jolt42

Finding red blood cells in 70 million year old bones. Still find that incomprehensible. Not sure King George didn't kill a dinosaur.

Don't get me started on not CamelCasing acronyms, acronyms aren't more important than regular words! :)

Very good, I wrote Pascal many years ago, but I was thinking more Kotlin/Scala (right?) vs Java.

There's so many languages out there, I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO the type should follow the variable name.

AI taking jobs by users avoiding ads. It makes me wonder how widespread this is and what other "not so obvious" job-taking effects it has.

Renting a car is more of a pain these days. I find I actually have to learn how that car "likes its buttons". I don't remember having to look at a physical gear shifter to know it's in drive/reverse, etc. Now I have to see if some light is on. It must have been obvious to Human Factors folks from the outset that this was all a waste of time.

Long-term maybe we won't care about code because AI will just maintain it itself. Before that day comes, don't you want a coding language that isn't opinionated, but rather able to describe the problem at hand in the most understandable way possible (to a human)?

I think it's a shame more real leather isn't used. It just goes to waste, but fake leather is cheaper.

I find it annoying in Java when uppercase is used because its an acronym. URL or UUID. No man, just Url/Uuid. No need to yell just because its an acronym.

Man I wish they'd continue The Looney Tunes Show.

My OO projects were usually in Java with a DB. They all ran afoul of what Martin Fowler calls the Anemic Domain Model. Basically your objects are data-only, so there's no benefit. In addition Spring injection became ubiquitous, and further killed objects with behavior. The only project using a DB and had objects with behavior was an old one that happened to use TopLink as an OR mapping.

Yes. Although something in-between works as well.

"One can even conjecture that LISP owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage"

Not the first time someone didn't realize what they had.

Now you are backtracking (pun intended).

Java didn't exist when I originally wrote C++ code. When it did come around it was easily 4x improvement for a good amount of development (eg. enterprise software). I think you need like 4x+ to be worth switching, and I don't see that between many languages. I do see it between libraries/frameworks though.

I think a lot of the problem of switching isn't so much the language, but relearning all the undocumented lessons that were learned the hard way the first time around.

If Jenny's number was 555-5309 I don't think it would have worked in a song.

Work gave me a 5k monitor to use at home. I set it up dual monitor with my cheap-o monitor. Had to upgrade that as it looked awful. But now maybe better for my eyes?

They wouldn't want even the appearance of it being an Apple product running crap on it. If there was some way to completely distance themselves from it, maybe, but pretty much a non-starter.

What is an example of artisanal software? ALL software can be copied.

It's just an emotional reaction. I don't hear anyone bemoaning the cotton gin.

ALL technology can be used for good or bad. It's the usage, not the invention.

That is odd, cursory looks at C# sure the hell looks like Java, certainly largely a blatant rip-off. Methinks you have feeling for Microsoft.

I'll go farther and say it's not even possibly. Our brain wants to categorize things to make things simple but unfortunately nothing is simple.

I think of the Whalphin and it took Sea World era to discover. Who would see that coming?

Programmers are notoriously bad about making estimates. Sure it sped something up 10x, but did you consider those 10 tries using AI that didn't pan out? You're not even breaking even, you are losing time.

I remember the first time seeing one unfold, I was like "wait, what?". Do that again. Big fan of the nub, would still use one if it was on my Macbook.

Both are clickbait both false, "man swims 6k to shore" versus "I solved the mystery".

I prefer the almost comical sounding word, logorrhea.

I wondered about this suction. Is he talking about the ship sinking as suction. Mythbusters demonstrated IIRC that this "suction" doesn't happen.

I understand 30,000 have died on the Great Lakes as a result of shipwrecks.

It's as inevitable as the cotton gin, which ironically I just saw some news on how the Chinese continue to improve it, which will be the same for AI.