zephen

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by zephen 11mo ago
That's a herculean task. I noticed there are no lawyer stories there yet. Those are the best schadenfreude, and there are plenty of them by now.
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by zephen 11mo ago
Excellent. kicad is cool; zero install should be a good gateway drug.
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by zephen 11mo ago
> Turns out code is only a part of our job. Yeah. Normally, of course, I link to an XKCD, but for this observation, I like this cartoon: https://i.programmerhumor.io/2024/12/programmerhumor-io-prog... > Als
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by zephen 11mo ago
He's just parroting stuff done by this guy: https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware... Shouldn't it be the "Judge Paradox" ???
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by zephen 11mo ago
> Do you know how much bandwidth six channels of uncompressed audio needs? Yeah. Half the bandwidth of USB 1.0. Or, in terms of more A/V kinds of things, about two percent of original firewire.
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by zephen 11mo ago
Randians gonna Rand. When "starve the beast" wasn't killing government fast enough, they pivoted to "we need to make sure it's incompetent, corrupt, and distrusted one way or another."
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by zephen 11mo ago
> how is a chatbot to know that the author of the task is a moron? Does it matter? The chatbot could deliver exactly what was asked for (even if it wasn't what was needed) without any angst or interpersonal issues. Don't get me
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by zephen 11mo ago
IMO, Python was an acceptable lisp even before it grew generators and decorators. True lisp adherents view lack of differentiating syntax as an unalloyed good, but that cuts against the grain of how humans have communicated with each other
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by zephen 11mo ago
The point is that the use of exceptions is built into the language, so, for example, if you write "for something in somegeneratorfunction():" then somegeneratorfunction will signal to the for loop that it is finished by raising th
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by zephen 11mo ago
Pretty sure that the comment "upper management who reads your blog" wasn't discussing your upper management. Would upper management from other companies read your blog? Sure, maybe not organically, but certainly via a googl
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by zephen 11mo ago
Yeah, the problem is when people create extra classes just to avoid the switch statement.