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Re:Roget's Thesaurus on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:21AM (#49519763)
Can't mention Roget's Thesaurus without thinking of The Chaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0ufJgtDko

Re:Fable and the End of the Free Lunch on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:24AM (#49417726)
Do you have to give any special instructions to do this? I always want to do something like this, but any time I try I get so sick of listening to what it has to say, just long winded explanations of stuff that tends to go off the rails. Imo it's hard enough to read ai output when I can go back and forward between sentences to make sense of what's being said let alone listen to a continuous train of slop.
Re:Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:51AM (#49308931)
It's not really possible. It's akin to saying simplify multiplying large numbers or long division. It can be sometimes done by having a heap of tricks up your sleeve, by practicing a bunch you might get better at guessing which trick to use when. The usefulness of knowing these tricks and recognising when to use them is entirely dependent on your motivations.
Re:Zed: Delta on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:07AM (#49283377)
And exactly where the seams are
Re:Zed: Delta on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:05AM (#49283362)
AoE could do this too by both selecting the same colour
Re:Carl's Required Reading on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:17AM (#49219314)
Is there a video presentation to go along with the slides that you know of?
Re:Carl's Required Reading on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:47PM (#49218478)
Yep, I have the wrong abstraction on my list as well. There's a couple on ratfactor that really hit the same point home.

I think the lwn article on "the midlayer mistake" is somewhat the same point but to a different extreme, and in some ways libraries not frameworks too.

Re:The Religion of Speed on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:48AM (#49121489)
JIRA?
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:52AM (#48773493)
I loved every paragraph
Re:NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:42AM (#48719192)
There are in fact two instances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk
Re:Reading the news is the new smoking on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:16AM (#48686267)
I don't know about you but Know Nothing November has been going extremely well for me this year.