The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Talking about laptops, I have a new one. And I guess it was about the time I got one. The old MBP is a late 2017 model and I don’t have much confidence it will work fine for long, but I don’t think I would have bough a new one just yet if the battery was in decent condition and M3 chips weren’t available. Now I’ve got to decide what I do with the old laptop, which still works pretty well, except for the battery, and it’s fast enough for many tasks and I would hate to just recycle it. The battery change would cost something like 200€ and I think it would be worth that if the comp would work for another year or two.
Maybe just display the old one next to the new one to virtue signal to your liberal friends?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Talking about laptops, I have a new one. And I guess it was about the time I got one. The old MBP is a late 2017 model and I don’t have much confidence it will work fine for long, but I don’t think I would have bough a new one just yet if the battery was in decent condition and M3 chips weren’t available. Now I’ve got to decide what I do with the old laptop, which still works pretty well, except for the battery, and it’s fast enough for many tasks and I would hate to just recycle it. The battery change would cost something like 200€ and I think it would be worth that if the comp would work for another year or two.
Maybe just display the old one next to the new one to virtue signal to your liberal friends?
You sound a bit jealous and I don’t know if it’s because you don’t have liberal friends or a new MBP.
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Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
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Old blog I read years ago and just stumbled across again:
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
By Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F*ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.” And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transform...
It’s a good read but I’m mostly linking for this line:
“You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
Fucking lol. I’d have given anything to have been in that meeting room when he dropped that.
TLDR; they fired him and a follow up blog said they fired his manager too for allowing the situation to even develop.
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@Hog I am saving that one. I would actually love to have a Rick around TBH because I am surrounded by dumbasses that can’t work independently or collaborate.
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I’d like to be Rick.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
It is. Stalin owned 5 of them! That’s part of the reason why the USSR was so poor.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Why would I want an overpriced commie computer?
What do you mean by overpriced?
More expensive than it’s worth. At least you understood the “commie computer” part.
It isn’t really.
It is. Stalin owned 5 of them!
I meant the expensive part. The commie shit is true!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Old blog I read years ago and just stumbled across again:
By Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F*ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.” And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transform...
It’s a good read but I’m mostly linking for this line:
“You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F***ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
Fucking lol. I’d have given anything to have been in that meeting room when he dropped that.
TLDR; they fired him and a follow up blog said they fired his manager too for allowing the situation to even develop.
I am in guru situations. One guru strategy is he held onto key techs and parceled out bits, but did keep things ruthlessly simple and easy to maintain.
The other guru I fight for simplifying and above all both customer knowledge and descriptive naming standards. I can fix or extend 95% anything he has done if I just know what it is when the customer refers to it.
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One great use for ChatGPT is having it write regular expressions for me. I don’t have to weep figuring that shit out anymore.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
One great use for ChatGPT is having it write regular expressions for me. I don’t have to weep figuring that shit out anymore.
Good job Jetson.
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Working out how to write a regex that reliably does what you want can be painful. Reading and trying to decipher the fucking things months later is the real hell.
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This should be in every programmer’s toolbox
GitHub - nvbn/thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - nvbn/thefuck
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
This should be in every programmer’s toolbox
GitHub - nvbn/thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - nvbn/thefuck
Jeezus, I dunno whether I want to bring this to the attention of the Unix admins or not.
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I wonder whether ChatGPT can correct syntax errors in MySQL statements?
One may write statements that are 90% correct, but they don’t work due to one’s not being an expert and their being an overlooked syntax error. We’ve found that even when accessing Oracle MySQL support, the process involves “try this.” Next day when that did not work, “OK, now try this instead.”
I haven’t tried AI for for anything yet, personally. It’s about time to experiment a bit.
I was listening to a report the other day which discussed AI being trained to interpret MRI data and this does seem like a good use. Use of AI in the medical field seems to have been established for reading breast exam tomography, along with a clinician’s opinion, of course. AI has not been permitted to fly solo yet in the medical MRI/CT field for results interpretation. Perhaps Kyle has seen this in action?
"laissez les bons temps rouler!"
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@Jam ChatGPT can both help you write the sql and help you fix it. If you give it the SQL and tell it “It gave me an ‘FU-666 - Your a dumbass’” error it can often tell you why. Or even if you tell it why the results are wrong it can help fix the logic. It’s often an iterative process though rather than just giving you the right answer at the beginning. Also Github copliot will help you write the code as you are first doing it in VSCODE. You can make a comment in your code and it can autogenerate the whole section or just start typing and it suggests what to type next for the rest of the line or whole SQL, function or whatever you are writing. Copilot has a chat option as well or you can highlight something and hit ctrl-i to get a box where you can tell it what to do contextually in your code.
I have had days where I was tired or braindead and just had the AI write the code and let me run and test it, then iterate until it’s right.
The Jetsons | Episode 10 | Polish your nail on your own time
