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Often the answer to "some very clever language" is a lazy functional language like Haskell, where it's quite common to express problems naturally on infinite or near-infinite lists…

It was taken on a wet plate camera (capturing images on sensitised glass pates), which has remarkable resolution, typically far beyond most smaller cameras even today. The photo wa…

And hydraulic power back seats, and a hydraulic sun roof (!!) and hydraulic power aerial, and hydraulic controls for the air suspension. Some models even had a hydraulic glass part…

I've always been into vintage Mercedes-Benz cars. A talented and wonderfully jovial mechanic ran a specialist workshop east of Johannesburg, in Brakpan (South Africa). For a long t…

But surely you can see that the economy does not serve us. Who is "us", anyway? The economy, and the worldwide technological system that it fuels, behaves like its own organism wit…

I guess the more succinct the code, the more the reliance on understanding what a function actually does - either through experience, or by reading the docs. The words function is …

I like to idealistically think that in a capitalistic (free market) society we absolutely have the option to not use things that we think are wrong or don't like. Change your searc…

Provided that we ignore the ridiculous waste of energy entailed by calling an online LLM every time you type a word in your editor - I agree that the utility of LLM-assisted progra…

I think that anybody who finds the process of clumsily describing the above examples to an LLM in some text box using english and waiting for it to spit out some code which you hop…

Based on my experience of building several payment gateways, it is my opinion that it's pretty much always "3 lines of code" (which isn't true about this library - more like "3 ste…

Excellent example clearly from a fellow soldier from the trenches! As somebody who has built several instances of both payments- and travel booking systems, I have seen things in s…

Another shout-out for Jellyfin. Somewhat unusual in that it's build with .NET technologies and runs on Linux, but it's proven to be an excellent media server for many years now.

That's a nice thought, but unfortunately the environmental cost of "storing" all of this material - i.e. all the billions of tonnes of plastic pollution already out there, and in t…

That's a great use-case! But what about when GPT hallucinates - gets it wrong. What happens when you have sent a (potentially legally-binding) quote to your customers, and you have…

You make a very good point in general, but at this point cars are already so absurdly over-regulated, it's basically impossible for the "new guy" to break into the market at all.

| "...a blow to auto manufacturers who have spent millions lobbying against similar legislation and fighting against it in the courts." Does anybody know which car manufacturers? I…

This is hilariously brilliant. Thank you for almost killing a fellow engineer through laughter.

I find it interesting that the article and paper which it summarises takes the analogy of representing steam locomotives as a species with a "driving force of survival" that far. S…

One of the first incantations of this idea that I encountered, when I had just started working at my first corporate job back in the day, was Robocode ( https://robocode.sourceforg…

I guess this will push more and more bloggers to start looking at static site generators like Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ) and either hosting themselves, or on one of the many "buil…

I have been focusing on film-based photography for 15+ years - mostly printing in the darkroom, but also often scanning - and can wholeheartedly recommend Vuescan on Linux. About 6…

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