bitwize

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901.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Indeed. With AI lifting legacy code bases into Rust got a whole lot easier, and purging the blight of C from the world, excepting the most deeply embedded of applications, got a whole lot closer.
902.
by bitwize 8mo ago
You're forgetting that Excel is the most ergonomic programming language in the world, full stop, nothing else even comes close. Until it's as easy to build something with those other things as it is to whip up a sheet in Excel, th
903.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Office really chugged on the PCs of the time though. We can debate whether modern Excel actually delivers enough more value than historical Excel to justify being as more resource-hungry, thus slower to load, as it is. But historical Excel
904.
by bitwize 8mo ago
The AI "movement" is hermetic magick. The goal is to bring about God in silico , because if you're not involved in so doing, God may punish you for eternity when he emerges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
905.
by bitwize 8mo ago
"The problem with Scheme is all of the implementations that are incompatible with one another because they each add their own nonstandard feature set because the standard language is too small." Sometimes with an added subtext of
906.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Well, yeah. Vibe coding as in letting AI one-shot an app with a vague description still doesn't work except on trivial, throwaway stuff. But... spec-driven development with automated stepwise refinement by agents recursively generating
907.
by bitwize 8mo ago
That's a crab. Get your crustaceans straight!
908.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Yes, by state legislatures. The concept was the Senate would reflect the states' interests, whereas the House would reflect the people's interests, in matters of federal legislation.
909.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I used eduke32 to blaze through DN3D once more on a boomer shooter kick a few years back. Which arguably never ended, as Doom and Quake mods make up most of my gaming time now.
910.
by bitwize 8mo ago
The movie Spy (2015) is probably the most accurate, realistic version of the CIA in cinema, replete with celebratory cakes for supervisors' birthdays and crumbling infrastructure due to insufficient funding.
911.
by bitwize 8mo ago
The Brazilian law, passed in September of last year, requires both online service providers and "terminal operating systems" to provide secure, auditable age verification. It is from a technical standpoint presumably not legal to
912.
by bitwize 8mo ago
This is already the law in Brazil. General purpose computing is dead.
913.
by bitwize 8mo ago
When I lived in the northeast, every time I saw an opportunity for embedded work, or traditional UI work (Qt, etc., almost invariably for things like screens on medical or scientific equipment and almost never for desktop applications) it p
914.
by bitwize 8mo ago
"It's not a virus, it's a worm!" https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcAACOrgVKE
915.
by bitwize 8mo ago
And they get paid squat compared to their brainrotted silly-valley webshit-slinger counterparts. Can we pay these fine folks, as well as people in professions like teaching, more?
916.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Critical thinking is slave mentality, man. Master mentality, the mentality of the guys who FUCK, is knowing that what you want to happen WILL happen and doing everything you can to make it happen. /s if not obvious
917.
by bitwize 8mo ago
"The city is temperate and brightly colored, with plenty of pleasant trees, but on every corner it speaks to you in an aggressively alien nonsense. Here the world automatically assumes that instead of wanting food or drinks or a new ph
918.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Lisp is the master of all. Or it would be except "Parens? Eugh! Brotha, eugh!"
919.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Literally me as an adult, I feel seen
920.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Well, that's the thing. You have to shut your programmer brain off and turn on your business brain. The code never really was that important. Delivering value to end users is the important thing, at least to the people that count. Tim
921.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I'm glad you enjoy it. I fucking hate it. Working directly with code is part of how I approach solving software problems. What's worse, the more I rely on the bot, the less my internal model of the code base is reinforced. Every p
922.
by bitwize 8mo ago
"Solomon is hiding because he is a coward who enjoys belittling other people from behind a safe veil of invisibility. His is like many sites on the internet, who mock and insult while lacking any courage to own their own words. In publ
923.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Spontaneous evolution of the same idea. It actor-models when it's actor-model time!
924.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Ackshually... Erlang didn't introduce the actor model, any more than Java introduced garbage collection. That model was developed by Hewitt et al. in the 70s, and the Scheme language was developed to investigate it (core insights: acto
925.
by bitwize 8mo ago
The commenter you're responding to a) independently made the exact same reference; b) has a username like that of Jared Leto's other Disney tentpole flop role...
926.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I saw your GitHub profile pic. A while back I reported to a guy with the first name Jean-Luc. His avatar picture in HipChat (which was still a thing back then) was, of course, Picard...
927.
by bitwize 8mo ago
I love it when the LLM said "it's morgin' time" and proceeded to morg all over the place.
928.
by bitwize 8mo ago
Meanwhile in some auto shop, "Perfect! Let's delve into the problem with the engine. Based on the symptoms you describe, the likely cause is a blown head gasket..."
929.
by bitwize 8mo ago
It's Cees de Groot! Or "Carpe Grootem" as my brain has called him for years. I remember his contributions to the Squeak community from back in the day.
930.
by bitwize 8mo ago
The best time to have a communist revolution in the USA was 100 years ago. The second best time is now.

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