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You heard it from someone with no experience developing software. A lot of AI hype comes from that, even (or especially) from people in the actual business of developing software -…

Spot on. The Amiga broke my teenage heart (name checks out). I was disgusted with computers after Commodore had run themselves into the ground, and left the whole thing for a few y…

"Meta notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts had been compromised. [...] The compromises allowed the hackers to take over the person's entire Instagram and any linked …

I always hated Maven, until I started using Gradle.

This is ridiculous. The only ones afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood are Middle Eastern dictatorships, who would rather not see a political movement take popular hold.

It's mostly slop. And sometimes slop is good enough. But Fred Brooks was talking about actual software systems, not a shop front for an amateur wine importer.

I know this was about the journey, but for anyone interested in home hydroponics (without the journey of building it), I have had a Gardyn[1] for 6-7 years. It works well. It has a…

Calling it a 'canvas' makes me think that this tool is about AI agents doing some kind of collaborative drawing. Looking at the vid though, it seems more like an environment for vi…

The only winning move is not to play.

Calories isn't everything, there is a lot more focus these days on how different foods affect metabolic hormones affecting satiety, blood sugar, etc. On those metrics, fat alone (w…

I loved the tactile feel of 3.5" floppies (especially coming from the - actually floppy - 5.25"s). Great choice. In particular, the spring-loaded metal shield was very satisfying t…

That's how I read this too. The publisher invested a non-trivial amount of work and was left with nothing, for no better reason than the author changed their mind. From the tone of…

MS Bob -> Clippy -> Copilot -> ?

That was a lot of words to get to the point that Fleming probably misremembered the sequence of events when he retold the story 15 years later. He even mentioned this possibility a…

Seems like you would at the very least need a fairly thick application layer on top of Postgres to make it look and act like a messaging system. At that point, seems like you have …

Ugh, I've had the exact same problem in a Java project, which meant I had to go through thousands and thousands of lines of code and make sure that all 'toLowerCase()' on enum name…

Unchecked exceptions are more like a shutdown event, which can be intercepted at any point along the call stack, which is useful and not like a return type.

Your neighbor's dog barks at Swing.

Those are not Java paradigms per se - they're just practices of mediocre enterprise developers, of which Java has many, owing to being such a mainstream platform. As for the langua…

Sorry, that's what I meant (misread the OP). Better to just eat fish.

Yes. A real, raw source is almost certainly better than a processed and treated source. Packaged fish oil is sometimes rancid, unnoticeable to you, and those oxidation products are…

Yeah, just drop a bunch of brick generation bots and let them run wild. Come back later and harvest bricks. Seems useful for stuff like landing sites.

For Tesla to even be in the conversation with Waymo is very promising for the concept of low-tech solutions to autonomous vehicles, which in turn is very promising for how scalable…

It has LTE but apparently does not support phone calls or SMS, without being paired to a phone. Close, but not quite there.