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Prefer "zillion" or "kajillion" to avoid these sorts of pitfalls.

Talented people are valuable in general which gives them bargaining power so they can demand to use their preferred tech regardless of whether that tech is niche or not.

I generally agree with the notion that talented folks are more likely to explore niche tech. Just be careful making the leap from "they prefer niche X" to "therefore they are talented".

Two anecdotes:

1. I'm an average programmer who likes niche tech.

2. My friend is 10x more talented than me, but he likes mainstream tech.

I'm a regular emacs user but I completely understand this sentiment. It looks gnarly and puts many people off.

On the other hand, nobody bothers writing out the equivalent in VSCode or another conventional editor because it's so much worse:

    "" <left> <Ctrl+V> <Ctrl+left> <hold shift> <Ctrl+right> <release shift> <Ctrl+C> <wrap-selection-in-parens-command(?)> info <Ctrl+left> <hold shift> <right> <release shift> <Ctrl+X>

High Frequency Theology

Wow, I'm so glad I use $OTHER_SERVICE. This will definitely never happen to me.

It seems like image-based interactive development is on a spectrum from "less alive" edit-compile-run, adding some interactivity with tools like gdb, continuing up through IDEs and REPLs, and up through Elm/Dart-style hot code reloading and BEAM-style runtime module reloading.

Maybe CL's flavor of image based development is just an example of good ergonomics, because the fundamental interactions (edit, compile, update image, test, repeat) are not really different from developing a C program inside a Docker container.

Jumping through arbitrary hoops sounds an awful lot like "push hard, the door sticks".

I'd like a sofa that:

- is comfortable

- isn't full of fire retardant chemicals which turn out to be cancerous right after the warranty expires

- for less than $10k.

Pretty sure that means I'm going to have to learn how to sew.

This was my first thought too. I've not used it (just clicked through the tutorial) but it has a strong flavor like "Rust, but pleasant".

> well-tuned ... well-written

These are good for actual business needs, but bad for resume-driven development.

Glad to see it's written in C#.

Can we get a port in F# please?

https://github.com/rottytooth/Velato

I think the show struck a good balance for an English-speaking audience. We see Belters code-switch between "more Belter" with Belter-only crews to "more English" when they gather in groups with other factions or Inners. Public address systems we hear in the background are usually bilingual (Belter+English on stations, Chinese+English on Mars, etc). It feels multilingual without needing lots of subtitles.

Come hang out on the [redacted] social network:

- you're required to post at least 1 video every day or the platform doxes you automatically

- video content autoplays with audio

- surge pricing

- every video within the viewport autoplays, with audio

- the audio volume of each video is based on its trending score

- posts disappear unless you share it within a (random/variable) time limit

- no video longer than 4 seconds

- LOWERCASE GETS YOU BANNED

- dark mode for premium subscribers

[redacted] Social: we were worst first.

"GenAI" was not meant to describe the literal offspring of GenZ, what are you doing?

Oh well, Torment Nexus gonna torment.

The usual resume advice to quantify everything so each bullet point conveys "number go up" also falls apart when you invent something, create a new revenue stream, new product, etc. The previous value was nil, therefore I improved it by... infinity percent?

I just started a new project in C++ for two reasons:

1. I already know (some) C++

2. more mature GPU ecosystem, particularly CUDA support

I don't mind learning new languages, so CUDA was the deciding factor for me. Maybe someday as Rust's GPU support improves I'll consider a rewrite.

Parents with a single baby can simulate the twin experience like this:

1. get your baby to fall asleep

2. wake them up, then immediately try to get them to fall asleep again

Dijkstra on APL: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm

In one short letter he makes an insightful critique yet misses the the point so hard I can practically hear the woosh 42 years later.

Unexpectedly wholesome resolution to the name dispute!

Did Cory Doctorow write this? It seems almost too on-the-nose.

RIP static type advocates who forgot fires can happen outside.

The word "filter" is an auto-antonym. It means both to remove (filter out) unwanted things as well as to keep (filter in) wanted things.

Simple fix: floating-point indexes to all your tries. Or switch to base π or increment every counter by e.

Tired of 0d pacman? Try -1d pacman!

Real life is imperative, dynamically scoped, all global variables, and every instruction contains an implicit branch.

Oh wow that takes me back. I originally got into engineering as a career over a decade ago because of DIY electronics (especially guitar stompboxes) and I remember the CMoy making the rounds then too. Thanks for posting, I'm now starting my day with happy nostalgia vibes.

DC has zero capacitive (or inductive) coupling.

Looks like Vim compiled with Actually Portable Executable [1] headers to make a cross-platform (and perhaps also bare metal) vim binary.

But I apparently am distracted by shiny things and couldn't focus on any of the other stuff after seeing rainbow indentation for the first time.

[1]: https://justine.lol/ape.html

Amazing! Python is consistently bringing some of the best-loved features from other languages to the mainstream, and then ever-so-subtly ruining them.

You could try the old Monsanto/JohnDeere approach: copyright your own DNA then sue them under DMCA.