bitwize

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by bitwize 6mo ago
I know how to do things by hand, man. But the writing is on the wall: that skill is going the way of writing programs on punchcards. And there's little we can do about it because the economics in favor of LLMs are like laws of physics.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Indeed. But figuring out what actually needs to be built is the systems analyst's job, not the programmer's. It takes people skills and holistic thought, something programmers are generally poor at (and AI certainly is no good at,
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by bitwize 6mo ago
No. AI is a must for software development. It's non-negotiable. The productivity gains are too great. The era of 100% human-written code is over. People will still do it as an idle curiosity, for personal projects only they intend to u
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Our lives are much more than our computing environments. By surrendering a bit of control of our computing environments we free up our brains to devote to other things in life: loved ones, pets, gardening, home maintenance, other hobbies an
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I keep seeing ads for expensive "writerdecks" that run between $500 and $1200 and have a bare-minimum OS that is intended for distraction-free writing. I keep wondering how these are any better than an old laptop, FreeDOS, and Wor
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Yes, if you use a formatter like LaTeX. The beauty part is, "Reveal Codes" is always on!
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Favorite ZSNES moment: I took a math class in a lecture hall equipped with laptops in a year when my university was experimenting with laptops as a pedagogical tool, but hadn't yet pulled the trigger on requiring them or offering them
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This is one of those happy little lies we tell ourselves, you know, like Agile is to help us collaborate better. No, your company adopted Agile so that upper management has near-real-time feedback in how teams are doing, who are the top per
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by bitwize 6mo ago
My father, who was a mechanical engineer, has noted an instance of "brainrot" occurring with younger engineers: they are instructed in how to design parts, but not how to machine them, so they lack physical intuition about what ki
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by bitwize 6mo ago
There's an easy solution for this: 1. Declare AI "the future" and mandate its use by all employees. 2. Hire college grads who have no idea how to code without AI. 3. Start PIPing problem seniors for not being "AI-first&q
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I consider the scene with Dr. Chandra and SAL 9000 to be a fairly realistic predictive description of how experts interact with LLMs. SAL even has a somewhat obsequious personality.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Iosevka is the king of scalable terminal/programming fonts. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because the glyphs have lines and angles that look "terminal-y" in the same pleasing way Terminus and the 3270 font do whilst
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Lem is still too Emacs-like. I'm talking about beginners , not seasoned Lisp hands, most of whom—until the great boomer dieoff occurs at least—are already comfortable in Emacs. If you're still just finding your feet in Lisp, you&
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Then you are probably not interested in this work at all. It is meant to develop Lisp—a language whose primary advantage in 2026 is ergonomics to humans, particularly a certain kind of human. If you're doing 100% agentic development,
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I keep hoping the Common Lisp community will step up and deliver better Visual Studio Code support. Asking new devs to learn Emacs, alongside all of Lisp's idiosyncrasies, is too tall an order. I bro'd through it in the 90s but to
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by bitwize 6mo ago
But OS/2 was a better DOS than DOS, and a better Windows than Windows!
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Perhaps they're forming a delegation to decide what to answer to that thing coming from space? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_IV%3A_The_Voyage_Hom...
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Coke Zero is sweetened with aspartame and phosphoric acid. It's just formulated differently to avoid the taste associated with Diet Coke, which some find unpleasant.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Sucralose is a genotoxin: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12251854/
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This is what the word "bus" used to mean on a hardware level: a backplane of connections to which multiple peripherals could be attached. These days a bus is a LAN of point-to-point serial connections which, it turns out, is much
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Actually no. The position I'm mocking is that we can somehow implement enforceable age restrictions on digital platforms without a verification mechanism that extends to the client level, even to the hardware. I think we need to suck i
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by bitwize 6mo ago
> government: bans social media for under 16. > hackernews: "Good. It's about time government took action. The only cure for these abusive capitalist companies is government regulation." > government: passes law requ
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by bitwize 6mo ago
"Good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see..."
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The boxing in (Mike Tyson's) Punch-Out!! is so cartoony and abstract that it's been described as not really a boxing game, but a puzzle game that involves throwing punches.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
What they're saying is that the capabilities of Mythos to find overlooked vulnerabilities in large code bases are real. We're in a new era for security. You're either using AI to catch vulnerabilities in your code... or someo
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by bitwize 6mo ago
There's a wonderful thing that we used to have and still do have, but might be going away soon. It's called "terrestrial television". For decades people streamed programming over the airwaves, straight off the antenna! F
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by bitwize 6mo ago
They're just doing their bit for today's lucky 10,000. Which, if you're unaware, is a reference to this XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Everything you think you know about AI was true until about 6 months ago. Now the frontier models and agentic tools are good at programming—better than most professional programmers would be unguided. And even if Claude Mythos isn't ha
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by bitwize 6mo ago
And this is why the most powerful consumer computing hardware in the world is made by a lifestyle brand (Apple). My wife about lost it when she saw the MacBook Neo in citrus, in person.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
And they weren't bulky tactical phones that looked like the smartphone equivalent of Humvees?

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