When you wrote the fossils were you referring to the fuel type or the car drivers ?

The sound of cards, clothes pins & wheel spokes will come for free - as standard. If you want it to sound like a V8 you will have to pay an upgrade fee -- prolly annually.

Correct: applications first. Also accept that you might not get 100%, there may well be a few that only run is MS Windows and you will not be able to find an equivalent that runs on Linux. That is fine, do not let perfect be the enemy of good. Once ISVs that only support MS Windows see a large number of potential clients that run Linux they will put the effort in to support Linux as well.

Migrating file formats to openly documented ones is another important initial goal.

My thoughts exactly: I have nothing to do with Microsoft, its products or services. How does it know that I do not want my face to be recognised ? The only way that it can get it right is opt-in of registered users only -- that will never happen just as AI companies will not respect copyright.

and backup sensitive information like this into someone else's cloud. Yes it might be easier but you are just inviting trouble.

Aspergers is tricky. Until ~6 years or so ago, it was almost entirely undiagnosed in females and even now doesn't get diagnosed until much too late.

Additionally, people like me never considered getting diagnosed as there wasn't any benefit. A diagnosis in 1980 may have helped me, but in 2025, I gain nothing.

When my daughter was diagnosed, the doctors, while interviewing me informed me that if I were to undergo the process of being diagnosed, it would be extremely easy. I was shocked. I never thought of myself as Aspergers or autistic...so I hyper fixated on it.

Result, it's freeing.

Knowing I'm autistic has allowed me to focus on productive pursuits rather than spending endless hours trying to figure out why something is different for me than others. It's helped me to sustain friendships with people. It was earth shaking to finally be able to start a conversation by saying

    "I'm so sorry I can't look you in the eyes. I am happy to tell you that I can finally look to the sides of people rather than looking at their chests"

It's amazing how 45 years of staring at breasts has been bad for my reputation. But before the Aspergers epiphany, I would try too hard to look at the person and avoid their eyes by looking down. With the freedom of knowing, I feel free to apologize beforehand and not try so hard to look at the person.

We call it the spectrum because it's a huge Venn diagram. We're as different from each other as anyone else. But, while "neurotypical" people have really annoying quirks, like not being able to hold a conversation with 100 separate threads, Asperger's for example makes it really convenient to understand our quirks. And for the lucky ones, Aspis can ask each other "What's you're superpower" because hyperfixation often gives people extreme advantages over everyone else.

The earlier we can diagnose people, the earlier we can raise them properly.

BTW, many autistic people with empathy issues don't lack it. They just need to learn it when it comes natural to others.

Told you so. Debian has had the answer so let's repeatedly ignore it.

Just asking for a friend.

They were terrible?

Google did everything wrong that they could. It was just a bad platform

Uh, yeh, no.

As a code quality aficionado, I have been vibe coding A LOT lately to improve all of what you mentioned.

My vibe code is clear, well documented, built entirely on TDD, and what the AI is fed are clear, reviewed requirements documents.

You are accusing vibe coding by poor engineers of producing poor results. But, you're not praising vibe coding by quality engineers for producing quality results.

LLMs are just new programming languages. And just like how I used to review hundreds or even thousands of lines of assembly language listings because we didn't trust compilers to produce quality results, now I review code produced by LLMs.

Don't be the guy who writes a business CRM in assembly because you don't trust the tools.

Fox is a conundrum. Their main website often delivers pretty decent content. Their syndications and TV presence is insanely polarized crap. On the occasions I visit their website, I often find actual quality content. It's just not as exciting as the rabble-rousing idiocy, we all see from the outside.

CNN ruined themselves in my eyes when the broadcast medical doctors as "virus experts" during Covid. What the hell does a doctor know about microbiology, molecular biology, computational biology, virology, epidemiology...

I lean neither left or right. I'm more of leaning up... As in I form my own opinions and use my brains. I even sometimes agree with Trump's actions... god help me, if I believed in one of them.

A company cannot always expect to poach someone fully trained from another company - especially when the skill is a new one. Training is an investment that will pay off -- depending on how much of a bubble AI turns out to be.

Expecting someone to work 7 days/week is stupid - a good way of causing burn out. The staff may physically be there 7 days/week but where will their minds be ?

Speaking as a Brit I find it astounding that there seem to be so few controls on gun use in the USA. Yes: I know what the second amendment is but surely it is time that this was retired. An Internet outage is hardly important but 4.43 deaths per 100k is huge, you are not the worse but up there.

You were an inspiration to us all. Unfortunately many do not want to listen and will destroy earth's ecosystem as they drill, baby drill.

* What programming language ?

* Will they open source it ?

* Is the source code maintainable ?

If this really works and the result is open source there could be many interesting uses. I would love to see Larry's reaction to the request: Write a clone of the Oracle database.