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Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:39AM (#49574840)
Great comment.

At my place, this is what they want. They want people to smash through things as fast as possible. They don’t want people to sit and craft a solution which takes in to account the whole. They are choosing tools which are low code, and use llm’s to produce what they need. as they say “this is the way things are going”.

It is also manages the runtime, so you can pin a specific runtime to a project. It is very useful and worth investigating.
Re:A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet on Sunday September 28, 2025 @04:45AM (#45402776)
This is lovely! well done.
Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card' on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:51AM (#45394187)
Hard agree.

Also, is the data secure? Who else has access to that data? Will I be protected if I am in this system?

If they were open about the system, it would be one thing, but they never are. It is funny how this has cropped up gain after the recent pow wow with the yanks and the tech companies.

Re:Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition on Saturday August 30, 2025 @04:28AM (#45072952)
That is a joy! Thank you.
Re:Neuroscience How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? on Friday June 06, 2025 @05:46AM (#44199254)
Mental fatigue is something that can manifest in different ways.

To keep it short, for me, It is like I can think down a path, but slowly, it is like I have this plodding speed, if I try to think 'quicker' (or more reactive/agile) it feels like a lot of effort, like I have to focus and push myself. The more effort I apply the more energy I use. The more energy I use the longer this state lasts for. The longer this state lasts for the more chance I develop physical issues. When I am in this state, I can't mentally fit pieces together. It is like I am wearing oven mits and trying to build lego. It just doesn't fit together. oh and I get really clumsy, my movement becomes really uncoordinated.

So it is like I have a smaller pool of energy, and I can spend it slowly over a longer period. Or faster over a shorter period. When I go over my limits, then see above.

The only cure, is rest, and that is usually about 3 days of not pushing myself mentally too hard, to get back to a reasonable baseline. It is improving, if we had had this conversation three years ago...

I have seen this in other devs, a friend of mine has MS and she needs to meter her energy levels like this. My neighbour came out of hospital after a serious illness and she has some of these symptoms. It is more common than you would think.

Re:Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:04PM (#43683452)
I agree with you. Just have a clear structure and onramp for building stuff. Go and Rust seem to have a lot of the attention, there is room for Ocaml also, especially if it was as clearly and simply defined. (I have a sneaky suspicion it fits in that 'cloud native' space quite well) I am sure that the maintainers and architects see that also, they have made great strides the past few years and I hope they bring it together.
Re:Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity on Monday April 14, 2025 @09:36AM (#43681125)
Come on Ocaml.. I believe in you!
Re:Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:19PM (#43346149)
A bit of a jump but have a look at Pantheon the tv series, it is on Netflix at the moment. Based on a book by Ken Liu, the end of the series, blew my mind.
Re:F# for Fun and Profit on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:20PM (#43270246)
Its a fantastic book, one of my favourites!
This is gorgeous! well done.
Re:Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies on Sunday January 12, 2025 @04:03PM (#42676917)
Also you can set the python version for that project. It will download whatever version you need and just use it.
Re:Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:13AM (#42254734)
they have a couple of cool podcasts too, I quite like the Joy of Wh(y)
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @11:36AM (#41996274)
The refurbished store is always a good place to have a look through.
Re:FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @10:00AM (#41109286)
It's you!

Just wanted to say, nice job, love how much work has gone in to this and especially the site/docs to help people get going.

Wow, that sounds a tough thing to go through. Hope you are going in the right direction. I had a partial rupture of my achilles 12 years ago and it is still different and still feels like something I need to work around. But I have adapted.
Re:Gleam 1.2.0 release – Fault tolerant Gleam on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:07AM (#40498860)
Class! It’s a lovely language and a nice community. Love to see it make progress.
I have been looking at Rye, I like it so far.

The other one is Docker, which some people hate. I don't mind it, in some cases I prefer it.

Re:Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race on Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:51AM (#39798678)
Jasmine is phenomenal. Her Bob Graham Round run a few years back was spectacular too.
It is interesting. I read recently that the next generation of BMW's (2026?) will have a 50% reduction on the cost of the battery. Hope it falls further.
That’s class! Well done.
Re:Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:24AM (#35408695)
That’s ace! You don’t expect to see some animals dive that deep!
To the obsidian folks, thanks for adding this feature. It is definitely interesting. Will be exploring this further.
Slow Horses too, that's ace. Mythic Quest has been a surprisingly good watch with some proper brilliant moments. Jason the Mammal in See is pretty good.
Re:OCaml 5.0.0 release (including multicore and effects) on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:36AM (#34014927)
Oh congratulations! Well done to all involved!
This made me smile, and laugh, and smile some more. :-)
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:56PM (#33023552)
You could see it coming but it is a shame it ended up the way it did.

The hardware though, the platform.. it was an interesting linux machine which could have been a cracking base going forward. The whole thing had so much promise, it is such a shame they half arsed the game licensing/ownership side of things.

Re:Lunatic brings Erlang's principles to WebAssembly on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:57AM (#31579578)
Nothing clever to say but I love the title.. :-)
Re:Learn Go with Tests on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:20AM (#31165458)
Great resource, I am working my way through it as we speak.
Re:On leaving Turkey (2021) on Thursday April 21, 2022 @09:38AM (#31109215)
That was well written and a good read. That feeling of having to move to have opportunity at a better life I can understand completely.

best of luck to you.

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