Stephen Illingworth

The blog author is way too forgiving of the LLM. Changing a break to a continue is a massive change in almost any context, and I'm concerned that these LLMs are prepared to do that without an explicit reason. A comment is not a good reason and if anything, the LLM should have changed the comment.

Extra strong response there, Dave.

v0.50.0 of Gopher2600 (nearly half way finished) #atari2600

Lots of changes in this release. Also thanks to Trebor for taking the time to work through his ROM collection. Surprisingly few issues.

github.com/JetSetIlly/G...

YouTube video by Open Studio Jazz Pianist Has To Learn Organ In 14 Minutes

I saw a fun video about the B3 this morning. Always good to learn a bit more about it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I27T...

Amusingly, Robocop 3 the computer game predated the movie by about two years. Whether the game was based on an early script, I don't know.

Another release of Gopher2600 the #atari2600 emulator for the discerning developer. github.com/JetSetIlly/G...

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I didn't understand the appeal of it at all.

112 Ocean Ave

YouTube video by Craven In Outer Space Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D

Yeah. This was the most realistic version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlG...

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

To paraphrase the Minority Report, this government project has pre-failed.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I first encountered Foundation through the BBC radio dramatisation when I was in my early teens. For me, that really was magic

It's not on BBC Sounds for some reason but you can probably find something on YouTube or the Internet Archive, although the ones I've found aren't great quality.

I really like it. I enjoy the different interpretation of familiar music. And more generally, I admire music that takes risks.

I also really like Metallica's Lulu but that might single me out as a complete weirdo.

Why Go? · microsoft typescript-go · Discussion #411 Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...

There's a discussion about this on the typescript-go github. There's no clear reason why they didn't choose C# but the reasons given in favour of Go in this instance are pretty solid I think.

github.com/microsoft/ty...

Either:
a) They've never heard of the Enola Gay
b) Are using a simple pattern matching algorithm
c) Both
Assuming (b) then it might even be less sophisticated than the systems that censors the words Middlesex and Scunthorpe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuntho...

Preview 3 fixes an issue with the value of "video black", as well as some performance improvements and DPC fixes

github.com/JetSetIlly/G...

LISP Programming: Beta 1.0 + Holiday Type-in Games + Squirrels Play the game at github.io, and check out the latest code on GitHub! New: Type-in Games at the VCS Lisp Festivus UPDATE 2024-12-27: Updated binary - one more day left of sample programs... UPDATE 2024...

Dave Christianson on AtariAge has written a pretty decent Lisp for the 2600. Much better than the old BASIC cartridge in my opinion, but obviously still limited.

And only 4k too! So definitely a cartridge that could have existed back in the day.

forums.atariage.com/topic/353031...

The official "Renegade" cut removes all the alien references, thankfully. It's still terrible but I'd be interested to know if the Prime offering is that version or the original theatrical version

Preview 2 of v0.40.0 of Gopher2600 an emulator of the #atari2600 console

github.com/JetSetIlly/G...

I'm very pleased about this. I love bell bottoms. Getting mine out of mothballs TODAY.

It's both a good idea and bad idea. It's a good idea in the case of the 2600 because of some games not adhering to the standard

But for new 2600 games, automation would add an additional layer of control creating a pseudo-console

Brief follow-up:
jetsetilly.github.io/Gopher2600-B...

If you like a tasty and uncomplicated #biscuit then I recommend Le Petit Beurre. I've eaten lots. What more proof do you need.

I'm disappointed that Ollie Pope doesn't come out of the pavilion in a puff of white smoke #cricket

Then you must see the blue footed booby. Not a duck but a delight all the same.

I honestly thought he was referring to progressive metal band, Dream Theater. I was very confused.

Cover of Monica, the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.

Reading Daniel Clowes' Monica. I love everything about it!

Catching up on the snooker. It's amazing that Ronnie O'Sullivan is now the youngest person to ever win the UK Championship and also the oldest person to win the UK Championship.

I don't think there's another sport with a comparable statistic.

Interesting. Thanks.

Funnily enough, I'm currently reading Atoms and Ashes by Serhii Plokhy but I don't recall reading anything about buckets. What's the short story on that? (I'll put Atomic Accidents on the reading list)