Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 32

A blue PET 2001 made an appearance at yesterday's SCCAN meetup.

#commodore #pet #retrocomputing

@shogun I don't find them beautiful, but I guess there was a practical need for them once upon a time...

I can't stand seeing people wearing crocs with socks, especially when they're mismatched 🙄

Are they deliberately trying to shock or do they think it's cool?

😂

@Sumocat ありがとうございます、お母さん！😁

To be fair, Bard integrated in Google Search can also answer this, but it seems to use a built-in calculator rather than an interpreter:

Ah, actually the interpreter sometimes fails with the exact same program.

Perhaps they're having load balancing issues with the new service.

#GPT4 can finally answer questions involving non-trivial arithmetic, but for some reason the Python interpreter is limited to very short computation...

#ChatGPT #programming #llm

@slyborg But this model doesn't seem to have two nested pots like the Tatung I used today.

@slyborg I remember when the "fuzzy logic" fad came out to replace "decision trees".

Then it was "genetic algorithms", and people from University of Florence were seriously trying to sell it to my employer as an alternative for a linear programming problem.

Now they'd go all in with deep learning, transformers and blockchains 😂

@slyborg Let's say that microwaved rice was consistently better than my first clueless experiments with the rice cooker 🙂

@benoit I tried exactly once, in 2018, using the cooker in my sharehouse:
https://mstdn.io/@codewiz/100858504060256674

But note how the idea of saving time with microwaved rice was already starting to form in my head 😂

On my last trip to Japan I bought a few common types of furikake (rice condiment).

From left to right:
- shiso (red perilla leaves)
- something with plum (梅*き)
- tororo (grated yam)
- kombu (dried kelp)

In the back:
- kurogoma (black sesame)
- shichimi (seven flavors chili mix)

#cooking #vegan #japan

Ok, I should feel at least a little embarrassed for not learning how to properly cook rice after spending 3 years in Japan...

The truth is I've always used pre-cooked microwavable rice which is ready in 2 minutes 😅

On the other end of the spectrum, the Zojirushi Neurofuzzy seems awfully complicated.

But minimalism comes at a cost: my previous experiment failed due to using incorrect proportions of rice, water, and water for the outer pot.

It becomes a three-variable problem, essentially 😂

My first successful batch out of the Tatung.

Unlike the Japanese rice cookers, the Tatung needs water also in the outer pot.

There's only an ON/OFF switch and a lever which starts cooling. After the outer water completely boils out, the temperature raises and the lever is released, switching to the steaming phase.

#vegan #cooking

All right, I installed OS 4.1 FE including the updates!

Now what? Should I buy A-EON's Enhancer Software collection?

http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php?title=Enhancer_Software
#amiga #amigaos #retrocomputing

#OpenWrt has a web interface which can build a custom firmware image for your router:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.0-rc2&target=ipq806x%2Fgeneric&id=netgear_r7800

You can easily add packages and modify the boot scripts. Awesome! 🤩

Ending a sentence in けど (kedo), is common in everyday polite #Japanese.

It's roughly equivalent to "but..." with the controversial part of the sentence omitted for politeness. The listener is supposed to figure it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlFnVKqfv4

@mike I wonder how's rhg, the full rewrite of Mercurial in Rust.