in the US, thoughts of data privacy are pure fantasy
in the US, thoughts of data privacy are pure fantasy
Essilor monopolizes lenses, Safilo monopolizes frames – neither offer direct sale
“If I had to suffer, then so should you.”
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when workers go on strike, they call in the police, strikebreakers, National Guard, even bomb whole neighborhoods – but when a CEO takes a week off, no one even notices …
Hacker Purity Test from 1989
unless you made a lace card
if you don’t like Lisp, you can use Forth
don’t skip over the “glorified” part either – people were playing with these same ideas with Usenet bots back in the ’80s: Mark V. Shaney
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Al Sweigart (2020)
as one pundit mentioned, our current generation of AI is just “glorified predictive text” – it doesn’t know how to program, it does know huge sets of probabilities of else
coming after elif
coming after if
Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
gas pedal – it was friction fit and would slide off and get jammed into one of the panels pressing down on the accelerator
Teslas go above and beyond – and the Cybertruck takes it to another level past that …
it’s time to return to the roots, FORTRAN and LISP and COBOL – C is the new technology