Which nerdy teenager in the 80s with a computer (or a lust for one) could forget the "Ultimate - Play the Game" logo? [0]
Readit NewsPlunderBunny commented on Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) coolandcollected.com/airb... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
PlunderBunny commented on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-... · Posted by u/mattwiese
Um…is this satire?
My thoughts exactly.
PlunderBunny commented on GPTs and Feeling Left Behind whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Automated memory management was fiercely debated at the time. So were high-level programming languages, so much so that Paul Graham was moved to write "Beating the Averages".
Fair enough - I wasn't there at the time. Perhaps (obviously?) we're still at the debating stage of AI assisted coding. But I think we can say we now understand the trade-offs etc around memory managed languages.
PlunderBunny commented on GPTs and Feeling Left Behind whynothugo.nl/journal/202... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I'm having trouble with this sentiment, because most progress in programming environments involves eliminating and automating away drudgery. The analogy you're making to playing scales and learning music theory applies just as much --- maybe even more so --- to automated memory management!
Not necessarily disagreeing with your points, or the general argument, but I think the trade-offs and consequences of choosing a language with automated memory management are reasonably well understood, and manageable, but can we say the same about vast amounts of AI written code?
ICE used cars are often in relative good working condition.
EV used cars are basically dead batteries. It makes a lot of sense to see used EVs price plummet. The index being used to make this comparison doesn't seem to disclose the car category, so it's hard to draw any conclusions.
If tesla car specifically drops in value, compared to other electric car brands for similar vintage/model vehicles, then you can draw a conclusion. Otherwise, it'd be merely confirmation bias.
I think we’re at the point where the lifetime of a battery in an EV just isn’t an important consideration:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/heres-one-way-we-know-t...
PlunderBunny commented on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/classichasclass
iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. There was no iPhone 2G.
The original iPhone was 2G, but it was just called 'iPhone' I think. The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models came after.
One advantage of having 'everything on the phone' is that you wouldn't need a cloud provider to sync between your laptop and your phone - it's a 'stand alone' experience.
PlunderBunny commented on AI is wrecking a fragile job market for college graduates wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/alephnerd
It's not an AI issue. It's that in 4 years of a CS degree, CS students never touch a single kubectl command or barely build one functional web application in one software engineering related course. It's the failure of CS programs that is causing job market issues for college graduates.
It's just that when money was easy, companies could pay for training interns and recent grads things they should have learned in school. Now money is tight, so we see these job market problems. I am hopeful that colleges will adapt their curriculums based on the changing job market.
Implicit in this is an assumption that the purpose of a higher education is to give graduates the skills demanded by the businesses. What if it (the purpose of a higher education) was something else? What if it had always been something else, and only in the last few decades did a certain segment of the population try to convince us that the only reason higher education existed was to churn out workers that could slot straight into entry-level jobs without businesses having to invest in any training first?
Sometimes I remember a workplace system I used, where someone had set tabs to 8 space.
I don't know why it was 8, but it was.
The VAX/VMS terminals we used at university to learn Pascal defaulted to 8 space tabs, on a 80 column screen. That certainly pushed some people towards using spaces.
To this day, I experience a very brief spasm of regret when I just exit Visual Studio without closing the solution first.