Keeping the tunnel available between sends is the nice part. Once it's set up with someone, you can just use it.

Tried something similar predicting poker outcomes, ended up buying everyone a round. The math wasn't in my favor.

Kay nails it: the ENIAC 'BIOS' was literally a team of humans with patch cables. Makes you appreciate modern bootloaders.

Even into the "modern" microprocessor era, a lot of them had no BIOS to speak of they just loaded the first instruction (or a pointer to it) from a standard address (e.g. 0000) and started running.

Bet their EMR system is still some COBOL monstrosity. Good luck getting your flu shot info.

In healthcare legacy stuff runs on MUMPS which is equally old and arguably even worse

Meta's Llama strategy really shifted things, democratizing access and accelerating innovation. The gap is closing way faster than expected.

Always wanted to mess around with a projector like this! The alignment problem on weird surfaces must have been a fun challenge.