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knutwannheden | 8 months ago | on: I want to be a Journey Programmer Again

I reckon that while my programming has become more productive with LLMs, it has at the same time gotten a bit more frustrating and boring.

I think it is difficult to know in advance when the LLM will do a reasonable or good job and when it won't. But I am slowly learning when and how to use the tools while still enjoying using them.

knutwannheden | 1 year ago | on: New iMac with M4

Changing screen sizes appears to be a very common theme for Apple. That way they can a few years later re-introduce the old screen sizes as the best invention since sliced bread. Very annoying. I would also have liked to see a 24"+ model.

knutwannheden | 3 years ago | on: Infinite AI Array

While I think the paraphrased Jurassic Park quote can be very funny at times, I don't really agree with the statement. But I assume you were being sarcastic.

knutwannheden | 3 years ago | on: Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest

I don't have experience with PG FTS, but I've used SQLite FTS5 and love it for its ease of use. Also I really like its NEAR() queries. I was a bit surprised that the post doesn't mention this capability and compare it with the other implementations (i.e. is it available and how does it compare performance-wise).

knutwannheden | 3 years ago | on: The Fakoo Alphabet

Is it possibly because the font should be monospaced and the reader might then mistake the distance before and after the "I" for a space?

knutwannheden | 3 years ago | on: A sequel to SQL? An intro to Malloy

I had the same initial reaction regarding the pipe character. But once I started thinking of the query as a pipe (like in the terminal) through which the data flows, where stuff like ORDER BY, SELECT, and GROUP BY are just operators, it started making sense.

knutwannheden | 3 years ago | on: A sequel to SQL? An intro to Malloy

Out if necessity I've started working with Microsoft's Kusto Query Language [1] which is used by various services in Azure (e g. their Log Analytics Workspace).

At first I found the language rather akward and was wondering why yet another query language. But the more I used it the more it grew on me. The thing I really like is that unlike the clauses in SQL, the order of operators isn't really fixed and it reads and feels like a pipe command in a Unix shell.

One example where I find this far superior is when doing aggregations. In SQL I would have to modify both the start and the end of the query, which is quite a nuisance.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/q...)

knutwannheden | 5 years ago | on: TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees

Very well said! It appears like the other commenters deliberately try to misinterpret you. Consuming less is indeed one of the best things we can do.

Instead of buying new cheap clothes all the time to be trendy we should buy quality clothing and wear it for a long time. Repair it (and other things we buy) or sell it or give it away rather than dispose of.

Here in Europe things are moving in the right direction, but still too slowly, I am afraid.

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