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Required (re)reading whenever trusting trust comes up: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/codi
by vermilingua 3y ago
Required (re)reading whenever trusting trust comes up: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
- gkhartman 3y agoThat was a wild read. Thanks for sharing. Lesson learned, but now I have to go "walk it off" haha.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoWait, I'm confused. That's fiction, right? EDIT: As in, the text clearly looks like fiction on its own, but it's being posted here as a companion piece to a series of events that definitely happened, hence my confusion.
- unwind 3y agoThanks, that was really good and with amazingly convincing detail of the technical things. Wow! Now: scared. Eh. The most jarring thing (to me) on a quick perusal was the idea that a programmer would walk to a Peet's coffee in another building (from the sound of it, a bit of a walk at least) and return, and still be drinking from an espresso. I mean those things are tiny, and meant by (The Italian Coffee Overlords) to be drunk more or less like a shot straight at the bar. Whatever. Obviously, this being a human behavior thing, there are going to be hundreds of people who walk around with espressos and sip on them for hours, it's just ... a bit off, at least to me.
- bilekas 3y agoThat article is a gem. > “This is crazy. We can’t be writing a compiler in assembly. No way.” > “It’s not that awful,” said Patrick Dear lord.