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Oh yeah, "nine blue fish" would make a lot more sense there.

> if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, I don't get this. What does the proportion of…

Marty: Organised crime? Cosmo: Trust me, it ain't that organised!

Part of my headcanon for Sneakers is that Agent Abbot (Jones) is actually Admiral Greer (Jones' character from The Hunt for Red October / Patriot Games / Clear and Present Danger )…

Um, malloc() is not a system call?

But then strings with the hash code HASH_MAX would wrap to 0 instead.

Can't believe no-one else has made a comment about how great the form id "230" (tooth-hurty) is, yet. Bravo.

Is there a 2010-era feature you're relying on that LibreOffice doesn't have yet? When was the last security update for MS Office 2010? Wikipedia reckons sometime in late 2020. It m…

> At a Morgan Stanley conference this month, Brian Robins, finance chief for San Francisco-based software maker GitLab, said GitLab is aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the c…

I need to give a name to my theory which posits that horseshoe theory is a bullshit right-wing talking point, no different from the classic villain trope "We are not so different, …

That takes a really long time though. Most domestic dogs can still breed with wild wolves after ~14,000 years of being pretty well separated by humans, and after some fairly substa…

> During the discussion, Hu said that even if product builders rely heavily on AI, one skill they would have to be good at is reading the code and finding bugs. Naturally, that bri…

Yeah, these new-fangled "compilers" will never catch on. Programmers who rely on them will stop learning machine code, and won't know how their program really works. That's if the …

> On the minerals front, the US doesn't need anything from Ukraine. Need's got nothing to do with it. Bullies don't take what you have because they need it, they take it because th…

Yeah, thinking of the puzzle as a game , rather than a competition , allows for a different perspective. If I think of a competition , then I'd expect the rules to be determined ah…

What if it turns out that the radical (square root) symbol is a letter from a language (if a little squished)? And we somehow figure out one day which letter it is, for sure? https…

But also, if the criteria for allowed functions is that they are "reasonable, elemental" (as per the fine article), then I think it would be quite hard to come up with a set of rul…

So nice that the site still has an "email etiquette" page - so few of those still around these days! https://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm

Well, the earliest version of the code that would morph first into a terminal emulator, and eventually become Linux "was written to use one thread to write the letter A to the scre…

I think that's debatable. Many open source licenses have a definition of accessible source code that is similar to: > The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the w…

In a similar vein, there's Device Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/@DeviceOrchestra/videos

> Has its own JRE bundled, and uses that one if you don't have any JRE installed. > Starts in 5 seconds, uses ~600MB of RAM (less than VSCode!), and works very snappy. > The trick …

And a bowl of M&Ms, with all the brown ones taken out - to make sure they did read this far.

Don't focus on how naive you were then, think about how much you've grown since. Well done! Imagine if you don't learn anything new in the next 25 years, and all your opinions stay…