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Squeeeez··on C++'s `noexcept` can sometimes help or hurt performance
Is this some kind of new clickbait title? Something "can" "sometimes" do something (already 0 information) - ooor sometimes it also does the opposite. The only possibility not allowed is that it would not make any difference, but this one is actually also possible. Sigh.
Squeeeez··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
The obvious conclusion is not that obvious. You can have genetic traits which affect self-control, for example.
Squeeeez··on Software Maker Gitlab Seen Exploring Sale. Datadog, Google Among Suitors?
If datadog does indeed buy gitlab, this sounds as if its on-prem days might be over soon. Are there any viable (open-source) non-cloud alternatives?
Squeeeez··on Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010)
[Ed. finding these resources is left as an exercise for the reader]
Squeeeez··on Elixir Gotchas
Are you sure you mean O(n) instead of O(1), which I would expect for an array?
Squeeeez··on My (Neo)Vim workflow
Well, there goes the evening. Merging configs trying out stuff.

Is this your own? Or just one you liked?

Squeeeez··on To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
What is this "thinking" people keep mentioning?

What will people do during the remaining 7.9h?

Squeeeez··on To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
Pair programming, in my case, mostly degenerates into "no, wait, don't, how about, what if, hm, if you click on the, on the, button there, no not there, left left left, the third from- yeah that one, ah right, thanks for guessing what I meant". (obviously not always, but the language center of my brain is obviously not well connected to the programming center, and I have noticed similar behavior from several other programmers).

Let's hope the results are somewhat better than previous attempt ala COBOL.

Regarding verification, in my opinion the foundation for current LLMs is, similar to humans, not far from total hallucinations. I am not sure if actual verification is really possible in that direction. At most "well, 99% of the others have been doing it that way for the past ten years".

Squeeeez··on To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
This is exactly why I dread the future when people say "oh you will be able to tell the AI what to do, in normal language, and it will do it for you". I do not want to have 8h of "normal" text or speech conversations each and every day. It sounds exhausting. 8h of dealing with programming languages, though, that's fun!
Squeeeez··on Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)
How many great ideas have been published by horrible writers, and thus overlooked by the whole world?
Squeeeez··on Jpegli: A new JPEG coding library
So, if one person were to login to one account for a certain time, and then switch accounts for a few hours... Hmmm :o)
Squeeeez··on Giphy is sharing your IP address and private data to 816 partners
How do you deal with bots, crawlers, and other unwelcome guests?
Squeeeez··on IrfanView
Were those 8-bit bytes?
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