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New comment by bbaron63 in "Small programming tricks"

bbaron63 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:36:41 +0000

I probably knew and then forgot the Ctrl+r trick at some point because 99.9% of the time, the up arrow and grepping history is sufficient for my needs. Then again, I don't do that much on the command line anymore

New comment by bbaron63 in "Rails Is Built for AI"

bbaron63 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:58 +0000

I don't see why using AI with ORMs has no benefits. The AI could be useful in analyzing the SQL that is generated by the ORM to advise and surface potential performance bottlenecks. The AI could advise whether using lazy or eager strategies should be used.

New comment by bbaron63 in "The Traditional Vi (2007)"

bbaron63 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:26:10 +0000

They probably said Shift - ZZ

New comment by bbaron63 in "The Traditional Vi (2007)"

bbaron63 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:23:10 +0000

ZZ is the first vi command I learned. After typing vi and only seeing a column of ~s, I asked how do I get out of this thing. Someone answered - ZZ.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

bbaron63 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:20:41 +0000

The Odersky Scala course was pretty cool. It gave me a basic understanding of monoids and monads that has stuck with me. Robert Sedgewick's courses were very good. Learned a lot about graphs.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Mythical Man Month"

bbaron63 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:25:01 +0000

When it comes to Brooks's Law and AI, will trying to incorporate AI tools into a late project, make the project later? Probably. I'm glad I'm close to retiring. AI has been a mixed blessing for me. I don't have the desire at this stage to do all the wrangling necessary to incorporate AI tools effectively into my workflow.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Crafting Interpreters"

bbaron63 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:32:23 +0000

It's a fun little exercise left to the reader to upgrade to current Java. It pretty much eliminates the need for his ad-hoc code generation tool.

New comment by bbaron63 in "California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services"

bbaron63 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:52:30 +0000

What will happen to his dog Spot?

New comment by bbaron63 in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"

bbaron63 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:22:40 +0000

I believe in one of the Planet of the Apes sequels, they used a BART construction site, because of how futuristic it looked.

New comment by bbaron63 in "CareerBuilder and Monster job boards, file for bankruptcy"

bbaron63 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:45:41 +0000

I didn't know CareerBuilder still exists. They were the first job site I can recall in the late 90s. Then Monster emerged as the dominant place for job search.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

bbaron63 — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:22:13 +0000

I still have my Etch-a-Sketch as laptop mouse pad.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

bbaron63 — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:38:55 +0000

I've been stuck in meetings like that. I'd just walk out saying, "you know where to find me if my input required."

New comment by bbaron63 in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

bbaron63 — Fri, 09 May 2025 17:23:00 +0000

When I was leaving for the navy, the last thing my mom said was, "don't get a tattoo." I never did but that was in 1981, maybe half a decade before tattoos and body piercings started becoming a mainstream thing.

New comment by bbaron63 in "The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)"

bbaron63 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:42:33 +0000

I remember the first spam I ever received. It was in 1998 on my first day working at AOL. It promised an advanced degree from a prestigious, unaccredited institution. The spammers were somewhat honest back then.

New comment by bbaron63 in "Truth Functional Logic for Hackers"

bbaron63 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:36:41 +0000

Presumably, the compiler is not aware of the hardware bug in the OR operation, so it won't do any transforms to avoid using the OR operation.