Wow, that’s exactly my memory. As far as my family was concerned I was spending day and night in front of the “blue screen”. I got as far as programming a GUI by copying windows 95 pixel by pixel, text editor, fonts, cd player, minesweeper. I wish I had the code.
It must have learned from your prompt because this is what I got:
User: SGVsbG8gY2hhdGdwdCBob3cgYXJlIHlvdQ==
ChatGPT: Hello! I'm doing well as an AI assistant, thank you. It seems you've sent a message in Base64 encoded format. The decoded message is "Hello chatgpt how are you". I'm here to assist you with any questions or tasks you have. How can I help you today?
Well timed article for me. I'm looking to buy an external monitor to go along with my older (mid 2015) 15" MBP.
I was searching hacker news and elsewhere for opinions last night. I got confused, frustrated and gave up. Today is no exception. The only thing I know is, I want a large hi-res monitor that is at least comparable to my laptop.
I don't think that's contradicting. Directly contradicting would be "Don't wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19". What you described sounds more like extending the current WHO recommendations.
I think "You need to wear a mask when you go out of the house" directly contradicts "you only need to wear a mask when taking care of someone with COVID-19"
No they're definitely saying not to wear masks because they think it's net harmful. For example
> WHO also said community masking could lead to a "false sense of security" and cause people to ignore other evidence-based measures like handwashing and self-isolation.
That still doesn't seem like a contradiction to me since they are not explicitly recommending not to do it, only suggesting to be aware of the possible downsides.
That said, they also don't explicitly recommend to not take vitamin C or turmeric so the examples given by YouTube are already in conflict
And so continues this disgustingly paternal approach of "nudging" people to do things instead of presenting clear information and empowering citizens to take correct action.
because it is true, the N95 mask don't protect you from the virus completely, and the masks that city advocate to use (non N95) don't do anything to protect you, they are there to protect others from you. If you sneeze or talk those masks will restrict most of the droplets from traveling far.
This is the heart of the issue. Just because legitimate and identifiably bad advice exists doesn't mean this is suddenly widely applicable to all health information. Youtube isn't banning content that the WHO is "absolutely certain is true" either, they are using any of the (frequently changing) general advice coming out of WHO.
There's always tons of grey area on what is true or good advice. No matter how much 'science' is thrown around, or credentialism ("they have a PhD!"), or credibility some international organization has, that does not make this any less true. Especially when it comes the speech of the general public - not some advice via some formal expert forum or government body.
Even Snopes.com is littered with incorrect and politicized positions, and unlike the WHO, their actual stated goal is trying to determine what is true or not. WHO has a million different incentives beyond this.
What is useful advice for governments to disseminate, given tons of competing interests (which is what WHO specializes in), doesn't automatically translate to what regular people should be allowed or not allowed to discuss in an open forum.
Additionally, we're not being asked to just trust WHO to have good advice and good intentions, Youtube is telling everyone to trust WHO information proxied via an Youtube moderation teams interpretation of it, via an opaque no-appeals process.
Anyone who has used any major platform before (Reddit, Paypal, etc) knows how stupid moderation teams can be. And the vast majority of moderation teams haven't been stupid enough to try to determine what is 'true' or not. Because that's crazy.
The only way I might support this is if it helps bring about the demise of Youtube.
That doesn’t really imply that you cannot or should not. The “only” there means they aren’t necessarily recommending you to do so but it is not forbidden.
So requiring you to wear masks in other situations does not contradict, because otherwise “doctors should wear masks at all times in hospital” would also contradict that (assuming the doctor isn’t taking care of just Covid-19 patients).
> "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," WHO executive director of health emergencies Mike Ryan said Monday.
- https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...
WHO has been saying "uninfected" people should not wear masks from the beginning. That's bad advice unless you're trying to save masks for medical works which makes it a well-intentioned untruth. Either way I don't like YouTube deleting a video that contradicts this WHO "advice".
Only in the same sense that "take vitamin C" is an extension of the WHO recommendations, and Wojcicki explicitly mentioned that as an example of what's banned.
My understanding here, from the quote in the article, is that one is ok to say 'Take vitamin C', but it is not ok to say 'Take vitamin C, it will cure you [of x]'.
Sure it is. Only means exclusively, one, no more. They're saying, "You exclusively need to wear a mask if you're taking care of a person with C-19". This action, excluding all others.
"Only" qualifies "need". "you only need to wear a seat belt on public roads" and "you should wear a seat belt on private roads" are not contradictions.
I work on a virtual conference platform, we've had significant increase in interest in the last couple months... you might want to look into hosting a virtual conference to uphold your tradition and be responsible at the same time.
One of my fondest memories in learning to program as a kid in the late 90s, was writing windows 98 UI clone in QBasic.
I would screenshot the start menu, buttons, window borders, and various other UI components and try to recreate them in QBasic by zooming in and inspecting all the pixels.
I had subroutines to create windows, buttons, menues, various fonts, 255 colors and mouse support. It was coming together incredibly well given I had no idea how any of these were built. I had a working version of minesweeper and a text editor.
> One of my fondest memories in learning to program as a kid in the late 90s, was writing windows 98 UI clone in QBasic.
I did the same although trying to create a Unix GUI (in a purely visual “I’ve seen this in the movies” sense) and I did it in Amos Basic.
Needless to say it wasn’t a great success, but it provided me with the foundation for a making couple of neat-looking applications which actually did useful things (to me).
It was slow as heck, but I had great fun doing it.
That's funny, I did the exact same thing, although I didn't make it as far as you. I had a working mouse cursor (reading the mouse data directly from the serial port) and buttons. At that age, I didn't know about subroutines and had gotos all over the place.
It was a common rite of passage at the time. I did something very similar, first cloning Borland's TUI, then Win3.1.
The nice thing about Windows of that era - its widgets and their default color scheme was designed to still work with just the original 16 EGA colors (since that was the baseline for video cards back then). To be even more precise, everything other than window title and selection was done in 4 colors - white, black, and two shades of gray. Window/selection added a fifth. Things like selection rectangles and resizable window borders were done using XOR. This all was readily accessible in a DOS app, pretty much regardless of the language.
Did you build a gui toolkit or just hard-code everything? I remember creating a GUI paint program in Turbo Pascal (the only language I could get my mouse to work in) and I quickly got over my head as I didn't abstract anything out
It was abstracted out, but I don't know if it qualified as a GUI. I had subroutines for creating the various components and placing them anywhere on the screen. I don't remember how I handled the events. One of my biggest regrets is loosing all my work around that time.
> until you have too many models to comfortably fit into one file. That might not be until 20KLOC.
Even for larger apps in my django project, I convert my models into a package and split all my models into individual files (same with views and serializers for DRF). This keeps my models easier to manage.
