Natasha 
🇪🇺There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator:
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Siddhesh Poyarekar
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Adrian HonRIP to a real one.
The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!
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MostlyHarmlessNot now. Hotel California's on the radio and I'm singing the guitar solo.
Arne BrasseurIt's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.
How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.
But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.
We went in expecting coffee and some eggs but ended up having Fahsa and Manakeesh. How's that for an upgrade!
I was today years old when I discovered Eggstatic, entirely by accident. Apparently they opened their Waterloo location only last year in November but I've dismissed the ones in GTA all these years as a standard north american breakfast place.
It's a Palestinian owned breakfast restaurant chain in Canada (primarily Ontario although it looks like they're expanding fast) that serves middle eastern fare. If you find one within reach, you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not going.
Hynek SchlawackThis is such an end of an era that fresh Python programmers can’t even fathom.
PyPy used to be our hope! No major Python conference that didn’t suggest that they’re gonna fix the GIL and make time go backwards. And yeah, it’s really fast! I suspect the money-backed focus on performance in CPython combined with the compat paper cuts PyPy always came with has sealed its fate. I‘ve watched its decline over the years so I’m not surprised, but damn.