I've completed Part One of Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

Today I made it a bit more of a challenge - by using QuickBASIC for the first time in over 30 years.

Took me 1.5 hours versus 5 minutes yesterday. Programming languages have come a *long* way.

Twitter's principal utility (from a content curation perspective) is in journalists' willingness to post there; without it, Twitter quickly becomes 4chan. Journalists, make it happen. The only thing keeping you there is stasis. We can have nice things.

don't bother me i'm busy

If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Brazil almost had the world's first official licensed Mac, but the Brasilian government balked. Then the government decided to keep going anyways, and the devs had to make a "Mac" with some of the hardware and none of the software. This is the story of the Unitron Mac 512.

Current internet media literacy: “why was the movie called Goodfellas? They seemed like pretty bad fellas to me. Plot hole?”