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Basically, folks nowadays think that this article[1] was aspirational rather than a cautionary tale. [1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-No-Quack

> Separately; Sam's belief that "AI has to be democratized; power cannot be too concentrated." rings incredibly hollow. OpenAI has abandoned its open source roots. It is concentrat…

> Just look at the code. How could it be simpler? Cannot tell if this is a joke.

I like the more robotic "Objects: 1" or "Objects: 2", since it avoids the pluralization problems entirely (e.g., in French 0 is singular, but in English it's plural; some words hav…

I went to Blackbox because its UI elements were smaller (title bars are more narrow, no 64x64 dock icons) which gave me more real estate on my 1024x768 monitor. I then migrated to …

Back in 1998-1999, I was interested in installing and using Linux in large part because I thought that the screenshots of Window Maker that I saw online were so damn pretty. When I…

I get a progress bar when I run `cargo clean` because it's so large.

I need to find a pithy way to express "we use a garbage collector to avoid doing manual memory management because that'd require too much effort; but since the GC causes performanc…

Is there a reason to prefer `while read; ...;done` over find's -exec or piping into xargs?

Probably because some terminals interpret Ctrl+S as a "pause the terminal" command and if you don't know about it, it looks like your editor has frozen.

I absolutely loved AntennaPod back when I had an Android phone -- I actually never really "attended" to it though: I installed it, it worked, never gave me any issue. Now that I ow…

> I'm mostly not following what is under a DDoS attack. Is it their web page mostly consisting of marketing material with static pages? Yes.

Your mention of a "universal API" reminded me of the paper "Some Were Meant for C" [1] in which the author argues that one of the most important feature of C is its "communicative …

Isn't that our entire industry though?

- I use Emacs every day as my primary (and only) programming text editor. - Having nearly 20 years of experience using Emacs, it's just a totally natural fit for me. - I program pr…

Sorry, yes I did.

I've been calling the thinking of the parent "trickle-down devonomics": that by making the code better for the user, the benefits will trickle down to the users. Obviously, as the …

> The side effect: some people remarked that the code looked like C Did you understand this comment to be positive or negative?

Somewhere, somewhen, we, as software developers, started thinking that other programmers would rather extend code rather than modify it. This has led us to write code that tries to…

I like this video because there's a lot of a good actionable advice before he gets into SIMD code.

*Sokoban

Select the line, then type C-u M-| jq -c sort

Eglot is the built-in LSP client. You need an external server. If you do C or C++, clangd is likely what you want. Install it (apt install clangd) and enable eglot for C or C++ fil…

There are many new languages that describe themselves as taking C, adding some good stuff (slices, defer), removing some of the bad stuff (textual includes) and adding some of thei…

What's the difference between PHP giving "2" as the result of 1 + "1" and Python giving "999" as the result of "9" * 3?