@mistersql in March 2023
Back to @mistersql ยท Open this account on Mastodon
No human knows if any other human is alive in the inside. We're making a choice...
No human knows if any other human is alive in the inside. We're making a choice to treat other humans as being the same as us because we know us and assume that the other similar...
Reading the tweets of people really cheezed off about suggestions that AI could...
Reading the tweets of people really cheezed off about suggestions that AI could be sentient or have rights, you also need to check if they're the same people that need other...
A good nuance post about the low-info/low-effort hot takes on I think people...
A good nuance post about the low-info/low-effort hot takes on I think people have a hard time distinguishing a document saying "here is how to do something awful" and being able...
Nostalgia tour! I reopened - Doing python - Sluggish at 32GB, Corei7 with 6...
Nostalgia tour! I reopened - Doing python - Sluggish at 32GB, Corei7 with 6 cores. - Blue screened - Detected 1000s of unit tests out of 78 (I had to move .tox out of folder) -...
Job interview questions you can ace: - Can you use zoom? It's been a few years,...
Job interview questions you can ace: - Can you use zoom? It's been a few years, my cat can do a zoom call. Test it before an interview. - Why don't you have enough bandwidth? This...
first impressions, I'm at a 50% rate of "I can't assist you with that, as I'm...
first impressions, I'm at a 50% rate of "I can't assist you with that, as I'm only a language model and don't have the capacity to understand and respond."
Robot loses job to human in mouse suit at maybe the robots can be retrained to...
Robot loses job to human in mouse suit at maybe the robots can be retrained to write high school essays.
Ever want to turn json into markdown? I wanted to and couldn't. So I made a...
Ever want to turn json into markdown? I wanted to and couldn't. So I made a python-to-markdown serialization library. Handles some but not all types. ``` >>> loads("- a\\n- b\\n -...
How to win "Workweek hustle" (most steps in a week from M-F) 1- don't let the...
How to win "Workweek hustle" (most steps in a week from M-F) 1- don't let the Fitbit battery die 2- Keep an eye on the competition M-Th so the gap is reasonable 3- Run on the...
runs ephemeral containers and itself is ephemeral, much preferring to print...
runs ephemeral containers and itself is ephemeral, much preferring to print `Error: invalid character '\x00' looking for beginning of value` rather than to pull, build or run...
Daily suggestion to go ask your phones autocomplete or kid's madlibs book or a...
Daily suggestion to go ask your phones autocomplete or kid's madlibs book or a 1980s Markov chain or Eliza to find a bug in a python program. Nemotode worm brains have 302...
How to lie on your resume and still get the job. 1) First, know how to code,...
How to lie on your resume and still get the job. 1) First, know how to code, publish a portfolio of public code on github. You can't lie about that part. 2) You've decided to lie...
watch was cadence locked in the race (reporting HR of 160... coincidence that...
watch was cadence locked in the race (reporting HR of 160... coincidence that my cadence was 160? nope) chest strap said heart rate in 135 range ~11 minute miles, ran at son's...
Help, my code raises exceptions so I'm using to help me write a decorator that...
Help, my code raises exceptions so I'm using to help me write a decorator that simulates VB's "On Error Resume Next" But it fails at the critical point... walks the ast, and the...
Moral to the Silicon Valley Bank story is that if you have a billion dollars,...
Moral to the Silicon Valley Bank story is that if you have a billion dollars, you will need to deposit it into 4000 banks. Anyhow, if you need anymore pragmatic financial advice,...
ChatGPT was trained with neural network reinforcement to protect the privacy of...
ChatGPT was trained with neural network reinforcement to protect the privacy of everyone, sometimes even public figures. seems to be willing to you about John Doe if - He's dead...
So ancient BASIC didn't have hashmap/dictionaries so people stored them in...
So ancient BASIC didn't have hashmap/dictionaries so people stored them in variables wrapped in IF-GOTO blocks. key = line of code value = variable assigned there And you got the...
So many ideas for naming python libraries
So many ideas for naming python libraries
Our food system is converting fossil fuel into food. Any disruptions in the...
Our food system is converting fossil fuel into food. Any disruptions in the global system and billions starve.
I like the "languages" bar chart on this repo. This is me trying to get to...
I like the "languages" bar chart on this repo. This is me trying to get to create a console fish-tank. I should try it again now that the model has change (gpt-3.5-turbo) and I...
Successfully used ChatGPT to read systemd's documentation. Not to pick on the...
Successfully used ChatGPT to read systemd's documentation. Not to pick on the maintainer, but like most doc of this sort, it's unintelligible without having first read the entire...
, - people are still posting - ChatGPT answers - Hard to detect unless you've...
, - people are still posting - ChatGPT answers - Hard to detect unless you've read 100s of ChatGPT answers & code style & other tells, such as a compete absence of grammar &...
The AI that can read minds is going from research novelty to something usable...
The AI that can read minds is going from research novelty to something usable by authoritarian regimes really fast. I can't even recall this trope being explored in