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I think you’re missing the point…

I feel like this question doesn’t need a blog post to answer.

Why write code in 2026? Because it’s fun.

It’s difficult to interpret his position as being in good faith given the organisation that controls and represents.

Gods I feel old…

I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that I don’t think the author has any troops anywhere, let alone in Ukraine.

Those issues could have been fixed…

So it sounds like you don’t get the exact version you want because metadata is thrown away.

I think the law is wrong…

I definitely miss Darcs. I still use it very occasionally, but only with very small repos.

Did you read what this does? Because I get the feeling you didn’t…

This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part.

Is this comment written by AI?

I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.

Ha, I was going to say the exact opposite. My first thought was that the website was broken.

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

That feels fundamentally broken. How can you expect an organisation to respond appropriately if you don’t provide them any kind of proof?

Well my first testing of the waters was classified as a misdirected love letter.

It looks like there’s a download link that contains the source code. Presumably you untar it, follow any necessary build instructions, and then run it.

I love to see modern analysis of these machine!

Ah. So we’re recreating COBOL in 2026 I see.

This very much depends on your definition of ‘best’. While your criticisms of the environment are valid, smalltalk is flexible in tangible ways that Java couldn’t match. Java took the OO model of smalltalk and make a bunch compromises that had big negative impacts on the language that are still there today.

Smalltalk was (and still is in some places) successful because of its portability, flexibility, etc. while it hasn’t enjoyed the degree of success as Java, ruby, perl, python, C++, and friends it would be a mistake to call it just a you.

I can’t be alone in this, but this seems like a supremely terrible idea. I reject whole heartedly the idea that any sizeable portion of one’s code base should specifically /not/ be human interpretable as a design choice.

There’s a chance this is a joke, but even if it is I don’t wanna give the AI tech bros more terrible ideas, they have enough. ;)

It’s heartbreaking.

That kind of feedback is also possible within this framework in theory. It depends on at what level the abstract interpreter is operating. If it’s the source level then it’s easy, but propagating that from an IR to source code is, shall we say, an open question.

The sheer amount of linear algebra number crunching vs some database lookups is monumental. I don’t see how an LLM could ever be as efficient as a search engine.

HyperCard is one of my all time favourite memories of Mac OS.

What an utterly delightful itty bitty scheme. <3

You’re pulling a quote that disproves your point.

As a native English speaker it likewise took me quite a while to figure out Andy kind of thread they are talking about. ;)

This is blatant misinformation. Firstly this has nothing to do with the patriot act, I’m pretty sure the patriot act expired years ago.

But more importantly it doesn’t seem like the government is trying to ban anything, they’re just extending the anti-fraud / anti-money laundering measures enjoyed by the ‘traditional’ financial institutions to the world of cryptocurrency.

Those measures don’t prevent people from doing ‘suspicious’ things, they just treat certain transaction types with more care because of the increased likelihood that they are evidence of a crime.

Was scaling ever the point?

Nothing to do with Apple Intelligence. The speech synthesiser manager (the term manager was used for OS components in Classic Mac OS) has been around since the mid 90s or so. The change you’re hearing is probably a new/modified default voice.