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I have switched to vocalised morse code. My colleagues love me.

I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown

Maybe I am spoiled but I rarely read markdown directly. As a user of vscode I do ctrl + shift + v on a markdown file and read the rendered version.

The problem is most people don’t realize how short disc media’s lifespan is.

I have audio CDs from 1990 that play just fine and look to be in tip-top condition. Not so much CDs I have burned in the 2000s, they seem to fade, clearly a different manufacturing process. However, based on my older audio CDs, it seems that, if manufacturers want to produce quality, they certainly can.

Furthermore, a physical book (or disc) can't just be "taken away".

Does anyone remember ToolBook? I spend a couple of years from the mid to late 90s working with this daily, crossing from Windows 3.11 into Windows 95/98. It's a bit Visual Basic-esque, as a matter of fact, Paul Allen was a founder of the company that produced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToolBook

"We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and work backwards." - Jeff Bezos

Backwards indeed.

Not super familiar with Azure, but didn't they already have Cosmos DB? Or is that just MongoDB under the hood?

Ah, right. I never knew it went away (sott of) then then came back. That is kinda worrying indeed.

Does anyone has experience with AWS CodeCommit? It might not be what OP is looking for but since we're talking about moving away from GitHub. Personally I already pay for GitHub so I don't mind paying for something else. Just wondering if anyone has experience to share.

https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

Great write up. Reminds me of Cosmodoc, which is similar source but analyzes Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure instead of Commander Keen.

https://cosmodoc.org

I think GP is referring to EGA which also used address 0xA0000 but you had to program it in it a planer mode of 16 colors out of a palette of 64. VGA provided backward compatibility with this but introduced the 256 color modes with mode 13h being the linear addressable 320x200 res mode, however this mode sacrificed 3/4 of the video memory. This mode was also referred to as "chained" mode as it chained all 4 bitplanes together for convenient linear addressing. There was also unchained mode, sometimes referred to as mode-x which allowed you to access all 256kb of video memory, resize the virtual screen, page flipping, etc. at the cost of compute overhead. Lots of tradeoffs to be made in those days. Some amazing looking 16 colors VGA games were produced in the early 90s, one that comes to mind is Gods by Bitmap Brothers.

It's certainly the most rudimentary. Small optimisation on the inner-loop would be to pre-calculate the scanline offset before going into the pixel loop:

    int s = y*screenRect.w;
    
    for (int x = 0; x < screenRect.w; x++) {
       pixels[s + x] = argb(255, frame>>3, y+frame, x+frame);
    }

I suppose the argument being made is more about the meaning of human made rather than GenAI.

Israel?

   import {signal} from "@angular/core"
   import {form} from "@angular/forms/signals"

Other than that. Looking forward to try Angular again after a decade of absence. I think it looks pretty good.

If not an abstraction, how would you describe it then?

so that we have escape hatches

From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

I wouldn't work at Google either.

If you can't trust the people you have hired to hire people then you shouldn't have hired them.

just a formality and a friendly chat

That was not the case in this scenario. I was told I would be offered the role if I came out favorable with the CEO (did he like me or not? did I jump when the said "jump"?). To me this meant that the CEO doesn't trust the people he hires. He clearly didn't trust the hiring manager's jugement and/or respected their position. The CEO delegated a task and responsibility but then felt to have to authority to override that, which maybe he does. However, that's not a culture in which I want to operate. If I was wrong, so be it, but I saw a red flag and I made a choice.

I had something similar years ago. I applied for a job at a company, size around 150 people. Did two rounds of interviews which were great. They wanted me to offer the role. However, as a third round, I was going to do a meet and greet with the CEO and he was going to yay or nay me. At point I dropped out. If a CEO can't trust his delegate managers to hire the people they see fit for a role, then thanks but no thanks. That's not a company culture I want to spend most of my waking hours in.

Author writes book using search engine.

Author writes book using word processor.

Author writes book using typewriter.

Author writes book using ...

There recently was a change to VSCode where commits are being co-authored even if AI wasn't used. Not saying that AI wasn't used in this case, but it could be ambigious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1t1sj98/copilot_is_...

...comes out of rear ends

Instead we know it literally comes out of the ground and the market doesn't plummet.

I learned to do this about 2 years ago (pre LLM). I have been developing software for ~30 years and somehow doing something like this was a major mental obstacle, mostly created by the perception of "the dragon book", as in this topic being full of mystical unobtainable incantations, so I never even dared venture into this space. Silly, I know. However, after diving into this and learning to write a recursive descent parser for a DSL I wanted to write, it felt like I'd acquired a superpower. Totally understand that there is many more layers to all of this, layer that can get very complex, but just learning that first bit...

A similar thing happens with npmjs downloads. Some people actually judge the quality of a npm package by how many automated build pipelines are pulling a certain package daily.

but why not append the date

And use uuid v5 to hash it :)

I remember watching the weekly x-files episode. My and my colleagues would discuss it the next day at work with great enthusiasm. In those days you had time to absorb tv shows like this, something that doesn't really seem to exist anymore today. The 90s where a great time.

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of for-sale software.

We're seeing the end of "simple" for-sale software. Like OPs CRUD app, a UI front-end on-top of a database, of which there are a gazillion examples so some AI can easily synthesize some approximation of whatever requested variation.

The selling of software was always in the "moat", not how fast you were able to churn out CRUD apps. We used offshore that to a more viable economy, but now we're offshoring that to an automated process.

We're not seeing the end of for-sale software, we're seeing the beginning of the end-to-end solo founder.

Elections for executive leadership doesn't sound all that crazy to me. With 30+ years in the business I have witnessed my fair share of executive whackos that wouldn't have passed a basic sniff test if they had convince workers that they should be the one leading them.

This is actually important to understand. What are the dependencies of your dependencies? I.e. if your goal is to be sovereign than knowing how far the turtles go, and who the turtles are, is quite important.