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2 vids on bots in IDEs beyond code completion Chantastic trying out Cursor. He...
2 vids on bots in IDEs beyond code completion Chantastic trying out Cursor. He tries hard to use the integration points, ends up using the stand-alone chat more and more as the...
Someone needs to write an app that finds - tech charity - arts/writing charity...
Someone needs to write an app that finds - tech charity - arts/writing charity **That is relevant** - relates to who I read - relates to code I use - (if I have the ear of...
Letter to a young scammer on slack: The git repo is a 3rd person's name, the...
Letter to a young scammer on slack: The git repo is a 3rd person's name, the linked in profile is namesake but doesn't match the PDF resume. If you're applying for a remote job,...
What kind of developer are you?
What kind of developer are you?
@askonth I'm talking about the unboxing experience. I've done the same mini...
@askonth I'm talking about the unboxing experience. I've done the same mini project in several languages over the last 2 days. Some like ruby, node, go seem to just work out of...
When working with a bot and cpp you need to make sure they understand that...
When working with a bot and cpp you need to make sure they understand that almost all of the variable names in the stdlib were a mistake. (alignas, reflexpr, cout, cinn, etc)
@kodizen GnuCOBOL works on a windows 11 machine, I now because I installed it...
@kodizen GnuCOBOL works on a windows 11 machine, I now because I installed it yesterday and successfully compiled and ran an app. Cost $0 and some futzing with env vars IBM's x86...
IDEA: human brain tissue in a vat in the cloud as a PAAS.
IDEA: human brain tissue in a vat in the cloud as a PAAS.
Ok, it was easier to find modern programming practices for bash than for -...
Ok, it was easier to find modern programming practices for bash than for - maybe it is more fun with the paid versions of COBOL. - lint? compiler warnings - unit tests? Sort of?...
Beginner's shouldn't start with an IDE. They should win a pissing contest by...
Beginner's shouldn't start with an IDE. They should win a pissing contest by starting with a clean hard drive and flash their BIOS with a boot loader that they created by flipping...
Psychometrics! In particular the ones that answer the question, am I depressed?...
Psychometrics! In particular the ones that answer the question, am I depressed? The Hamilton (HDRS) scale has several groups of questions & is measuring several things. - sleep...
ways to do an LLM fish tank 1. **Ask bot to write a fish tank app**. Fish move...
ways to do an LLM fish tank 1. **Ask bot to write a fish tank app**. Fish move by randint. With enough prompting, you can get a decent flicker free fish tank. Fish will be stupid...
This is new, hallucinated a pypi package name and then immediately realized...
This is new, hallucinated a pypi package name and then immediately realized that it had done so.
You can hack python's codec's syntax to create preprocessors for so that it...
You can hack python's codec's syntax to create preprocessors for so that it will do things like `python some_code.md` for some file like this.... But I'll have to extend the magic...
Finally a intro video that matches my attention span
Finally a intro video that matches my attention span
IDEA: python has atexit() but nothing onstartup(). Dotnet has...
IDEA: python has atexit() but nothing onstartup(). Dotnet has PreApplicationStartMethod() and other events early in the process/app/thread's life cycle. Maybe if I wrote an app...
Incandescently mad at IKEAs shopping experience. You can't do anything...
Incandescently mad at IKEAs shopping experience. You can't do anything (efficiently without a price penalty) with out a family card and logging in. Sign on didn't recognizey...
Come work at the same company as me, possibly same team. US, option remote for...
Come work at the same company as me, possibly same team. US, option remote for many states Contracting work for a very large organization.
has (beta) support so it is time to rebuild your native libs and
has (beta) support so it is time to rebuild your native libs and
The H1B lottery favors staffing companies. I can't summarize my thoughts on...
The H1B lottery favors staffing companies. I can't summarize my thoughts on this. - Allowing brain drain to the US helps the US immensely - Immigration policy is all compromise...