As a kid, I was always getting into trouble at school—the weird one asking offbeat questions. Today, I’d probably be labeled and medicated. I vividly remember refusing to memorize multiplication tables. My teacher insisted, “It’s important!” But I’d just visited my cousin with

Idiocracy (2006) opens by throwing you straight into its hilariously dumbed-down future.

TFW you hear Neil deGrasse Tyson considers most of the Matrix movie scientifically sound except the basic premise why robots are keeping humans alive. While also watching current progress with hallucination machines and digitization of everything. Feels... uneasy.

My most boomer take is that working is actually good, and most people don’t have real jobs anymore. That’s why everyone’s depressed

Starting a war and expecting to move freely in Europe is hard to justify. The EU is tightening visa rules for Russian nationals amid continued drone disruptions and sabotage on European soil. Travelling to the EU is a privilege, not a given.

Wait, so the reason 115200 baud is a common bit rate for UART is because its a multiple of 9600 (x12=115200). And 9600 baud was commonly used because its 32*300 baud. And 300 baud was used because its the lowest common denominator of 50Hz and 60Hz. And that was used

Lately I keep wondering, whether I will shock my grandchildren more with stories about living in age without computer, mobile phones and Internet (before them), or with stories about those magical things shortly existing...

As a software developer, I want software out of almost everything I use

Driving the same car for over 10 years is normal. Using the same phone until it breaks and packs up is normal. Taking food to work everyday is absolutely normal. Repeating the same clothes and shoes is very normal. Saying no to things you can’t afford is very normal. Be

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God permits this great RAM plague because all of you have been ungratefully wasting it for decades. This is our punishment for WebView2-based Run dialogs. The Lord is just.

The speed of development loop often does affect final form of the SW, ie. what end user receives, so compile times matter even for end users, although indirectly. Fist fast loop the developer can experiment more quickly and try more options to see what works best for users.

i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur) quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never

honestly the biggest surprise with LLMs is what it reveals about language you can do SO MUCH computation based just on vibes, “oh yeah this word often comes after this word in this context” languages are truly amazing

Daniel Lemire Same graphs are true for the code itself. A lot of people think that performant code is hard to maintain and work with, but the opposite is true, up to a point. Then, when you need to push past a certain performance boundary, the code does become harder to work with.