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@LisaBritton People enjoy hating each other. It's important to give them an outlet. Men are today's punching bag. There will be another later. Everyone gets a turn eventually.

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@dreamsofcode_io In 2000 Chamond Liu said: "An organization's real assets are the conceptual models of objects and patterns that its people hold. Therefore, for some time yet, the organization will be better off with the people than the code."

I don't see anything contradicting this today.

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@cmuratori The internet - including the algorithmic and advertising effects - are simply reflections of human nature. AI will be the same. There will be no utopia. Not with humans. We are a glorious species, but not capable of that sort of thing. We Gen-X internet pioneers were wrong.

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@fortelabs You'd probably appreciate Pascal "Pensees" where he discusses this very phenomenon.

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@HedgieMarkets Oh, I'm on the "3 months for $5" thing. Will I be subscribing for the regular price after? Absolutely not.

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I've noticed quite a few of my students will hit themselves in the head three or four times when trying to remember something. I don't remember students doing this in previous years. Is this a new thing? Or am I just not very observant and it's been going on for a while now.

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@Its_Nova1012 DOS 3.3 was the first I remember using specifically, though I used several versions before. PC/GEOS and GEM were pretty cool back in the day.

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@cmuratori All this time I just chalked it up to a whimsical response to all my Smalltalk code reviews that it botched anyway because it doesn't know Smalltalk.

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@kskrygan Local is the future. Great idea.

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@ThePrimeagen Aquinas reference (referencing Aristotle)?

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@BenjDicken Smalltalk

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@plainionist It also doesn't have super difficult syntax for a system that sometimes makes mistakes about the number of "r"s in "strawberry" - no need to count lots of parentheses, etc...

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@exQUIZitely It's a great genre. My favorite example is Patrick's Parabox. Genius game.

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@HeidyKhlaaf @asadr I've been trying to tell people this for over a year now. Nobody seems to be listening.

Natural language is full of ambiguitites. That's great, since it allows for poetry and literature. But if the legal world can't make it precise. CS won't succeed either.

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@davepl1968 Those abstractions are choices. I've been writing a lot of Smalltalk lately (intellectual exercise). And it is WONDERFUL to write. Optimized bitwise operations in Smalltalk are also over 30x SLOWER than optimized bitwise operations in Rust. Old vs New... :-)

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@jpschroeder WASM with a block of memory is probably the ultimate VM. Instant start up times, very little overhead, total isolation from the rest of the system (unlike a container).

And the tooling already exists for most modern languages.

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@RobSchneider Truly awful news. If there was any foul play I hope those responsible are caught quickly.

Prayers for their family and friends.

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I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 https://t.co/jAoYDsQ168 #AdventOfCode

I'm using this experience to learn JS. My programming background is limited to TRS-80 BASIC from the late 80's.

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@SenFettermanPA @giselefetterman @UPMC I hope you heal up soon! Best wishes!

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@Grummz No language (or in this case, library ecosystem) is forever. If they don't take care to out-innovate and out-quality the competition, they will go extinct.

Fortunately, language rise and fall is often measured in decades. They can right the ship if they start to fall behind.