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Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff is still one of the worst greatest of all time http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=0...

Some people are unable to become motivated unless there is pervasive sense of emergency. They will delay their own work to the last possible minute and pull all-nighters just for t…

I find that easier to read than giant graph of node thingies with lines (cue ancient debates about UML...). Have wondered whether attorneys would find it easier to work in a progra…

I would be more inclined to agree if American companies were not in a competition to be the biggest flameout and lose the most money. How is China able to afford to train models th…

Ever since the first programming language the goal was to make the work easier, although there are different kinds of "easy", and sometimes you end up worse off because tools don't…

Check the 2nd section of article https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk#why-a-vm A lot of people would yell "docker isn't secure!" but if you're running Docker on MacOS (and Windows, I…

In case anyone else read the "flipped on" as "flipped the switch on" rather than "reversed course on", no, it's the latter.

I expect that a lot of bad norms that crop up in various programming communities will get tossed out after years of dysfunction, often as a result of outsiders and younger people a…

It doesn't even matter and isn't worth arguing about what emotional state the submitter obtains. I don't care if they even achieve nirvana and ascend to permanent buddhahood. What …

It's not a lack of respect for you; it's a lack of respect for the work itself. That lack is being rewarded and encouraged. Managers will be sure to tell you how much they respect …

Important keyboard design note the author would agree with but didn't point out: Function keys are supposed to be divided into groups of four with a distinct gap between each group…

There is very clearly an angry backlash, even if it is a backlash against phantoms, even if people are only demanding a better liar than the previous. There are no psychological bl…

... IF that's your main performance problem. I already know I'm dealing with huge perf issues caused by ORM & lazy-load semantics. I/O abuse is usually going to be so, so much wors…

Oh that version actually made sense. Going back to our newer game, I realized that I am supposed to figure out where the number given should fall on the line. A case study in moder…

I feel stupid but I could not bring myself to click the "sign" button and continue gameplay. A lot of electronic contracts are done like that and... nope, not clicking it... Mmmmm.…

> One computer scientist speculated that his LLM had attained sentience. > How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, …

There's no need to be snide

Adjusted for inflation? edit - sorry, it is in fact adjusted, text is kinda hard to see

This is not a writeup of "Ada is better than everything else". The author is explaining how Ada achieved safety/reliability goals that your favorite language independently evolved …

How about "Working with AI just feels like having a team of junior employees who are completely unscrupulous, sychophantic and sometimes profoundly stupid psychopathic liars"?

oh. sorry, had a decent excuse for its horribility, now i have less of one.

Am a middle-aged man, don't have kids, don't see it as a trifling problem, and I don't agree with the libertarian free-speech-at-all-costs angle. Instead I think a) kids shouldn't …

Am amused that someone feels compelled to justify writing a db in C#. Such conscientiousness! I'm not sure authors of Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB (and more...?) ever had the …

I really like the idea of implementing the std lib separate from the language. I think that would be a huge blessing for Java, Go and others, ideally allowing faster iteration on m…