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541.
by rectang 2y ago
Such a vapid clickbait title.
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by rectang 2y ago
It’s only cheap until you or someone who uses one of these images gets sued for copyright infringement and loses. I, for one, will be rooting against you in that court case, pot-stirrer.
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by rectang 2y ago
It's true that once you have learned enough to tell the LLM exactly what answer you want, it can repeat it back to you verbatim. The question is how far short of that you should stop because the LLM is no longer an efficient way to ma
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by rectang 2y ago
I think it's deeply unfortunate that the artists on whose work Midjourney was trained have no say in this website. https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/midjourney_artists_sp...
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by rectang 2y ago
I think we'll only approach an equilibrium on racism if and when we reach consensus that it's innate human nature to be prejudiced, and that what distinguishes us is whether we make an effort to counter our base impulses. Let me j
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by rectang 2y ago
Playing only zero-sum games. A positive sum outcome, where both of us benefit, is inconceivable!
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by rectang 2y ago
An LLM is not a compiler, where extreme pains are taken to be correct and consistent. LLM coding output will not always need to be checked, depending on the use case, but it definitely will not be consistently correct across all use case
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by rectang 2y ago
I have not stopped referencing Stack Overflow (though I have almost never asked questions there). I still find it more helpful for exploring approaches and ideas than an LLM. An LLM is most helpful when I definitely know what I want, I ju
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by rectang 2y ago
The biggest timesaver for me so far is composing complex SQL queries with elements of SQL I don't use very often. In such cases I know what I want, but the specific syntax eludes me. Previously solving that has required poring over d
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by rectang 2y ago
Well, then I simply don’t agree that `git log --oneline --graph` is “really, really bad”. Clunky? Sure, but it suffices to visualize simple branching patters. And no visualizer suffices for gnarly graphs (like a long-lived topic branch tha
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by rectang 2y ago
I agree with this, but would extend the distrust to all concentrations of power. Supremely wealthy corporations and individuals, although on their own lacking the state’s monopoly on violence, eventually co-opt the state through regulatory
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by rectang 2y ago
The US has turned towards enabling Russia’s imperialist war, and the Pentagon article explains how it will unilaterally disarm in the face of Russian cyberwarfare, leaving Russian criminal groups to run rampant in Europe and even the US.
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by rectang 2y ago
Increased collaboration between the Russian state and the American state is bad for the ordinary citizens of both — and for freedom-loving people in Ukraine, Europe, and everywhere else.
554.
by rectang 2y ago
That the Pentagon has announced it will cease defending Americans against Russian threats hardly means that Americans are not threatened.
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by rectang 2y ago
I agree that it won't cause collaboration issues. Perhaps the fear arises because force pushing destroys your backup, so to speak? I freed myself from the fear of losing data after a rebase when I learned to restore from a commit in `
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by rectang 2y ago
A curated sequence of logical commits assembled into an idealized history is often much easier to review than the real history. However, to rewrite history well enough for that you need.... * a solid understanding of interactive rebasing,
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by rectang 2y ago
Version control is one of our main tools for interacting with other developers. Having a rich understanding of your version control software often helps to find solutions and workarounds for problems which would otherwise result in needles
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by rectang 2y ago
`git log --graph` without `--oneline` is pretty hard to follow — that's not what I use, and it's not what I suggested. With `--oneline`, it's not perfect but it's good enough to be useful — and by working within the co
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by rectang 2y ago
The payoff comes when you develop a mental model of Git's data structure design, which is stuff like "a branch is a named pointer to a commit" and "the central data structure is a content-addressable store" — and mo
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by rectang 2y ago
Heh. I care about results from my colleagues and collaborators, not their tool preferences. If your topic branches and commit messages make sense, that's what matters — because those are our touch points of collaboration.
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by rectang 2y ago
I find that the command "git add -p", which allows you to add individual sections of files rather than whole files before committing, helps with this issue. It's quite natural to wind up with a bunch of work that really needs
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by rectang 2y ago
I don't think that regular usage of the Git CLI is sufficient to develop an insight into Git's internal data design for most people, which is really necessary for to become proficient enough to troubleshoot. You wind up thrashing
563.
by rectang 2y ago
I don't use pull requests because it seems higher ROI to just put that effort into crafting a good merge commit message. Aside from that, you've more or less described my workflow for solo projects.
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by rectang 2y ago
I love this book. It's what helped me move from an intermediate Git user to an advanced one, and I've subsequently trained a bunch of people at different organizations by going through it. However, Pro Git is not an ideal resou
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by rectang 2y ago
The following command provides a visualization which is good enough to start from: git log --oneline --graph The more practical problem is that Github, which provides a useful graphic UI to complement the local command line for any
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by rectang 2y ago
A long time ago I picked up the habit of "coding in commented paragraphs": https://www.perl.com/pub/2005/07/14/bestpractices.html/#7-co... This style allows me to scan only natural languag
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by rectang 2y ago
Microsoft never forgot about locking developers in. As someone with trying to fulfill an organizational imperative to deliver cross-platform compatibility, they made my life as miserable as they possibly could.
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by rectang 2y ago
Album art for 12-inch LPs is fabulous. CD packaging with jewel cases was a major step down in experience because of size and also because of the inconvenience of getting the booklets out of the case; good CD packaging experiences were excee
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by rectang 2y ago
The DOGE staffer gets infinite chances, infinite understanding, and infinite excuses. The staffers DOGE targets, if they're lucky, get one chance to prove loyalty.
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by rectang 2y ago
I LOL'd. Ruefully. Seriously, I'm wondering who is going to be a more dangerous geopolitical foe for Europe going forward, the US or China. The ascendant forces in the in the US are pro-Russia, and that's not likely to chan

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