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JOANN Fabrics, Party City, Toys R Us, Red Lobster — private equity drove...

Destroying healthy companies isn't healthy.

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How AI Vibe Coding Is Erasing Developers’ Skills

This article summarizes everything wrong with vibe coding and other current trends.

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How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers

How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers https://share.google/eBOilvaKkqbESlWyq

This article really breaks down the problems with AI-generated code.

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Pretty apt...

*Software humor

*Yes, it exists

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This is a small but significant release, as it fills in some of the cracks. I wanted to get more unit tests in this release (and more code coverage). Finally, some decent validation of curve fitting logic!

I'm particularly happy with the faster exponentiation for continued fractions. It's nice not to have to use Gosper's algorithm for repeated multiplication. For safety, my implementation only works on continued fractions with a finite, known number of terms; that might change in the future.

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Joe Rogan’s Lies Just Destroyed Public Schools In Texas

Furries are a scapegoat used to push school vouchers.

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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson https://share.google/SC8OGsN6NkljXPQpd

Can't say I disagree with anything that the author says...

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I was waiting for the other shoe to drop...

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Yep, finally pulled the trigger on a new release of tungsten-types. Lots of good stuff in there, including one long-overdue concurrency fix. Continued fractions now support both integer powers and roots, which gives you the ability to compute any rational power of a continued fraction. Lots more curve fitting strategies!

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RFK Jr. said his agency will find the cause of autism. These researchers have actually been looking

This is how legitimate scientific research dies: a person with power and money kills anything that doesn't comport with his conspiracy theories.

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Many in autism community say Health Secretary RFK Jr. doesn’t understand their needs

Taking us backwards...

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The Last Solo Programmers – Communications of the ACM

If you have to describe every aspect of your application in excruciating detail to an AI and then you still need to fix the generated code, maybe you would be better off just writing the code yourself.

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Java plan prepares to restrict final field mutation | InfoWorld

About damned time!

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Texas bill would ban 'furry culture' in public schools | Texas | thecentersquare.com

Tempest in a teapot. It appears the claim that schools were putting litter boxes in classrooms has been revived. Leave it to Texas to attack a minority group in order to distract from everything else they do wrong.

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Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? - The Pragmatic Engineer

Well, it's not just my imagination.

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Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?

The article doesn't fully answer this question, but it does raise some interesting points.

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Logarithms of continued fractions

Just wrapped up some Java code to compute logarithms in continued fractions. The results were pretty cool! As a bonus, the code is completely general. With most log implementations, the general logarithm is computed with the natural log using the base change identity. With this algorithm, it's totally base agnostic. And since Euler's number has an extremely regular structure as an SCF, natural logs can be computed with theoretically unlimited precision.

Here's the output of a small Groovy program to compute logarithms of a test value:

[5; 5] 5.2 Computed log₂: [2; 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 1, 2, 25, 1] 2.378511623253725880790810559928474 Computed ln: [1; 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 72, 1, 2, 14, 5, 2, 13, 1] 1.648658625587381280859192753293491