News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

devpts11

Re:Terry Jones has died on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:55PM (#22123777)
I hope they dressed him in a women's costume for his part in the hereafter.
Re:U.S. to let airlines limit service animals on planes on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:50PM (#22123755)
Entitled people who make the lives of actual disabled people harder are the worst kind of selfish. It's also why Social Security hearings take several years to get for some people who aren't visibly disabled. This is because whole extended families apply since they have shady lawyers and doctors to help them invent conditions. It's a game to them, taking help away from people who need it.
We're probably simulations, so indeed it was. It happens to me with not enough sleep and forgetting actual ADD meds.
Sold to the man in the floppy pink bunny rabbit hat.
Stack Overflow has dumbed people down significantly because of the mental laziness it engenders.

In a time before the internet, it used to be that books, and occasionally magazines, were the initial entry points to understanding software, hardware and electronics. Then the BBS came along, these secret islands of knowledge and trade.

I learned Pascal and assembly on Turbo Pascal with trial-and-error and lots of context-sensitive help. These days, development is mostly fragmented and half-working. Progress is neither linear, increasing nor assured, and much is lost, reinvented not necessarily as well and lost again.

Also, eventually coding will decline or bifurcate more because general AI will allow non-programmers to ask a machine to do Star Trek-like self-programming. Essentially all office jobs are vulnerable to elimination as mechanical machine operators.