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by collyw 2y ago
Nah, we need more Thomas Sowells.
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by collyw 2y ago
The title sounds like a mish mash of hacker news buzzwords.
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by collyw 2y ago
Is anyone using it? It seemed like a really interesting project, but they really screwed up with the marketing, firstly by calling it Perl 6 and secondly by never giving a date when it would be ready. I am using Python these days.
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by collyw 2y ago
This was the way things were done 20 years ago as far as I understand. Shame I mostly missed that (MySQL was flavor of the day, being free and fast and throwing a way a load of features, only to be repeated to an even greater extent by Mong
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by collyw 2y ago
Does AI do COBOL yet? Maybe that's where all the jobs will be in a decade. It's not like there are a ton of blog posts about how to do stuff in COBOL to train it on.
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by collyw 2y ago
SQL isn't the nicest language to write, but I do find it one of the most readable languages out there. > The worst SQL I've ever seen is when someone attempts to program it imperatively. It takes a different mentality to write
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by collyw 2y ago
Please explain the mechanisms behind it then.
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by collyw 2y ago
Got to remember that there is a great financial incentive for trials to come out positive. Who pays for clinical trials?
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by collyw 2y ago
Stress negatively affects the outcome of patients, why couldn't the opposite be true?
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by collyw 2y ago
The placebo effect is as powerful as many prescription drugs. It amazes me that scientists generally dismiss it rather than actually study it intensely. It's well known that stress can negatively affect your physiology, so I see no rea
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by collyw 2y ago
I find functional programming is where things get bad. It does give some pretty elegant ways to do things, but it can become a nightmare when debugging. Sometimes I need to dig into Django code to work out what's going on. It's al
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by collyw 2y ago
Coming from Perl, Python made me write more verbose simple code. But I noticed that in Perl I would do something clever, then a few days later it would come back and bit me in the arse, when I was trying to debug it. Sure Perl saved a few l
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by collyw 2y ago
I did all remote last year, it killed my productivity. Back in an office now (4 out of 5 days) and the change of scenery gives me my focus back. Agreed though, hybrid is the best model.
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by collyw 2y ago
Agreed. I started with Java which gave me a bias towards camel case to begin with (as well as braces over whitespace), but have changed to Perl and now Python. Snake case is definitely easier to read, but Python encourages CamelCase for cla
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by collyw 2y ago
PHP avoids many of the hassles of deployment that pretty much any other language does.
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by collyw 2y ago
This seemed so obvious at the time, you were throwing away so many useful features for the promise of "web scale". I argued with many developers at the time, but they insisted that NoSQL (Mongo) needed to be used.
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by collyw 2y ago
I am sure they are more likely to listen to the person / company paying their wages.
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by collyw 2y ago
ChatGPT4 It won't accept moderately large files that I have given it. It was actually just an HTML file, I wanted to ask about css in it. How have you managed to give it a "larger codebase"?
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by collyw 2y ago
Humble-brag about how he uses "a language that can properly support algebraic structures and randomized property-based testing" whatever the hell that is. Personally I use python and solve real world problems.
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by collyw 2y ago
If the code isn't doing anything special, it spits out decent enough code (I am using the paid version of ChatGPT with the various customization). As someone who spends 80% of his time in the backend, I find it great for JavaScript whe
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by collyw 2y ago
Chat GPT 3.5 has been neutered, as it it won't spit out anything that isn't overly politically correct. 4chan were hacking their way around it. Maybe that's why they decided it was "too dangerous".
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by collyw 2y ago
I used ChatGPT 4 while doing some freelance projects, and considering the time it has saved me, it's easily worth the 20 bucks a month. It is by no means perfect, but I look at it more like a super powered stack overflow.
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by collyw 2y ago
I find ChatGPT 4 is the best place to ask a question, then often use it's answer to find more in docs or stack overflow. It's basically a better search engine for certain coding tasks. I wasn't overly impressed with ChatGPT
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by collyw 2y ago
That's been my experience as well. Doesn't help me that much in Django where I am pretty familiar. It helps me loads in the frontend, where I am less familiar.
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by collyw 2y ago
They seem to support Python quite widely. There are a handful of languages that have an API for google cloud and the likes, Python is one of them
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by collyw 3y ago
And now we have transgender surgeries, which many of us look at with similar horror. And we are accused of being transphobic bigots for it.
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by collyw 3y ago
They worked hand in hand.
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by collyw 3y ago
Covid showed that is a lie.
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by collyw 3y ago
I have heard that interest rates are set to stay high, what makes you expect them to cut them?
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by collyw 3y ago
How does Co-Pilot compare top Chat-GPT? I paid for the professional version and it's worth it, but it's basically like a faster better Stack Overflow.

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