The OFFICIAL programming thread
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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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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@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.
The earlier was you’d send a Lotus and they want a green bar print out.
Multiplan by floppy if you are really old school.
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Thats old skool bro.
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And I remember hearing about how Tazz was asked to take a charcoal parchment rubbing of his abacus calculations and send them out by carrier pigeon!
"laissez les bons temps rouler!"
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Edit: n/m
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
And I remember hearing about how Tazz was asked to take a charcoal parchment rubbing of his abacus calculations and send them out by carrier pigeon!
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Don’t know if the whole video is worth it but this is a great line:
Ah, Rust is… imagine you would throw all advantages from all languages together. Now your code is unreadable. But it’s memory safe.
I like Rust but it requires a degree of masochism.
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Last year the client I’m working for had one of the big IT managed services firms build them an app. They spent I don’t know how much on it but it would have cost a lot. However, It never got through UAT because it ran like shit - like minutes to open and minutes again to do some small task in it.
This year, I’d been asked to look at what could be done to optimize it. Fortunately or unfortunately I’ve been way too busy and was told to focus on my other tasks. Anyway, it came to a head recently where they had to make a call to let the same programmers have another go at trying to get it to run, rewrite it from scratch using basically similar technology or write it in something else altogether. They decided to my great joy they were going to rewrite it altogether in another technology. The first reason for the joy is that, despite not having been given time to actually look at and optimize the existing app, I keep getting dragged into dozens of meetings about the fucking thing, the time cost of which just puts more pressure on me for my assigned work. The second reason is that if they’d got it working, I’d have to integrate its functionality into several other apps that I’m currently responsible for and, having briefly looked at the code, I knew it was a fucking mess. Plus, my existing deadlines are fixed and it would cost me more time I don’t have. Rewriting it from the ground up in some other tech would free me of the fucking thing forever.
Then today, while solving a completely different problem, I learned a technique that could potentially resolve the biggest cause of the above apps slowness. I wrote a message to my boss saying “I don’t want to open a can of worms, but I’ve learned this thing today…”. When I saw that it was sitting on unread a couple of hours later, temptation got the better of me and I deleted the message.
Faarrrrrk. I was off the hook. I don’t have time for this bloody app to keep sucking away time and energy while my I run smack into my own deadlines.
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