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I used to type in the programs from Commodore 64 Magazine back in the day. If you just touch type them in you learn very little. If I wanted to understand them, I wouldn't do it wh…

Windows - pfff, Microsoft charged companies like Dell for an install on computers they didn't even install it on !!!

I think the progession is like 1) Oh, I can break stuff by changing a config value - it doesn't protect me. 2) Oh, I didn't think X would need to be configurable. 3) With code I ca…

My realization first time with Eclipse/Java.

Odd to include Chapman and not Dylan. Much like leaving out Twain - seems like the defacto choice to me.

yeah, that's the one. Yep it doesn't seem as intended.

I think the one you are calling "figure hands"... if you mean the one where hands are numbers could just use better styling overall. Two colors, different sizes, better choice of f…

But with Clojure and immutable by default, hot reload is a real thing, it sounds like not just on JVM but even among lisps.

I've yet to find a panacea. For example, I thought DRY was, but found its not the case (test scenarios). I've yet to find altruisms past "everything in moderation". If you do choos…

I've feel like AOP is Spring on steroids. Same downside for both IMO.

I didn't carry a cell phone for long enough (I do now) that people looked at me like I was nuts. I viewed a cell phone the same way most people thought of a pager (remember those t…

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal

Agreed. Wasn't track barefoot back in the day? I mean even shoes are an advantage. Swimming sped up after goggles and swimcaps were accepted. I think it's all just where do you dec…

Eh, I like MacBooks because they've been bulletproof. Any PC I suspect it might just go kaput whenever it feels like it, except for maybe a ThinkPad, but they cost more than a MacB…

I suppose you could chalk this up to an oversight. I don't see how Meta gained from this. They've been purposeful about collecting user data and lying about it, eg: 2025 Android Tr…

I like the qualification of "large-ish". When someone says code is not the bottleneck, I assume they work for a large company. To be fair, at a start-up developers think they code …

We really want to believe that we can understand everything, yet we know we cannot.

When we have AGI, we'll have self-driving cars. We aren't getting either in a year's time. The need for white-collar jobs in areas will shrink (not disappear), possibly to expand e…

Yep, really advanced Google searches were never that good. LLM, yeah, it halucinates, it's never spot on but as sure as heck it knows what I'm trying to ask. It doesn't give me arb…

"The universe is rarely so lazy"

That wouldn't prevent the caduceus from being based on the story.

And yet the similarities can't be coincidental. Rod + Snake = Life Saving.

I always assumed what I felt was obvious: Numbers 21:4-9, where God instructs Moses to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole to heal Israelites dying from poisonous snake bi…

The logical conclusion is to use "a Haskell" typed language that will ensure every path is considered to guard against AI mistakes. OTOH, clojure repl, expressibility, immutability…