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by collyw 3y ago
Perl usually had excellent quality modules back when I was using it. Python (these days) has a mix of mostly good, but some bad. Javascipt just seems a shambles when I go there.
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by collyw 3y ago
Was thinking that sounds strange, but that's because 90% of my Python is done in Django (which has excellent docs). Python's own documentation is horrible to read for some reason. Whenever I need to remind myself of how to use reg
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by collyw 3y ago
I feel exactly the same. Perl is a more expressive more fun language, but I do find that the more restrictive nature of Python leads to me writing better, if a bit more verbose code (better as in more readable and maintainable). I would sta
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by collyw 3y ago
Take another booster, can't be too safe.
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by collyw 3y ago
Look up the Cambrian period.It was a lot warmer and life flourished. The idea that it getting warmer is somehow a catastrophe seems quite absurd.
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by collyw 3y ago
I used to now I don't. After over 3 decades of hearing about it, none of the catastrophic predictions have come true. The sea level hasn't risen by any perceptible amount (I live on the coast). And I see no reason why it's co
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by collyw 3y ago
Your suggestion to what sounds like burnout is to do even more coding in your spare time?
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by collyw 3y ago
> There is obviously a large problem with the way we do software engineering, and we are still figuring it out. > The longer you spend in software, you realize that the "accepted way to do things" changes all the time. Why t
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by collyw 3y ago
Pretty much how I feel. Do we need Kubernetes? Do we need elastic scaling and microservices and whatever is trendy. I know how to build an app in fairly standard predictable way, but no one seem interested in that when there are so many fad
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by collyw 3y ago
That entirely depends on your user numbers.
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by collyw 3y ago
The vast majority of uses will never use that.
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by collyw 3y ago
How much better do you find ChatGPT 4 compared to the free version?
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by collyw 3y ago
I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the 10x developer stuff is basically down to the 10x person being the original author of the code. Every other developer on the project has to do at least 3 times as much work, they have to read t
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by collyw 3y ago
I have only used the free version of ChatGPT and I'll admit that it has been helpful, but only for maybe 50% of the stuff In ask it. Maybe 15% of the time it has been a hindrance by making up stuff. It's basically a faster version
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by collyw 3y ago
I don't see this comment going down well here regardless of how much truth there may be to it.
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by collyw 3y ago
Nah, Spain has crap salaries, and I have never heard of unions here.
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by collyw 3y ago
I worked for a company. The system was basically a crud web app, where users could upload medical imaging data, and send it to be processed in the background. We had the web app set up on Kubernetes, yet the background jobs had to be manual
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by collyw 3y ago
This industry is way too much of a fashion show. And too many devs are consumers of new technology in a similar way. After 20 years I am actually getting a bit skeptical behind the "you should constantly be learning" mantra. If yo
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by collyw 3y ago
Choose boring technology.
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by collyw 3y ago
Completely agree. I remember when Mongo / NoSQL was peak hype cycle, and every new project "needed" to use it despite being a big step down in terms of features, ability and maturity. A few years later I ended up on a system
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by collyw 3y ago
Is that specific to mtDNA? From what I remember it isn't that uncommon. There are a lot of bits of DNA that work in both directions for different genes.Been a a couple of decades since I studied that though.
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by collyw 3y ago
It's often very useful for those funding it.
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by collyw 3y ago
Aside from the code quality, his models have never been close to accurate on anything.
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by collyw 3y ago
Given Ferguson's track record of being out by orders of magnitude on absolutely everything beforehand, it almost seems like he was chosen to give an over the top estimate.
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by collyw 3y ago
I'll add that "code reuse" was pushed as an idea too heavily (at my university at least). I think that leads to a fair bit of the over engineering and unnecessary complexity. I saw a comment later saying not to aim for "
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by collyw 3y ago
Worst code I have seen has been written by self taught bioinformaticians. But, a lot of the time these scripts are used as one offs, to generate a result, then are done with, so quality doesn't need to be the same as with a server runn
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by collyw 3y ago
Is there anything that will take a photo of hand drawn sketch and clear it up?
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by collyw 3y ago
Is there anything that will take a hand drawn sketch and clean it up?
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by collyw 3y ago
Is there a tutorial on how to do something like that? It sounds damn useful.
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by collyw 3y ago
Where is a good place to understand the high level topics in AI. Like an offline language model compared to a presumably online model?

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