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I usually ask gpt4o as my ref doc.

The opening screen in this game is why I ended up working at IBM for 8 years.

Yep. The problem with the story of bikeshedding is that it assumes people know bike sheds but not nuclear reactors. There are plenty of cases of people who are great at nuclear rea…

I was big on Rails scene when it was huge in 2008, and saw a big exodus from it. I found so many of the "Rails" problems were solved by learning two languages: ruby, and sql. Peopl…

Crypto "currency"

I absolutely loved this article. Super well written with interesting insights.

I'm the same camp. I use async/await because they exist and it's usually a good idea to use similar approaches to other devs, but I question why we even needed async/await in the f…

Chilled sounds pleasant. The utility of lukecold is you're saying it's cold but not cold enough.

Probably why LotR translated so well into film, while Dune is very hard to capture in live action. The first book at least has some big battles and over the top villains to anchor …

Everyone gets murdered, commits suicide, transformed into crazy magic people or giant sandworms, or repeatedly dies then comes back in different forms over centuries. LotR had them…

Lukecool is perfect for my wife. She gets acid reflux very easily and needs to drink ice cold water always. Needing to describe an offending glass of water as "not ice cold" is clu…

What comment section are you in? People here love +0 and -0!

A year ago these articles were about how destructive server farms for crypto mining were. Now those same servers have pivoted to "AI" and the articles about them are almost the sam…

I don't see the issue in pointing out that research like this gets misrepresented and weaponized.

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Which makes this a great example of the shittiest side of "AI": not as software techniques to detect patterns and relationships, but as a method for obfuscating your sources. This …

Many have covered specific learning material, but my best advice is to find a mentor. It really is a skill that's best learned by apprenticing. I new a lot of concepts and could mu…

You're saying that with the benefit of hindsight. If their dominance was broken, then retroactively they were never a monopoly.

There are so many shit ports that have been left on the ash heap of history. The Atari 2600 port of Pac-man was pretty infamous. The worst offenders all ignored the technical requi…

Only us olds really appreciate how groundbreaking Commander Keen was. The NES or Game Boy, with its graphics organized into tiles and layers, could give an extremely smooth experie…

How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

That control system example has been what 95% of software development has been over my career. It's amazing how often devs simply won't recognize or acknowledge that they're resolv…

The cynic in me is upset at how easily exploited people are, but the optimist in me is happy at how overwhelmingly good most people are. There are scores of people out there (most …

Yeah no.

Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around. Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground. Teddy bear, teddy bear, push your shoe. Teddy bear, teddy bear, off to school. So tasty and healthy.