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> Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI).

When you're dealing with a memory leak in production (yes, they can and do happen), or worse -- if you're dealing with a drop in performance -- good luck with the vibe debugging.

Maybe there will be a time not too far off in the future when the stochastic cockatoos become sentient enough to do all of this by themselves, it's sure as hell not happening tomorrow.

Oh, and logarithmic tables were still a useful thing as late as forty odd years ago :)


I thought the Poles needed to be either all on the left-hand plane, or within the unit disk, for stability? (I haven't had my coffee yet, so maybe I'm remembering wrong).

Either way, I loved the joke. Thank you!


You are right, I wrote that before having my coffee...


The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.


> Leadership always asks for more, better, faster.

More and faster, yes. Almost never better.


Aren't they actually an investment firm with a passing interest in software?


Maybe you should actually read one of their earnings reports. They don’t make $250B in annual revenue because of a “passing interest in software”.


You’re contradicting yourself with that statement. Microsoft is seen as a mercenary… yes they make a lot of money, that’s proof they’re a mercenary. If you want to prove they are not then point to software categories they invented, not how much money they are making.


They're like the Merck of the pharma world.


Fair point


What are the odds that the comment you're responding to was AI-generated?


Good question. So far comments here mostly seem to be human generated, but I would be surprised if there were no AI generated ones. It is also possible to fool me. I'm going with - for now - the default that it was not AI.


They're good for making CEOs rich(er)?

(Not trying to be sarcastic, this is genuinely the best reason I can think of)

Edit: made a change for completeness.


What's the difference between "IOPS" and "throughput"?


Rodents chewing through cables is a problem even in latitudes closer to the equator, where it can get hot enough that they don't (need to) seek an engine for its warmth.


... or Admiral-General Aladeen, for that matter.


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