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I remember Google being more popular with tech savvy users than Yahoo or Alta-Vista. IMO this is the writing on the wall.

How about COO - Close Object Obligation? And you could sound like a pigeon saying "coo" during talks explaining it.

I'd really like to see an LLM use Wolfram Alpha APIs like the new Toolformer paper does https://paperswithcode.com/paper/toolformer-language-models-...

I recently learned: > It has been claimed that Euler's identity appears in his monumental work of mathematical analysis published in 1748, Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Howe…

Intel and AMD should provide GCC maintainers hardware. It could easily come out of the marketing budget, because benchmarks compiled using gcc would be affected, and they use bench…

One of Elm’s main focuses is code that is not possible to crash. Once I groked that, native modules going away in favor of ports made much more sense.

What if the miners deny check-in transactions to force the killcord to execute?

We have had our entire kube go down because the image size was huge and the master node only had 20gb disk and docker wasn’t cleaning up old named images. Smaller just extends the …

It seems like using Google Sheets or the online Excel is the answer. Single source of truth, collaboration, and keep the same fundemental tools.

Here's a list of Java CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-93/p... To be clear, I am not a security researcher, and I haven't verified the severity of thes…

This sounds like a witch hunt. Java has horrible security bugs even today. Bugs can be found in code written in all languages.

The manga guide to Calculus is a great book. It helps me reason on a topic that is hard for me to grasp. Someone must think SQL is a difficult topic too. TACOP is extremely dense a…

I was thinking about how fast it would be to find matches, so I wrote a little C program that runs in about 1/7th a second: https://gist.github.com/robert-wallis/b7faf94976b153923f…

The hostname also needs to be verified somewhere in there.

In the case of terminal illness. Absolutely. In fact, they should be sending the charts to a specialist teaching a week long personalized class to help them understand the data.

Maybe there should be a secondary option to allow a site to use the mic in the background.

One of the great things about open-source, is when you discover a weakness in some tool you like, you can modify that tool and submit a patch. Or you can learn from the source of o…

I'm suppose I'm in the minority of developers that _don't_ think we need to learn more build tools. make, configure, automake, autoconf, MSBuild, Apache Ant, rake, gradle, jake, gr…

It's great how they presented their company, especially with the silly disk warnings, the FAQ, the list of employees, and the list of locations. Their poking fun at the standard mo…

Apple has a patent on the Dock. https://www.google.com/patents/US7434177 And clickable pull-down menus in the menu bar. https://www.google.com/patents/USD629412 The legal system st…

So glad you posted this, I was doing something similar and gave up on the idea because I noticed Amazon doesn't even want you keeping their ASINs in a database. But I kept thinking…

Nice work getting things done! I see your Minecraft and Mario games are "unavailable". I'm sure you'll keep creating your own IP in the future, like you did with the other 22 games…

Unix communicates via text, stdin stdout stderr. That's pretty much a standard. Windows PowerShell communicates with typed objects. COM components and .NET components are a Windows…

I guess it's the threshold of when complaining is justified. The things I complain about aren't CamelCase. It's more on the scale of, using MongoDB as the main store for transactio…