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> macOS applications seem to just package every single DLL they need inside of their application folder rather than relying on the OS. I'd do the same if I were developing for macO…

A long while ago I found myself helping out with some products MSI installer. I don't think anyone can really point a finger at the Mac and accuse it of having issues by comparison…

What they believe now or care about is fundamentally not very relevant: allowing them a monopoly would be a big mistake. Google was supposed to do no evil and it probably started t…

If I have bash and vim, find, less and grep I'm 90% good. If ripgrep and fdfind are installed I'm very happy. One usually doesn't have to fall back from these too often because so …

Go to the National Museum of Computing just next door and save a bomb and see the actual bombe! IMO the house is of minimal interest compared to the machines but costs a lot.

Appended is a walkaround video of the Colossus at the National Museum of Computing next to Bletchley Park which is, FYI, a much better and far more interesting place to visit than …

While FTW! I just wondered whether it could be simplified because I get a bit tired of typing out my own belt and braces version of it: { # code that generates one item/filename pe…

I know it grows well in Zimbabwe at least. My mum used to make a lot of rhubarb crumble. Yum!

I wish he hadn't said that ! :-)

Work forces you to see your own motivations and character and you have to manage yourself like you might manage a very valuable employee that you cannot afford to lose. This means …

If nobody can review it that's fine since we'll be generating at least 50k LOC per day and nobody could review that anyhow. We can just get every other LLM model to review the outp…

No need for IRs if LLMs are all powerful. Just tell them to generate x86 and ARM and let them get on with it.

It's the logical outcome of believing that human skills aren't important and that you can "think at a higher level". You can't spend all your time thinking at a higher level if you…

The code tells you HOW, the English should be telling you WHY. Both are usually needed IMO. Even a tiny bit of "why" can be extremely helpful to understanding in my experience. I d…

writing is a way to get your brain to put thoughts into a form that someone else will be able to reach the same understanding as yourself. The effort to explain oneself often leads…

> I wonder about this: Does LLM write better code in a better language? The whole point is to rewrite everything in a language you don't understand and then ignore whether it's bet…

goto is already useful as an end-of-function cleanup. You pop one at the end of each function (the naming is local to the function) and that's the place where you free ram if the p…

enshittification is apparently what corporations do - they have no soul, only shareholders. There is no direction of travel for them other than the nirvana of selling you nothing f…

One should do this analysis for various politicians, political parties, TV and news media and so on. How do we know how good or bad the Economist is if we have no other source to c…

My self comfort is that once AIs are comparable to humans they will in effect be humans. Once they have wants and emotion to give them an internal motivation, and a short-to-long t…

Vocalising my thoughts tends to get in the way - it's main purpose is to communicate to someone else and that's where I usually stumble trying to get the thought out accurately in …

Have you ever had impressions about something complicated, e.g. someone's personality which you cannot put into words? I'm thinking of my kid - her personality when she was tiny. I…

Nothing is the same as the dog but we probably store a lot of sensory information, emotions and images relating to dogs in our heads.

Every time one watches a romantic scene in some film you know it's fake. Actors present a totally fake version of life. Every story has to be dramatised to get over the fact that i…

I have often thought this - a wave of people learn something and on come the next wave to relearn it all. They can read books but they don't really "get" what the books say and hav…