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AI is a tool. You can use it to make better software, or worse. In an ideal world we would use it to make better software; there’s enough bad software out there already. Unfortunat…

And when the heavy subsidies of cloud AI come to an end? Plus the Macbook can do other tasks as well; presumably you need a computer anyway so should deduct the value of a computer…

What about non-Finnish sauna heat? Or do I have to go to Finland?

Wow, totally ignores the one framework Microsoft developed that was actually a pleasure to use (WinForms). Avalon sucked IMO; it was just a continuation of the fever dream at the t…

Because it’s a functional society that has a government that works for the citizenry and not a small cadre of wealthy sponsors?

ETTD

I do find it encouraging that there’s not a lot of pro-Trump sentiment on HN these days. Unlike, say, in October/November 2024…

Make sure to test you thyroid hormone levels

“Completely preventing X is impossible. As such, attempting to stop it is a foolish endeavor” has to be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard. Substitute almost anything for X - …

Given the number of times Musk has been pissed or embarrassed by Grok saying things out of line with his extremist views, I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s not intended. It would …

And models eat apps over time. If you build an app that’s valuable, OpenAI takes note.

Same, mine is about to graduate with a CS masters from a great school. Couldn't get any internships, and is now incredibly negative about ever being able to find work, which doesn'…

This is one of those places where having a selected “security image” makes sense. That popup should not just be easily spoofed text.

The pylance team has started exploring this, namely whether it makes sense to have an API for type checkers that is not the LSP, as language servers have a somewhat different goal …

Apart from Forth, Lisp and Lua, Tcl also deserves mention as a small embeddable language. Not sure of its state today; I think by v8 it had started to get more complex, but its ori…

“It can’t happen here”

Ph.D. programs being stopped: https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-02-21/universit...

Much better than some of the garbage solutions I have seen, including from sources that should know better, like The Algorithm Design Handbook. Some really absurd approaches out th…

Friends don’t let friends use 4Chan - I mean X

https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/FMP/C0/C0.ht... might have something

Is this going to be followed up with a “functional programming is the bestest” post?

Which they can avoid by resigning. So the worst penalty for almost any crime is they might have to step down,

So the president can’t kill their opponent over a golf game but can order the military to kill their opponent over a golf game. Got it. In the worst case they might have to resign …

Along with K&R (and K and Plauger’s “Software Tools”), the Dragon book, Bentley’s Programming Pearls, and Holzmann’s Beyond Photography, AST’s books were the most formative in my l…

This squares with my experience in the demo. It’s 98% there but that 2% is adding a lot of cognitive load and stress, so it’s a negative ROI.