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Why is this so sexist? It should be titled “Meet The Sad Spouses Of AI” 😒:
“Meet The Sad Wives Of AI”, Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/ or https://archive.is/qsebs).
#AI #Marriage #Unhappiness #Obsession #Relationship #Neglect #Life #Society
👆🏽 via these two 👇🏽 episodes of the “Book Overflow” podcast:
https://bookoverflow.io/episodes/ep_qv39jksbdpfkkusuzswlgpse
https://bookoverflow.io/episodes/ep_qihcpbd37yqcmusalvpgtnh6
#CodingMachines #AI #Story #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Podcasts #BookOverflow
A nice #story inspired by Ken Thompson’s “Reflections On Trusting Trust”:
“Coding Machines”, Lawrence Kesteloot (https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/).
#Programming #Fiction #ScienceFiction #Virus #Compilers #SciFi #AI
Intriguing:
“Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake”, The C3 Programming Language (https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-year-mistake/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989154
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/bzltqt/unsigned_sizes_five_year_mistake
#Programming #Arithmetic #Integers #Math #PLDI #C3 #Unsigned #Signed #Errors
Nifty:
“All Of The String Types”, Lemon Donnell (https://lambdalemon.gay/posts/string-types).
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/khf0ye/all_string_types
#Programming #PLDI #String #ProgrammingLanguages #Unicode #UTF8 #Characters
“What Came After 486?”, Dave Farquhar (https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-came-after-486/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488348
#Intel #AMD #CPU #Hardware #IBM #PC #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #OldSkool
“The Oxford Comma - Why And Why Not”, Deborah Court (https://www.deborahcourtbooks.com/post/the-oxford-comma-why-and-why-not).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533160
#Comma #OxfordComma #English #Grammar #Punctuation #Language #Rules
Did you used to watch Fawlty Towers? If so, you will surely remember the episode in which Basil Fawlty, played by the inimitable John Cleese, is anxious not to offend an incoming group of German guests who, he assumes, carry guilt about their nation's past. He instructs his staff, repeatedly and in increasingly frantic tones, "Don't mention the war!" His anxiety getting the best of him, he ends up goose-stepping through the dining room.Friends, though our hearts are with our soldiers and the hos
Very nifty:
“Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)”, Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525243
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xpx9vi/shell_tricks_actually_make_life_easier
Sadly, this appears to be the future of #work now with #AI boosting “productivity” 😓:
“Appearing Productive In The Workplace”, No One’s Happy (https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001
#Competence #FakeWork #MakeWork #Sycophancy #Productivity #Skills
A catalog of #vi and its descendants:
“The Vi Family”, Mathew (https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033483
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/4wi5q4/vi_family
