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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.
Turns out Iโm **extremely** rusty with SQL โ especially with DDL. ๐
@simon Iโve 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 itโs time to give them a real try to help me with my programming.
I think I understand the basics like models, prompts, etc. But Iโm unsure how to get started with the mechanics of it all. So Iโm 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?
Iโm thinking my starting use case is: I have a file open in my editor in a language with which Iโm 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 Iโm working on a sophisticated DB migration in SQL, and I canโt 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!
Iโm looking forward to the YIMBYs for Harris call in a couple of hours!
I enjoyed this rant that Rui Carmo just posted:
โA 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.
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. ๐ญ
Watched โBatteries Not Includedโ with my 11-year-old last night. It holds up!
Went to a fantastic car show this morning with my kid and our dog. Caffeine & Carburetors in New Canaan, CT. Good times!
Happy Fatherโs Day!
Holy shit, Radiolab just dropped an episode on aphantasia โ the obscure neurological quirk that makes me me!
https://radiolab.org/podcast/aphantasia