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I spent years not upgrading because when I'm in my car asking my phone to navigate somewhere, Gemini likes to say "As a large language model I can't navigate anywhere. Try using a …

Matching decomp would require the same compiler and flags as the original game, right? How is that determined?

> OpenBSD devs making huge progress unlocking the kernel for SMP Isn't this anachronistic for 2026? Am I misunderstand what this means?

I will try to remember him for his far too relatable Dilbert comics about corporate office life, and not his, uhm, later work. One of my favorite strips was Dilbert in the 90s only…

I once saw a high resolution CPU graph of a video playing in Safari. It was completely dead except for a blip every 1/30th of a second. Incredible discipline. The Chrome graph in c…

> The intention was to prevent tooth decay by regulating candy intake. Yes, but crucially not by reducing candy intake. The result of the study was that the amount of sugar didn't …

I'm Norwegian and concluded that she meant when ordering, such as for a choice of potatoes or pasta. This makes sense since the context is translation for tourism. Otherwise, the n…

> Meta went from 2K to 10K+ from 2018 to 2025 Facebook rebranded to Meta in October 2021

Good call. O(N^2) is the worst time complexity because it's fast enough to be instantaneous in all your testing, but slow enough to explode in prod. I've seen it several times befo…

My bad. I had been reading about how there's a frustration in the community that allistic people refuse to explain why such statements are wrong, and instead just repeat "you know …

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The article starts off saying that if you want people with real full stack experience, from kernel to UX, you need to grow it. It goes on to say that it's hard to find and develop …

It's Friday and I'm hoping for your fun tech related anecdotes! For example, I once came into the office to see the entire team standing around one computer, chuckling. The guy at …

It feels like we're back in 1900 when anyone's clever idea (and implementation) can give huge performance improvements, such as Ford's assembly line and Taylor's scientific managem…

I'm surprised there are no UTF-8 specific decode instructions yet, the way ARM has "FJCVTZS - Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero"

I worked on this project for a week during the FB team matching process. I had previous Haskell experience, but what struck me was how irrelevant that was. To their immense credit,…

> doesn't use enough anesthetic My school dentist always botched the anesthesia, and afterwards I had to grind my teeth for three days to make them fit together again. I never told…

> extremely large functions > quadratic behavior *High five* I fixed several of these during my time as a compiler engineer too. It's true what they say, quadratic is the worst pos…

> one website I'm guessing gov.uk is hoping that this will become some kind of standard, at least for British resources.

Tbh if you've never done either, I can absolutely see why getting on and riding a machine 1000x your size is a bigger deal than seeing various animals from a distance.

I remember the address one. It was fantastic and I loved it. I wish they were all that helpful.

I find this "falsehoods programmers believe" format of making pointed claims that you intentionally don't clarify to be unhelpful and obnoxious

Maybe it works better on cold blooded animals

Back in the day I ran Bochs in all its 4 Bogomips glory on a university IP address and went to IRC channels where script kiddies were "trading root". I let them go first, and watch…