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For personal stuff I have a separate physical machine on the network that Claude runs on in yolo mode and the worst it can do over there is wipe the machine. It doesn't have privil…

> since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working Says who?

Despite calling it baity in my other comment, I actually think that it's more word-play. In my reading the title means that this subject of the book was "intelligence through artif…

Before clicking through to the article I honestly expected it to be about AI!

The AI title is veeeery tenuous/baity, but this is a fun read nonetheless. Upvoted.

Pretty much every job I've had has involved integrating with highly imperfect, changeable, and inaccurately implemented (and barely documented) third party APIs. That's where most …

It's not "gibberish", but it's got the stink of AI prose about it. The author's comments here do too. Of course I might just be over-sensitised to certain turns of phrase and the a…

Speccy guy back in the day here, but these days I love Linux, and you know Linus cut his teeth on the QL, right? I feel like storage has improved slightly since microdrives were st…

:) Me too, but it seemed like the people who knew would know and for the ones who didn't "grey" was going to be close enough...

It's so interesting that the intuitive meaning of this has changed - first meaning grey, then bright blue, and now... perhaps black, perhaps nothing? What does "a dead channel" mea…

I was issued an equivalent Latitude 7490 at a gig in 2019 and enjoyed using it (under Linux). It's robust and easily upgraded, but a little heavier than I would like. I replaced th…

They have it in one place and never ever use it anywhere else? Do you know why?

Ok, I don't know anyone at all who does that. Your friends are odd.

0. Developer 1. Dell Latitude 7490 2. As long as I can. I think I've been on the Latutude for about 4 years now, but it's a second-hand device coming up on seven or eight years old…

Taking your puzzlement at face value... > I don't quite understand why people have laptops at home if they always use it in the same place. A lot of people wil be using it from the…

Hilariously, no. That would be the Monster Raving Loony party who will apparently also be standing in this by-election. Count Binface has ruled out a pact with them.

Yeah, for a lot of systems it really is more trouble than it's worth - I remember enjoying this article when it came out: https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/18…

Ah, you're assuming distributed, which I wasn't. We are not at home to partition tolerance :) Makes sense in the context of the original post though.

Is there a reason why two-phase commit can't work with a DB and a message queue? DB2 and MQ Series used to support this (though they called it "XA" transactions and you had to comp…

I think my favourite aspect of the tale (at least as Harris tells it) is that Kujau was such a bad forger, and the recipients wanted it all to be true so badly that they skipped se…