"AI coding tutor" is a real job. You're tutoring an AI. I think I'd rather go touch grass...

https://boards.greenhouse.io/xai/...

Quote from reddit is too true

If your company runs AI generated SEO for other AI generated advertising for SEO services that promote your AI to other SEO services- you might be snake oil peddling and if anyone looks twice at your company it will blow over like a solo cup on the back porch.

https://reddit.com/r/...

Don't look too closely at the code for tools you use.

Its 50/50 great or garbage. Great way to accumulate side projects...

Journalistic humour:

> "compensation is zero," the world's richest man wrote.

https://news.sky.com/story/...

My manager wants to have a conversation about my attitude. Time to explain that when I worked hard I got no pay rise, I only got a promotion because I lost my rag at him when he was being an arse. I have no motivation to do anything other than the bare minimum.

The stupidity of a post box service marketed for digital nomads that requires proof of current address.

Which fuckwit thought that through?

MS - Mount Stupid.

To the person that put the washing machine on at 4am, who hurt you? Coz I'm gonna be added to that list.

The objective c stdlib is pretty cool, it's what backs the swift stdlib on mac. The collection classes dynamically switch backend depending on size and expected performance characteristics. EG a set of 3 items is faster to linearly search a vector, so it'll switch that out.

https://objc.io/issues/...

I'm not a mac fan but that's some truly artful engineering.

(reposting comment as rant coz I think it's cool)

Windows: "works, but..."
Linux: "doesn't work, but..."

Realising how fucked and broken python's type system is because none of the type checkers have implemented it correctly.

I just want to run your stupid tests so I can submit a PR to fix a stupid bug that has been there for ages and nobody has figured out how to fix why do I need npx to run tests in a stupid python project?! l

Enough weaponised ADHD and ASD and I can do anything. As long as it's interesting. And doesn't take very long. And doesn't require dealing with people.

My biggest coding motivator is "this thing I'm using is crappy let's replace it" and that's why I have so many unfinished projects.

Write C++ like it's Python, write Python like it's C++.

C++ everyone else has to use types so you can get away with auto and the compiler will tell you when you've done something wrong. Python, nobody else has to use types so type everything and let the static checker tell them when they've done something wrong so they don't pester you.

Being helpful and a c++ programmer has led me to trying to add a (tiny) feature to cpython.

The file I'm currently looking at is 2,000 lines long.

I have regrets...

The quality you perceive your code to be 6 months after writing it is inversely proportional to the quality you perceived it to be when you wrote it.

Regex and off by 1 capture group...

Making python 2x faster by replacing enums with literal values.

Pros, it's faster, cons, it's unreadable.

God I miss compiled languages. At least optimizing them requires intelligent problem solving.

It's a text parser state machine transition so it's a code hot spot, so this kind of optimization is worthwhile. But it's kinda annoying.

Next is get rid of any semblance of readability and replace the match with an array index...

My evening: going from 8e-5 seconds to 1.4e-5 seconds.

I'm pretty happy. I'm now 3x faster than the next fastest library available.

A pizza is a real time pie chart of how much pizza is left.

I'll see myself out...

We're a data science company. We do medical research. We have patented results.

My manager describes half of our code base as on par with a random number generator. At least 1 part of our pipeline overfits random data with 99.9% accuracy.

My manager is a wise man.

I miss dvd extra features.

Much as I hate to say it, I'm finding chatgpt useful. Not for writing code. But I can recognise where my colleagues are making mistakes. I don't necessarily know what the mistake is, but I give gpt a description of what they're doing wrong and it can say what the problem is and that gives me something to Google. Searching directly for the description doesn't work too well. Also makes me wonder if search has got worse outside of specific keyword matching.

Just learnt something from reddit. The bio/data folks I work with are HARKers, they mess around blindly till they find something that kinda works then make up some bullshit to justify their approach and pretend they knew what they were doing all along.
https://reddit.com/r/...

The WordPress stuff is digging up some bonkers skeletons. Apparently Matt likes Asians, according to his MOTHER. Wut?

https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/...

We have a cron job. We have alerts to monitor the cron job. We also have a monthly task to check the above are working.

Why? I wrote the first 2 so as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to tick yes on the last.

I feel like we should start trolling the spammers. They're sending us their contact details after all...

Things that shouldn't have needed to be said:
Don't give an LLM sudo and pipe all it's output to bash...
https://theregister.com/AMP/2024/...

Urrrrggghhhh I have an all hands meeting this afternoon and I just don't care...