We have a project to revive an old mainframe code base that I've been referring to as Jurassic Park. It works on two levels because I also think we shouldn't be doing this.
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Brazil is so petty. #FIFA
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@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.
These dogs are literally surrounded by toys, but Nora only wants whichever one Ben is playing with.
"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
"If software cannot be maintained, then it will be rewritten." — Dave Cheney
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." 🤦
We might be living in a Black Mirror episode, but at least it's not the one with werewolves.
Hot take: Most people should stick to thinking inside the box most of the time.
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Abelson & Sussman
Everybody's a script kiddie now. Welcome to the future.
AI companies are offsetting their high energy demands by burning *checks notes* rare books. Delightful. 🤦
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Copilot can summarize a PowerPoint presentation for you!
🤦♂️Your presentation should BE a summary.
"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.
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.)
"I define UNIX as '30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.'" — Donald Knuth
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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
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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@jeffjarvis "Guy hoarding unimaginable wealth says it's not important to hoard modest amounts of wealth."
If you're not hitting each keystroke with at least 25 Newtons of force, people sitting around you will not respect your hax0r skillz.
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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.
When you have to train your replacement.
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social If it's his dying wish, somebody has to do it. That's just the law.
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Seems like you can't trust those anymore either.
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The deeper I get into this, the more I think that good "prompt engineering" is what we used to call Google-Fu.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your microplastics?
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@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.
What now?
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." — Claude Bernard
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin
"One man's constant is another man's variable." — Alan J. Perlis
Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, E.W. Dijkstra, 1965 [PDF] http://rust-class.org/static/classes/class19/dijkstra.pdf
Another missed opportunity to release a Star Wars movie on Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you.
How to make good reproducible pandas examples #python #pandas https://stackoverflow.com/q/20109391/1288
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
How to Write Shared Libraries [PDF] https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
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@osmosisch I think it's great that trucks are getting the gender-affirming care that they need.
Subway now has $5 6-inch subs. Shrinkflation has gone too far.