jolt42

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by jolt42 3mo ago
Windows - pfff, Microsoft charged companies like Dell for an install on computers they didn't even install it on !!!
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by jolt42 3mo ago
I think the progession is like 1) Oh, I can break stuff by changing a config value - it doesn't protect me. 2) Oh, I didn't think X would need to be configurable. 3) With code I can colocate the values with the code that uses them
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by jolt42 3mo ago
My realization first time with Eclipse/Java.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
Odd to include Chapman and not Dylan. Much like leaving out Twain - seems like the defacto choice to me.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
yeah, that's the one. Yep it doesn't seem as intended.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
I think the one you are calling "figure hands"... if you mean the one where hands are numbers could just use better styling overall. Two colors, different sizes, better choice of font.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
But with Clojure and immutable by default, hot reload is a real thing, it sounds like not just on JVM but even among lisps.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
I've yet to find a panacea. For example, I thought DRY was, but found its not the case (test scenarios). I've yet to find altruisms past "everything in moderation". If you do choose a style and stick to it though at leas
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by jolt42 3mo ago
I've feel like AOP is Spring on steroids. Same downside for both IMO.
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by jolt42 3mo ago
I didn't carry a cell phone for long enough (I do now) that people looked at me like I was nuts. I viewed a cell phone the same way most people thought of a pager (remember those things?) - for other people's convenience, not mine
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by jolt42 4mo ago
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal
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by jolt42 4mo ago
Agreed. Wasn't track barefoot back in the day? I mean even shoes are an advantage. Swimming sped up after goggles and swimcaps were accepted. I think it's all just where do you decide to draw the line? I've thought badminton
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by jolt42 4mo ago
Eh, I like MacBooks because they've been bulletproof. Any PC I suspect it might just go kaput whenever it feels like it, except for maybe a ThinkPad, but they cost more than a MacBook.
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by jolt42 4mo ago
I suppose you could chalk this up to an oversight. I don't see how Meta gained from this. They've been purposeful about collecting user data and lying about it, eg: 2025 Android Tracking Incident. Shouldn't just be an embarra
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by jolt42 5mo ago
I like the qualification of "large-ish". When someone says code is not the bottleneck, I assume they work for a large company. To be fair, at a start-up developers think they code at least 4 hours a day, but it never averages that
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by jolt42 5mo ago
We really want to believe that we can understand everything, yet we know we cannot.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
When we have AGI, we'll have self-driving cars. We aren't getting either in a year's time. The need for white-collar jobs in areas will shrink (not disappear), possibly to expand elsewhere.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
Yep, really advanced Google searches were never that good. LLM, yeah, it halucinates, it's never spot on but as sure as heck it knows what I'm trying to ask. It doesn't give me arborists if I say something like "list tre
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by jolt42 5mo ago
"The universe is rarely so lazy"
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by jolt42 5mo ago
That wouldn't prevent the caduceus from being based on the story.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
And yet the similarities can't be coincidental. Rod + Snake = Life Saving.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
I always assumed what I felt was obvious: Numbers 21:4-9, where God instructs Moses to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole to heal Israelites dying from poisonous snake bites.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
The logical conclusion is to use "a Haskell" typed language that will ensure every path is considered to guard against AI mistakes. OTOH, clojure repl, expressibility, immutability, and data-driven nature has its own advantages. T
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by jolt42 5mo ago
Sometimes code is the bottleneck, other times it's not. Large company, not a bottleneck, fixing bugs or individual app developer, more so.
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by jolt42 5mo ago
I wonder if Rust becomes more popular with AI as Rust can help catch what AI misses, but then if that's the case then what about Haskell, or Lean, or?
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by jolt42 6mo ago
I'll propose this as the only unbreakable law: "everything in moderation", which I feel implies any law is breakable, which now this is sounding like the barber's paradox. What else does anyone propose as unbreakable?
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by jolt42 6mo ago
It's easy to chalk it up to "fear of the unknown", when in reality it's both good and bad depending on who's wielding it. It can be used to tear down or build up, solve problem or create problems just like every adv
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by jolt42 6mo ago
Anecdotally, I was just there and ran into a couple of anti-AI people and it's not like I was bringing it up. All I got was they were worried about the water and the heat produced. I wonder if someone has done an analysis of old-search
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by jolt42 6mo ago
Ridiculous? Tandy (leather originally) became a large computer company for a while. So who's to say really.
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by jolt42 6mo ago
Why? Is it just not put caramel coloring in it? It didn't taste like actual Pepsi to me, which I suppose might be more difficult?

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