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asimeqi
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
VB the ide was really good but VB the language was not. In particular it didn't support object orientation in any sensible way. While I am not crazy about object orientation in general, I think it is indispensable for UI development. I tried writing an application in Visual Basic. It was quick to start but the 5th time I had to copy the same code in yet another module, I switched to Visual C++. And anytime you needed to do something advanced with Win32, you had to resort to unnatural C like techniques in VB, while the same operation was native in Visual C++. This was 25 years ago and it was the last time I tried VB.
asimeqi
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I am a principal engineer too. In the last 5 months I have been working on a project using the latest LLMs. 5 years ago that project would have required 30 engineers. Now I am alone but need at least 5 more months to have an MVP. You are just not working on projects that are complex and difficult enough. There are so many projects that I have in mind that feel within reach and I would have never considered 5 years ago.
asimeqi
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Since when is "bored" a synonym for "dishonest"?
asimeqi
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
If you are using build123d, probably the easiest way is to sketch an ellipse and revolve it.
asimeqi
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I can barely keep up with one instance of Claude Code. In fact even that one sits iddle half the time as I test its output and try to explain what it did wrong. What are people programming that needs 10 agents?
asimeqi
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
The best coffee stains by far are created directly in Postscript.
asimeqi
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Yes please I totally agree. Something big must be going on there. I once bought an item through an Instagram ad. For about a month I got fake updates about shipping. Then one day I get an email that itvwas delivered 2 days ago, complete with a different shipping path and an apparently real USPS tracking ID. Of course I received nothing. Complained to PayPal, the complaint was closed within minutes as not valid.
asimeqi
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
AI is making coding so cheap, you can now program a few versions of the API and choose what works better.
asimeqi
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Not a member of the project but here is my take:

You run the WireGuard app on your computer/phone, tap Connect, and it creates an encrypted tunnel to a small network box (the “FPGA gateway”) at your office or in the cloud. From then on, your apps behave as if you’re on the company network, even if you’re at home or traveling.

Why the FPGA box: Because software implementations are too slow and existing hardware implementations cost too much.

Internal or Internet: Both.
asimeqi
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
When I was in elementary school in the 70s in Albania, we had some older teachers who wrote z as ᵹ. I don't know where that came from, but it was not part of the official alphabet.
asimeqi
·l’année dernière·discuss
The 100x also is kind of meaningless. 100x compared to what? I can introduce a bug by being careless for 1 minute, discover it in my own tests and spend the next 2 days to figure it out. That's already 960x compared to the time it took me to introduce it.
asimeqi
·l’année dernière·discuss
~relying~ --> relaying
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·l’année dernière·discuss
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asimeqi
·l’année dernière·discuss
I see some very "tolerant" people are downvoting. You support the girl's right to support Hamas, but don't even want to hear from people who think differently.
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·l’année dernière·discuss
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·l’année dernière·discuss
Also this Albanian guy just published a video from the same place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGbSg3o7p4
asimeqi
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
15 years after MIT made the same switch from Scheme to Python. Since CS at MIT seems to be fine, so will CS at NEU.
asimeqi
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Why do I remember The C Programming Language book by K&R explaining how to write a version of cdecl? I just checked the second edition of the book and my memory seems to be wrong.
asimeqi
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I once implemented a logical expression evaluator to be used as filters on a search page. My boss tested it and filed a bug because he expected OR to have higher precedence than AND. I pointed him to a page with the rules and told him that he could use parenthesis if he wanted to modify the order of precedence. He was sort of convinced but never closed the ticket. Every release he would move it to the next release.