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by t43562 3mo ago
Go to the National Museum of Computing just next door and save a bomb and see the actual bombe! IMO the house is of minimal interest compared to the machines but costs a lot.
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by t43562 3mo ago
Appended is a walkaround video of the Colossus at the National Museum of Computing next to Bletchley Park which is, FYI, a much better and far more interesting place to visit than Bletchley Park itself on the same site - and much cheaper.
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by t43562 3mo ago
While FTW! I just wondered whether it could be simplified because I get a bit tired of typing out my own belt and braces version of it: { # code that generates one item/filename per line of output } | { while read ITEM; do # do so
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by t43562 3mo ago
I know it grows well in Zimbabwe at least. My mum used to make a lot of rhubarb crumble. Yum!
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by t43562 3mo ago
I wish he hadn't said that ! :-)
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by t43562 3mo ago
Work forces you to see your own motivations and character and you have to manage yourself like you might manage a very valuable employee that you cannot afford to lose. This means you need to see your strengths and understand how you are mo
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by t43562 3mo ago
If nobody can review it that's fine since we'll be generating at least 50k LOC per day and nobody could review that anyhow. We can just get every other LLM model to review the output. What can go wrong?
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by t43562 3mo ago
No need for IRs if LLMs are all powerful. Just tell them to generate x86 and ARM and let them get on with it.
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by t43562 3mo ago
It's the logical outcome of believing that human skills aren't important and that you can "think at a higher level". You can't spend all your time thinking at a higher level if you cannot fully trust the output and
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by t43562 3mo ago
The code tells you HOW, the English should be telling you WHY. Both are usually needed IMO. Even a tiny bit of "why" can be extremely helpful to understanding in my experience. I don't want generated AI garbage that merely
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by t43562 3mo ago
writing is a way to get your brain to put thoughts into a form that someone else will be able to reach the same understanding as yourself. The effort to explain oneself often leads to better understanding: Duck Debugging basically.
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by t43562 3mo ago
> I wonder about this: Does LLM write better code in a better language? The whole point is to rewrite everything in a language you don't understand and then ignore whether it's better because you can't tell. That language,
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by t43562 3mo ago
goto is already useful as an end-of-function cleanup. You pop one at the end of each function (the naming is local to the function) and that's the place where you free ram if the pointer's not null and close the file if the handl
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by t43562 3mo ago
enshittification is apparently what corporations do - they have no soul, only shareholders. There is no direction of travel for them other than the nirvana of selling you nothing for something. Competition obviously seems not to have fixed
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by t43562 3mo ago
One should do this analysis for various politicians, political parties, TV and news media and so on. How do we know how good or bad the Economist is if we have no other source to compare against? Presumably it isn't trivial to predict
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by t43562 3mo ago
My self comfort is that once AIs are comparable to humans they will in effect be humans. Once they have wants and emotion to give them an internal motivation, and a short-to-long term memory learning ability .... the humans that are so kee
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by t43562 3mo ago
Vocalising my thoughts tends to get in the way - it's main purpose is to communicate to someone else and that's where I usually stumble trying to get the thought out accurately in a way that they're going to understand. We go
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by t43562 3mo ago
Have you ever had impressions about something complicated, e.g. someone's personality which you cannot put into words? I'm thinking of my kid - her personality when she was tiny. I could see what it was but not explain it. Hence I
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by t43562 3mo ago
Nothing is the same as the dog but we probably store a lot of sensory information, emotions and images relating to dogs in our heads.
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by t43562 4mo ago
Every time one watches a romantic scene in some film you know it's fake. Actors present a totally fake version of life. Every story has to be dramatised to get over the fact that it's largely boring to people who haven't live
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by t43562 4mo ago
I have often thought this - a wave of people learn something and on come the next wave to relearn it all. They can read books but they don't really "get" what the books say and have to learn it all from personal experience al
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by t43562 4mo ago
There's always going to be a slight mismatch between the supposed aim of any organisation and the incentives of the management and every single employee unless they're all shareholders and even then...
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by t43562 4mo ago
There's the thought that all places are potentially s** in one way or another. This isn't entirely true but there's a significant possibility that any move could be just as bad or worse. You look at your monthly outgoings an
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by t43562 4mo ago
At least you didn't work for an online gambling company....or assist with manipulating the political views of billions of people to their detriment...or work on better ways of killing people... Also, who hasn't worked at a company
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by t43562 4mo ago
On the other hand, I don't help people with their computer problems anymore because I've found that the more difficult the problem, the longer it takes me to rescue their data or whatever the less impressed they are. The more mira
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by t43562 4mo ago
I recognise almost every aspect of this document - it's exactly what's so intractable about the software business. This is why I think you do need to do some programming every now and again no matter what your level is because
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by t43562 4mo ago
Engineers may not be better managers but it's not easy to really manage something you don't have any insight in.
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by t43562 4mo ago
The reviewer gets to merge the PR so their name appears on all the great new features and they are credited for them. That would end his unfair behaviour of dumping effort onto other people. OR - he gets a review for every review he does.
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by t43562 4mo ago
I remember the name Rob Borland (the admin) I have a feeling his son was at school with me.
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by t43562 4mo ago
"Mango", which was the name of the fidonet node, probably still existed but was on its way out. I was at university in SA by then. I know it was still around in 1996 but I cannot find all my backedup emails to see if my parents we

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