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Copyright doesn't cover the results of code, nor the methods used in the code, techniques and algorithms aren't covered by copyright. Period. Copyright applies to 'the work'. If yo…

They aren't 10x gains. They're more like 3.5x gains. But still worth it. By a lot.

you are never going to get away from reading the code every time. at least I haven't seen how you could possibly. That being said, it is considerably less work to read and check th…

Parsing is the front end to a compiler. Can't get semantics without first recognizing syntax. I have a hard time thinking about programming languages without seeing them as a parsi…

I learned from the Dragon Book, decades ago. I already knew a lot of programming at that point, but I think most people writing compilers do. I'm curious if there really is an audi…

And they say you can't learn anything about computers from these bots... I had to learn this lesson from giving a shell account to one of my compatriots. I worked with him on group…

To be clear, I mean AI is going to be the downfall of ad supported content. But let's face it. We have link farms and spam factories as a result of the ad supported content market.…

This is ultimately just going to give them training material for how to avoid this crap. They'll have to up their game to get good code. The arms race just took another step, and i…

It's super expensive for them to run this hardware. And they need the compute for other things. Everyone who's cursed open AI for going down in the middle of the day whenever they'…

Some advice I follow, and give to others: Refuse notifications by default. Only enable them when you're getting paid to see them. (slack and work email, for example count as gettin…

I could do that, but then I'd have to maintain it. I used to hostfile hack my devices. but the vpn is just easier.

Transaction costs make it inefficient. Costs more to effect the transfer than they would be able to charge for the articles.

The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane life. But I tried lo…

Hypercard is really kind of like the first implementation of HTML5. With applescript instead of javascript.

I don't disagree, but neither does the article. It's just talking about the fact that we previously considered anything that can't be easily and tersely written down as nearly or e…

Word and wordpad are terrible for editing code snippets tho, markdown solves this problem.

This would be a huge bonus for me if I ever had to use windows for anything.

I'm 46 but same. I'm not quite as melancholy about it, but I do feel a lot of this.

I never saw Atari software for sale in the same magazines, but I'm sure it was available somewhere.

In the 1980's, computer software was sold in catalogs and magazines. Users had either of three platforms: A Macintosh, a PC-Compatible (probably x86), or a Commodore/Amiga. So thes…

fun thing about this page: i have gemini in the browser and when I asked it 'why is the entire Wall Family naming these things?' it said it couldn't engage. Turns out 'goatse' is a…

I recently read about 'in thread' ads, like on Twitter, as being not as effective unless they are 'brand recognition' ads. Like, they will help you decide which one to pick when yo…

AdGuard as a local VPN also bans unskippable Ads without the pesky legal enforcement baggage.

seems like blaming the users is the appropriate thing to do. just like blaming users for how they misuse guns and or photoshop.

it was a PR stunt. I think it was probably largely well-received except by a few like this.