wiz21c

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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   I was a kid and there were Tron, Star Wars, video games, personal computing, hacking culture, etc. Those defined new things and point of views. Sure we had thermonuclear war threats and a bit of AIDS. But that was basically all. But as far
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   yeah, companies wants little effort for bigger effect. They want maintainable code, etc. Clever hacks are not really welcome. Now that PC's are so powerful, you look for algorithms optimisation. And although it requires a ton of clever
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   absolutely positively right (been there, done that, got several t-shirts :-) )
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   the 80's were amazing :-)
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   Revision 2012 though...
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   what's the meaning of of the A,B,C... columns It's a ratio but of what over what ?
7. 187.▲
   by wiz21c 1y ago

   Is it me or the size of the circles is proprtional to the installed capacity instead of the generated capacity (i.e. a 1200MW nuclear plant is as big as a 1200MW wind turbine, which seems not right to me)
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   thanks for this long explanation; never realized that before :-)
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   by wiz21c 1y ago

   you are obviously not past 50 years old. At that age, eventhough I "train" (as you imply it) a lot (I code about 50 hours a week, 40 at work, the rest for my own projects; not of them easy, my job is writing numerical code for sim
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    languages are not about what you can do but what you can safely (that is, without introducing bugs) abstract while remaining productive (you can code easily) and conducive of human organizations (you can organize team communication around t
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    as google seems to do (seen that other HN post today) https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-compan...
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    before or after taxes ?
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    look at the bottom of the sleeves, they don't match. the bottom of the jacket doesn't match either. I didn't see it at first sight but it certainly is not the same jacket. If you use that as an advertisement, people can sue y
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Even before AI one had to admit that productivity was rising. So the number of jobs would decline (when productivity rises you need less people to do whatever things). And so UBI was already in the minds and, I guess, will just become more
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Until they reach the dump...
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Fortunately! It was cool to do the easy things, but then you had monstruous path expressions, and all sort of programmatical drama.. Pfff... did you know that XSLT was shown to be Turing complete ? https://staff.emu.edu.tr/z
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Yes! But there's code and code. Not to disrespect anyone, but there is writing a new algorithm, say for optimizing the gradient descent and code to display a simple web form. The first one is usually short and requires a very deep unde
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    I'm interested. Could you give examples ?
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    compare what nintendo sells to other publishers on PC...
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/uvshco/can_you_write_...
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    I happen to prototype in python then move on to rust when things solidify... For those who don't know rust, its compiler is pretty slow. I mean, when you want to add a feature to an existing code base, each "run" you do to te
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    you need to work on big project for these flaws to become a problem. Say, you have a huge code base, 100000's of lines that you didn't write. Then you want to refactor a method's name. Python can't give you any guarantee
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    merit.
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    is it me or back then QNX was the only realtime OS for the PC's ?
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    adventure games require spatial reasoning (although text based), requires understanding puns, requires cultural references, etc. For me they really need human-intelligence to be solved (heck, they've been designed like that). I find i
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    > Aviation-grade testing → Every machine-code branch instruction is tested in both directions. It sounds really cool. And even if in the end everyone benefit from that, I wonder who requested that (if someone did)... I mean, it's ex
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    I live in Europe and according the common media outlets, the US absolutely, totally, forever support Israel. "largely" is too weak of a word here. And now honnest question: why is this support so strong in the US ? are the ties wi
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Considering US support to Israel, I wonder if MAGA is Trump or not...
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    Yeah, went down that road too. It's really emotionnally difficult/grinding. And I still don't have a clue: you have to find how each person behaves. Lots of talk, influence, repeating the same thing every day, etc. Unfortuna
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    by wiz21c 1y ago

    I've been down the toxic boss / burn out road. This article is spot on. Very good!