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New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Someone behind the software"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:40:22 +0000

Using AI is really not different from hiring a bunch of people to do your project. You can tell them to do the minimum it takes to make it work or you can tell them or do it according to a long term vision you have and set high standards.

I agree that with AI it's very tempting to throw together a bunch of code without any thought of the longer term. But a lot of people are acting as if all programmers are artisans that produce well written code following the highest standards. That is just not true.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:52:54 +0000

I am always amazed looking at tools like Norton Commander or Visicalc that invented a ton of concepts we now view as totally normal and just as the way things are. Same for a lot of programming concepts. The world could look totally different if some people had been better at selling their ideas.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Tesla Roadster"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:49:15 +0000

This is not a serious car. It's a project for Tesla and SpaceX engineers to do something crazy. I am sure they had a ton of fun with it.

I would put it in the same class as the McMurtry Spéirling. Let's just see how far we can push a car if there is no concern for cost or maintenance.

I think if this ever makes it to production (doubtful) it will be a let down like the Cybertruck.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Super Intelligence"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:43:33 +0000

This is such a terrible term. How about not going all the way and calling it super intelligence to make it totally clear that humans are on the way out?

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Super Intelligence"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:41:42 +0000

Facebook. But Meta is slowly creeping in. Renaming a popular term takes years or decades.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Why We're Banning AI"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:36:08 +0000

Doesn’t work for me. I am reasonably ok editing an existing document but I have total writer’s block when I have to write from scratch.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Why We're Banning AI"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:55:21 +0000

That’s what I am doing. My writing is horrible and i produce much better results when i take AI output as starting point. But I do much more than adding typos (never) and grammar inefficiencies.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:09:57 +0000

I view C++ (and increasingly C# and Java) as a test bed for language features. You throw every possible feature into it and people can then see what makes sense and what doesn't. That allows others to pick features and use them for more opinionated and simpler languages.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Firefox Enterprise"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:46:21 +0000

The typical enterprise "Request a demo" without clear pricing. I think a company like Firefox should lead and publish pricing. I know IT guys are used to this but where I can make decisions this is an immediate showstopper.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:40:02 +0000

They want very strong government. Surveillance, ICE, FBI, police all available to go after opponents. And going after fraud as long as it's committed by the little guy.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:37:21 +0000

In Britain that seems to be the game plan for the NHS.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:36:44 +0000

"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Thinking will become a hobby"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:55:31 +0000

That’s the correct answer. He didn’t care if the workers could buy his cars.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:50:03 +0000

I have done at least 70mph with a friend's 2CV on the Autobahn downhill. Doing 170 with a Porsche felt way safer.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:48:38 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziyzsN8-6C4

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:27:57 +0000

"to some extent" is the keyword here. There is a lot of fine tuning in Photoshop that's very hard to replicate.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:24:56 +0000

Anybody have an idea how this insanity can ever end? Seems Russia is willing to kill off a whole generation of young people. Will this just go on forever? Or will Ukraine run out of soldiers?

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:20:38 +0000

That's much better. Will have to try once I have some time.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:06:06 +0000

That works to some degree but you will quickly run into trouble because you can't get things 100% right. I don't think anybody is using OpenSCAD for professional use where you have to collaborate and have to produce exact shapes.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:04:14 +0000

I like the idea but I really dislike the OpenSCAD language. There is such a thing as being too functional. I don't really want to have to rethink even the simplest algorithms to work with OpenSCAD because of its weird scoping rules. Add to that the lack of a debugger. On the other hand, it's super cool to be able to source control a CAD model.