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by scubbo 2y ago
> The bot does the trivial things well Clearly not, since all the answers were incorrect; two of them by an order of magnitude: * 0.93 ((1.03)^1000) is 6.393E12, not 1.788E13 * 0.93 ((1.02)^1000) is 3.7E8, not 4.28E9 * 0.93*((1.01)^1000)
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by scubbo 2y ago
Is a bot really necessary in order to calculate 0.93*(1 + n%)^1000?
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by scubbo 2y ago
Been around programming for ~20 years, professionally engineering for 13 of them, and I think I first heard the term (and have heard it consistently since then) at least a decade ago. Rejoice! You are one of today's Lucky 10,000[0]! [0
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by scubbo 2y ago
I recognize that the title is intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but I'm one individual for which it's genuinely true. Sonic[0] has the best customer service of any company ever encountered, and it's not even close. The few time
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by scubbo 2y ago
> This entry was posted in [...] Zombies I feel like I'm missing a joke or reference somewhere - can anyone help me out? I'm familiar with the concept of p-zombies, but that doesn't seem to be relevant here - and a "Z
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by scubbo 2y ago
There very much is such a thing, and they provide an accurate definition of it in their comment.
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by scubbo 2y ago
> an inbuilt ability to hyper focus on a topic, whether that topic be mathematics, Star Trek, dinosaurs or legacy console games from the 1980’s. I see you're familiar with Ryan North.
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by scubbo 2y ago
That's true - but the important contrast is that no-one's claiming that static analysis tools are solely sufficient for code review. Despite the inflammatory headline, I read this article (particularly the final section "Conc
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by scubbo 2y ago
Haha - my favourite WTF Googling moment was when, as a callow youth first setting out in learning Javascript and HTML, I Googled "How to get head"
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by scubbo 2y ago
Unfortunately, there are a distinctly limited number of words that can communicate a particular concept - the pigeon-hole principle suggests duplication will be inevitable. Ambiguity's only really a problem when the same term is used m
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by scubbo 2y ago
Can be a cultural idiomatic thing. For me (BrEng) "I'm sorry but..." doesn't explicitly mean "I regret/apologise for what I'm about to say" - in fact it's an intensifier.
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by scubbo 2y ago
...I can't believe I'd never thought about the fact that a "Deployment Repo" can, in fact, just be a directory within the Code Repo. Interesting thought - thanks!
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by scubbo 2y ago
> just run the code given by the copilot and check that it works You've misunderstood my point. I'm not discussing the ability to check whether the code works as _I_ believe it should (as you say, that's easy to verify dir
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by scubbo 2y ago
I'm still convinced that Rust does it _right_ by allowing you to "chain through" errors using `Result`. Having to pepper `if err != nil { return ..., err}` repeatedly into your code is just distracting from the core logic - 9
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by scubbo 2y ago
> a bunch of people trying to use a hammer when they needed a screwdriver and then complaining that the hammer didnt work like a screwdriver When it's being sold as a screwdriver, that's hardly their fault.
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by scubbo 2y ago
> they'll generate code even when the answer is "no dude, your chip doesn't support that". This is precisely the problem. As I point out elsewhere[0], reviewing AI-generated code is _not_ the same thing as reviewing c
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Me reviewing AI code is no different from me reviewing anyone else's code. I take your point, and on the whole I agree with your post, but this point is fundamentally _not_ correct, in that if I have a question about someone else&
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by scubbo 2y ago
Since we're doing "XKCD's relevant to the intersection of deadlifting and cryptography" - https://xkcd.com/189/
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by scubbo 2y ago
> then run it through ffmpeg to convert to mp3. > Some people don't want [...] mp3
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by scubbo 2y ago
> My problem is with people who want it both ways. Why? Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma? You may subjectively believe that sarcasm is over-used (and in fact I personally agree with you), but why are y
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by scubbo 2y ago
Your judgement of entertainment is not more important than clarity of communication.
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by scubbo 2y ago
Yes, people realize this. We've already had several waves of reaction - mostly settling on "the process of software engineering has always been about design, communication, and collaboration - the actual act of poking keys to ente
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by scubbo 2y ago
I see. I misinterpreted your meaning of the word "existing" - I thought you were implying that, by virtue of the introduction of the alternative, any existing codebases would _immediately and instantly_ be worsened, whereas it see
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by scubbo 2y ago
> It introduces an alternative and does so as a superset; which is not only dangerous to existing code bases... How so?
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by scubbo 2y ago
Ah, my mistake - I misread that you were saying that there was no link back to their homepage from this article. Apologies!
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Anyone with ADHD, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, and many other conditions simply do not and cannot have full control of their minds without medical intervention. Right - hence "might", not "do"; and "s
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by scubbo 2y ago
https://billwear.github.io/
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by scubbo 2y ago
I really like how you've presented this (despite disagreeing as a point of personal preference on almost every point you make :) ). I'm baffled by the level of repetition and verbosity that Gophers seem to prefer - but I also can&
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by scubbo 2y ago
The facts that GoLang is missing such a fundamental tool from its standard library, and that it's easy to make typos when coding not in an IDE, hardly support your point. In fact, the very fact that you originally thought of the correc
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by scubbo 2y ago
Nit - I think you've missed the `func` argument in the `slices.Map` line. (But - yes, bravo, correct, you're right and you should say it)

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