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"Code should be self-documenting". "Don't comment code".

Kind of true, but often misunderstood. Do document public API - with docstrings if you are a library. Focus on the purpose, don't explain the code.
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Entertainment has taught us that if we act heroically, we will be awarded.

Now everyone are heroes in our own life. And we are not awarded like in the tales. So people are thinking; are tales not reality, or is reality not treating me right...
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

#AI #parody
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
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August 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted
– Skru det av, oppfordrer Tobias Judin i Datatilsynet etter at det ble kjent at Meta vil bruke private Messenger-meldinger til AI-trening. Også digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung reagerer:

www.kode24.no/artikkel/rea...
Reagerer på AI-trening på chatter: «Skru det av!»
Teknologiselskapet Meta kan nå benytte dine private meldinger i Messenger til KI-trening. Du kan vegre deg ved å skru det av, men det krever flere steg.
www.kode24.no
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Rats are better at predicting stocks than humans. Surprising science that deserve to be shared!

jasonzweig.com/the-trouble-...
The Trouble with Humans
If rats or pigeons knew what the Nasdaq is, they might be better investors than most humans are.
jasonzweig.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"If we fail to regulate AI, I think a new AI winter is among the safest outcomes"

- Paraphrasing of Inga Strümke from the book Machines that think
July 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Supporting a war against someone seems wrong if you are not willing to die yourself in that war.
War is about death and destruction. If you are not invested enough to die, you don't want war.
June 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The greatest people are self managing. They don't need to be managed. [...] What they need, is a common vision"

- Steve Jobs
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Concerned that generative AI will slow down advances in computer engineering.

Would React be invented if we already had AI that could generate loads of boilerplate HTML for us?
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
People don't lie with their wallets.

From Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke
May 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In reporting, bosses do not like to be surprised. So don't surprise them.

From the book Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke
April 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Successful companies are all alike; every unsuccessful company is unsuccessful in its own way.

Learned from Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke
April 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The @washingtonpost.com quit using the slogan "Democracy dies in darkness" right before a man that wants to be dictator was inagurated as president of the US.
January 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM