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601.
by codr7 1y ago
Very Ender's Game.
602.
by codr7 1y ago
I'm sure there were aspects of life back then that could be said to be better than today. More human contact, more time in nature, less technology, less stress, less pollution and so on.
603.
by codr7 2y ago
This is a pretty meaningless statement. Where? To whom? According to what metric?
604.
by codr7 2y ago
Never used it, I tend to use C-x 1 to get back to one window; what's the difference?
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by codr7 2y ago
C-x 3, I do the same :)
606.
by codr7 2y ago
I was really into BeOS for a few years, right around the Intel pivot. Very nice OS, but I remember the programming API to be tricky since everything was multi-threaded.
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by codr7 2y ago
Never found much use for any kind of generator, they don't scale once you want good error reporting/handle weird edge cases etc. It's nice to have a descriptive, succinct syntax though; as opposed to having it spread out over
608.
by codr7 2y ago
I remember the very same example (re)-sparking my interest in AI back in the days. My gut feeling says there is something in this approach that's needed to make GenAI work reliably. The brain has an associative feature, sure; but it&#x
609.
by codr7 2y ago
I didn't make much progress on my own languages until I discovered Forth, always seemed to get stuck and lose motivation in the parser. Writing the parser is the least interesting part of building a language imo.
610.
by codr7 2y ago
True! If you need help, go to the poor. People who have everything they need will make up a story where you deserve your troubles to avoid facing their own vulnerability.
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by codr7 2y ago
I guess there were always two kinds, Bill Gates doesn't strike me as a person who loves technology. Compared to, say Dennis Ritchie or Wozniak. I'm firmly in the problem solver/hacker/artist camp. Which I guess is why we
612.
by codr7 2y ago
How is correcting someone else's solutions even close to as fulfilling as creating your own? How can you not lose something by choosing that method?
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by codr7 2y ago
Problem solving, I'm pretty sure it's the driving motivation for many/most coders. I find pleasure in crafting the solution, sculpting it by hand; putting everything I've got into making it fit the problem like a glove.
614.
by codr7 2y ago
In the way that the more you do that, the less you have any clue what you're doing. Because you're not learning, you're following instructions. Being programmed, if you will.
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by codr7 2y ago
I don't object to abstracting, at all; or reducing labor in general. But this method of getting there makes me feel like I'm degraded to being the assistant and the machine is pulling my strings; and as a result I become dumber th
616.
by codr7 2y ago
People frame that like it's something we gain, efficiency, as if before we were wasting time by thinking for ourselves. I get that they can do certain things better, I'm not sure that delegating to them is free of charge. We'
617.
by codr7 2y ago
Hey, I've written software for a living for 26 years. No best practice in the world is going to stop people from making mistakes.
618.
by codr7 2y ago
Let them replace me then, it's not a job I feel like doing anyway. And when they have forgotten all about how to actually write software, the market is mine.
619.
by codr7 2y ago
The (pretty substantial) difference is now the computer is telling you what to do.
620.
by codr7 2y ago
I don't get it, at all. Why are experienced developers so enthusiastic about chaining themselves to such an obviously crappy and unfulfilling experience? I like writing code and figuring stuff out, that's why I chose a career in s
621.
by codr7 2y ago
Ncurses has its place, if you're doing a full featured form based app it helps a lot. That being said, if you're doing something less involved, controlling the terminal via ansi escape sequences is not rocket surgery. https:&#x2F
622.
by codr7 2y ago
And it goes the other way too, one crappy update means complete chaos.
623.
by codr7 2y ago
Not if it isn't moving. That one felt more like entertainment to keep people distracted since they couldn't get copying up to a reasonable speed.
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by codr7 2y ago
Here's another guide to C, from a slightly different angle, that I've been working on for a while: https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c
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by codr7 2y ago
The human body is an amazing construction; it knows exactly how to run, it's more a question of letting it run its way as opposed to making it run the way you think it should. The main issue with running for me is emotional. Like many
626.
by codr7 2y ago
It's still both its core strength and core weakness, which is why it's not going anywhere.
627.
by codr7 2y ago
Except pigs have a lot more in common with humans than the others. Pigs are super intelligent, we have the same blood groups, organ compatibility, piglets smell like newborn babies, their skin is very similar to human skin.
628.
by codr7 2y ago
And my gut feeling says neither of you is learning as much anymore either.
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by codr7 2y ago
Wind, and moving shadows when the sun is behind them. I find both annoying to live with daily. And it's not like its a problem that couldn't be solved; I like the idea of wind turbines, just not at any cost.
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by codr7 2y ago
It depends a lot on geography and (obviously) winds in the area. I can assure you that it's very real, and very harmful on a daily basis.

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