oldsecondhand

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by oldsecondhand 11d ago
For someone just starting to learn CS, it should not matter whether they're on PDP-11 or x64 or ARM. You can't start teaching with pipelining and speculative branch execution. So C is good choice because there is a simple CPU arc
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by oldsecondhand 2mo ago
What designing cards taught me about B2B sales ...
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by oldsecondhand 2mo ago
tl;dr: author "discovers" hypertext
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by oldsecondhand 2mo ago
Yep, putting a DRM free version in escrow should be a legal requirement.
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by oldsecondhand 2mo ago
However in the EU end users have the right to resell that license.
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by oldsecondhand 2mo ago
Me neither on Chrome on Win10. "WEBGPU initialization failed".
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
It's easy to make a chessbot that only makes valid moves. Making a chessbot that plays optimally is hard. But OP wasn't talking about solving optimalization problems, but understanding the rules of a business domain.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
That wouldn't solve the core issue: if Claude makes a mistake during the MCP generaration, it would poison further agentic use. It's adding another failure point to the process for no gain.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
"Graeber wrote about this astutely in his original 2013 Bullshit Jobs essay" I wouldn't take his word too seriously. According to him, corporate lawyers, administrative assistants and compliance officers shouldn't exist.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
Helped or overworked?
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
Or they're a prolog programmer.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
That's an American problem though. In most of Europe you need a masters degree to teach highschool and that involves at least an undergrad level of understanding the subjects you will teach. E.g. in Hungary I had a university CS profes
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
> If you can come up with a way to do math without reasoning, that would be, in a sense, even more interesting than AI. Logic is just syntactic manipulation of formulas. By the early 90s logical reasoning was pretty much solved with clas
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
Every public toilet eventually becomes and ad-hoc homeless shelter.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
Covid boosted the sale of canned food, but people avoid the sugary syrup of canned fruits in non emergency situations.
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by oldsecondhand 4mo ago
Did they? How long have they been around?
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by oldsecondhand 5mo ago
Stockpiling uranium ore, or lowly enriched uranium is much simpler than stockpiling natural gas.
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by oldsecondhand 5mo ago
OG actionscript was very similar to Javascript. It only started to diverge when type hints were introduced.
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by oldsecondhand 5mo ago
Sounds like a less efficient version of the mixture of experts approach.
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by oldsecondhand 5mo ago
Why are you doing meaningless microbenchmarks?
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
Since OpenJDK was released there isn't much point maintaining GCJ.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
American cities lack medium density mixed commercial-residential areas.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
The problems you mentioned are policing and welfare problems, both things that America sucks at.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw. The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
The most useful feature of LLMs is giving sources (with URL preferably). It can cut through a lot of SEO crap, and you still get to factcheck just like with a Google search.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
Delphi has been dead for 10+ years. Nobody uses it except for a few legacy applications and licenses cost $1200+.
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
> missing the real problem that your developers are probably using their home gaming PC for work because it's 10x faster than the garbage you gave them. > Yes, this happens. All the time. You just don't know because you made
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by oldsecondhand 1y ago
How can you do quality assurance on code no one can understand?
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
Didn't you still rely on the DOS HAL (by using system libraries)? The C IDEs came with a lot of graphics util libraries too (e.g. Turbo C).
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by oldsecondhand 2y ago
Another thing to consider is availability: many companies don't even allow powershell for dev users.

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