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by bitwize 5mo ago
"Vibe coding" = "let Dario take the wheel" as ThePrimeagen puts it.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Anecdata: My dad started experiencing memory problems in his early 70s. When he got back into engineering as a part time consultant, those memory problems went away.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Remember the Segway? Its predecessor was a stair-climbing wheelchair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT One of the codenames for Segway was "Ginger", a reference to Ginger Rogers, because the codename for iB
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by bitwize 6mo ago
That's pretty much the distinction. A CLI is stream-oriented, may accept user input from standard in and/or write to standard out with buffered I/O; a TUI is full-screen, interactive (responds immediately to keystrokes), and
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by bitwize 6mo ago
When I was 6-7 and my sister was four, I was way into He-Man. My sister's best friend at the time, a girl her age who lived down the road a ways, was too. When I went over to their house close to Christmas, I saw that their tree had ne
516.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Sorry, but it is kind of a generational thing. If you grew up in an environment where one set of assumptions always held, you are more likely to think that these assumptions are universals and just not even bother with the possibility that
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Text User Interface.
518.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Lathe, mill, CNC, or matter transmuter, doesn't matter. Effective design only becomes possible with intimate knowledge of how it is built.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I don't know if they've addressed it. But ~15 years ago, my father was mentoring some college students and noticed that while they had been taught to machine a block (i.e., the rudiments of machining), they had no idea how to desi
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This is exactly the same problem of "mechanical engineers' job is to design parts, not machine them, so we'll take training on machines out of the mech eng curriculum." Result: fresh mech eng grads do not know how to pro
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Completely unrelated to that incident, there was xbill: http://www.xbill.org/
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Epic comeback.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This was later—into their We U+2764 Open Source era. M$ and stuff dates from like the mid-late 90s. In the late 2010s was when they started publicly acknowledging that open source exists, acquiring GitHub, and releasing things like .NET Cor
524.
by bitwize 6mo ago
It was either permit DRM, or cut off the web for all sorts of media.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
MIDI clock on the Atari ST was rock solid. It being "inherently unstable" is one of those accidental things, like Windows 9x users assuming "computers just crash all the time".
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by bitwize 6mo ago
(in Homer Simpson voice) Machines do not possess this characteristic SO FAR.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Hackernews used to experience a collective paroxysm of joy every time a new Visual Studio Code dropped. There definitely was a pervasive belief that the Nadella era ushered in a cuddly new Microsoft.
528.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Except it's not. Even though us commandlinebros made fun of GUIs back when they came out, GUIs still have the property of being precise and unambiguous (to the machine, to the human requires design finesse and clear guidelines). There&
529.
by bitwize 6mo ago
It's the next paradigm in how people interact with computers.
530.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Never gonna happen. The architecture of modern hardware and operating systems won't allow for that kind of low latency and jitter.
531.
by bitwize 6mo ago
He built it in a cave. With a box of scraps.
532.
by bitwize 6mo ago
"WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?" "You blow yourself up." "OH MY GOD" See also: https://blog.wrouesnel.com/posts/jipi-and-the-paranoid-chip/...
533.
by bitwize 6mo ago
I think in terms of token count it comes out to about the same; and Lisp admits fewer kinds of tokens.
534.
by bitwize 6mo ago
Picking a language is a matter of selecting the best fit given the constraints of the project. For stuff I like to work on on my own time, "how I like to work" is a major forcing constraint. So it's no surprise that I have a
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by bitwize 6mo ago
When I was a teenager we had the Living Books edition of Arthur's Teacher Trouble on CD-ROM as part of a "multimedia kit". Every page had short animations that would play by clicking on random things with your cursor, in ad
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I love how it has an under construction banner, a guestbook, a webring, and a page visit counter. This is what the internet is all about. Though it's still missing the Amiga, and macOS <10...
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I also got a gmail during the invite only. I was so stoked, I drew a picture of Link (from Wind Waker) holding a Gmail icon over his head in his triumphant "got a new item!" pose. Some ISPs from back in the day did offer a few meg
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Perhaps my favorite example of a citogenesis-like process is the legendary arcade game Polybius, which originated as an entry on some German guy's web compendium of arcade games (coinop.org), perhaps as a "paper town", or fak
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The Mr. Splashy Pants of the AI era!
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by bitwize 6mo ago
You still don't get where I'm coming from. The AI takeover of programming is inevitable, and I hate it. But my feelings don't make the brutal economics go away. A skilled developer can now accomplish in days what used to ta

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