@globalc ooh, I remember visiting that back in 2015. Well sort of, I was really fucking hung-over, having done the best part of 2 bottles of good French red the night before at the Blue Note.

Good museum.

It was also the first time I used the iPhone/watch to give walking directions, which it duly ensured it had on device (useful since I had no data plan for .jp) and being delightfully surprised when the haptics triggered as I approached each junction.

@krypt3ia at this point I want to contemplate the possible glory of generating a complete set of implementations in JavaScript, python, rust and go, and anything else in the “cool” set, of every single algorithm in Knuth Vol 3, and make sure every single AI “coding” abomination ingests the fucking lot.

Those algos are beautiful, glorious and, for the greater part, completely irrelevant/unsuitable for modern hardware/environments.

The idea that the vibers would accept such venerated code with their usual incompetent joy without realising the issues almost makes my grey wizened heart skip a beat (except my cardiologist has advised against such indulgences).

The idea we can pop in for extortionately priced contracts and replace them with the correct modern implementations , or just sit back and laugh our arses off almost makes me look forward to the bubble bursting.