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Bill the Lizard
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@sushee@ohai.social
@sushee@ohai.social There's a whole generation of us that learned programming from typing in code examples from computing/gaming magazines back in the late 1900s. (I learned rudimentary debugging skills by finding my own typos.)
Absolutely nobody still does this, because as you said, it would be absurd.
AI companies are offsetting their high energy demands by burning *checks notes* rare books. Delightful. 🤦
When you have to train your replacement.
After the AI bubble pops, we should do a retro one like 80s comics or tulip bulbs.
(He said from the top of a mountain of 80s comics and tulip bulbs.)
Subway now has $5 6-inch subs. Shrinkflation has gone too far.
We might be living in a Black Mirror episode, but at least it's not the one with werewolves.
These dogs are literally surrounded by toys, but Nora only wants whichever one Ben is playing with.
Brazil is so petty. #FIFA
If your video isn't breaking down the 61 best moments from the new Avengers trailer, why are you even posting this week?
"My friend introduced me to options." 🤦
"The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random." — Donald Knuth
What now?
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social What kind of man would cheat at this Yu-Go-Oh!?
"If software cannot be maintained, then it will be rewritten." — Dave Cheney
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@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social
@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social That's me leading up to making the call.
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@jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online
@jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online both are blocked at my company
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social If it's his dying wish, somebody has to do it. That's just the law.
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
I'm oversimplifying, but I think the concept is the same. If you were good at Googling things 10 years ago, you can learn prompt engineering now. If you want to.
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
The deeper I get into this, the more I think that good "prompt engineering" is what we used to call Google-Fu.
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@openculture@toot.community
@openculture@toot.community I probably won't use it, but we need this word.
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Yellow the song? That's so crazy!
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
Copilot can summarize a PowerPoint presentation for you!
🤦♂️Your presentation should BE a summary.
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
"Complete this course and earn a badge!"
I hate how effectively this works on me.
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
Good prompt engineering practices seem obvious to anyone who has read How to Ask Good Questions on Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, E.W. Dijkstra, 1965 [PDF] http://rust-class.org/static/classes/class19/dijkstra.pdf
"If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work." — Mich Ravera
Half my coffee leaked out in my book bag this morning, but thanks to the trigonometry book that was ruined, I know exactly what angle the bag was tilted at.
How to Write Shared Libraries [PDF] https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
I have to take a prompt engineering course for work, and one of the examples given is:
I need to grade my students writing homework from A (best) to F (fail) based on writing quality. Here is the writing sample: [writing sample]
So students are using AI to complete their assignments, and teachers are using them to grade the assignments. Can we just hook the chat bots together and remove the humans from this loop?
Another missed opportunity to release a Star Wars movie on Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Abelson & Sussman
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your microplastics?
How to make good reproducible pandas examples #python #pandas https://stackoverflow.com/q/20109391/1288
Everybody's a script kiddie now. Welcome to the future.
Deterministic, Error-Correcting Combinator Parsers, S.D. Swierstra and L. Duponcheel, 1996 [PDF] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80.9967&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Hot take: Most people should stick to thinking inside the box most of the time.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin
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@giantspecks@sfba.social
@giantspecks Forwarding this on to my friend. He's not a perfect match, but he's written a few short stories and is a Werewolf by Night. You never know.
"I define UNIX as '30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.'" — Donald Knuth
WhatsApp: "Keep the conversation going with our new update!"
me: you have so much data, but you don't really know me at all.
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"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." — Claude Bernard
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@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
@jeffjarvis "Guy hoarding unimaginable wealth says it's not important to hoard modest amounts of wealth."
"One man's constant is another man's variable." — Alan J. Perlis
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@lizardbill@hachyderm.io
Seems like you can't trust those anymore either.
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak
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@osmosisch@idlethumbs.social
@osmosisch I think it's great that trucks are getting the gender-affirming care that they need.
"The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty." — Nicoll Hunt