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tommyage

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    Comment #49238125

    I want append: We have studied. We constantly educate ourselves (I have still not yet managed to work through the entire SICP on my own). Our tools are changing constantly. We are …

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    Comment #49148058

    Wait; So you say you outsource development to a LLM fully knowing that it will not write sound/deterministic code and your quality requirement are your test cases, right? I further…

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    Comment #48076844

    All of software is hard-coded algorithm. If you differ between AI source code and engineer source code say so. "Getting things done" is a business need. Which things get translated…

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    Comment #43592113

    I am also wondering about this. To me, your FAQ quickly addressed all questions I had to get a first grasp of the capabilities. It appears to me that you had a determined scope and…

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    Comment #36665232

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/ Your professional input may be desired. Though I did not contribute to Thunderbird either (, yet?). Thing is, your critique may resu…

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    Comment #35419525

    > Unfortunately moving to Gitlab or Sourcehut doesn't really help, because the underlying model (GPT-x) is trained on the entire internet, so that includes all scrape-able websites…

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    Comment #35188884

    > Thanks for your reply! I will need more research to reflect on the examples you give. Please note my sibling answer which shows I am opinionated. I have memorized my own takes fr…

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    Comment #35188696

    > Invariants are not a synonym for mixins, I'm not even sure where that idea might have come from. Invariants are assertions that are true throughout a program or subset of a progr…

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    Comment #35180418

    > Is this what we refer to as design by contract? No. One need a specification of the intended behaviour. Behind this specification lays the interface (data type, here a Object-cla…

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    Comment #35090929

    > Are square brackets part of the spec now? I can't get over ((((( for everything with no real easily visible distinguishability between parts of a definition. Clojure gets the Lis…

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    Comment #35036434

    People posting such articles (from sites highly neglectable) without their informed take is ruining this community as well. We shouldn't raise any questions but leave participation…

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    Comment #34603873

    Relational databases rely on math. You may test your implementation; Or the input to your statements.

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    Comment #34276340

    > How are you a "creator" (in an attribution-worthy sense) if you are producing an unoriginal implementation of an old algorithm that thousands of coders have produced before you? …

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    Comment #33005182

    > Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision? Assumption: People have troubles with certain web applications like MS teams, goto-meeting,.. or youtube. Mozilla has …

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    Comment #32557686

    You are right, I didn't wanted to imply that these lists can only be used by speakers fluent in english. I wanted to imply that grammars of languages are best represented in ASCII.…

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    Comment #32557358

    > - doesn't support UTF-8 checkbox emoji That's a good thing. Its also unicode, not utf-8. Your plugin can display it with a unicode character. Having a simple ASCII char set helps…

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    Comment #32535854

    Who should fix the bugs in the future? Nerds? Where are they coming from 60 years from now? E(very) S(ingle) W(ord) S(hould) be (no [ACCEPTED] completion here) W(ritten) W(ith) C(o…

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    Comment #32494140

    C# can be natively compiled, doesn't it?

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    Comment #32440591

    > Postponing dependency updates is very, very bad for security. That is not a solution to supply-chain attacks. You are right; This underlines the thought and care some distributio…

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    Comment #32436639

    > OK, so we're drawing an arbitrary line of what we read and what we don't. Imo the line is not arbritary. You are including an library/framework for a purpose. The code path for t…

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    Comment #32209499

    Please cross compile on x86 for arm64-apple-darwin with gcc. After doing this, you should have more insight about these macs.

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    Comment #32156956

    Sorry for the late reply. I missspelled the library. Probably there is also a missunderstanding due to "lost in translation". Here is the link: https://aquamaniac.de/rdm/ I integra…

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    Comment #32138705

    I want to note that there are no licenses fees or paid software in use.

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    Comment #32138694

    I have a fully working setup. In order to be useful for my personal budget management though I need some program to scan receipts and invoices via camera or pdf, to be honest. None…

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    Comment #31993863

    Maybe you should try a proven front-end in order. Maybe you are kind of a visual learner.