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We could in Java Swing (and Visual basic, but lets not talk about that) as well. Well, not runtime, but we could design applications and just right click on the objects in the IDE …

It is fine to call out AI if it is annoying. Someone hunting for things that might be AI and polluting discussions with it is a service I did not sign up for. Besides it is my opin…

I agree with you. The danger is not however that only that people write their own tools for calculations and capacity planning etc. The danger is people make useful stuff that is v…

Obviously it was not the same s since models that could write programs were not available 10 years ago. And if you just mean your friend taught himself programming on his own, well…

My friend who has never taken a programming class (or even touched an IDE before AFAIK) has now put a small app into production. Complete frontend + backend + database. Yes, it is …

Back in the days we had this in programming as well with palettes of drag & drop components. It is kind of broken now, much thanks to using web applications (and applications that …

It absolutely isn't free here in Norway either, around $86 is what I'd have to pay now to get an id card as an adult (same price as a passport but easier to carry).

> That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of "good and bad", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast. After paticipating in…

There is always the option to use battery (some modern mines use this),for example RAAMS. The problem is of the enemy know you use only mines that work for max n hours or m days th…

My take is that Bluesky got the network effects right, with hyping and gradual release and careful curation of who seeded the network and that is - IMO - the important thing they g…

Let me present my take on why the federated alternatives struggle to replace X: Twitter didn't succeed because it was a particularly good solution - it really isn't. It succeeded p…

How do you combine them?

It is really interesting for me to hear your experience. I have lived in Norway all of my >45 years on this earth and I can say that in the first half of my life were I lived on th…

Personally I ignore most ads but I have also bought some really good products based on ads and there are companies I wish would advertise more, for example relvant conferences that…

In my case I was kinda OK with Google ads until around 2010 and IIRC only began blocking them actively after they had been feeding me trash ads for years. Maybe you are right in mo…

https://kagi.com/search?q=apple+ad+network&r=no&sh=6Khbxq4uM...

My experience as well: Stack Overflow used to (in practice) be a place to ask questions and get help and also help others. At some point it became all about some mission and not on…

Late, but thank you! Both for explaining the simpler way to do it and also for the contect. (Why? Because it feels good to know that I am not the only one who cannot find documenta…

After 7 years I learned. Thank you! How did you learn this hack?

>>> Just grab any man you see on the street, throw him in the van and ship him to the conscription office for processing. >> 1. This is a wild exaggeration: [1] There are lots of m…

Didn't MS fire most of the QA people together with the translation people a few years ago? Or is that just a rumor that many of us fall for because it seems like a great explanatio…

1. This is a wild exaggeration: There are lots of men walking in Ukrainian streets. 2. Why single out Ukraine here? Isn't this what any country does with people who don't appear fo…

My understanding is they are just stubborn. They once did it this way and now it is "the Apple way". Recent example: Apple used to hide "search in page" in the share menu in mobile…

Especially when it happens at night. But I'll not preted Google is any better. Last I used it would have call "CTO of the company I worked for" or "Send message to random friend-of…

This is a problem all over our industry: - almost every search field (when an end user modifies the search instead of clicking one of the results for the second time that should be…