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andybp85 | 2 months ago | on: Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

i probably don't understand. the main thought i have re: llm coding is, why i would want to talk to a insipid, pandering chatbot instead of having fun writing code?

but, as an engineer, i have to say if it works for you and you're getting quality output, then go for it. it's just not for me.

andybp85 | 2 months ago | on: Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

if you have to understand exactly what you're doing, why not just... do it?

andybp85 | 9 months ago | on: What you need to know about EMP weapons

yup. "the survivors are the lucky ones" is fantasy.

andybp85 | 9 months ago | on: What you need to know about EMP weapons

The book says that that's exactly what it's supposed to be, to inspire people to talk about it. But (also from the book) the war games the USA runs around these situations always end in a massive nuclear exchange. Sure, some specific situations, like the Devil's Scenario, I would imagine might not reflect a real war, but the case the book is making is that reality is far more likely to be closer to the worst case than to a "best case" (whatever that means here).

andybp85 | 9 months ago | on: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

that's a whole different piece of software that it doesn't come with out of the box lol.

Copilot was what i was looking for, thank you. I have it installed in Webstorm already but I haven't messed with this side of it.

andybp85 | 9 months ago | on: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

vscode comes with that out of the box?

andybp85 | 9 months ago | on: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

what are you using for this? one thing I can't wrap my head around is how anyone's idea of fun is poking at an LLM until it generates something possibly passable and then figuring what the hell it did and why, but this sounds like something i'd actually use.

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)

for the codebase i work on, i made a rule that "functions do what the name says and nothing else". this way if the function does too much, hopefully you feel dumb typing it and realize you should break it up.

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: The Ribbon Microphone

I built a ribbon mic from a kit a while ago, and only broke the ribbon once putting it together! https://www.bumblebeepro.com/

Of course, as soon as i tried to record my guitarist with it, he cranked his amp and broke it again. Guitarists, man...

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: Stimulation Clicker

whelp this is making this meeting go way faster

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

did this recently and it totally works

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus

wholeheartedly agree, git rebase -i is a game-changer once you get comfortable with it

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: Alexander Abian

I definitely did not see that coming lol

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

Huh, I (from New Jersey) somehow made it through the British Museum without realizing "artefact" is spelled differently in British English.

andybp85 | 1 year ago | on: I was denied tenure – how do I cope?

Isn't showing students where you can find a boatload of real-life examples of the kinds of things their studying kind of obviously a good idea?

andybp85 | 2 years ago | on: Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)

that's one thing I love about living in Jersey City, NJ. there's a thriving street art program: https://www.jcmap.org/

andybp85 | 3 years ago | on: FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals

it's that money talks, especially to people who don't understand technology enough to spot obvious bullshit. which of course isn't a justification for anything other than why the price of bitcoin is relatively impervious to logical analysis.

andybp85 | 3 years ago | on: Firebase's Firestore Is Down

and we're back

andybp85 | 3 years ago | on: Firebase's Firestore Is Down

been down since 9:30AM EST and the status page isn't showing anything...

andybp85 | 3 years ago | on: Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy

If a law gets made saying what MSTR is doing is illegal and they keep doing it, I'm pretty sure what to do involves the police, SEC, etc. Why would one think it's anyone else's problem?