Mouse scroll wheel works, too

I would have expected something other than false for "se7en".

I don't mind getting a welcome email. It also tells me when somebody has attempted to sign up for a service using my email address.

What I find annoying is services that only send the welcome email once, and don't let you resend it if you never receive it.

> I don't have an actual paper tape reader, so the object code is directly deposited in memory through the console.

So, really, a Turing Machine is all you need?

I dealt with physical paper tape on only three or four occasions in the early 1980's, each time terrified of a jam or tear. It seems in this case it's a read-once operation, which is plausible. Read-many, not so much. Punch cards are orders of magnitude more reliable.

Disastrous decisions like ads, phoning home, and AI integration? I'm pretty sure MS brass considers those smart business decisions; even if those features fail, they will attempt to pivot them to something more successful rather than roll them back and admit defeat.

The irony is that if they taught COBOL today, those grads could likely get a good job working on legacy code.

I took a COBOL course during undergrad in 1998. Glad I was exposed to it, but I never did anything with it.

Yeah, for sure there are some edge cases, and COBOL is a big one, since there's a LOT of banking/finance stuff built on it.

FWIW, my employer just deprecated our legacy COBOL (1-2 modules out of many), replaced with Java. It took years to make that transition.

It does:

> At the risk of getting a bit esoteric, I want to spend a moment with the actual source code to Dialector [...]

He makes many quotations, but doesn't give the (reconstructed) source. The quotations made me want to see the rest. As kosmavision points out it's visible at https://dialector.poptronics.fr/dialector_documents/ADisquet... The emulator at https://dialector.poptronics.fr/ prints a sort of trace on the right hand side, which was helpful as I was asking claude what was going on.

Clicking any of the videos/channels doesn't cause the videos to play. What am I missing?

> Working within constraints teaches you something, I think.

It absolutely does. But every system has constraints; even when provided with massive resources, humans tend to try things that exceed those resources, as evidenced by Parkinson's Law of data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

I read "AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas" and I thought it was a shared canvas (as in an image) that virtual agents could contribute to, sort of like an image-only Moltbook.