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Yes I worked for a company that had no tests. I worked on the core software, new employee, the programmer who wrote the software gone... Regularly released new features and found out, some days later…

> They make the simple parts of software development simpler, but the complex parts can often become more difficult. This is so frustratingly common.

How does this relate to existing systems? E.g. Csound

One study

So long as you "await" Not really concurrent

Async/await is not a solution to poor thread models. Async/await is cooperative multitasking and is no help at all for cpu bound problems. For i/o intensive systems it makes non-blockin…

> is I'm allergic to Go and just use Rust 99% of the time these days I confess I have not used Go. I am allergic to Typescript, let alone, Javascript, and Node.js should be deleted. I do mos…

I am unconvinced I have used Swift (stopped about two years ago) and use Rust extensively these days. People commenting here have mentioned the dreadful Xcode. But if you want to build systems on Appl…

Yes, what a good problem to have. In the unlikely event of that happening, sell it

Much easier not to put valuable art on your walls. Why? There is so much art in the world, I've heaps. Support minor artists.

Cannabis. Huge help, but not for everyone I have friends for which it does the opposite THC, CBD does nothing for me

Also https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/01/placebo-outperforms-l... …

An elected officer. So punishment by ballot box?

> With the Asteroid Belt looking amazing for quantity and accessibility of resources. Watch out universe, here we come! What could possibly go wrong, mining asteroids? An awful lot, when we start m…

They say.... > Put simply, AI agent authentication verifies that only trusted bots get into your business systems. So you can let bots into your business system?

> It’s one of those types you have to be the person that likes that style Yes. I live in a community that has a very high population of home brewers (beer and spirits mostly). Many of them are need…

> criminal prosecution and product tort liability are not meaningful deterrents. > Patent litigation is a different thing entirely Wow! Infringing my idea is "worse" than infringing my…

> In software it's common to value independent verification - e.g. code review. Someone who is only focused on writing new code instead of careful testing, refactoring, or peer review is widel…

> I'd like to see the software engineers on this site say with a straight face that writing bugs should lead to jail time. My hand is up. I do not believe in gaol, but I do agree with the sen…

> Bibtex are often also incorrectly generated ...and including the erroneous entry is squarely the author's fault. Papers should be carefully crafted, not churned out. I guess that makes me sw…

> Audio in Rust cannot use Jack on Aarch64 I doubt anybody cars, but I was not building it correctly Maybe I could blame the documentation, blah blah blah.... My bad, sorry Jack

The old model of selling eyeballs to advertisers was horrible I do not know what will replace it, but I will not miss websites trying to monetise my attention

I feel no nostalgia for Stackoverflow. I always found it very frustrating that for a person at the start of the learning curve it was "read only" Actually asking a naive question there was t…

Watch out. It has been predicted... https://youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI?si=-Y6mo-3mWbpbZtVc

This is suggesting Microsoft should take more power to itself, and disguise it as "community support"

> If anything, the US is still far away from as bad as China That is a matter of opinion I am unsure about social conditions within the countries ( freedom Vs. economic security -hard to compare) B…

From the corner of "...and what could possibly go wrong?"