timrobinson333

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by timrobinson333 2y ago
Many windows programmers fail to appreciate this. If you're using a language that provides argv-style functionality, the quoting and escaping mechanism is entirely at the mercy of that language, so you can't reliably make any gene
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by timrobinson333 2y ago
It's an interesting idea but I think the usefulness would be greatly enhanced if it could handle json arrays; most needed json structures contain array elements in my experience
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by timrobinson333 2y ago
I think the point made in the article is that they wanted to build gpt 5 but they renamed it to 4 turbo because the improvements over 4 weren't what they were expecting
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
On my feed this appeared almost next to "10 rules of Zen programming" - What a contrast. If you feel anger and frustration after reading this, I'd definitely suggest you find and read that other article.
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I have been programming for over 40 years, mostly in fairly verbose languages but nowadays mostly in JavaScript and clojure, both of which can be very concise. I find I spend most of my time thinking about the problem domain and how to mode
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I'm afraid I take issue with the phrase "amazingly performant". I would struggle to come up with another way of determining whether a number near 2^32 is even that takes anything like 10 seconds
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
It's fine if it's convenient for staff to have to take PTO at a time to suit the company For some that won't work out at well. My partner has to work shifts all over the Christmas period. I choose to work the same days as her
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
My no 1 rule is simply not to let others tell you what you should enjoy. If you know what you like, the opportunities for finding that enjoyment are much expanded!
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out what seems to be a fairy obvious limitation: the children within a parent cannot be ordered (unless you want to splice them in the middle of the arrays when inserting which would be pretty inefficie
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
Yes I'm surprised the author didn't manage to find an artist or track with an SQL injection - surely someone must have tried
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
Hey Google, write me a 500 word blog entitled "Unleashing the Power of Language Models: A hacker's Manifesto" then send it straight to hacker News
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
As an atheist and a materialist (in the philosophical sense), I'm forced to the conclusion conclusion that all humans really are no different from LLMs. We take in information, process it with our brains (that are fundamentally made of
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
Maybe I've been exceptionally lucky (although I've been very conscious to only work for SMEs which I think has a lot to do with it), but I always try really hard to figure out what the user/customer is actually trying to achi
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I'll be the first to admit I know almost nothing about go, but it's surprises me to find we're still inventing languages with bobby traps like this, especially bobby traps that were well known and understood in other language
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
"We" don't have to do anything. People are inventing new things all the time in every possible sphere of life. If something proves to be more popular than what's already out there, it will become successful That's t
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I have to say that's not been my experience. I find most people will have a similar opinion of what's clean code and if I point out something that's messy they'll usually respond with reasons why it's messy rather t
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by timrobinson333 3y ago
I find that almost all coders can recognise clean code but many fail to produce it. I think partly it's down to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality - once it's working there's a temptation to le