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Met him at GenCon UK in the 1990s. His Doc-From-Back-To-The-Future energy was absolutely mesmeric. He had five towers of D10s in a plastic tubes. Three towers was the standard dice…

I code modern C# during the day and Unity for fun and I found this a really good roundup. It's also worth noting that Unity does all sorts of OO-breaking filth before passing to IL…

XML was much better than what was there before - which was a different standard for every endpoint and often no structure at all. XML allowed you to use tools to build automaticall…

I own my grandfather's slide rule, he was a master toolmaker for Rolls Royce (aerospace engines) in North London during WW2.

The title is irritating, conflating AI with LLMs. LLMs are a subset of AI. I expect future systems will be mobs of expert AI agents rather than relying on LLMs to do everything. An…

Two things! - Videogame, you live inside a mechanical ladybird called a Clomper, which you control by making pipes to power machines with steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/…

I was asked by an SME to code on a whiteboard for an interview (in 2005? I think?). I asked if I could have a computer, they said no. I asked if I would be using a whiteboard durin…

I've accidentally been using an AI-proof hiring technique for about 20 years: ask a junior developer to bring code with them and ask them to explain it verbally. You can then talk …

It's scrubbed for today: Blue Origin on Twitter: https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1878715911563313651

Wonderful! My PhD was in stream anomaly detection using dynamic neural networks in 2003. Can't wait to go deep through this paper and find out what the latest thinking is. Thanks, …

This has been my life for the last 10 years and I know who my children really are. They're evil and I love it.

The only one that directly annoys me is not being able to have threaded comments at the PR level. https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/552 You can do it with "quoting", which i…

Then I would ask anyone to keep building on knowledge rather than training for an arbitrary benchmark. Filling your short-term memory with knowledge to be then dumped straight afte…

Exams are a poor measure of proficiency. Proficiency is gained by doing and stretching a skill over time. You can measure that in small increments than a periodic exam. At the end …

IMO education is still built around Victorian structures and needs to be reworked from examinations downwards. Examinations are an exercise in being good at examinations, not profi…

Not the case universally. My son's school in south-central UK does everything via Google Docs or apps specially built for distance learning. If it weren't for Minecraft mods, he'd …

Articles like this remind me how little the browser environment has moved on in recent times. Now all the work is done by the frameworks.

Independent researcher without academic address; can't get in. Best of luck.

I give it 6 months before someone goes to trial for sharing AI-generated CP and is acquitted.

ESET started scanning SSL certificate chains for nodejs, which is a good feature. If you're using node without a full chain then it will block the requests. Unfortunately, they did…

All of the above! Additionally... I think AI companies are trying to steer the conversation about safety so that when regulations do come in (and they will) that the legal culpabil…

Thanks for the tips! I'll admit not having done enough research yet - you've helped me do some shortcutting.

Article is 3.5 years old, best put the year in the title, OP! I think the definition of serverless is too narrow (AWS lambdas/ Azure functions) and that serverless is really "I wan…

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