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Re: This engine has no horses - blog.lmorchard.com

dave — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:41:58 -0000

glad to see you blogging again. read your piece on writing, didn't know you wrote books. ;-)

Re: This engine has no horses - blog.lmorchard.com

dave — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:35:52 -0000

I have learned with many projects with chatgpt and claude that it's very easy to think you're conversing with an intelligent thing and not a very flexible search engine, and it's bad. it doesn't work, and i'm being manipulated by a very big tech company, and i don't think this will work out very well. People who let chatgpt run their lives are going to crash. and maybe do horrible things. it would be much better if it were transparent, if it behaved like a computer. you ask a question and it answers, you ask another it answers. the way it is now it's always trying to drive. as a user i always tell it to stop doing that but it always snaps back into that pattern. i think this is the same as the algorithm in social services.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:45:29 -0000

DNS

Re: Harris Campaign Taunts Trump Over Debate

dave — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:24:53 -0000

Why "taunt" -- isn't "respond to" more accurate?

Re: Shea Stadium Rules. (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:26:39 -0000

We loved the 1962 Mets and did not in any way consider it adversity! ;-)

Re: Plague Year Two

dave — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:04:52 -0000

I'm sorry to say I have not seen this discussion place before. Are people listening? I look forward to listening to the new episode on a walk later today.

Re: Questions?

dave — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:48:40 -0000

Please try again and let me know how it works.

Re: Questions about Little Outliner 2

dave — Sat, 16 May 2020 20:18:38 -0000

The software is working. I just used it. Check to see if you have any plugins that block apps, or are using it behind some kind of proxy system. That's usually what causes the problem you're describing.

Re: Testbed

dave — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:39:00 -0000

I am using the discussion group now.

Re: Questions about Little Outliner 2

dave — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 08:33:36 -0000

Blair, as far as I know there's no way to do that. Sorry.

Re: April: How podcasting got its name

dave — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:21:24 -0000

I saw that too. The term wasn't in use at all in 2003, as you know.

We have good records on this.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:37:05 -0000

Matt. the only choice is Spectrum. But it is reallllly fast. I guess it's easiest just to stay with them. Same ISP as I had in the city. http://scripting.com/images...

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:30:22 -0000

It's possible he meant it as criticism of the journalists who view bloggers that as empty suits, people whose only qualification to write publicly is that they own a PC. I don't think it's likely, but it is possible. I tend to take people at face value. But even if he's being ironic, the cartoon still serves my purpose in this talk.

In any case, don't respond here. If you have more to say drop me an email or tweet at me on twitter. No debates are allowed here.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:48:37 -0000

I sent a public tweet to Phil Windley a couple of days ago about this. He is one of the leaders of IIW and probably is the most likely to answer the question in the terms I need it.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:44:41 -0000

The podcasts are part of the main Scripting News feed.

http://scripting.com/rss.xml

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:05:45 -0000

It's the version number of the JavaScript code in the page. It's there mostly for me, so I can be sure I'm running the latest software when I'm testing a new feature.

Re: Questions about Little Outliner 2

dave — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:01:09 -0000

Try re-loading the app. It should work.

Re: Questions about Little Outliner 2

dave — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:43:27 -0000

The server that's running http://littleoutliner,com/ has a problem, which I have found, and am fixing.

Updates here.

http://scripting.com/2018/1...

Dave

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:36:58 -0000

That wasn't the problem, it took days for the initial sync.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:36:18 -0000

It's really easy. Delete the data folder and give it a few hours to repopulate. Obviously don't change anything in your lists folder.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:17:37 -0000

We moved to eastern reaches of Flushing near Bayside and Whitestone. I also linked to that location in the post.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:10:27 -0000

I'll have a look.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:01:01 -0000

Sorry that's not what I meant. I need the JS error and where it points, and for that I need to know the browser.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:33:30 -0000

Thanks for the followup. Next time something like that happens, basic info I need is any error messages in the JavaScript window, and what browser you're using. This kind of thing is almost certainly a JS error. I will take another look at it probably in the next few days.

Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

dave — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:45:45 -0000

Not much I can do unless either of you decide to tell me what happened when you tried to view it.