I was hoping someone made this comment! It remains high on my list of Frontalot songs. Big fan of “I’ll Form the Head” and “Stoop Sale” also from that album as well.

I played Quake on a 486 66Mhz DX2 with 16MB of RAM in the 90s. On the lowest resolution, but it was fine.

I had a 486dx33 and it was unplayable, a few frames per second...

I honestly don’t remember what the frame rate was, but it definitely improved when I upgraded to a Pentium 100. I distinctly remember a buddy giving me some RAM (2x4MB) which allowed me to play on the 486. I was so happy!

The DX2s _were_ a significant improvement over the 486DX, but I’ll admit, I might be remembering the excitement of getting to play Quake at all! The framerate may have been 15-20 fps and I just dealt with it,

The minimum requirements, on the box, were apparently Pentium 75Mhz. 8MB (DOS), or 16 RAM (WIN95).

Quake DX2 framerate is 5-7 depending on rest of the setup.

> Anthropic claiming that its total revenue since January 2025 as $5 billion contradict that its expected run-rate revenue for the year 2026 is $19 billion?

Isn’t the “exceeding $5BN” comment a lifetime revenue? … on $30BN (edit: previously said spent) raised (or something ridiculous.)

A lot of the commentary on the frontier model companies is based on how much money they’ve spent to the relatively small amount they’ve made in return, and the skepticism, especially given almost continuous reporting, that deploying AI in a variety of situations doesn’t seem to yield favorable business outcomes. OpenAI shifting to enterprise / coding type stuff this week seems, also, potentially informative. Is Gen AI actually useful for anything but code? Signs keep pointing to no… and even then, we’re in the early stages of figuring out how to build without destroying everything… something Amazon just recognized as possible with their recent shopping outage.

> on $30BN spent (or something ridiculous.)

Where did you get that figure? The filing says 10 billion has been spent on training and serving customers.

Whoops! Not spent, raised.

> There’s probably more I built that I have already forgotten about.

This is a big gripe of mine at the moment. I rarely have any confidence that I know how the thing works, or what additional things it does / does not do but which I expect.

Recent example: all API endpoints should require a bearer token. Imagine my surprise when half of them didn’t enforce this effectively, 3 days later. A bearer token would work, but also providing no bearer token would also work. Over the course of time, tests were removed / things were modified to get to the goal and say “done, boss!”

I’ll note that for this project, “don’t look at the source code” was a requirement. Things have been corrected before release, but the amount of potential foot guns is so damn high.

> with their demands that the government already knows exactly where they live, where they hang out…

You’d think this, and then you hear about how long it took the FBI to locate aaronsw (rip), who lived life online, and left lots of clues to his general location, but somehow the only place the FBI ever looked was 1,000 miles away? I guess you could say that was 15 years ago, but we had domestic spy programs 15 years ago, too.

The irony of an ex-Google engineer coining Hyrum’s Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/)

So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned? Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

If you deployed it in a way that did multiplexing such that multiple users could use it at once, then sure—-Business time. But otherwise…

> So, if I use my SIM card 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, Ill get banned?

Probably not - you'll get billed or hit a FUP

> Doesn’t that seem absurd? The SIM card is enforcing one voice call at a time. If the apartment building has to wait in line to use it, what’s the difference?

The difference is that it is perfectly acceptable to enforce a "no-reselling" or a "no-3rd-party" for services.

I can't think of a single service provider that provides a consumer tier permitting reselling or 3rd-party use.

There have always been attempts at caching non-string values in Tcl for performance gains, but the semantics are the same. The value’s types are whatever the operator requires and an error when not compatible. If, internally, $x is an integer, and you pass it to a string function, well, $x gets temporarily turned into a string. Dynamic with “weak” types.

Which is exactly the quoted text.

No. The quoted text says nothing about the value semantics, only the representation…

Well, if you followed the link under the quoted text, you would get the next sentence,

> The new objects make it possible to store information in efficient internal forms and avoid the constant translations to and from strings that occurred with the old interpreter.

Huh? I know how it works. My point is different than the representation.

Easily the most quoted part of the film, aside from “Hack the planet!!!!” … but also an amazing prediction! All the devices in our pockets are RISC machines. That did change everything.

I was going for the books initially, but isn't as much fun.

Regarding RISC, kind of, there have been compromises in the instruction sets.

For me it's "Never fear. I... is here."

I feel like god!

Can text be put on a screen? And can you take a picture of it when it is? Well, you might have a screenshot of text.

That wasn't done here.

How does a text representation of an Emacs screen snapshot look any better than a pixel representation of that same screen snapshot? It's much more flexible, more compact, and qualitatively better, since you can change the font size, and it's still crisp, and you can even copy and paste the text.

It makes perfect sense to use compact flexible text instead of a fatter fixed resolution image to screen shot Emacs.