Something very interesting happened to me yesterday.
I'd been having conversations with ChatGPT about OpenClaw, nothing remarkable or extraordinary. Then I started a new conversation to talk about a different aspect, and GPT assumed I wanted to talk about some old PC game.
To disambiguate, I now had to refer to OpenClaw.ai. I asked it if it had some new system directive about this, and of course it denied it. Today we learn OpenAI has hired the OpenClaw developer, and he's "turning the project over to a foundation"
Looks interesting, but the license is a show-stopper for me. I can't expose my employer to that kind of risk. I poured a lot of time and effort into learning Akka and has to throw it all away.
> Sorry, but I cannot get past the fact that so many Americans openly refer to undocumented migrants as "illegals".
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It's because their presence in our country is not legal. In fact the full term in our law is "illegal alien", Genesis even wrote a song with that title.
"Undocumented" is a euphemism coined by leftists to try to make illegal status seem trivial and unimportant.
> I implemented a threaded interpreter [0] on it where the source was spread over 3 floppies. To assemble it I ran the 3 floppies through a small basic program that stripped all the comments out wrote it to a single floppy.
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I had keyed the machine code to the CP/M version of figForth in on my Xitan Alpha. I sent it over a serial line to pip running on my Osborne after I bought one. Patched the console vectors and it was up and running.
> Back in the day I got to go to a demo and presentation about the machine.
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> An interesting thing about the design was that it had a 5” screen, but it could only show about 50 columns at a time of the 80 column display. There was a knob you turned to pan the display.
On mine it's keyboard ctl-left/right arrow. Paint is worn off the metal surround as a result. I don't recall a knob.
The cost factor of international complications along with the impossibility of meeting every country's speech restrictions simultaneously may be why Elon is reducing Twitter's offshore presence dramatically. It could easily become a US-only platform. Which may be the only way for it to survive financially while meeting free speech goals.
Real 1980s programmer: sits down at IBM 3278 mainframe terminal, edits resume into text file containing DCF/Script markup. Prints mailing copies on IBM 3800 laser printer using typewriter font, hoping operations staff running printer doesn't notice (unlikely considering speed printer runs at).
I'd been having conversations with ChatGPT about OpenClaw, nothing remarkable or extraordinary. Then I started a new conversation to talk about a different aspect, and GPT assumed I wanted to talk about some old PC game.
To disambiguate, I now had to refer to OpenClaw.ai. I asked it if it had some new system directive about this, and of course it denied it. Today we learn OpenAI has hired the OpenClaw developer, and he's "turning the project over to a foundation"