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Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

Debugging skill level:

🟢 Beginner: print statements
🟡 Intermediate: debugger
🔵 Expert: taking a shower

Found in my archive, my first years in DEC we still used flowchart templates, on paper!
ANSI X3.5.-1970

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android #Google

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

— Rob Pike

Das Titelbild vom 64’er Sonderheft 2/85
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1788
#c64 #retrocomputing
Am 25. März 1985 kam das zweite 64’er Sonderheft mit dem Thema Abenteuerspiele raus. Genau 40 Jahre später ist es nun als HTML und PDF online verfügbar – im Kontext des Projekts 64er-magazin.de. Der Drachenreiter auf dem Original-Titelblatt ist der damals 18jährige Boris Schneider-Johne – wer genau schaut, wird auf der Website erkennen, dass wir das Bild aktualisiert haben.
Das Titelbild vom 64’er Sonderheft 2/85 – pagetable.com

are you a programmer? do you like heavy metal? would you like to be *really upset* by a music video?

do i have something for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU

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The story of King Midas is a cautionary tale about adding the `async` keyword to a code base.
Raise your hand if you ever made a paper snake out of tear-off tractor-feed margins.
64’er Magazin – mit 40 Jahren Verzögerung jetzt monatlich im Web
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1764
#c64 #retrocomputing
64'er Magazin – mit 40 Jahren Verzögerung jetzt monatlich im Web – pagetable.com