…used some at Wang Labs at my first real industry job. Also used punched paper tape there for data transfer…I got to know hanging chads long before they were a political issue.
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@manton Just realized that I did my first coding literally 50 years ago. It’s been interesting watching things evolve. I think overall programs have gotten both more capable & buggier as hardware capacity exploded and layers of abstraction stacked up.
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@manton There are times I wonder whether applications today are really 1000x better than the ones we used to shoehorn into 64K. But I should probably go out and yell at clouds instead of dwelling on that.
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@manton Or just skip the intermediate steps and get a payment chip implanted in your flesh!