- Eh, I think this one’s just a mistake on my part, but you can’t edit the URL after posting. Sorry about that!
- AI slop. At a glance, it seems accurate, but I’m not looking at it too closely.
- don't forge the classic slop conclusion "zubba zubba is about more than just rutabaga worship -- it's about x, y, and z. If you rode the fleeb way back when, your feels are all feeling."
- I believe it’s referring to these: https://archive.org/details/Developers_Handbook_for_the_Appl...
https://github.com/bruno185/Apple-II-Mouse-Graphics-Toolkit-...
- > - The primary effect (as far as I can tell) was in convincing all the executives at Apple of the value of the GUI.
That's my takeaway as well. Larry Tesler says as much somewhere.
I'm not sure about the talent thing. The overall vision for the Mac as a shipping product came from Steve Jobs, who was never really an engineer. The original Mac team members have been very clear on this point. The engineers, however talented and visionary, necessarily had smaller scope (which is why they were engineers and not executives).
- This experience is still available at the fruit company for those who are interested.
- The ex-NeXT people used to maintain a little museum of running NeXTstep/OpenStep boxes at the Apple campus, and one was a Sun workstation running one of the first builds of NeXTstep. It was unusably slow and difficult to use.
- Just want to drop an observation here that the final version of the Unix shell — V6 — that Ken was solely responsible for may have been limited in functionality compared to the V7 shell, but the syntax was much cleaner and less difficult to understand. Mashey and Bourne have much to answer for.
- It'd be interesting to see comparisons to contemporary compilers. IIRC, GCC's output was notably not very good back in the day compared to any commercial 68k compiler, although I assume this is a more recent version of GCC.
- In casual conversation, yeah. I'll forgive it in classified ads and such; better to be precise with money on the line to prevent misunderstandings.
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As someone else mentioned, AI proofing for non-native English speakers is a thing which can be necessary. If you're, say, a native Farsi speaker who's super into vintage retro computing, you probably don't have a lot of Farsi-language options (and if you are a Farsi-speaker, I'd love a post on 70s/80s computers in Persia - and I won't mind if it's AI-assisted). Here on TSB, I'd say even if it clearly looks AI written, it needs to also be inaccurate, trite or off-point to be called out. Your previous AI call out was spot on, this one... not so much.