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20·8 months agoThey named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.
Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.
I haven’t used C since 1995, but in my recollection, they’re needed so that the compiler can do type-checking (to the extent possible) in other files that use the function.
6·1 year agosccs, rcs, cvs… after that it’s a blur of new systems every year or two
I hope this is cubic meters…
Yowch, Django was 20 years ago? That hurts.
Nice seeing Mathematica and Lisp mentioned. I feel like Marvin the Martian after reading.
Jessica went nuclear when they did that. It was inspirational and the FCC’s website got the “hug of death” for at least hours.
223·1 year agoOnce the body of that first billionaire hits the floor, they’re gonna start dropping like flies.
I adore the energy behind these comments.
I have never had any patience with variable names when I realize I have to do a 3-way swap: c=a, a=b, b=c. I’m sure there’s 40 years of goddamit=a and fml=a in the wake I’ve left behind me.
Why is there a picture of Margaret Cho?
100% agree. Emacs macros take much more space.
1·1 year agoWeinberg boiled it down to a single axiom for me: “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” I’m not sure if they’re still in fashion, but two other things that inspired me were The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the front material of the original Gang of Four book *Design Patterns."
I’ve had a nagging issue with ChatGPT that hasn’t been easy for me to explain. I think I’ve got it now.
We’re used to computers being great at remembering “state.” For example, if I say “let x=3”, barring a bug, x is damned well gonna stay 3 until I decide otherwise.
GPT has trouble remembering state. Here’s an analogy:
Let Fred be a dinosaur.
Ok, Fred is a dinosaur.
He’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt.
OK, he’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt.
And sunglasses.
OK, he’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt and sunglasses.
Describe Fred.
Fred is a kitten wearing an AC/DC tshirt and sunglasses.When I work with GPT, I spend a lot of time reminding it that Fred was a dinosaur.
ddp
Bwahaha! I have stolen your comment!
Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.