bregma

39 ms·

661.
by bregma 3y ago
C++ is not that similar to COBOL. COBOL is closer to Crystal Reports or SAP (ABAP). There are plenty of people with experience in those domains around today. Probably more than C++.
662.
by bregma 3y ago
Someone will still need to review the reams and reams of bullshit code generated by these Markov chains. It'll be like all your code gets written by first-term co-op students who have discovered alcohol for the first time and think it&
663.
by bregma 3y ago
The C++ standard library is about 90% template code in headers. Yes, you compile it all the time, in your own environment. You have no choice.
664.
by bregma 3y ago
Harvard University was founded shortly after Shakespeare's death and decades before calculus was invented.
665.
by bregma 3y ago
Published standards say that it's OK to destroy evidence as long as you are following written policy that says you shall destroy evidence after a certain limited time. Everything is copacetic here, at least according to published inter
666.
by bregma 3y ago
Over 50 years for me. Stared with a Cardiac [0]. First job after graduating university was FORTRAN IV on a PDP-11. Done some pretty cool stuff over the decades, much of which has disappeared as the market or technology has moved on. Pretty
667.
by bregma 3y ago
Immigration is a federal responsibility. Housing is a free-market responsibility with limits imposed at the municipal level (where it is strictly restricted to anywhere but my backyard). That's why the two are unrelated.
668.
by bregma 3y ago
It's more just the commercial version of "ideas guy". Anyone can be an ideas guy. Once you go pro, you're a thought leader.
669.
by bregma 3y ago
Still pretty much relevant in terms of introductory understanding. Some specific details seem slightly anachronistic for the general population (segmented memory for example, which still exists in modern PC hardware but is of little import
670.
by bregma 3y ago
CVS was a vast improvement over its predecessors. RCS was an improvement over SCCS. Networked drives were an improvement over floppies with sneakernet. Been there, used them all and more. Twenty years is nothing.
671.
by bregma 3y ago
AI os great for compiler optimization as long as it's OK that the rule that functionality can't be observably changed gets broken. Drop in a modern AI as the optimizer and every single line of C++ code can be considered undefined
672.
by bregma 3y ago
I think the industry sounds more like Taylor Swift these days. Maybe it's the audience speaking.
673.
by bregma 3y ago
Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough.
674.
by bregma 3y ago
I think you misunderestimate the dynamicisity of the living English language.
675.
by bregma 3y ago
Python. cls = <class 'datetime.datetime'>, data_string = 'Feb 29 04:55:03.687' format = '%b %d %H:%M:%S.%f' E ValueError: day is out of range for month
676.
by bregma 3y ago
I suspect the closer you are to the models the farther you are from the decision making.
677.
by bregma 3y ago
TIL Yosemite Sam was the rootinest, tootinest computer geek this side of the Pecos.
678.
by bregma 3y ago
It fell out of favour when the move to 16-bit systems meant no more hardware sprites.
679.
by bregma 3y ago
Sichuan peppers are the fruits of a citrus tree, also known as prickly ash, not peppers at all. Also not ash, but also not something you'd grow on your balcony because they're covered in nasty thorns and second only to blackberrie
680.
by bregma 3y ago
For a start it means no bank can legally lend you money for your cannabis business or they would be subject to prosecution.
681.
by bregma 3y ago
Cannabis sales and possession has been legal in Canada for, what, 6 years or so. You only need to be of a certain minimum age and pay the excise duty (and find a way to dispose of the extreme packaging). The black market now accounts for on
682.
by bregma 3y ago
Cannabis is still illegal for 100% of the US population under federal law.
683.
by bregma 3y ago
Isn't that the location of the soundstage where they filmed the Apollo landings? I would think it would be rich in appropriate resources. Flags and golf balls and stuff.
684.
by bregma 3y ago
So how is the job search going?
685.
by bregma 3y ago
Because medieval popes were know for their expert use of the speculum?
686.
by bregma 3y ago
I thought the lawnmower's Spanish name was "Jesus"?
687.
by bregma 3y ago
Wouldn't that violate your $A$2 rights?
688.
by bregma 3y ago
We teach our Scouts how Doritos make excellent firestarters. Of course, you only need one or two to star a fire, yet a large family-size sack is required for a typical Scouts meeting.
689.
by bregma 3y ago
Microsoft Excel. Someone spends hours torturing numbers in a spreadsheet until they give up and yield the desired answer. Pivot tables are created and used to make a slide deck using Microsoft Power Point. A decision is made, another round
690.
by bregma 3y ago
Linux is not exclusively GNU/Linux. For example, Musl/Linux (eg. Alpine Linux) and Android/Linux are widespread. The Linux ABI is unchanged. Legitimate Linux applications are written in Go all the time. Linux applications are

More ›