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He could be autistic. Autists will have problems, severe problems, with grasping the concept that someone else can have different views, and they will struggle with seeing the virt…

I got 83, but I notice that some of my words were not included in the summary on the result page, including 'fright' and 'stupor'.

I keep a diary for some projects that I work on. It's basically one large, never ending text file that I keep versioned in git. I like the simplicity of the scheme. It's rare that …

Yet, people do seem to think that DALL-E 2 is going to be able to make sensible "long-form" illustrations and paintings.

It's a bit sad to ponder. On the other hand, the volume of white matter is still rather close to it's maximum, even at 60 years. And probably there are also individual variations, …

I'm not an AI expert, at all, but can the neural network of an app like Otter run locally on a phone? Is it even possible, processing power wise? Apart from that, I'm assuming that…

Judging from his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, he was not a very modest person himself, with regard to his own accomplishments and ideas, maybe that's why he was shocked…

I feel that the solution to this would be some kind of generic online storage solution. Like Excel, but for the whole web, where you can put any kind of data in, get an address (a …

I think they will always be limitations. Software is, ultimately, always about humans. Software is always there to serve a human need. And the "intelligence" that designs software …

Grammarly ads say that they will help you to appear more articulate than you are, so that you can land jobs where articulacy is required. It stumps me a bit, always.

"These sharks have an estimated lifespan of 400 years and they spend their time swimming around looking for mates." I will not complain about my own 50 year search, then.

A consultant should at least voice his opinion, I think, and not actively stay silent just to generate more billable hours. It might be slightly different for a contractor, but a c…

Another ancient but still supported protocol is the finger protocol. For the current weather on the South Pole, try this from the command line: finger south_pole@graph.no Or, if yo…

It seems to me, that once a company reaches a tipping point of more than 50% non-engineers in upper management, it's the demise of the company as an engineering company, and it wil…

"Different things are obvious to me than are obvious to you." I think this observation, while correct, is a bit too generic, since it's something which can be said about all people…

If std::vector, std::array or std::unique_ptr could somehow have been implemented better without the use of templates in the C++ standard library, I think you'll find that they wou…

"The problem? Convenience. Who wants to type std::unique_ptr when instead you can write Foo *?" I think this is an imagined problem. If you use Foo * for ownership, you will need t…

I personally like his stuff from before Diamonds and Pearls, mostly. After that I think he got further and further removed from his original funk roots, and I think he sort of drif…