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I'd agree with you based on the language itself; Lua has some annoying idiosyncrasies like e.g. (my main pet peeve) 1-based indexing. But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem…

https://youtu.be/nplkSmHC780 Edit: Also, if you're looking for earworms and like loopy melodies, check out David Fenn's Soundtrack for Moonlighter: https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.…

…minutes before a bunch of Vogons show up to finally get started with their intergalactic highway and the result never makes it to the prompter ;)

Imagine someone sneaking in The King in Yellow into the training sets used by all projects training models somehow, breaking all future models irreparably -- and then the engineers…

Note: AFAIU "Data Oriented Programming" (as championed e.g. in the Clojure community) and "Data Oriented Design" (as championed in the video game community) are very different phil…

…inefficiently. I can also do nothing at scale just with a hammock :)

I think that's meant as an abbreviation for "microtransactions".

> The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration.…

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. SCNR :)

> every time Space Marine 2 crashes my entire Linux desktop. Sounds like a good situation for the litany of percussive maintenance.

Your right, as are your examples, but I want to point out an interesting thing about your examples :) > - CT and MRI data processing > - scheduling systems for universities and oth…

Because that comma is a crime against legibility.

> Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {? I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).

> I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that classes not being final or sealed (C#) by default is another failure to set sensible defaults, akin to "everything is mutable unless explicitl…

With that model, you're basically toast if you're "the human". It only cares about "my humans" ;)

For various people, some of that flipped back, and they now record voice messages to send them through e.g. WhatsApp. My percieved explanation for this is that most of them can't b…

Got another one: Hugo Weaving laughs manically. It assigns this to the original The Matrix and doesn't mention the sequels. I guess it can't distinguish between them? Edit: And ano…

This is fun :) And frighteningly good at guessing what I'm throwing at it. Makes a good reverse guessing game: Find something it doesn't get right. My only success so far: A cleane…

I'll just… leave this here. https://youtu.be/RmIgJ64z6Y4?si=PYtN2xCrDZ79WlY7

You write "wherever possible", but: Have you ever seen the beancounting itself having been under scrutiny? I'd wager a big part of it is also the same politics based asymmetry that…

Obligatory Casablanca reference: https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?si=EoXUYz35joG4Imrl

If I can add to that: A precursor to both of those would be the precision lathe, from which eventually two of the most crucial prerequisites for the industrialization stem: The abi…

Not really a recent observation ;-) https://thecodelesscode.com/case/118