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This keeps coming up in my life nowadays with people telling me I don't use llms because of some dedication to "the craft" and I have to be like, "Naw man I'm just trying to make it so I can debug this crap."
It's hard to impress upon non-tech people how much we actually despise computers.

Nim source code filters is still the oddest design choice that comes in handy uncomfortably often.

There are of course other templating engines out there but you wouldn't think to reach for them for casual tasks as you would here.

https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/filters.html

Source Code Filters

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

the real lesson of software is even when the cost of raw materials, distribution and storage is basically zero humans are still crap at designing systems.
@nthcdr @tusharhero "huge, bloated, single, binary" does sound like someone's self-description on a dating service for Emacs users.
Haha jokes on you I totally managed to dodge Python packaging, just over here living the good life with /checks notes ... npm. 😐
War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, and Jon Stewart is God’s way of teaching Americans jokes the rest of us have been telling about them for a century already
I think 👆 is my version of the quit all this and become a farmer fantasy.
Ran into a guy recently who's worked 20 years at the same company delivering Delphi GUI apps for Windows users in some incredibly niche domain, shipping or something, and really feeling that FOMO.