How to write a good comment (News)

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David Hugh-Jones has a lot to say about what makes a good comment, Hugging Face released a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition, The New Stack reports on C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup’s plan for bringing safety to the language, Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again & Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. How to write a good comment (00:00:39)

https://wyclif.substack.com/p/how-to-write-a-good-comment

3. Distil-Whisper (00:01:53)

https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper

4. Stroustrup on C++ safety (00:02:30)

https://thenewstack.io/bjarne-stroustrups-plan-for-bringing-safety-to-c/

5. Sponsor: Appwrite (00:03:29)

https://appwrite.io

6. CSS is fun again! (00:04:16)

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-10-25-css-is-fun-again

7. The beauty of finished software (00:05:13)

https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/

8. Outro (00:06:55)