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referring to John Woolridge's recent talk? "the car wash is only 200 feet away, should I drive or walk?" His slide showed Opus 4.6 saying "walk". I couldn't get 4.6 to do that.

This was the way of the first TMS34010 cards for Autocad (circa 1988). You'd have a EGA/VGA card for the host, and the graphics processor would drive the high-resolution graphics d…

Whoa. In my grade school years, I made many maps of my imaginary world. By high school, I was putting them into my computer, one 16x16 grid at a time. Had to make sure the edges ma…

Well, this is sad.

So the author is doing a self-learning exercise about profiling pre-production code, and you're disagreeing with them by comparing it to a commercial contract. I'm sure you've neve…

Cool! My first downvote!

Sure, it logically makes no sense. But while learning a new subject, have you never made a silly mistake like: bool getSchemaSizes(size_t * expectedBatchSize, size_t * expectedEntr…

Do you think the author is somehow capable of writing the entire codebase, but not able to reason about code??? I'm sure you've never made a silly mistake where you passed the wron…

I guess you've never made a silly mistake, found it, and admitted it. The author wrote this as a learning exercise. And is sharing the process.

read the whole article. WAL is the transaction log and the author tested correctness after a crash.

> at least it would be some measure of justice. It’s sad that it will hurt the other franchisees the most.

It’s not just science reporting. It’s visceral.

Also, there’s the stimulus causing nymphs to not be solitarious slow green grass-nibbles, but instead transform into armored, black and yellow, upright marching machines that matur…

Monarchs are threatened during migration. It’s about how many individuals survive the round trip to breed more. Drought and fire are two natural factors that destroy their migratio…

Gotta give credit, the gimmick is not superfluous. I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!

They’re letting us test drive the Ferrari while they extract our data. Then they’ll raise the price.

>Does a motor vehicle get "sleep" when it is serviced? When I reboot a computer, is that equivalent to a nap? Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Merged PR #1337 Squashing commit history to get rid of vi call-outs. This commit was created in emacs, the best text editor ever!

but what does that even mean?

I tried giving a dictionary of "preferred recognitions" to the OCR but got no improvement. I might do what you said, column sensitive. A first-pass assembler which does spell check…

A more realistic scenario that surely must have been considered is this: They make a strategic investment in the DRAM maker. It's the same idea as buying an equity stake or enterin…

Yup. "I wonder how long the codebot will be combobulating over that prompt?" I'll just rest my hands for a sec..."

Hmm, doesn't say anything about what OCR tools they used. I've got a 4" stack of wide-carriage COBOL. I guess it's two revisions of the same system so I only need to scan the newer…

I remember a cartoon of college kids opening beer cans. “Beers that say their own name:” Schlitz! Pabst! Busch! Blatz!

I’m not certain, though I have been to the Laverne and Shirley temple in Sprecher Brewery, but: Hassenpfeffer sounds like a play on Harnischfegger, a maker of heavy construction eq…