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Yes, this sound like it is true. But is it good? I mean, if I accept this idea, I start feeling more like a pet living in the house that is my platform then as a human who creates …

Right. Because If I want feature A and it is available in configuration among features A through Z I will always perfectly pick the right letter of the alphabet and I will not at a…

I kept my old laptop (bought in 2007) alive for quite a while too. But last year I finally retired it. I also used archlinux 32 which worked fine for a while. But at some point the…

Well, Joel is not saying not to refactor anything. In fact he is advocating improving the code quality in small steps. What is missing there is that in practice improving code qual…

You can talk about UBI if you want to appear nice but people on UBI are also rather useless. Of course the real solution to the problem will be the change of carbon based life into…

100% agree. 'Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction' is a very good candidate for the worst programming article ever.

No. The duplication is seldomly that clean. It has started to diverge in subtle ways where the question becomes whether that was the intention or not. In the worst possible cases i…

There are words. The word I am thinking of is 'parasite'. The billionaire class largely consists of parasites.

By the way, I am old enough to remember that world. When I was young, people had fat books with maps of most large and medium size places in the country.

I am not so sure. The world of printing out driving directions or emailing photos sounds a lot more calm. Also, simply quite enjoyable. The current world is cramming too many event…

So what would be a good architecture? How would I recognize it if I stumbled against it? My own inclinations here are that it would be good to have as few different technologies as…

I am not sure about the goose feather and the vellum but you do have a point about proving consistency. Fortunately, I also have a coq/rocq project for that kind of stuff so maybe …

pacman -S git vim gcc make gtest That is about it. No stinkin' config files needed. Initial Makefile is about 15 lines long, I can type it myself or copy something from another pro…

How about not? If an LLM is needed to get set up either the language or the documentation is garbage. Probably both.

Well, the short summary of it all is that the US is the very curious case of a superpower attempting to become a third world country.

"assuming you have a real engineering job" does a lot of work there. You could also do a lot of work the other way by stating "assuming you are getting a real education". I studied…

On the other hand, if you store a small integer in a float it is generally reliable to compare to it. E.g., setting a float to zero and comparing whether the float is zero.

This sounds all true to me, but I think there is more. It is not just decisions by management, it is also the wider economic context. Low interest rates and, for the US, having the…

From the quotes in the article it sounds pretty simple. These are words that everyone can understand. Of course, the fascist right is attempting to 'inform' the public at a level w…

All kinds of worries are possible. (1) It turns out that all this AI generated stuff is full of bugs and we go back to traditional software development, creating a giant disinvestm…

When I was a teenager, I read a book about assembly language for the commodore and implemented the game of life in a really simple way. I just used the text screen. To switch on a …

Well, if you do not need to care about performance everything can be extremely simple indeed. Let me show you some data structure in coq/rocq while switching off notations and dipl…

There are also some funny humorous pieces on this site.

The short summary of it being that these people are beyond terrible at giving names to things.

Well, I think there is something to it. Computers were at some point newly invented so research in algorithms suddenly became much more applicable. This opened up a gold mine of re…