The OFFICIAL programming thread
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I’m starting to talk to the AI like it’s a person. Have to roll out a POC using Spark and I don’t know Spark and the guys that should be doing it are dumb as fuck so it’s on me and have been leaning hard on GPT. Threw it some code I couldn’t figure out and it told me my dumb ass had the wrong variable in there. So I was like “my bad GPT” and then it started giving me a pep talk trying to tell me I am not an idiot and everyone does that shit and programming is hard yo. Was kind of funny. It’s pretty cool that it remembers the overall context of the project even though I am asking generic questions about syntax and stuff. When it gives me a response it’s kind of figuring out how I am using it and throws my project variable names in the example. It’s been better than googling, but still makes a bunch of mistakes, but you just have to paste in the error and it usually gets a good answer in a try or two. It’s nowhere near good enough though to do a full program, just fills in the blanks.
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The enshittification of GitHub has begun. This “For you” list is 65% of the start up page:
There’s no way to disable it.
There are literally over 350 million repositories on GitHub. At any given time and depending on what I’m working on, I’m probably interested in 2, maybe 3 max. You can’t get me to “engage” more with GitHub by shoving completely random fucking projects in my face. What’s rune-rs? What about Svelte-js? I’ve never used it, how could I possibly give a shit that they’ve released version 4.1.1?
If I sound annoyed, it’s not because I have to click something extra to see anything relevant. It’s that I’m offended that the world including tech is being taken over by utter fucking morons.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The enshittification of GitHub has begun. This “For you” list is 65% of the start up page:
There’s no way to disable it.
There are literally over 350 million repositories on GitHub. At any given time and depending on what I’m working on, I’m probably interested in 2, maybe 3 max. You can’t get me to “engage” more with GitHub by shoving completely random fucking projects in my face. What’s rune-rs? What about Svelte-js? I’ve never used it, how I could I possibly give a shit that they’ve released version 4.1.1?
If I sound annoyed, it’s not because I have to click something extra to see anything relevant. It’s that I’m offended that the world including tech is being taken over by utter fucking morons.
Monetization….
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
This should help all you programmers log into your favorite apps . . .
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Not worried about AI taking my job anytime soon.
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ChatGPT is probably better but I’ve long stopped asking Bard technical questions. I need it to say, “I don’t know” if it doesn’t know something and not just make shit up.
I’ve stopped using it for most questions for that reason actually. It’s worst than useless to me if I don’t know when it’s telling me facts or making stuff up because it just pollutes my head with stuff I’ll believe because it sounds right . There’s a very specific type of question that I’ll have maybe once a week that Bard is good for and where I don’t care if it’s wrong or right.
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@Gators1 A good example is anything about (human) language usage. Which it should thrive on really given that’s how it was trained.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 A good example is anything about (human) language usage. Which it should thrive on really given that’s how it was trained.
You shouldn’t need AI. You have a great example of perfect English usage being around all of us Americans.
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OMG! They really are so crayyyyyzeeeee! You won’t believe number 4!!!
Seriously though, despite the YouTuber’s enthusiasm, it’s as dry a topic as it sounds. Dunno why the algo recommended it to me.
I was surprised to learn though that X86 has string processing instructions baked into the silicon. Some of it is quite old too so I dunno how it goes with things like UTF-8 which is pretty much ubiquitous now. If those instructions are obsolete, it’s another argument for RISC.
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There was a utility program bundled in our app I supported that had a compile date of around 1987 and still worked in 2014. That’s mainframe baybee.
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Yrah but what kind of FPS does a mainframe have?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Not worried about AI taking my job anytime soon.
There clearly is some looping going on in read_json_files.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
There was a utility program bundled in our app I supported that had a compile date of around 1987 and still worked in 2014. That’s mainframe baybee.
There’s nothing wrong with old code if it works. But you could change that program if circumstances changed and recompile it. Not so easy with an ISA. I guess they could add even more instructions that supported unicode but they couldn’t remove the old ones without breaking who knows what.
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Ooh. It’s in beta but is coming to Excel soon I guess.
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I watched the first 10 minutes of the video and found it riveting.
I felt like someone was trying to rivet my unwilling mind to the display!
It gets more interesting as it moves to the more elaborate benefits, but Excel already has all the features this boomer will ever need or want. ;-)
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I fell asleep
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Ooh. It’s in beta but is coming to Excel soon I guess.
That will be a huge step forward over VBA if you have any scripts in your worksheets. As a data professional though I am required to say Excel is old school boomer bullshit.
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Ooh. It’s in beta but is coming to Excel soon I guess.
That will be a huge step forward over VBA if you have any scripts in your worksheets. As a data professional though I am required to say Excel is old school boomer bullshit.
That’s a very thinly disguised insult!
Even a boomer with failing eyesight can see what you did there!
Its kind of a meme in the data world how we can build a process to get you data super fast on a beautiful dashboard and the users always ask for it to be emailed in Excel.
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