Now a new point of blame...instead of the devil made me do it, it will be: "ChatGPT said so/told me to..." The new age beckons! (note the sardonic tone...)

JoshK.

The Simpsons were prescient about this...although in elementary students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

JoshK.

Quite. And very true! :)

Although surprising, as the carnation is the flower of Japan.

Perhaps a rose by another name as the national flower of the United States? :) The zero-room in the TARDIS from Doctor Who always had the smell of roses. Maybe this is the reason...the Doctor never knew why. ??? :-)

JoshK.

Shakespeare was on to something...from his play Romeo and Juliet, spoken by Juliet Capulet (Act 2, Scene 2) to herself whilst on her balcony, The line...

That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk...

Or maybe Bill and Ted had a better idea...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

JoshK.

Futurama called it, although with a robot, not an LLM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

With the toxic chaos politically, the U.S. Senate investigating "illicit" romance...

JoshK.

Better forgiveness than permission. Make a billion pay a few million in legal settlement, and promise not to do it again...

Wow the last part sounds vaguely familiar...

JoshK.

Indeed, quite. A humorous word...

  I'd define the "Out-shittification" as when the crapification becomes the industry fad...and the next best thing that will align the planets, bring world peace; since sliced bread...

But as Hagrid said to Ron "Better out then in..."

https://youtu.be/MaRUKKfGvy4?t...

JoshK.

Where's the Microsoft out-house models? Gives new meaning to crapification or enshittification.

JoshK.

Nothing caught. Well the classic song summarizes it perfectly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Perhaps Apple should us this song playing on the next iPhone? :)

JoshK.

Or when regulators fine you $100 million (that you appeal) after making a $1 billion on the "app" you a fined for building it.

JoshK.

Could be worse...it could have been the Noid after a delivery. :-) https://villains.fandom.com/wi...

--JoshK.

I liked the TI-99/4a, I remember some of the cartridges, and the games. I remember doing "pair programming" as my friend would enter the code, and the Compute! magazine checksum would match. I loathed DATA statements all the numbers that did not make sense. :)

Oh yes QB64. I recently did some rewrites of some QBASIC for a colleague, his son is interested in programming, but I suggested going "retro" and play some of the QB64 games like Gorillas, and Sort Demo. I found some old IBM BASICA games, and one that played music. Much more fun than Python, or Java or C#. It seems BASIC of the 80s spawned a slew of business language clones, one that I think of is Xojo, the old "Real BASIC" (as opposed to Integer BASIC I supposed.). And the ubiquitous VB that made programming "so easy". :) Until time for maintenance or adding new features.

JoshK.

I spent the $300 or $400 to buy a disk drive, and it was twitchy at best. I remember some computer games that required you to "swap" the 5.25" floppy disks, if you didn't get it just right, you'd get a read error. But the datasette on the Commodore 64 was well it worked or it didn't. :)

JoshK.

I had the same problem, I switched on my Commodore 64 and the screen was...well I could tell something had happened but not what. I read later that Commodore 64's had a high failure rate. I sent it to a computer store, a high school friend handled it...but when I fell out with this friend, well the computer was gone. :( Then I moved up to Atari 800 XL :)

JoshK.