Dan Bricklin @danb@social.cleverlibre.org
One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
@awaterma @ossa Andrew: We are not giving reasons to buy, just to evaluate attributes to see which potential areas #VisionPro might open up. Isaac says others can't see what you see, unlike a laptop on an airplane. That's not kidding.
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* Privacy - no one can see what you are working on or viewing…
Thinking about Apple #VisionPro vs laptops/iPads/phones/etc:
*** What is #VisionPro much better at? ***
Some obvious ones:
- Lots of pixels in wide field of view & lots of perceived 3rd dimension space => more places/ways to put/organize things
- Eye tracking instead of mouse/touch => standing/sitting no desk/lap, quicker, hands-free
- Finger(s?) flexing vs finger tip press => richer gesture language
- More immersive sound w/transparency => quality, aural cues including location
More?
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I've seen and read a bunch of people's accounts with the #VisionPro, but the one from Tested is definitely the most in-depth and hype-restrained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0HBzePUmZ0 #WWDC23
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Ooo boy, this is going to by quite a summer 😳.
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@emilymbender is the most brilliant and generous teacher we have on what LLMs can, should, cannot, and should not be expected to do. I am so grateful that she uses social media to teach. Do read her Thai library thought experiment explaining language and understanding.
h/t @ct_bergstrom https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83
@suckeffect No apologies needed. It was a spelling typo that was caught soon thereafter.
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it's sunday night and twitter is still a dumpster fire so i think it's finally time to re-post my all-time favorite tweet (iykyk)
because the original context for this is lost to antiquity, i want to set the stage by sharing one of my favorite absurd stories about software. (🧵)
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Given all hype about #5G I wrote an explanation that (I hope) doesn't require getting into the technical weeds to see past the BS.
https://rmf.vc/5GHype
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The kernel panic was introduced in an early version of Unix and demonstrated a major difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics. Multics developer Tom van Vleck recalls a discussion of this change with Unix developer Dennis Ritchie:
"I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, 'We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, `Hey, reboot it.`'"
(Text from Wikipedia)
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In 1962, when John Glenn was set to be the first American to orbit the Earth, he bought a $40 camera and some NASA guys helped jerry-rig it so it could be used in his spacesuit.
Completely not NASA sanctioned, it brought back the first photos taken by a person in space.
https://petapixel.com/2023/03/23/how-john-glenns-40-camera-forced-nasa-to-rethink-space-missions/
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The launch of ChatGPT Plugins is of the most significant platform offerings ever. Embedding, distribution, utility. And it reminds me of @danb ‘s Cornucopia of the Commons essay where the act of using the database adds value to it. http://www.bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
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It can't be said often enough: a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.
What should Amazon have said would happen to DPReview.com after being frozen to show an example of support for the Internet as a trusted repository? Example: "Read-only for at least 20 yrs not breaking incoming links with goal of in perpetuity." (I chose 20 years for DPReview.com because I think its content could be useful to at least some people that long, not just historians. "Vintage" cameras are used for a long time. Info in forums have helped many users dealing with technical issues.)
Archive.org has http://dpreview.com going back to 1999. I just donated to them to help keep all that information around. The manner of the shutdown ("available in read-only mode for a limited period after...[April 2023]": https://dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close) is a reminder of how important doing that is. H/T: @nizmow@hachyderm.io
@nizmow@hachyderm.io Agreed! And thanks for inspiring me to donate today. I gave my reason as being in reaction to what's happening with www.dpreview.com.
@nizmow@hachyderm.io @timbray @philnickinson Thank you for doing that! This situation is another reminder how important archive.org is. With that inspiration, I just made a donation. But we can't depend on only one place.
@nizmow@hachyderm.io @timbray @philnickinson Well, going away in a few months is probably overstating it, but where else on the continuum of deprecation might they do things that will have bad effects? Do they value long-term stability? I wrote about "long-term" 19 years ago: http://www.bricklin.com/200yearsoftware.htm "Software That Lasts 200 Years". E.g.: "...General information kept by society includes knowledge and expression, and artifacts representative of culture. Again, the time frame for keeping such records is measured in decades or centuries. I can go to city hall and find out the details of ownership relating to my house going back to when it was built in the late 1800's..."
@nizmow@hachyderm.io @timbray @philnickinson I don't think so. It shows attitude and philosophy. This situation was so much easier to do in a better way. How will Amazon err when there are choices to be made? What signal are they sending to their employees? This was the leading serious web site for an important product category for decades not some minor blog.
One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO Alpha Software, DBDemo, Trellix, blogger, podcaster, SocialCalc, iPad app: Note Taker HD, president of Software Garden, Inc.
Joined Nov 2022
