Oh yes, terrible indeed. Saved.
This describes 99% of AI startups.
The company I work for was considering using Mendable for AI-powered documentation search. I built a prototype using OpenAI embeddings and GPT-3.5 that was just as good as their product in a day. They didn’t buy Mendable :)
Finally I could get into the beta and all I can say is wow, I’m in love with this app 🤩
Keep up the good work!
I’m firmly in the print statement / console.log camp but this article convinced me to try using a debugger.
I absolutely agree. But:
- sometimes you need to modify existing code and you can't add the types necessary without a giant refactoring
- you can't express units with types in:
- JSON/YAML object keys
- XML tag or attribute names
- environment variable names
- CLI switch names
- database column names
- HTTP query parameters
- programming languages without a strong type system
Obviously as a Hungarian I have a soft spot for Hungarian notation :) But in these cases I think it's warranted.
Related: Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
TL;DR: there is good and bad Hungarian notation. Encoding types (like string or int) in variable names is bad. Encoding information that cannot be expressed in the type system is good. (Though with the development of type systems, more and more of those concepts can be moved into the types, keeping variable names clean.)
But as a Hungarian, I'm obviously a little biased :)
Well that sucks… for Reddit management
Subscribed.
FYI programming.dev also has a Programmer Humor community
It isn’t far fetched that they use AI-powered bots to change the common sentiment about the blackout.
I was there at the early days of Reddit. I started using it in 2008, registered in 2009. Lemmy feels a lot like what Reddit was in the beginning, before the enshittification started. A community of actual people, where commenting and posting don’t feel like shouting into the void. Others are just like me, regular people who want to have a conversation and kill some time on the internet.
The more I think about it, the more it seems that the appropriate response is mutual defederation. It will cause a lot of unnecessary confusion if lemmy.world and the other affected instances don’t do that.
Here people actually react to what I post and write. And they react to the best possible interpretation of what I wrote, not the worst. And even if we disagree, we can still have a nice conversation.
Does anyone have a good theory about why the threadiverse is so much friendlier? Is it only because it's smaller? Is it because of the kind of people a new platform like this attracts? Because there is no karma? Maybe something else?