deckiedan

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by deckiedan 1mo ago
From reading the article, it sounds like an enforced standardisation? Like, asking for account age bracket and then having a standard API to ask for it would be easy, right? Just write it to a root owned `~/.age-bracket` for each user
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by deckiedan 2mo ago
How much of this is genuine, and how much is the one-upmanship of needing to say Claude is just as powerful as gpt? I fully expect both. Also, given that AI content is still the responsibility of the person prompting, and not the AI company
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by deckiedan 6mo ago
A few related thoughts from my spiritual tradition... resist evil, but flee temptation. Build willpower through disciplines, such as fasting, meditation, stillness. Think about the larger value that a smaller temptation points to - junk can
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by deckiedan 8mo ago
I end up using https://derlien.com/ "Disk Inventory X" regularly to find stuff to clean up.
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Show HN: Advent of Refactoring"(youtube.com)
1 points by deckiedan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by deckiedan 1y ago
Massive plus one for Language Transfer. It's well presented, interesting, and kept me engaged. The whole concept is finding connections to language you already know, and gets you thinking in fuller more complex thoughts and sentences r
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by deckiedan 2y ago
I've recently been enjoying Book Overflow https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod - they're reading and discussing really interesting (programming / software engineering) books, getting interviews with autho
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by deckiedan 2y ago
What is the workout you do?
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by deckiedan 2y ago
The AI tool report shown to the dean with "85% match" Will be used as "proof". If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a report showing how this essay is writ
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by deckiedan 2y ago
Well, right. If I'm using an LLM to create code, I'm going to use all my skill and experience to review and shape the code to standards I'm ok with. But for people with extremely limited experience, LLMs offer a "create
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by deckiedan 2y ago
I just played with townie AI for an hour or so... Very cool! Very fun. There's still some glitches, occasionally the entire app code would get replaced by the function the LLM was trying to update. I could fix it by telling it that&#x
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by deckiedan 2y ago
I guess also for context, a lot of the code I write is closer to the "house" or even "potatoes". A one-off script to extract data for a report - potato. A brochure website for a company that'll be replaced in 6 year
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by deckiedan 2y ago
This is interesting. But still pretty early, right? (As in, no real docs, not ready for publication...)? It looks like a start of a packages.lock.json kind of tool for dependency resolution eventually? Or am I missing something?
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by deckiedan 2y ago
Also rich patrons supporting artists was how many of the greatest artworks of many civilisations were commissioned for thousands of years... Is writing software closer to growing potatoes or designing the Sagrada de Familia, or writing the
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by deckiedan 2y ago
Ask it to write a sitcom comedy screenplay about a software team asked to do exactly this same situation, but where it goes disastrously wrong. Give enough info to the prompt to make it parody your own company. Make sure it's not offen
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by deckiedan 2y ago
This looks beautiful. I'm a long time vim/neovim user, and have a couple of curious colleagues who I'll be linking to this soon. I really like the tone of the writing, the visual style, the pacing, the examples. Maybe having
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by deckiedan 2y ago
I'm really excited for this. Yes, pyright is fast enough, 99% of the time. But the install story, requiring npm etc, is a bit of a pain. A rust based version with similar install ease as ruff would be great. Additionally, if it is a lo
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by deckiedan 2y ago
If I was their security team, I would be fine with them publishing articles about our security set up - as long as it wasn't 100% accurate. Possibly mention a specific virtualization system, and then run a honeypot version of the above
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by deckiedan 2y ago
My day job is Django - and the ipdb based `shell_plus` from the `django_extensions` package is invaluable.[1] I have a shell open almost all the time, and use it constantly for testing functions, writing queries etc. It drives me crazy watc
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by deckiedan 3y ago
My parents are both very computer literate (my mum was a programmer, my dad also wrote code & managed database teams...) and they were really good friends with the head teacher at my primary school (UK, 90s). They worked together with h
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by deckiedan 3y ago
I suspect there are a lot of other factors to take into consideration here: - population growth over that time - percent of people able to afford cars and fuel over that time - % of those numbers that are in London ( and other big cities) -
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by deckiedan 3y ago
Maybe part of the problem is that IBS(-like) symptoms, and many "fuzzy" / hard-to-diagnose ones (fatigue, etc) are also caused or exacerbated by anxiety and frustration and emotional distress. So if I'm not hyperchondr
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by deckiedan 3y ago
https://wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-in-space/ It's not all NASA sites - but used by NASA for some sites.
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by deckiedan 3y ago
The wagtail CMS would be a good example of more complex systems built on top of Django. https://wagtail.org/ One of the many more complex sites we've used it to build is https://www.business-humanrights.org&
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Microsoft government email compromised (and quietly fixed)(msrc.microsoft.com)
21 points by deckiedan 3y ago|3 comments
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by deckiedan 3y ago
My (young) kids got interested last year, so I learned the algorithms to be able to put it back for them.... And got kinda hooked myself! For me though, I don't have the sequence memory to be able to work it out from scratch. I have th
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by deckiedan 4y ago
Match is now supported (as of last week) I believe
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by deckiedan 4y ago
We've 2 kids, 8 and 5 - both total book worms (and into Minecraft and biking and dude perfect and all sorts... But they love books). Find stuff you'll enjoy reading to them. And read to them a lot. You've got the right idea.
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by deckiedan 4y ago
I think we must be thinking of different things - the quote from Timothy is originally Greek, not Hebrew: "ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία..." "Root for all the evil is the love-of-money..." Word for word (i
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by deckiedan 4y ago
> For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil... 1 Timothy 6:10 NRSV So, just for random theological context, money itself isn't good or bad - it's just a convenient token of value... But it's the love of money,

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