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@shadower@mastodon.social @Mara@hachyderm.io I'm thankful that I recognize a lot of (real) people from that fictional conference but not a single person from that Oxidize conference.
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Peter Huene 
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mastodon 4.7.3Principal software engineer, Department of Computational Biology @ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Currently living in Raleigh, NC
Expanding the use of Rust in bioinformatics one tool at a time
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Replaced our usage of the `toml` crate with `toml-spanner` and am fairly happy with the result.
The error messages coming out of `toml` (really out of `serde`) were nonsensical for users and this work was primarily motivated by an upcoming feature where we will have certain strings in the TOML file that are snippets of a DSL.
With `toml-spanner`, we can now directly parse and statically analyze those snippets and offset any diagnostics based on the TOML string's span within the file, leading to less frustrated users.
I have to give a presentation at our monthly department meeting in July.
I'm quite tempted to present on why AI is shit.
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"Yesterday, I added around 90k new lines to pgrust"
Do you even hear yourself, my guy? That's a lot of code that the _LLM produced_ that you literally could not have reviewed. There's not enough seconds in a day to be able to review that much slop.
Google I/O being mostly about AI models is so. fucking. boring.
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@esoterra@hachyderm.io Absolutely. It's such frustrating nonsense. Anthropic's C compiler passed a bunch of the GCC test suites, but had such laughably bad code generation that made some operations ~200000X slower.
Writing *performance* tests are really difficult and rarely reflected in something like a regression test suite, even assuming the LLM passed the regression test the "correct" way.
This PostgreSQL port will most likely perform like Microsoft Access running on a toaster. And how does one dive into that much slop to improve it post-facto? It would likely be faster to have never used an LLM in the first place to get to a place of _quality_.
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Coming from GrapheneOS on my last device, I'm not thrilled to go back to a Google-fied Android, but ColorOS (Oppo's Android skin) is at least pretty and quite functional for the foldable.
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It's not a complicated thing and there's no reason to appease chuds.
You tell them to fuck right off. Simple as that.
Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle
https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle/
I got a notice that several of my GitHub repositories were disabled due to policy violations.
Turns out they were just forks of Microsoft repositories, such as https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-java-worker.
Microsoft, you bad boy, you.
I don't know what system package I have that was written in haskell, but I just loooove seeing 100 packages that always need updates.