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Everyone in Silly Valley needs to read chapter 5 ASAP.

We had a guy give a talk at our local nerd meet-up about doing this to an old landrover with the hopes of commercialising it. Did a good job, but it was only for someone with money…

I'm stumped by things like this. The drawing & modelling are not the difficult bit - the CAM programming is. That seems difficult enough that I have not found an open source progra…

I'm from back then, love programming, and I can't type. Just can't be bothered learning how; it's not the bottleneck.

I have AuDHD - there is no way I'm running my own company. I'm a good developer but I need someone else to have the idea and run the business and I can lead a small team to bring i…

I think the number of non-programmers who think 'I want to learn to program; I'll start with common lisp but emacs is too difficult!' is so small it is not a group worth considerin…

Why would a non-programmer want to download, install and run a CL IDE?

We would not be sad if they were lawyers. But I'm sure they were not lawyers. Lawyers are how Oracle generates revenue. Developers & QA are cost centres and liabilties.

I've been using DBeaver CE since I lost my DataGrip license.

This is still happening. The org I work at was all-in on Google stuff, then just before I joined 5 years ago, some senior exec joined. Must have been in tight with Microsoft becaus…

I know how you feel. I'm 54 and resisted this stuff until about a month ago when I decided if I want any hope of staying employed as a coder I'll need to get on board. Using codex …

I'm (unfortunately) running Tahoe on my M1 macbook pro and don't notice it to be slower than Sequoia. Where is your slowdown? I'm dislike Tahoe as much as anyone else but performan…

I use UTM, it's simple and seems light. I can share my source directory with the VM so I can edit using macos pycharm, and test the containers in the VM. What really caught me out …

That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. …

I've been a full time developer since 1988, using linux since 1996, and kubuntu is the only linux distro I'd use ATM for a desktop. There's paper cuts but it feels about right. I t…

"A new welcome experience" for a text editor? What have we become?

We should not call ourselves engineers - it's a massive insult to actual professional engineers.

The vibe is flawless.

I never used the Turbo stuff, but I know they were very good for the time by reading about people using them in Dr. Dobbs. I started with C on the Amiga and then went to UNIX and o…

> Exactly, VSCode is done by well known people from the GoF book, Visual Age and Eclipse IDEs. That doesn't mean it's any good - which I admit is subjective. I'm sure they've put g…

With all the problems that recent Windows updates are causing, and a blog post about how the Windows team are using Native React to deliver changes to the apps such as a part of Se…

But not the same people or culture.

I used Visual C in the early 90s and it was a dream compared to vi and whatever C compiler the various unices I was using had.

LOL, making a note of usernames of likeminded and situated people. Where's the old people's YC?

Weird, I don't recall having an alt-account and posting this. That's old age I guess. I do the same, try to help the young'uns shooting themselves in the foot. I've always enjoyed …