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by amanzi 3y ago
I use Copilot in VS Code and I was highly sceptical of it at first. It's true that it will often make mistakes if you ask it for complex things, but for me the real value is in auto-completing all the low-value tasks, like writing docs
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by amanzi 3y ago
Flask is a minimal web framework that relies on its ecosystem of packages and tutorials to keep it current and relevant. So yes, this is a problem for Flask if key packages that are recommended in just about all tutorials do not keep up to
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by amanzi 3y ago
This is a wider issue with Flask and the surrounding ecosystem, and is also why I switched to Django a couple of years ago. I don't recall which package it was specifically, but there was a commonly used security package that was recom
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by amanzi 3y ago
The UK has tons of speed cameras and people certainly don't drive under the limit due to free will. Most GPS units display where the speed cameras are located so UK drivers know where to speed and where not to.
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by amanzi 3y ago
I had to Google what o11y meant... :-(
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by amanzi 3y ago
First time hearing the term a11y for me too. I hope to never come across it again.
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by amanzi 3y ago
Also took the good parts from Windows NT. I loved using Windows 2000. I remember being really mad when XP came out and it added all the colourful and curvy GUI elements - felt really dumbed down.
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by amanzi 3y ago
This news made me trawl through the Wayback Machine to find my first blog I wrote in classic ASP using VBscript with an Access database. This was back in 2003! "We've caught on to the latest craze on the internet - the Blog (web l
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by amanzi 3y ago
I did a lot of classic ASP development with VBscript on the server side.
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by amanzi 3y ago
I still logon scripts written in VBscript that are still very much in production. Time to finally start converting those to PowerShell.
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by amanzi 3y ago
This seems to be the direction they're heading with the recent Chromebook Plus announcement: https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus/
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by amanzi 3y ago
Can you take the first portion of the UUIDv7 string, and decode it to figure out the exact date and time that record was created? I'm wondering if there might be security/privacy concerns in some situations if the UUID codes are v
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by amanzi 3y ago
You didn't say which version of GPT you prefer it over. My experience of Claude hasn't been good at all - I get obvious hallucinations all the time. Whereas I get pretty consistent accurate results with GPT-4. I just tried again n
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by amanzi 3y ago
Is the iPhone 15 with USB2 speeds or the iPhone 15 Pro with USB3?
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by amanzi 3y ago
What I often do in this situation is to have the "presentation" slides in the front of the deck, with the "detailed" slides at the back. That way you can just present the first slides to people in the room, and then circ
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by amanzi 3y ago
Thanks - took me ages to get this one. Ended up copying it into Notepad and then could see it. It's fun to edit the text while viewing it in 3D - you can cause more of the text to jump out of the page.
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by amanzi 3y ago
How are you seeing this?
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by amanzi 3y ago
Speaking of ridiculous captchas, I've just started getting captchas while chatting with ChatGPT. Took me a while to figure out what the hell they were asking, and for whatever reason I'm now getting one of these at least twice per
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by amanzi 3y ago
I do architecture work here in NZ and Visio is still ubiquitous here - it's part of the standard design/architecture toolkit. Usually the only discussion is whether you need the Pro or Standard licence (Pro is typically only requi
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by amanzi 3y ago
I've been using ChatGPT to generate PlantUML diagrams with great success. If the diagram doesn't look right, it means I haven't been able to describe the solution well enough in the prompt. Repeating the description in the pr
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by amanzi 3y ago
I wonder what "widescreen mode" means, I couldn't find any description of that on the page? I have a couple of Atari consoles and a bunch of games that I bought on a whim a few years back, but connecting them to my current TV
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by amanzi 3y ago
Good to see them using the macrons appropriately (unlike the title of this post). "weta" has quite a different meaning to "wētā" :-)
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by amanzi 3y ago
I've known about this for a while, but have only just noticed a new (to me, at least) feature: Remote Tunnels Docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels This is super useful for me - this would l
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by amanzi 3y ago
Still says "coming soon..." for me.
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by amanzi 3y ago
Everything you've said here applies to New Zealand too. Most of the banks maintain a register of businesses' bank account details so you usually don't even need to know their account number to make a payment - you can just se
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by amanzi 3y ago
In my circle of friends, I'm the only one working in technology. But ChatGPT is something that everyone has tried and has been amazed by. For my non-tech friends, it's been mostly used for playing around, generating poems, etc - n
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by amanzi 3y ago
I'm sure there's an argument to be made about SEO fluff dominating Google, but this article picked a bad example to prove their point. The author searched for: "python iterate over dict". The number 1 result was an artic
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by amanzi 3y ago
Cars is great - one of my favourites. Beautiful visuals - the scenery is stunning.
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Appears to be down at the moment, but someone archived it: https://archive.is/yBrpk
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by amanzi 3y ago
The open-source aspect is interesting with hosted services. Even if Signal open-sourced their entire stack (front-end & back-end), you still couldn't be sure that the code they are hosting for you is exactly the same as the publish

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