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Imagine playing a racing game like Mario Kart, using only your brain to execute the complex series of turns in a lap. *no drilling required
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Why the next paradigm in programming is no paradigm at all. Or four nickels
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Quote: These post-paradigm languages draw on the best features of past languages and refuse to limit the programmer to a single style...Programming styles in these languages are meant to be mismatched and combined. Indeed.
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I just wrote 84 new matrix multiplication kernels for llamafile which enable it to read prompts / images faster. It now kicks the music player back
Too obtuse for the new kids?
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I want to talk about something we don't discuss enough in our field: the mental health of software engineers, especially those of us who've taken on the challenge of leadership. Yes please, I'll take a cup
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The author felt tremendous pressure to deliver what had been promised, on time. I guess I was lucky to have repeatedly heard how the world would end if this release didn't ship on time, blah blah blah. But being late never turned out to be much of a problem. And then there were times when the product management group hadn't prioritized content correctly, or the sales group didn't close that sure sale, and so on. After seeing enough of this, I no longer cared when senior management were soiling themselves. I suppose it could have turned out to be a boy-who-cried-wolf story, but it never did.
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Do admins really need Copilot in Windows Server? You had me at 'do we really need Copilot?'
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As some of the dust around the xz backdoor is slowly starting to settle, we’ve been getting a pretty clear picture of what, exactly, happened, and it’s not pretty. Or...and hear me out with some crazy talk...we could just pay for software?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or...and hear me out with some crazy talk...we could just pay for software? You must be 'effin crazy!
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It’s part of a proposed class action settlement filed with a California federal court. And by 'destroy', they mean, 'save on a different computer'
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I find that when I’m afraid, I become super conservative. WE CANNOT POSSIBLY MAKE THIS CHANGE WHAT IF IT BREAKS?! And this means worse software It's the mind killer
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Microsoft, opens new tab will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. Not all 'return to office' is going smoothly
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This past week, the update was made available to all Windows 11 users via KB5035942 as an optional update. However, several users online are reporting installation issues, and some of the affected who are managing to complete the installation and setup are further experiencing black screen issues on startup. Give it a moment
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Just reinstall Windows!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Another Moment of being screwed!
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On 26 February 2023, the C++ community found itself at the center of a media hailstorm with a Press Release published by the White House. The paper relegates C++ and C to unsafe languages and urges developers to move away from them.
The C++ committee proposes two approaches to address the criticisms leveled by the White House Press Release: first, make the language memory safe by implicitly using shared_ptr as a language feature, and second, add a borrow checker.
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It's like that was ripped directly from my mind
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Modular Inc. today open-sourced the core components of Mojo, a programming language designed for writing artificial intelligence software. In case you want to give your code some mojo
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I've Lost My Mojo! - YouTube[^]
I'll get my coat
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out. Money makes the source go closed
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Article wrote: Then they abandon it and cash out. Then lawyers appear in the scene and everything gets even more messed
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Last line of article is part of a Stallman quote:
Stallman: ...extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive.
Either I don't fully understand that quote, or it is completely ridiculous.
1) It is a known fact that if you provide your software for free then like 15% of people pay some amount for it (85% or more never pay for it). A developer cannot support herself from the donations even on very popular projects.
2) Also, "restricting their use of it" is actually the definition of every product where anyone gets paid.
For example:
a) Teslas are not free. You are restricted from their use, until you pay for one.
b) Plumbing services are not free. You are restricted from their use, until you pay (or agree to pay) the plumber.
c) Internet service is not free. You are restricted from its use until you pay for it.
d) Software development is not free. You are restricted from having software developed until you pay the software developer.
e) ad infinitum...
3) if something is not of restricted use, then people (consumers) use it freely and no one is paid for the thing, service, etc.
The article also mentions that you can continue to use older versions of the software which fell under the original open source license -- before the company or individual placed it under a new restrictive license.
Also, it is quite likely that the current feeling that software is valueless has been caused by software developers giving everything away.
In summary, I have no idea what that article is talking about.
But, I'm sure someone will explain it to me.
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And Stallman himself requires payment for him to give a talk somewhere, thus 'extracting money by restricting his use'
Where I have problems with the way some open source companies are going. They have their software open sourced initially, then once it's become popular (and the bugs get ironed out by the 'many eyes'), they switch to a closed source model. Or at least a supported fork of it is closed source. RedHat, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, etc., etc.
TTFN - Kent
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In software development, ensuring uniform coding styles across different editors and IDEs is challenging. Central command has defined indentation to be pi spaces
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