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It felt much the same when posters went from hand-drawn to created by computers. Personality went from handwriting or eccentric, dynamically-created fonts to Comic Sans. To me this…

Except the "merge mess" footgun. I got into training people in Git (I now do it for O'Reilly) because I worked with 12 teams that merged _everything_ into sub-branches. The result …

If Farage wins he is still subject to an investigation that could eject him from Parliament, over a 5m crypto gift/loan he received from an ex-pat donor that he did not declare. Fa…

In Parliament, members are referred to by the place they represent, eg "The Right Honourable Member for Harry Pottershire" rather than their names. It's a way to make things less p…

"placelessness" was coined the year after I was born! So if it's not 'just age', then it's been going on a long time.

On cities, I guess my point is that I didn't have to seek out new experiences. Simply going there guaranteed new experiences. I spent a lot of time in Vienna growing up and everyth…

This touches on something I've (and many others) have felt throughout my life, not just since the advent of LLMs. To take a simple example: I grew up with computer games in the '80…

I don't know TBH. It's just that if you're going to have a 'pure' designation for a tech, it's going to be pretty strict (as per bash and adding modules). I've never heard of 'pure…

Pure Linux doesn't.

I see some similarity to how I felt when library management/wrangling became a huge part of software development. In the last century I enjoyed crafting my own 'libraries' of funct…

This should be an essay.

When it wrote better sql than me. I spent 15 years writing and optimising sql. That was about 2 years ago.

I'm old enough to get this reference! Spent years writing WAP... it was really great at the time.

Certainly tracks with the number of outsourced teams begging for work on LinkedIn.

People used to knock out children as a social security/insurance policy for old age, or to work the farm as they aged. The rise of the welfare state(s) in urban societies removed t…

I don't believe people keep their kids 'safer' because they think the world has become more dangerous. It's slightly taboo, but I think people protect their kids more now because t…

How do we know that that isn't essentially how our minds work?

Evidence for that? I remember there was a guy who worked for google that quit because he thought an LLM was conscious and we needed to talk about its rights, but that's the only ex…

It's a great story, and a nicely written piece. But civilisations have always forgotten things and then had to re-engineer them. We only recently recreated Roman-equivalent concret…

Similarly, I did group therapy for a few years, and found it highly and profoundly rewarding. It's much more structured, with a facilitator to help reduce the possibility of danger…

Everything I've known anything about first hand has been utterly garbled - or was completely made up - when written up in Private Eye.

The first sentence makes no sense.