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> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

  Examples target Zig 0.14.

Been some significant changes since then, not least to printing and formatting (see writergate).

shaftoe444on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

Yes

shaftoe444on A million ways to die from a data race in Go

I'm English and "learnings" is one piece of corporate speak that really annoys me. It just means "lessons", for people apparently unaware that noun already exists. British corpo drones seem to need their verb/noun pairs to be identical like

action/action learnings/learning trainings/training asks/ask strategising/strategy

shaftoe444on OpenAI is building a social network?

Logical conclusion of AI is to generate slop for slop feeds so why not own your own slop feed.

shaftoe444on Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

The Register's take on UK abuse of "state security" reasons to override cybersecurity protections.

shaftoe444on London Transport 25: ride 25 different forms of transport in one day

Cos it's cool

shaftoe444on Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful

shaftoe444on The Butter Thesis (2019)

Awk is butter

shaftoe444on Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008)

LinkedIn slop

shaftoe444on The Rectangular Cows of UK Art (2018)

Top kine.

shaftoe444on Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management

Just forget stuff like a cool person

shaftoe444on A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem

Have they read Shakespeare?

shaftoe444on I'm a Luddite (and So Can You)

Who is Ned Ludd?

shaftoe444on Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)

I thought this would be about deadlifting.

shaftoe444on The useful use of cat

In my experience it's best to do

  cat file | tac

shaftoe444on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

Middlemarch. It has everything.

shaftoe444on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

I think it showed the proper reverence for theology and geometry.

shaftoe444on How We Sort the World

All models are wrong. Some models are useful.

shaftoe444on Golang Interpreter Written in PHP

If we could bring in awk somehow...

shaftoe444on Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry

> Let’s get back to this week’s thought!

Really made me laugh.

shaftoe444on Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure

> I recommend reading some of his books

Shame this needs to be said.

shaftoe444on Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row

But for the UK this is our only nuclear weapon, if it fails there are no planes or land based missiles to back it up. Different for the US.

shaftoe444on New interpretations of the Cerne Abbas Giant

Carry on up the iron age.

shaftoe444on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

A small website to tell me when football games are on the radio/TV.

https://wirelessfootball.co.uk/

All the existing feeds were either per channel or overwhelmed with ads.

shaftoe444on Introduction to Legion: life in the Roman army

Just as a fun comparison the oldest still existing regiment in the British Army is the Coldstream Guards, formed 1650. So not far off 400 years.

shaftoe444on A decade of developing a programming language

See the clockwise/spiral rule!

shaftoe444on Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code

Inspired me to have another run at the second half of Crafting Interpreters.