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Maybe the human profession of the future is some sort of “Shabbos Dev”, providing enough human intervention in the coding to make the code copyrightable.

I could handle that, but reached my limit with Feersum Endjinn.

“A Clockwork Orange” as “Old English” is an amusing anecdote, but it might be worth noting that the novel is written in deliberately nonstandard English mixing in Russian words, so…

> many of them don't look like word definitions ("a sharp pain in the back”) I had to look up the English word (lumbago), but German has the colorful “Hexenschuss” (witch shot). I …

Yes, I experienced this a number of times in my life. Growing up in a small Swiss village I wasn’t born in, I had to learn that you basically greeted everybody you passed in the ro…

Vinyl has the benefit that you can largely assume that it will NOT be listened to at all, cf. the studies showing that half of all vinyl buyers don’t even own a turntable.

Absolutely! And I also click them to get an idea how good the source is.

It's impressive that you've even managed to use an em-dash in spoken language. /s

It also doesn't work on Raspberry Pi, though presumably it could easily be made to; it does replace the su binary, but the replacement is not executable.

When I started studying CS, the "industry" thought students should be taught COBOL, and maybe some PL/I and Fortran, because obviously that was what the market wanted.

I imagine Swift is also a very difficult language to compile.

You could do the same in reverse as well. Many of the features listed in the first paragraph existed before in other languages, though probably not all of them in a single language…

I would argue the opposite: Being describable in BNF is exactly the hallmark of sensible syntax in a language, and of a language easily amenable to recursive descent parsing. Wirth…

Quarterly earnings will be released April 22. My impression is that in recent years, such rumors tended to cluster around earnings reports (which largely haven't been great the las…

The way I remember it is that I used at least Lycos and AltaVista before Google. In both cases, a major reason for switching was that the search itself got cluttered up with ads. S…

He may have been a bit of a Milkshake Duck

I wonder whether that was the inspiration for the extensive use of green in the interiors of Severance.

I've been wondering about that as well. It appears he & Vox Day were friends/collaborators and may have shared some political views: https://postcardsfromtheageofreason.com/2026/03…

stable as in "close the stable doors after the horse has bolted"

It's sort of ironic that at the time, there were many complaints that Apple made its devices thin at the expense of more important features. Now that M series MacBooks are thicker …

Personally, I love synthesis that can be generated on the client machine, in real time. For some applications, like screen readers, this is a really important feature. Of course, t…

To me, the speech sounds impressively expressive, but there is something off about the audio quality that I can't quite put my finger on. The "Anger Speech" has an obvious lisp (Ma…

This is bound to be a question that will be increasingly harder to answer. For instance, Apple processors have at least two different neural accelerators/matrix coprocessors (ANE a…

> Not only is the moon further, you also need to use more fuel to land on it And take off again, if reusable spacecraft are meant to be used.

The skepticism and hate is based on observing decades of shameless dishonesty, which is itself a form of data provided by the company: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/