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Thanks! This challenged coincided with my first dabblings into agentic coding. I wrote all my attempts in hand coded assembly, without doing any basic research. but your site is ve…

Wow. thank you so much for the writeup. I'm just now (last few months) dabbling with agentic coding, but being an oldschool tech guy I had to dive straight into assembly. It was ju…

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I'm absolutely having a great time immersing myself in this, but I'm super sad about the day it will be taken down and i cant play anymore. Maybe t…

bravo!

On the advice of a 19 year old (I'm 60) I tried using the polarized sunglasses i keep in my car, at night. I helped. Ida know, can someone comment on whether that actually does red…

yesss! this x 1000

pretty sure there is no salt water in the central valley either.

yesssss. 1993 is when linux found me. i loved alt-F[1-4] on a vga screen i somehow managed to get higher (character based) resolution. when i started runing xwindows, i still bounc…

probably anyone this far in the thread remenbers long term capital managment, I did, but couldnt remenber if it was in the 80's or 90's. (1998) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l…

Blame for using comic sans ? :)

haha .. but i did work at google before fb. my memory is hazy, but when i started i was called an sre. Then someone made up the term "app ops". then it was production engineering. …

Few companies experienced the explosive growth fb did, though many will claim to have done so. Hack made the existing codebase of php scale to insane levels while reaching escape v…

haha the reason I stayed as long as i did

Magical? the interruptiopn part is just flow control at the edge. control-s, control-c stuff, right? not AI? The sound of a female voice to an audience 85% composed of males betwee…

it seems like the ability to interrupt is more like the interrupt in the computer sense ... A control-c (or control-s tty flow control for you old timers), not a cognitive evaluati…

so nobody read Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson? Basically, nanotec bots that spin around on command are put into the bodies of people, so they can be made to spin around and dissolv…