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completely unreasonable thing to do but somehow feels essential
The AI features added to Notepad created a critical exploit vulnerable to loading a compromised txt file.
The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.
AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
another valid approach is to write your own whole system.....
Isn’t it just as easy/informative to plot it on a stretchable x axis and eyeball?
holy crap BWV903 fugue. did they have forte fortissimo back then?
You cannot predict how a complex system, be it organizational or software, will behave. Put another way, a metric-focused analytical approach to improvement or control does not work and never will work.
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One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
#javascript is actually quite good if you treat it right. github.com/skeeto/impat... is awesome for small projects
Should have started thirty years earlier #commonlisp github.com/jdf-id-au/co...
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me
That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?
“polite lying daydream machine” eev.ee/blog/2025/07... The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.
After all decades of wrestling with OOP patterns, Pure Functional Programming Bullshit and realizing that you just wanna write code - Dumb, Imperative, Straight to the point code - I feel scammed. I feel lied to. I wanna sue all the Best Practice preaching Shitty Book Selling mfs
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Submarines do not swim. Automobiles do not gallop. Telephones do not speak. Cameras do not paint. Computers do not think.
Oh dear this C reimplementation of some core app logic might end up more concise than #clojure (admittedly with some codegen so not quite fair)
I wonder if anyone has gone full babashka repl in place of bash…
Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate
The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator
Think about this
I love the completions but yes it’s jarring to break away from the ancient conventions (particularly when still administering other systems still on zsh/bash). What made you switch?
The Ultimate Recreational Programming Experience™
Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers.
So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).
Every. Time.
This is artful writing
