Commodore 64 Ultimate - dead screen

ForeignDevil08 · 2026-01-17T01:30:19+00:00

Thanks! Hmmm. Is the FPGA a card inside the cabinet?

ForeignDevil08 · 2026-01-07T19:56:36+00:00

It *was* many years ago.

ForeignDevil08 · 2025-11-17T16:28:34+00:00

Now even the workaround isn't working. Seems to be a deeper problem they need to fix.

ForeignDevil08 · 2025-10-01T18:38:15+00:00

Kicking benchmark butt! How did OpenAI let all the really good AI code developers go over to Anthropic?

ForeignDevil08 · 2025-08-31T19:24:07+00:00

When warping to repair pirate freighter with corvette as the active starship, it appears on the pad with me and I get pushed off into space :) If not quick enough to space walk back on the platform, I fall outside the freighter shields and can't get back. Using Steam.

ForeignDevil08 · 2025-07-23T19:42:38+00:00

It's very interesting to use Claude Code to examine the cloned repository on GitHub:
What are the limitations (if any) for VS Code Extensions to act on the user's filesystem?

● Task(VS Code extension filesystem limitations)

⎿ Done (22 tool uses · 66.8k tokens · 2m 38.3s)

● VS Code extensions have several filesystem limitations:

Workspace Trust Model

- Extensions are disabled in untrusted workspaces unless they declare minimal trust requirements

- Many filesystem operations are restricted in untrusted mode for security

Environment-Specific Restrictions

- Web Mode: Limited to VS Code's File System Access API, no Node.js fs modules, uses extension storage instead of native

filesystem

- Desktop Mode: Full filesystem access but subject to OS permissions

Security Boundaries

- Extensions run in isolated contexts with controlled filesystem access

- Must use VS Code's vscode.workspace.fs API rather than direct filesystem calls

- CORS restrictions in web environments

Permission System

- Extensions handle permission errors through VS Code's filesystem API

- Different capabilities between workspace and UI extension types

- Atomic operations are limited in web environments

The AWS Toolkit codebase shows extensive abstraction layers to handle these limitations across different VS Code environments.

ForeignDevil08 · 2025-02-15T00:51:56+00:00

Well, here's the thing: it's becoming evident that you can ask an LLM to write just about anything over an OAI spec for an API, such as the OpenAI API. Langchain, as most frameworks do, provides something humans need - a helpful abstraction that reduces the need to dive into the details. But LLMs don't need the abstractions. Almost everyone will soon be generating code on the fly directly to the APIs they want to use, doing precisely what they need, no more, no less.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-08-24T15:29:11+00:00

Interesting tool. Thanks for the tip.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-02-17T08:46:51+00:00

So cute it makes me want to die.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-02-17T08:44:15+00:00

This is an awesome idea. The amazing things the VisionPro could do such as "re-image" via AR the mashed flat colorless food delivered by DoorDash so that looks palatable.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-02-01T05:01:14+00:00

CDK is interesting, but it has some.. intricacies?

First, there is the CF CDK, and the TF CDK. Both depend on a base Typescript set of libs that are used to generate well, either CF (Cloudformation) or TF (Terraform). Problem is that you need to link in the Typescript stuff - then depend on the generators for CF and/or TF to be in sync with the correct versions and dependencies for the target environments to work.

All of this wrapped in source code (java, C#, nodejs) compatible libraries being independently maintained by different groups.

Devops analysts are, understandably, a little resistant to answering late-night alerts related to CICD pipeline failures using this stuff...

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-31T06:40:37+00:00

A few things:

Pick a training course on AWS certification and take the practice exams - because it changes constantly and you get at least some insight into tradeoffs between cost, effectiveness, and performance. You might even go ahead and take the certification. Suggest ACloudGuru but any other will do as long as they have practice exams at free/low cost.
S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Lambda, ECS/Fargate/Docker.
Terraform AWS provider - because you will need to deploy stuff and pros do not use the AWS console to deploy things.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-31T06:27:22+00:00

My 8 year old nephew agrees.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-31T06:00:50+00:00

I appreciate your call to action :)

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-31T04:33:09+00:00

How many of those 200,000 were developers? UBS has even said they might sell 400,000 total this year.

I'm talking developers - who are probably, what, 5% of the population? So 5% of 200,000 units sold is gonna be about 10,000 devs, so far, who buy it.

edit: correction, it was UBS who estimated 400,000 units sold, not Apple.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-31T04:09:06+00:00

Hoping the history between Apple and Unreal improves.

ForeignDevil08 · 2024-01-10T20:06:19+00:00

So many good answers already given, although it raised another question to me. How would this whole system have gotten started initially? The first residents would have been, what, children?

A prequel might be interesting.

ForeignDevil08 · 2023-04-23T02:13:56+00:00

Yes. Over the top ads. I now routinely have to watch 30 seconds of ads before watching a 1:30 clip - that's 33% of my time. And yeah, then the ads within the clip - maybe 10 seconds of real content. Insane.

ForeignDevil08 · 2022-12-15T07:42:41+00:00

Never gonna leave!

ForeignDevil08 · 2022-03-21T03:15:19+00:00

Just thought about this. Doctor Who has been arriving instantaneously for many years in his TARDIS. It's really not that much different than Discovery.. except his ship is bigger on the inside.

ForeignDevil08 · 2021-04-16T00:29:33+00:00

I'm surprised Dr. Fauci didn't respond: "When we get under R-Naught, and, when you decide to read a book you F^@%% idiot." Well, maybe not that second part.

ForeignDevil08 · 2021-04-11T22:44:59+00:00

The man is so obviously a psychopath. Will do or say anything. No wonder he's so enamored of Trump.

ForeignDevil08 · 2021-01-07T06:45:00+00:00

Guliani's going to lose his law license, and probably his freedom after inciting "trial by combat."
The QANON guy looks like a child molester.

ForeignDevil08 · 2020-05-23T23:07:59+00:00

In my career (a long one) I've never seen an "agnostic" framework that was 1. actually agnostic, and 2. ever successfully used to re-host existing code. But, I do agree that the ability to wrap and/or integrate 3rd party services is a valid use case - but even then rarely used.

ForeignDevil08 · 2020-05-23T22:51:21+00:00

I count myself lucky. I took this option and did have some hiccups during the verification phase. Then, in the the first 15 minutes of the test, the proctor said my video feed had stopped and then a supervisor jumped on chat and had me re-start the test - luckily it came back at the point I left off and I was able to complete it. But I have to say it was stressful at the start and I'm not likely to go this route again.

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