The very first #programming language I learned was Motorola 6800 instruction set. I was a kid who knew nothing about #computing and the Heathkit ET-3400A trainer was the only thing available to me, then. I learned basic electronics, driving 7-segment LEDs, I/O interfacing, etc., all from books. And there were some truly excellent books for novices, back then. I expanded the system memory from 256 bytes all the way up to 512 bytes.
Oh, how I loved that thing. I credit the Heathkit microcomputer and the superheterodyne radio for my becoming an #EE, years later.
As "useless" as this thing was at a practical level, it truly was a marvellous educator. But today's kids do not have access to such a naked, introductory computing hardware that dares to bare it all. The simplest hardware available today are ESP32, BBC micro:bit, and Raspberry Pi. #Simple, are they? No!
Life is often best when it is #simple, #easy, and #effortless. Take this as an example: I get very little of the outside world when I drive a #car (which I consider to be a rather complex matter) and much more when I ride a #bicycle. However, I get the maximum when I simply #walk (which is undoubtedly the simplest of the three). #unlearn#slowdown#backtoperfection
Although my #birthday was yesterday, I received two very pleasant #surprises this morning.
(1) Took car to the shop to get a screw in a #tire removed and #patch. Assumed it’d be a couple hours and planned accordingly. It didn’t take long for a worker to put it on a lift that I thought was only to evaluate what was needed. Apparently was #simple and they patched it #immediately. Total time in shop: roughly 30 minutes! (cont.)
Whenever I assign junior #programmers a substantive task, they inevitably return with a #complex solution. I would then analyse their solution, simplify it, and show the simpler version to them, they respond every time, "OK, what's so great about that? It's so stupidly #simple."🤷
For some vintage and retro devices (or for a variety of other reasons) you might want a super-lightweight method of searching the web or simple links of news.
I saw @osz mention the SUPER lightweight search site http://frogfind.com (which is powered by DuckDuckGo) and also http://68k.news (which is a simple HTML link version of Google News).
These two sites are SO cool and potentially useful.
"The city of Warsaw gets its water from a river and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city’s water supply automatically."
Explaining tasks to chatbots is not unlike making complicated restaurant orders. Ordering custom food for three people in restaurants is something I am very used to.
There are always mistakes. If you want something without coriander, you're occasionally going to get everything without coriander.
You'll get wrong numbers of utensils for the starters unless you go for the most common options of "share all starters with everyone".
In restaurants, like in code, people learn to "keep-it-simple-stupid", KISS principle. With #LLM#chatbots people generally don't perceive the complexities of the things they are asking, because it is clear to them, and they aren't reading what they wrote from the point of view of being the one who has to follow the instructions.
Just now I got Tom Yum with prawn in front of me even though I ordered one with chicken.
Waiters, like chatbots, become confused with complex orders. The way to handle this is to keep orders #simple.
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