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Any mutuals in North America have an M1 Mac Mini they might want to sell to me?

My first interaction with Azure tech support and I am decidedly unimpressed.

Dismay. Bleak, grim, ashen dismay.

Anyone else into comics?

If so, check out this fantastic YouTube channel, matttt. He makes video essays about comics creators. Their biographies, backgrounds, influences, challenges, etc. Every single video is informative and entertaining.

youtube.com/@mattwith4ts

Turns out Iโ€™m **extremely** rusty with SQL โ€” especially with DDL. ๐Ÿ˜…

@simon Iโ€™ve been pretty skeptical of LLMs and have used them very little for my own work as a programmer. But lately your output, and the steady decline of Web search engines, has me thinking itโ€™s time to give them a real try to help me with my programming.

I think I understand the basics like models, prompts, etc. But Iโ€™m unsure how to get started with the mechanics of it all. So Iโ€™m curious: do you use any LLM integrations in your code editors? Or do you mostly copy and paste to and from your llm CLI? Or a Web chat UI?

Iโ€™m thinking my starting use case is: I have a file open in my editor in a language with which Iโ€™m either a beginner or rusty, like C# or even SQL. And I want to ask a question about how to do something specific in the context of the code I have.

For example if Iโ€™m working on a sophisticated DB migration in SQL, and I canโ€™t remember the syntax for creating a variable and storing an ID in it. How would *you* ask that question today? I mean mechanically, what steps would you take?

Thank you in advance!

Iโ€™m looking forward to the YIMBYs for Harris call in a couple of hours!

yimbysforharris.com/

I enjoyed this rant that Rui Carmo just posted:

โ€œA Short Rant on the Current State of Computingโ€

> Amazingly, the iPad may remain the best hardware option for many years, which, despite my love for the device, is disappointing as Apple still treats it as fancy hardware for children.

taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/0

Woe is me; my 11-year-old is a slob, and is completely uninterested in my how-to-not-be-a-slob training, even though it is absolutely FREE. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Watched โ€œBatteries Not Includedโ€ with my 11-year-old last night. It holds up!