It’s not going to put me out of a job. This is from 2017 but still relevant as of today.

At least 75% of the actual job of programming is figuring out what a person means when they ask for something. This is not a problem that a machine can solve for you, for the same reason that it’s harder to build a robot that builds other robots than to just build a robot. Have you had words with Siri lately? Do you think Siri is in a good position to understand your intent, or it’s maybe just searching for command words in a limited lexicon? Do you really think it could find Henry’s stool? Or does it seem more likely that it would get confused and require a human… trained to translate… high-level human-language… into language suitable for… the machine?

Why I’m not especially interested in machine learning

I was a happy user of newsboat until it stopped working on my MacBook, for whatever reason. It probably just works right now, but since I’m definitely out of sync with my RSS feeds, I was looking for a way to have it both on my old iPhone (this excludes de facto most modern readers, including NNW) and my MacBook. It looks like lire fits the bill, although there are occasional iCloud syncing issues (sync time and rate limit). Anyway, that’s still better than Reeder which does not sync to iCloud at all. #apple

by failing to provide programmers with features they need to make the best use of modern hardware, programmers instead resort to enabling an option that is known to be blatantly unsafe. — Beware of fast-math

Sad Sad Apple Tears: A thoughtful review and commentary on Apple’s evolution from a developer’s point of view. #apple

Happy birthday to you dearest …

I am not saying that it’s not useful at all. If what you’re doing to begin with is copying and pasting code from e.g. Stack Overflow, then sure, because Google and other search engines have become so bad, AI can often provide you with relevant answers much faster than you shifting through page after page of useless Google junk. The reason why i don’t use AI or even code completion

Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers. TL;DR generate floating-point numbers with probabilities given by drawing a real number and then rounding to floating point.

/me is listening to “Danny” by The Durutti Column

A simple search engine from scratch. Looks interesting.

TIL about basedpyright, which provides better defaults and additional capabilities compared to pyright, like inlay hints. #python