andybp85

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by andybp85 2mo ago
having coded with several RTEs, this just triggered some PTSD
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by andybp85 4mo ago
in my day job doing enterprise web apps at a mac shop 16G became unusable for the engineers 3-5 yeas ago. i managed to weasel into them getting me a 64G M1 Pro in 2022 (now they won't buy us any higher than 32G). i'll probably sti
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by andybp85 9mo ago
i probably don't understand. the main thought i have re: llm coding is, why i would want to talk to a insipid, pandering chatbot instead of having fun writing code? but, as an engineer, i have to say if it works for you and you're
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by andybp85 9mo ago
if you have to understand exactly what you're doing, why not just... do it?
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by andybp85 1y ago
yup. "the survivors are the lucky ones" is fantasy.
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by andybp85 1y ago
The book says that that's exactly what it's supposed to be, to inspire people to talk about it. But (also from the book) the war games the USA runs around these situations always end in a massive nuclear exchange. Sure, some speci
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by andybp85 1y ago
that's a whole different piece of software that it doesn't come with out of the box lol. Copilot was what i was looking for, thank you. I have it installed in Webstorm already but I haven't messed with this side of it.
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by andybp85 1y ago
vscode comes with that out of the box?
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by andybp85 1y ago
what are you using for this? one thing I can't wrap my head around is how anyone's idea of fun is poking at an LLM until it generates something possibly passable and then figuring what the hell it did and why, but this sounds like
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by andybp85 2y ago
for the codebase i work on, i made a rule that "functions do what the name says and nothing else". this way if the function does too much, hopefully you feel dumb typing it and realize you should break it up.
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by andybp85 2y ago
I built a ribbon mic from a kit a while ago, and only broke the ribbon once putting it together! https://www.bumblebeepro.com/ Of course, as soon as i tried to record my guitarist with it, he cranked his amp and broke it ag
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by andybp85 2y ago
whelp this is making this meeting go way faster
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by andybp85 2y ago
did this recently and it totally works
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by andybp85 2y ago
wholeheartedly agree, git rebase -i is a game-changer once you get comfortable with it
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by andybp85 2y ago
I definitely did not see that coming lol
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by andybp85 2y ago
Huh, I (from New Jersey) somehow made it through the British Museum without realizing "artefact" is spelled differently in British English.
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by andybp85 2y ago
Isn't showing students where you can find a boatload of real-life examples of the kinds of things their studying kind of obviously a good idea?
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by andybp85 3y ago
that's one thing I love about living in Jersey City, NJ. there's a thriving street art program: https://www.jcmap.org/
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by andybp85 4y ago
it's that money talks, especially to people who don't understand technology enough to spot obvious bullshit. which of course isn't a justification for anything other than why the price of bitcoin is relatively impervious to l
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by andybp85 4y ago
and we're back
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by andybp85 4y ago
been down since 9:30AM EST and the status page isn't showing anything...
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by andybp85 4y ago
If a law gets made saying what MSTR is doing is illegal and they keep doing it, I'm pretty sure what to do involves the police, SEC, etc. Why would one think it's anyone else's problem?
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by andybp85 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. I just told people I had a major win this week by getting a buddy of mine who started as an intern at my last job a full-time software engineer position at my current company (big pay jump & next step in his career
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by andybp85 5y ago
i actually really like the font, but I'm super turned off by the copy. i feel like this kind of writing belongs on a wine bottle or in a calvin klein catalog. to each their own, i suppose.
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by andybp85 5y ago
web3 is explicitly, 100% blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
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by andybp85 5y ago
USD is an actual currency, and if everybody HODLs it we wind up in a recession (or worse). This comparison is wildly invalid.
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by andybp85 5y ago
I wonder if another major change was the rise of the web browser. Making websites do cool things was what really got me into it, after a couple minor forays into things like C++ when I was in grade/high school. Obviously programming fo
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by andybp85 5y ago
This reminds me of my first foray into useful programming, which was on a TI-83 in high school circa 2000 - I wrote all the code on the calculator! Didn't do anything crazy, learned from modifying games and wrote some programs to do so
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by andybp85 5y ago
similar situation here, I'm a dev for a major business news company. her comments are brazen at best.
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by andybp85 5y ago
there's some cool stuff going on in the NFT space, e.g. my favorite band has been selling NFTs that come with access to stuff like concert videos and private events. the idea of NFTs as access to a community i think has merit - hey, if

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