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Optimize the aglets!

Best named project I've seen this year!

Human language is the whole point of a lot of this.

True. But it’s a technological representation of all that’s wrong with the industry.

When it comes to Itanium all I can think of is how I wish I could have an Alpha. And how no one should care about Itanium. It’s the product of companies bent on doing all the wrong…

C led to an atrophy of assembly muscles. Though this is mostly different. A spec is NOT CODE. Someone still needs to understand what the code means. C optimizers are not the same a…

I used sonnet five today to evaluate work I’m doing on an experimental programming language with an interesting concurrency model. I asked it to try to figure out why one of the ex…

The same thing I've been concerned about for years. These things can sound extremely confident and be wrong. If you're out of your depth with these tools, you'll find a "trustworth…

I've worked at a place that used this abomination called "Jira Align"... I think I'd rather do my own dental work without anesthetic.

I recall thinking about these things quite a bit when reading Michael Abrash back in the 90s. How much of that advice applies to anything these days is questionable. Back then we u…

You have to build a computer to learn about computers!

Have always been fond of Oberon! I would love to have A2/ActiveOberon/BlueBottle or whatever the name of the day is on a small native machine as well. Great Stuff!

XML was once like violence... if you're not getting the results you wanted you should just use more of it. We do not need to go back to that. XML is a step backwards to what was al…

Wikipedia seems to say he passed yesterday.

> Juniors are still getting hired because they're still way cheaper and they're just as capable as using AI as anyone. That is pretty context sensitive. You're correct that there's…

Indeed Edgar Allan Poe had a thing or two to say about newspapers. https://poestories.com/quotes.php (and scroll down a bit). > “We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the …

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I wonder if this kind of architecture would be fun to build an L4 microkernel based system with. Context switching and message passing (synchronous anyway) are the same thing when …

It made coding way different for me. I'm able to get a proof-of-concept for an idea up pretty quick, and then I have to go back and decide if I like the style it produced. I feel m…

Cocaine toilet man of the brain worms speaks with authority for the anti-vaxxers and here we are.

I think this is how IBM is making tons of money on mainframes. A lot of what people are doing with cloud can be done on premises with the right levels of virtualization. https://in…

I still see "INCORRECT STATEMENT" in my dreams.

Uh... brother?! Just kidding... That sounds like my journey as well. I had friends in the neighborhood who also had the TI-99/4a. We all had Cub Scouts and Boy's Life magazine list…

Hopefully staying as such. I like Numbers, but I suspect I could totally replace my use of it with Emacs org-mode.