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Comment #49246676
Assembly is very useful to learn, but does not bring as strong a paradigm shift, as it is similar to most other imperative, procedural languages.
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Comment #49245939
The similarity of Ruby and Elixir is only extremely superficial and betrays your lack of familiarity with the language.
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Comment #49245910
I blame the unknown unknowns. I don’t haven’t learned Prolog yet. Alas, enlightenment still eludes me. (Agreed that TCL is pretty cool)
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Comment #49244362
Lisp, Forth, Erlang, Smalltalk, and Rebol, so easily forgotten. All languages that multiply your insight into the nature of computer programming. A bit sad that many just stop at t…
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Comment #49004577
I know it when I see it.
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Comment #49004559
> Looks like those vibe-powered opensource projects will mighrate to somewhere else. You say this as if it’s a big loss.
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Comment #49004539
No, not at all.
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Comment #48728841
Here’s an idea that’s been following me for a while, if you like low-level stuff: Make a toy OS that boots into a Lisp shell. Another to appreciate how fast computers that we call …
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Comment #48728296
Apple designers
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Comment #48576638
Make that $40.3 trillions.
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Comment #48360612
Let LLMs ingest its own output, everything past 2022 will be increasingly hallucinatory self-regurgitation.
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Comment #48069786
All news companies are smiling. “Great! 6 more months of content!”
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Comment #48069766
Panem et circenses, am I right? The American population is so cooked, but hey, at least they’re having fun!
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Comment #48068800
I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP
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Comment #48062082
Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgi…
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Comment #48061077
I guess not, and I feel dirty now. I'm logging off for the day.
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Comment #48061032
Statistically speaking, does extremely unlikely mean impossible? If it were replicable I'd raise my eyebrow, otherwise it's fair game, no? As someone that enjoys the unterminable c…
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Comment #48060192
Americans love their measurements in football stadium lengths or bananas, but they do not apply very well to thermal units. Also what is a ‘standard atomic bomb’? Presumably one ke…
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Comment #48060084
Dude, you should know on here the answer the every question, including the meaning of life, these days is AI.
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Comment #48059963
Some of these are unintentionally as witty as Mark Twain’s
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Comment #48054370
Slop
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Comment #48052803
So any criticism of one of the richest family in history is inherently racist? That’s exactly what you’re saying in response to nothing more than a quote.
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Comment #48047147
They are so far removed from the process they can claim they are any % more productive and no one is able to contradict them. Call it a ‘productivity theatre’ The economic reality …