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'When people say 'but most business logic bugs aren’t type errors,' I just want to show them how to make bugs into type errors.' -- Matt Parsons
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James Byatt
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James Byatt
@grumpyjames
I was a mathematician, and then I sold out.
Brooklyn Katılım Ağustos 2008
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@etorreborre ...if I accentuate my prompts towards what I think makes code better than that, and double down on engineering practice around making changes when I'm using an agent (even smaller changes, watch the test fail first, etc.) I can go marginally faster
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@etorreborre My experience has been that AI writes median quality internet code unless explicitly instructed otherwise...
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My current experience with AI-driven code is that it can help a lot for getting started, for discussing alternatives, for boilerplate, for debugging, for code reviews, but the amount of incorrect, flawed or redundant code is a bit scary 1/2
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Extending Records to handle the richer semantics of Classes without losing the benefits of Records. A careful balancing act 🙂
openjdk.org/projects/amber…
"Java for the AI world"
#java #openJDK #AI
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@rorysutherland Oh come on, a Premier Inn, surely, the breakfast is superior
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Also, houses are bought by a couple. Many people (more often men) don't give a shit about houses, but would quite like a Bentley. This way, they get a much better car than would normally be allowed. (If I were single, I'd live in a Travelodge and drive a Dodge Viper).
Rory Sutherland@rorysutherland
This is actually sensible from the seller's POV. If you discount a house, you devalue it much more than if you offer free stuff. A £2m house which comes with a free Bentley is still a £2m house. In selling, say, shampoo, 50% extra free is not the same psychologically as 33% off.
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As it happens, I'm booked from Birmingham to the Highlands on Monday night. But where am I going?
Somewhere special!
Somewhere I've always wanted to go.
Where braver men than me sleep deep within their regal tree. Any guesses? 🤷♂️
The Man in Seat 61@seatsixtyone
From tonight, Caledonian Sleeper's London-Inverness/Aberdeen/Ft William sleeper will pick up at Birmingham International at 22:42 northbound, and set down southbound at 06:20. A useful link for the West Midlands! independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…
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@thenewstef @Apple @AppleSupport I reckon all this apple stuff is really only fit to go in the canal nowadays
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So i'm still without an ipad, spend hours on phone and on store with the Kafka-esque nightmare that is @Apple @AppleSupport and experienced a variety of bugs. Remember that this is the premium Apple Care support. What's going wrong?
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Here's a little story about @Apple and @AppleSupport. My iPad mini's screen was cracked. It's under AppleCare. I checked online and it should cost £25. So i booked an appointment at the "genius bar" on my local apple store, London Kingston, and took it on the 6th of January
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be honest - i need some feral advice to match my feral energy
but also give helpful advice, not something that will implode my career lmaoooo #softwareengineer #coding #careeradvice
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Watched this (Across the Spider-Verse, for complete context) for maybe the tenth time over Christmas, and it remains an absolute masterpiece.
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Oh my days the new spider verse film is out of this world good. Go.
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@tikhonjelvis This is why I always use my squirrel rather than someone else's
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SQL is pronounced "squirrel" and WSL is pronounced "weasel"
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my goal is to become successful enough to use an ipad instead of a laptop. It's the perfect device for the successful man - worse than both a phone and a computer, requiring a staff of people producing actual work to maintain communications with you. A unicycle for the mind.
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@therealchreke I mean this one is soluble with a well factored dependency tree and a good build tool, no? Or are you wanting something that lets you edit a root node in an ABI incompatible way and still have a fast build?
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You know what really grinds my gears in software development? Compile times. I really like static type systems, but I don’t like waiting. The time it takes to type check / compile code should be proportional to the size of the change, not the size of the code base.
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@therealchreke I suspect getting the message out with modern build systems is probably possible, and we'll then discover that the test system hasn't got a bloody clue what to do with it...
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@therealchreke I feel like the build tool here rightfully says "hey, I built it, over to you now test system" and there's a missing message of "oh btw it was an incremental build and the artifacts that changed were [...]" and then the test system can traverse a different graph to do its work
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A priest, a pastor and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "what's your blood type?"
"I'm probably a type O", said the rabbit.
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