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nige123

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About nige123

https://nigelhamilton.com

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    The user data (anonymised) and analytics also needs to be shared.

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    Comment #45080541

    Too much cognitive load is a flow stopper. Finding flow while coding is a juggling act to keep things in the Goldilocks zone: not too hard, not too easy. This is tricky on an indiv…

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    Comment #44760695

    Perl's maxim - there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) can make Perl easy to write but harder to read. Thankfully LLMs can de-obfuscate even the gnarliest Perl with command l…

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    Comment #43232578

    There was always content in users’ click paths / search trails. Google has mined that for profit from the beginning. Cutts and Co turned a blind eye here. It was ALL OK though - be…

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    Comment #42415543

    Suggestions for putting LLM's to work on the command-line.

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    Comment #42011064

    OOF Smell that!? A large part of Google's search business is on fire right now! There are three types of search: informational, transactional and navigational. LLM's are competing …

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    Comment #36124361

    Sigils are just part of the picture. For Raku "twigils" (secondary sigils) are important too: https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/02/day-2-less-variable-watt...

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    Comment #35756020

    I use this everyday. A terminal program to jump to the next thing in your workflow.

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    Jmp
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    Comment #35755982

    do you still use emacs?

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    Comment #35718587

    GNAP is coming soon: https://oauth.net/gnap/

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    Comment #35194400

    This is already a hot legal mess. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) should come up with Berne convention 3.0 that provides: - increased protection for human autho…

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    Comment #34184409

    "Perl 7" eq "Perl Star"; "Perl 7" =~ m/Perl */;

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    Comment #34115069

    Ask Jeeves missed out on a massive opportunity in search. Where, what, how, why, when are fantastic contextualisers for search queries. They should have stuck to their core USP - a…