SomeCallMeTim
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I'm a consulting software architect and freelance CTO. I come in and rescue small businesses from code disasters, and occasionally am given the chance to prevent the disasters to begin with. I also used to develop video games, and have pivoted that skill to gamification consulting.
https://coderescue.com
No, and Jeffries' analogy suffers the same strawman fallacy. The proper analogy would be if no one knew the rules of football/baseball and everyone ended up playing Calvinball instead, then you could say that…
Ha. Just did almost exactly that, but with a Go script--I wanted my Docker Compose to auto-update when I built on my CI server. I found Watchtower, but polling just struck me as the Wrong Answer. Both too much overhead…
In Colorado you get an email when they mail a ballot to you, another email when they receive your ballot, and a third when it's counted. Colorado came out way against Trump, though, despite having been a swing state in…
It's easier to know where you're going when you've gone to similar places a hundred times. I just think about a problem for two seconds and then have the entire path mapped out.
Nah, it was something unrelated to databases. I can't even remember the details. It's like trying to remember nonsense sentences; they don't stick because they don't really make sense. To the best I can remember, it was…
Funny that you should say that. Just met with a group of very senior engineers today and two of them said they weren't using VS Code any more. Instead they used: 1. https://www.trycursor.com/ 2. https://zed.dev/ I'm…
I saw some code in a job I was just starting where they had added several abstractions that I found...confusing. After taking an extra long time to understand what the code actually did, I realized that some junior…
It's not a TypeScript mistake. You could argue that it was a C++ mistake. It makes parsing harder, but otherwise seems to work as expected, so I don't consider it a mistake, but you could at least argue that way. But…
As long as Node understands to use the project-specific version of TypeScript (i.e., the one in node_modules or the PNP equivalent), that should be fine. But it would be a step backward to need to globally upgrade…
Agreed with pretty much everything. I couldn't agree with the article on almost any point. One additional point: You can get "mildly dynamic" websites by using services. I have a completely static web site that's 100%…
> Which version of node? Latest LTS. Why wouldn't you? > Which version of npm? The one that comes with Node? Duh. Or just `npm update -g npm` to bring it up to the latest. > ...a dependency that only works on node 3.14…
Well, I think you could say I've worked in games too. [1] In fact, it's in games that the artists, especially when working with 3d, had the hardest time getting the precise kinds of changes that I would need. But even…
No company I've worked for in the past decade has told me what kind of computer I should work on. Even the W2 gigs have allowed me my choice of Mac/Linux/Windows. I work for tech-savvy companies, though. I'm sure there…
I'm stuck with CorelDraw X8 which dates to 2016. If they were selling a buy-it-once license in 2020, I wasn't aware of it. I swear they had switched to subscription-only by then? But maybe it happened that year and I…
> I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit. Have you ... worked with artists? To get them to produce technically precise artwork? The point would be that sometimes it takes 4-5 turnarounds with an…
> ask them for the files exported into a format you can open They already do that. That's not the problem. If the original Photoshop file has 200 layers, and 60 of those layers have effects that use advanced…
Realistically, I'm looking for artists that are good first. And 98% of them use Photoshop. Not going to restrict myself to non-Photoshop artists.
But not all of us make a living off of Photoshop. I'm a programmer. I periodically need to make a tiny tweak in a file that's been created by a real artist, or I want to edit a photo I took, or whatever. It's insane to…
CorelDraw is great, but for years they were also subscription-only. In the last six months or so they finally started offering a single-price license again--at a prohibitive level. I bought the previous single-price…
I'm not confusing anything. I'm familiar with the Chinese Room Argument and I know how LLMs work. What I'm saying is arguably philosophically related, in that I'm saying the LLM's model is analogous to the "response…
> LLMs can form new memories dynamically. Just pop some new data into the context. No, that's an illusion. The LLM itself is static. The recurrent connections form a soft-of temporary memory that doesn't affect the…
No. We know how current deep learning neural networks are trained. We know definitively that this is not how brains learn. Understanding requires learning. Dynamic learning. In order to experience something, an entity…
LLMs are good at tasks that don't require actual understanding of the topic. They can come up with excellent (or excellent-looking-but-wrong) answers to any question that their training corpus covers. In a gross…
Your link re: Fair Dealing guidelines does NOT make it 100% legal. For one, the ENTIRE works are encoded into the model--not a part of them. For another, those are just guidelines, not explicit exceptions, just like…
> If ChatGPT verbatim reproduces Copyright covers "derivative works." Verbatim is absolutely not a requirement for infringement. If you take a copyrighted image and modify it, even to the point where it's…