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What's old is new again. We'll be buying cartridges for AI capabilities on future architectures.

> A small drawback is that just isn’t readily available on developer’s machines (unlike bash and make) Looking back, this was usually a substantial stumbling block for adoption of …

Same here. This part got me: > The whale itself has never been sighted: it has only been heard via hydrophones, but its call has been detected since the late 1980s in a pattern tha…

I was wondering about this. I wonder if there are insurance products to close this gap? Or maybe some banks offer accounts with different kinds of purchase protection. I'm with you…

Not GP, but for starters, the MSRP for that car in China is $32k. https://www.carsdb.com/en/news/1476 I get that's an apples-to-oranges comparison, considering that labor and mater…

There may be another option. Consider Japan's Kei car initiative, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car#Taxation_and_…

This is huge, thank you.

Since you're using HTMX, I have to ask: do you have any tips or idioms for composing complex forms and UI without things getting out of hand? I love the approach, but I'm having a …

> I used fixed point math which optimized well. I feel like the idea of fixed-point is under-utilized and very under appreciated. There are loads of applications where this is a be…

Just a guess: if you want to scale a sprite at anything less than a whole ratio (e.g. 1.5, 0.7, etc), you have to choose pixels to drop out and pixels to repeat , on some pattern t…

Water consumption and localized atmospheric heating have been cited elsewhere as drawbacks. There have been some articles citing noise/vibration pollution (subsonic?) but I'm not c…

100% agree. Not only was VC++6 a stand-out product overall, but it was easily the better IDE out of the crop of options at the time. Sadly, the product line got worse before VSCode…

I completely get the concept and agree - this is great way to build this kind of durability in a workflow system. That said, my gamer-brain wants to call this "Save-scumming at sca…

I hear you on vendor lock-in. Everyone's freaked out about other companies getting the upper-hand with AI in the loop, so there's this charge to use the hell out of it at all costs…

Interesting article. I appreciate the range of perspectives here, and the overall pitch to keep the most experienced in frame along side new-fangled advancements (AI). The "speed" …

A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe - https://en.…

I've heard people describe this phenomenon in basically two ways: - It's all relative to your teenage years, which splits up generations as a result. - The past is another country.…

> Imagine being able to list your eBay items locally without having to have people needing to come to your house, or better yet, getting a cut of what you wanted up front since the…

It even comes pre-packaged with a theme song.

I came in here to comment the same. Our brains are wonderful pattern recognition engines and the reader would absolutely be able to more readily see the correlation between hex and…

Moreover for the folks in the back row... We may see Canonical or other commercial Linux vendors come forward with a government or enterprise-flavored solution for all this. But th…

May as well link the full report too. IMO, this is a bit easier to read. https://ehss.energy.gov/deprep/archive/documents/0308_caib_r...

In my short-lived stint as the same, I also had the same take. > But not one of them ever came to me unprompted and said, “Let’s talk about your career growth.” This quote absolute…

> I ask straight questions and look for straight answers. One line at a time, one file at a time. I've also taken to using the Socratic Method when interrogating an LLM. No loaded …

You are correct. You absolutely must fill the token space with unanbiguous requirements, or Claude will just get "creative". You don't want the AI to do creative things in the same…