I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I read that there is not much difference in quality of life after about 10 millions USD.
A huge yacht will only take your time. It's much easier to rent a private plane than to own it, and you cannot live in more than one house, so I think its a great way to live.

Congrats sir, there may be richer people, but there is only one Woz.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

> Except Meta hasn't come out with anything great in a while either

No, except for Llama, the first open-weights AI, it was and is a revolution in AI.

Zuck knows he can brag about this.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

You can see this process at work right now in Moldova or Georgia. And of course, the Crimean operation was such a success, with such a feeble response from the west, that Putin just decided to take the whole country.

Utter nonsense. When the Soviet Union broke up, the west gave Russia a complete do-over, wiping the slate clean, with an invitation to join the community of nations as a full partner. But they went with corrupt oligarchs and decided to appoint a new Czar for life, who then apparently decided he wanted their old territories back. No one wanted Russia as an enemy, until they started down the path of rebuilding their old Russian empire again by violent means.

They had a chance at redemption, and they decided to throw away their future on an old man's dream of reforming a long-dead empire. NATO is a absolutely a defensive alliance, however much Russian shills want to deny it. There is zero danger to Russia from NATO member states, and they damn well know it too, or their wouldn't have stripped their defenses along their borders to toss still more troops into the fires of the Ukraine war.

All Russia has done recently is to convince the world that they will never change their imperialistic spots. They're still stuck in an 18th century mindset of believing they deserve their old empire back - that "Russia has no borders."

Obviously, I haven't seen under the hood of Civ's source code, so some of this is conjecture, but I would bet it's exploring lots of decision trees as deep as it can. A videogame's "AI" often doesn't mean AI in the sense of classical computer science. For example, agent pathfinding is typically considered part of AI. Even simple state-based decision making is considered "AI". It's not surprising at all that Civ would require a pretty good chunk of CPU times per turn searching for optimal moves as far ahead as it can. Most videogame AI consists of very simple decision-making rules supplemented with brute-force search algorithms. "True" AIs are too unpredictable, too hard to train and adapt for new rule changes, too hard to tweak, etc, so game designers tend not to prefer them.

Source: me, having worked on computer games for over a quarter century, including "AI" programming for videogames.

And you'd explain all the self-driving cars currently on the roads... how exactly? Or are you arguing it doesn't "work" until and unless every single edge case is handled perfectly? Like, navigating in a parking garage, etc. It's true companies are starting with the lowest-hanging fruit, which is driving on well-mapped public roads in decent weather, but that's how all tech starts out.

Thanks.

Sort of. C++ best practices are opt-in, but do eliminate a lot of the most egregious gotchas found in C, especially in "modern" C++, which eliminates most manual memory management. The difference is that when C++ classes or interfaces are well designed, it's more difficult to misuse them subsewuently. In C, you need to be careful all the time because those compile-time assurances are not there. Of course, in compensation, C is a much simpler language overall.

I'd agree that neither C nor C++ would be at the top of my list for real-time safety-critical apps either. If performance isn't critical, there are a lot of options available. If performance IS critical, we have things like Rust now.

C++ is a pretty good compromise when you want to work within a larger C and C++ based ecosystem, and need top performance. Videogames are a pretty good example of this.

It's not worth stealing, because it's a terrible analogy. I'll just point out that horses were equipment, not the job, nor the employee. It's like worrying whether your old fax machine can be repurposed. Even aside from all that, horses didn't exactly go extinct either.

I came for this comment. Was not disappointed.

Boeing needs to focus on it's core business right now, instead of dreaming up flights of fancy. As a company, they appear to be falling into the shitter (likely a long process, and we're finally seeing the end results). Do they need a more serious wake-up call than what they've had?