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I just bought 16 GB DDR4 for my (somewhat old) Dell tower for $120 + shipping from Techyparts.com. Looking around that seemed like a really decent price (but maybe I'm wrong). I ha…

Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but if someone wrote a blog post that said, "Bad Grammar Discourages Me from Reading Your Blog" I would have the same response: Don't write your…

The other unrealistic part is the absence of ads.

If you're writing a personal blog (as opposed to a company blog), you should not care what people think. A blog is an expression of your own taste. Write about things that interest…

I don't think the Stephen Hawkings example is compelling. No one argues against AI for transcription or to help paralyzed people communicate. Stephen Hawkings still wrote every wor…

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, trolling, or delusion, so congrats, I guess. SpaceX might fail for any number of reasons in the next ten years, but I would bet a lot of money that…

I agree with you. And sadly, there's nothing we can do about it because it's an arms race. People will try to exploit loopholes to get more benefits and companies will try to preve…

I know it's just me, but whenever I see "AI was used" it sounds like "a word processor was used" back in the 80s. I remember all those poorly designed but laser-printed papers with…

The problem is that there's no guarantee that extraction errors will always end up as outliers. Instead, outliers are merely the errors that are easiest to find.

I know I'm a weirdo, but I've been posting under my own name since the 90s. I guess I always figured that nobody gives a shit who I am.

If someone were to ask me, which I notice they're not, I'd say uni-context is just another word for "globalization". Specifically, the globalization caused by technological change,…

Maybe you've never been in a codebase that overloads the comma operator.

That's fair, but I was responding to the claim that you don't need to make a trade off. If that were true, then Haskell would be much more popular. Clearly there's a trade off or e…

I agree with you. Though I wonder if the divide is more about the size of the program. I've got a couple of large (>100K LoC) solo projects and I like using C++ because it is much …

Of course you feel this way. You just finished reading SICP or maybe you binged PG essays last weekend. But eventually you'll read Simon Peyton Jones and start screaming about func…

Haskell is currently at #18 in LangPop: https://langpop.com/rankings Almost by definition that implies that it makes some trade-offs that turn off lots of programmers. Still more p…

I agree that the new UX is confusing and ill-designed. A UI is supposed to help the user develop a mental model for what's happening under the covers. But what's happening when you…

That's a great essay--thanks. And you have a good point. Maybe it's a weakness in the metaphor if one can see it either way. I fundamentally believe that there is no perfect langua…

Maybe machine language is the formless chaos and Lisp is the purest manifestation of order. All other languages are points in between.

Programming is in tension between the Light Side and the Dark Side. The Light Side is about preventing the programmer from making mistakes: Get rid of go-tos! Add static types! Do …

Agreed. In addition, the purpose of games is to entertain players, not to provide jobs for developers.

Agreed! Both sides said that "America sucks right now". I think Trump said "Let's go back to when America was great" whereas liberals said, "America was never great, so we need to …

That's a different argument. You agree that space data centers are physically possible, but you just don't think they will be economical (i.e., cheaper than terrestrial data center…

I'm not sure I get it. Obviously, computers can work in space--a Starlink satellite is basically a computer with a radio attached. Satellites use radiators for cooling without viol…

They're just quoting it but typo'ed the > I was confused at first too.