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I recognize the domain name from playing some of his daily puzzles, namely Ronin and Cell Tower. https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/

That was a pretty good car analogy. Thank you. Edit to add: I'm unsure where assembly would sit in this analogy. Skateboard? Monocycle? Perhaps ice skates.

> we have 8 fingers In English. I'm Portuguese, so I have twenty fingers.

I take it he claims to have created these particular pictures of the fractal, which is likely true. And yes, the webpage containing them as well.

You underestimate what people are willing to do just for fun.

Trackballs are a thing as well.

Big Hairy Audacious Goal was a new one to me.

> Solipsism is essentially the one certainty that every mind out there has. Not I. I'm just a Boltzmann brain.

> be aware that there are too many bad game engines. In Rust land, where I am, there are three failed renderers, one unfinished one, and the one inside the Bevy engine. Those are t…

Same here. But I hibernate it, which defeats the purpose.

> astronut I honestly can't say for sure whether that was intentional or an actual typo. Good job.

Elastic tabspots everywhere would be ideal. But in the real world I think 'tabs to indent, spaces to align' is the superior way, as every dumb text editor will support it.

If you're good at SQL, or SQL-like languages like Linq, it might be more efficient precisely writing a reasonably complex query than trying to explain it in detail to an AI.

> You're absolutely right This got a smirk out of me.

Unless it's being observed externally it is in a state of quantum uncertainty, I think.

> if you [...] mentally integrate them properly. There it is.

> Careful not to mix unions with sum types, though. The key distinction is that the latter are disjunct sets, even if you "sum" together the same type twice, you can always tell wh…

Which brings us to: SpaceChem's soundtrack.

Elon Musk's ears are burning.

I don't remember which HN thread I've heard this joke originally from, but... People in Montenegro: it's not .yu, it's .me

> The core of what we were doing (Writing code) dictated the core of our tool kit (IDE). > > Now that we're not writing code anymore it's very exciting to see how this unfolds in t…

For what is worth, I prefer the name pomato to totato.

For what it's worth, it's what caught my attention. I wouldn't have found it so captivating if it had only said "Fixing Google Nano Banana Pixel Art". To be clear, it's not because…

If someone makes a presentation about this format, it will be a PEP talk.

> Once (a) models are capable enough to distinguish between semi-plausible garbage and possibly relevant text https://xkcd.com/810/