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When software mangles data this badly, it is considered garbage and scrapped. But if it is a half decent chatbot and has the label "AI", it gets another iteration with 10x the reso…

I don't see the appeal of tooling that shields you from learning the admittedly annoying and largely accidental) complexity in developing software. It can only make accidental comp…

"This tech works fine as long as you have a back up for when it frequently fails"

Inflation is the answer. It never went away. It just got disguised as labor exploitation and quality decline. And now it's back. We will get the worst of two worlds now. Inflation …

Us FORTH and LISP hackers will be doing free range code forever. We can use cheap hardware that can be fixed with soldering irons and oscilloscopes. People said for decades our pro…