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I have this graph I like to show with "risk to company posed by changes" and "benefit to company posed by changes" on the y axis and "company entrenchment" on the x axis. The "bene…

Okay I'll add mine too. I recently vibe-coded a Ruby interpreter, as a single-header C file, meant to be embedded (like Lua or mruby). I call it Luby: https://halferty.dev/index.ph…

Sometimes I think about the bizarre path computer technology took. For instance, long-term storage. It would stand to reason that we'd invent some kind of big electrical array, and…

> defense of the rich against the poor Taking this a step further, it's logical to conclude that society itself is a constant war between rich people, who use their wealth (influen…

1. Build a house for each homeless person 2. Remove them from the homeless count, because they now have a house. 3. Reach zero homelessness! 4. There are still people living on the…

Wow! It really works. The missing bean "pops" out at you. The hardest part is getting your brain to focus on the cross-eyed virtual center image.

How are other companies handling this?

Ask an LLM to output precise instructions to control a 1 meter 3 axis triple- articulated robot arm to pet a cat, and you'll see the answer is "no".

Much like Facebook and Twitter spy on American citizens for the Federal government.

My introduction to Pascal and Assembly Language were after finding one of those huge paperbacks on the shelves of a Salvation Army in North Huntington, Pennsylvania. This was long …

Laravel is never going to be competitive with Django/Rails simply because PHP as a language is just not as easy to master as Python/Ruby. There, I said it. Lots of PHP fans write t…

"It's not about luck. It's about managing risk - so that in the end it looks like luck" - Ben Brown

Nope, it's different this time. 1. My entire network is struggling, even the ones who have jobs are worried. Despite being universally acclaimed and vouched for by my past coworker…

Senior full-stack web developer, 10 years of experience Location: San Francisco Bay Area Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Rails, Django, Java, Scala, React, Angula…

Libraries and publishers have always had a love/hate relationship. I'm sure book publishers are no happier that their products are being loaned out for free than the MPAA is that m…

Cool, something like this is definitely needed. Now it just needs vbulletin and xenforo.

After publication of this article, a Department of Defense official said, “These comments are not representative of the department’s view on China.”

This is awesome. How did you find a list of forums to search?