Yeah I find LLMs most useful to basically read the docs for me and provide it’s own sample/pseudocode. If it goes off the rails, I have to guide it back myself using natural language. Even then though it’s still just a tool that gets me going in the right direction, or helps me consider alternative solutions buried in the docs that I might have skimmed over. Rarely does it produce code that I can actually use in my project.

Well, and also Mario Kart isn’t worth $90

Maybe I’ll get physical copies of Switch 2 games heavily discounted later on.

Later on, as in, in like 30 years? Assuming physical Switch 2 games don’t become prized collector’s items like every other Nintendo consoles’ physical games

A little display or indicator light somewhere on the toilet itself would be better than connecting it to some IOT app

Yeah I’d much rather spread poo particles all over my smartphone instead

What if most of the people that want to pay a GOG membership are Linux gamers that would be willing to pay for official Linux support?

It’s an attempt at a joke, jokes are supposed to be funny

I don’t think anyone is saying that the story of Hades isn’t portrayed well with the rougelike style, but it’s totally ok to say “I don’t have time to play a game that’s designed such that you fail dozens of times before you win”

Depending on how many layers of abstraction you have, your app may not have access to the raw HTTP response.

That sounds like either over-abstraction or bad abstraction then

The numbers I’m “throwing around” say that you’re literally and objectively wrong

Because over half the people voted for him

No they didn’t. Only like 60% of eligible voters actually voted in this past election. Which means only about 30% of eligible voters voted for Trump. About 80% of the country’s population are eligible voters, and since only 30% voted for Trump, 80% x 30% = 24% of the population voted for him. Roughly a quarter of people voted for him, not half.

And for anyone who’s wondering, “why did only 60% of eligible voters vote?” The answer is mostly voter suppression in various forms.

my hard drive overheated

So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they’re querying, or they’re dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

Either way, I have just one question - why?

Edit: found the thread with a more in-depth explanation elsewhere in the thread: https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/1900593377370087648#m

So yeah, she’s apparently toting around an external hard drive with a copy of the “multiple terabytes” large US spending database, running queries against it, then dumping the 60k-row result set to CSV for further processing.

I’m still confused at what point the external drive overheats, even if she is doing all this in a “hot humid” hotel room that she can’t run any fans I guess because her kids were asleep?

But like, all of that just adds more questions, and doesn’t really answer the first one - why?

Lmao. Sure buddy.

Try handing over your “self documenting code” to a junior dev who doesn’t know the language it’s written in and see how far they get with it.

Now hand that exact same codebase with comments to the same junior dev, and I guarantee you they’ll get further than without the comments.

I think you mean the best industry of all

Unrelated, I’m getting hungry, anyone else kinda hungry?

Sigh… it’s never safe to assume you don’t need the /s these days huh

Huh, I just realized why I like the Fast and Furious franchise so much

They were given bootstraps to pull themselves up by, so everyone else should be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps too!

🙄🙄🙄

presidents don’t have unilateral power, and members of the president’s party can do and say things different from the president

This is how American politics has worked for hundreds of years. Yes, the president (really the executive branch) holds a lot of power. So do the other two branches of government. One branch can’t really do anything without working with the other two, which means that compromise is a frequent theme throughout the history of American politics.