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I reckon they used "pathologically" as a synonym for "compulsively" and/or "extreme"

I get where you're coming from (having also watched that video), but I'm skeptical mainstream commercial chatbots would be built without constraints in regard to sandbox-jumping me…

Your last two sentences remind me of the olden days of people building applications on top of FB and Twitter APIs (and later, Reddit), only to to have the rug pulled out from under…

I'm working on https://xingolak.pages.dev/ I've been learning Basque and wanted to see a visualization of how the semantics move into different grammatical structures when translat…

I traded emacs for vscode several years ago now but this post made me wonder if I'd be insane for dusting off my herd of finely shorn yaks to try typescript dev again with it. At t…

The road to eternal burning hell is paved with stored procedures. My experiences (!!) make it so i will never be convinced on the risk:reward being worth it.

The way this position conforms to the interests of the capital class, and conflicts with those of the labor class, is a red flag. It simultaneously and conveniently: 1. takes the h…

It's not that i don't like it. It's that I've got 10-15 years (i think) of muscle memory with magit

I've been retired from emacs for several years now but I'm still looking for a magit replacement that is independent of my editor. Vscode's magit extension is really good but i spl…

"don't be evil"

You would be lying if you wrote that because you do not know if that is true.

Uh, yeah, dude, when Whitehouse.gov announces its new app, the app is a government program. Hope this helps but something tells me it won't.

Are you upset people are being critical of a shabbily run government program?

He explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements. How would you have written it…

Ok but are you arguing against code reviews of AI generated code?

People are determined to make the future of code an even bigger dumpster fire than the present of code.

Do you not review junior developers' code? I don't understand your point

I made an extremely niche tool and wanted to see how fellow language learners, linguists and/or philologists (amateur or otherwise) react to it. I've been preparing for a trip to t…

Hey just saw this. I will probably take a look at this on Monday.

I also have a a scratch-my-own-itch project[1] that leverages an LLM as a core part of its workload. But it's so niche I could never justify opening it up to general use. (I haven'…

Honestly this insight feels very actionable to me. I do more SQL reporting for biz analysis than i would like (i'm a dev not a biz analyst). I may take a crack at this tool next we…

Interesting note about left join in the CTE being converted into an inner join. Didn't know that

did you use AI to write this response? Why?

Not many, but junior devs grow into senior devs who do, which is the point. If there are no junior devs there is no one growing into those skill sets.

My work-issued dev device is a Surface Pro 10. I can't use WSL2 for various regulatory reasons. I will never, ever work on software like this again. Worst development experience of…