And also incredibly trivial to fix. Most VPS providers include their own backup services, and for the rest there's rsnapshot and some other cheaper VPS somewhere else to keep it "off site."
Too many have forgotten what it means to administrate a single system. You can do a lot with very simple tooling.
I also have a working design for a small Transformer on the original Game Boy. It has around 4000 parameters fitting in the 8 KB cartridge SRAM, where the "saved game" is the trained model. A TI-82 with its 32 KB of RAM would be even more comfortable.
In fact the 9900 itself was used in an entire line of minicomputers that included a hardware memory map.
The 9900 is a single chip implementation of the CPU board in the TI 990. They even created a dedicated memory mapper chip to go along with the product line, though it is significantly different than the one in the minicomputer line.
(edit: the 990 was first built in the early 70s, memory mappers are quite old conceptually)
(edit 2: in fact the necessity of using a memory mapper is what killed the platform, and was one of the things that made the IBM PC team decline the 9900.)
Unfortunately I don't think that there is a reasonable way to perform real hardware-level memory protection with that chip alone. I'm working on a project documenting the genesis of the 99000 chips, which include a privilege bit in the status register, from the minicomputer line.
Essay forthcoming, and probably an OS. Maybe a year...
One chip that could be used as a memory mapper for the 9900 (but wasn't in the TI99/4A) was the 74LS670, which was used in the IBM 5150 PC to allow the 8237 DMA chip to access more than 64KB (a limit that wasn't a problem when used in a 8080 system).
"Simple, cheap, fast," and somewhere between inaccurate and wrong. From the article:
> To flag grants for their DEI involvement, Fox entered the following command into ChatGPT: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ in your response.” He then inserted short descriptions of each grant. Fox did nothing to understand ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” as used in the command or to ensure that ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” matched his own.
The culture warrior understanding of the term "DEI" does not reflect reality. The prompt is trash. Garbage in, garbage out.
This is somehow even stupider than similar reports of grants being canceled simply for containing specific keywords commonly used in scientific research but also on the culture warrior no-no list.
Women or minorities being there or being cared about is DEI.
Only men naturally matter. White men I mean. Only right wing white men, actually, bonus point if they are aggressive assholes. That makes them proper masculine.
> For example, the AI searches [purportedly related to DEI] flagged .... a film examining how the game of baseball was “instrumental in healing wounds caused by World War I and the 1980s economic standoff between the US and Japan,”
How at all is that DEI? (Surely that should be WWII, yes? The complaint also says "I".)
And, is this also DEI?
> another charting “the rise and reforms of the Native Americans boarding school systems in the U.S. between 1819 and 1934,”
American football would be impoverished without the contributions of Native Americans from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an experimental Native American boarding school.
Pratt, who founded the school, wrote "If all men are created equal, then why were blacks segregated in separate regiments and Indians segregated on separate tribal reservations? Why weren't all men given equal opportunities and allowed to assume their rightful place in society? Race became a meaningless abstraction in his mind." Is that also DEI?
Would you care to summarize what DEI means in reality?
Agreement or disagreement are irrelevant if you're asking the LLM for something more precise than generalized racial grievance labeled by the public as DEI.
> "Alt Codes" which are the majority of (my) shortcuts? e.g. Alt + H - I - S for Insert Sheet
Alt + H opens whatever menu H stands for, then the subsequent letters hit the appropriate menu items. The menus and their hotkeys would have to match the Office counterparts as well, and that's unlikely in normal free software clones. Not sure if it'll be that case here.
edit: After looking at what this tool does, I actually would not be surprised if you could just rewrite all the menus and their hotkeys...
Yeah, I do/did doubt this would port over the Alt Codes, though as you say I'm not sure someone couldn't just long-hand re-write the Alt Codes in either a mod/add-on/config file for any given Office competitor suite.
After all, the majority of the "mappings" are arbitrary/obscure anyway as only one option can "match" the letter (e.g. F is for File, so ForMulas needs to use M. I and D are used for legacy Office Shortcut compatibility so iNsert and dAtA use N and A respectively).
In other words, looking for a logic to these codes even in Office is a hiding to nothing anyway and it's really just a case of building muscle memory (or coming up with a bizarro-logic that helps e.g. "A is for dAtA").
It would be incredible to just be able to install a "365 Mode" or config where the full re-map has been done. I'm semi surprised this hasn't already existed for a long time, even to the point of being shipped built-in.
Yep and funnily enough it's less subtle/aesthetic than before. The letters appear as big yellow stickers over each UI button, making them very easy to find & learn.
They even kept the ability to use / instead of Alt, for those with Lotus 1-2-3 muscle memory. The muscle-memory problem experienced by office-software challengers is old.
A real problem. We know at least one of the actors made a concerted effort to hit the same buttons each time for a given action (Wesley at the helm). Hell, Doctor Crusher is often seen using a stylus on her PADDs... as a choice, by her actor, on purpose.
> AGPL (Affero General Pickle License): Same as GPL, but if you serve the sandwich over a network (delivery apps), you must also publish the recipe. This is why most restaurants avoid AGPL pickles.
I love a good APGL joke, and this one especially tickles me because I'm currently a delivery driver instead of a dev.
But this is about the first systems? I tend to tell people, the fourth try usually sticks.
The first is too ambitious and ends in an unmaintainable pile around a good core idea.
The second tries to "get everything right" and suffers second system syndrome.
The third gets it right but now for a bunch of central business needs. You learned after all. It is good exactly because it does not try to get _everything_ right like the second did.
The fourth patches up some more features to scoop up B and C prios and calls it a day.
Sometimes, often in BigCorp:
Creators move on and it will slowly deteriorate from being maintenaned...
Too many have forgotten what it means to administrate a single system. You can do a lot with very simple tooling.
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