José Ramón

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@XMihura ¿Sabes que el fabricante de la máquina (ONA) es de Durango?

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

I was writing some code the new-school way yesterday, prompting gpt-4.1 through aider, and for whatever reason my mind flashed back 50 years and the utter freaking enormity of it all crashed in on me like a tidal wave.

And now I want to make you feel that, too.

In 1975 I ran programs by feeding punched cards into a programmable calculator. Actual computers were still giant creatures that lived in glass-walled rooms, though there were rumors from afar of a thing called an Altair.

Unix and C had not yet broken containment from Bell Lab; DOS and the first IBM PC were six years away. The aggregated digital computing capacity of the entire planet was roughly equivalent to a single modern smartphone.

We still used Teletypes as production gear because even video character terminals barely existed yet; pixel-addressable color displays on computers were a science-fiction dream.

We didn't have version control. Public forge sites wouldn't be a thing for 25 years yet. The number of computer games that existed in the world could probably be counted on the fingers of two hands.

Because of all this, I learned to program over the next ten years with tools so primitive that when I talk about them today it sounds like uphill-both-ways sketch comedy.

You may not even be able to imagine what a slow and laborious process programming was then, and how tiny the volume of code we could produce per month was; I have to work to remember it, myself.

Today I call spirits from the vasty deep, conversing with unhuman intelligences and belting out finished programs I would once have considered prohibitively complex to attempt within a single working day.

Fifty years, many generations of hardware technology, from punched cards to AIs that can pass the Turing test...and I'm still here, still coding, still on top of what a software engineer needs to know to get useful work done in the current day. Gotta admit I feel some pride in that!

This meditation isn't supposed to be about me, though. It's about the dizzying, almost unbelievable progress I've lived through and been a part of. If you had told me to predict when I would have a device in my pocket that would give me instant real-time access to most of the world's knowledge, with my own pet homunculi to sift through it for me, I would have been one of the few that wouldn't have said "never" (because I was already a science-fiction fan), but I wouldn't have predicted a date fewer than multiple centuries in the future either.

We've come a hell of a long way, baby. And the fastest part of the ride is only beginning. The Singularity is upon us. Everything I've lived through and learned was just prologue.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@RedSpmn @MeteoSantMateu En Madrid se vio muy bien mirando hacia el Este. Parecía caer en vertical.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@calaspaga En Madrid a las 19:37 mirando hacia el este

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@DchaSpinozista La alfombra hace que la lámpara, el sofá y la cama estén inclinados, lo demás aparte de la columna es aceptable. El cuadro me lo quedo.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@ACBoveda “Certos sectores” foi a “Hermandad Gallega”, onde non lle escoitou ninguén, e o “comportamento” foin non nomealo secretario de cultura

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@davidmejiaNY @Dukenan16 No es así: debe tener ingresos inferiores al IPREM, que es bastante menor que el salario mínimo.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@hispano__ Un pensionista con 2000€ de pensión, al superar 3 veces el IPREM, paga el abono completo.

[Future Electronics @FutureElec]

A message on COVID-19 from our Executive Vice-President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

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[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@carlos2mar Gracias por el trabajo de los últimos años, para que hoy los demás podamos resolver asuntos con la administración, desde casa y sin hacer colas en oficinas concurridas.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@eslosiguiente Y no se rindan, que hasta el out 27 no se acaba el juego.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@eslosiguiente Lo siguiente a ponchado es que te agarren fuera de base.

[Kikolo @kikolo777]

Yo no sé cómo se lo montan, pero cada año hay un par de eclipses y todos son los últimos que se verán hasta dentro de trescientos años.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

@JotDownSpain Ni más ni menos - Los Chichos.

[José Ramón @NovoaJoseR]

#ponlefecha #imparablescontralaleucemia

[Littelfuse @Littelfuse]

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[El Barroquista @elbarroquista]

#HisteriaDelArte cuando cambiarías la visita al Panteón por hacer un agujero en un cartón porque no ves gran diferencia.

[Future Electronics @FutureElec]

Thank you Panasonic for awarding Future Europe "Demand Creation Distribution Award 2017" The award was given by Tobias Erthle to Justin Palmer and Olivier Mannina.

[MGaussage @MGaussage]

La Tierra siempre ha sido plana, la veis redonda por las vacunas que os han puesto.

[Fundación Aladina @FundAladina]

RT! Este bombón es José María, tiene Leucemia y necesita una médula ósea 100% compatible ¿nos ayudas difundiendo 😉? #donameduladonavida