I'm English and have been living in Finland for decades. This is a very Finnish thing in the workplace and I love it. Now and again we will get some new "foreign guy" and it reminds me that some cultures (not all) are following these over polite, social formatting rules. It's a bit annoying, but they eventually assimilate :P

Ruby and RoR is cool and all, but as these web apps got more and more complex, the need for static types became too important. What gave PHP it's edge was types and is the reason I'm still using it after nearly 20 years. PHP seems to implement those important things just in time. OOP, better OOP, types, speed boost, and next probably concurrency.

Is is the need for static types or the need for better testing that is not focused on coverage of line of code?

Because if the domain logic is getting more complex then more types will not catch the bugs unless you are willing for codify business rules within types so then you have to test the types.

Looks like the Google news has peaked some interest. I'm currently waiting for my Xiaomi account to activate so I can unlock the bootloader and install Ubuntu touch on a Redmi 9.

i wonder if the solution is to just ask it to refactor its code once it's working.

I do this all the time but then you end up with really over engineered code that has way more issues than before. Then you're back to prompting to fix a bunch of issues. If you didn't write the initial code sometimes it's difficult to know the best way to refactor it. The answer people will say is to prompt it to give you ideas. Well then you're back to it generating more and more code and every time it does a refactor it introduces more issues. These issues aren't obvious though. They're really hard to spot.

You can, and it might make things a bit better. The only real way I've found so far is to start going through file by file, picking it apart.

I wouldn't be surprised if over half my prompts start with "Why ...?", usually followed by "Nope, ... instead”

Maybe the occasional "Fuck that you idiot, throw the whole thing out"

Oh, is this the deal with GrapheneOS too? Damn, I was excited about the Moto GrapheneOS collaboration.

So far its working pretty great. Very happy with GrapheneOS. And currently Android AOSP source code is still regularly released. If that changes it becomes a problem then.

I would buy a cheap Moto with GOS in a heartbeat

I've asked this question to an Iranian colleague and his response was that it was extremely welcome and even though they know there will be collateral damage, it's better than suffering under a regime which have killed and will continue to kill many more people than what these strikes will do.

Do you happen to know if LLMs have issues reading PDFs? Would they prefer EPUB format for example?

Everything has issues reading the content of PDFs natively. It's a format for displaying/rendering. Not for storing format in a way that's easy to parse for the text/content inside.

Is this one storing text or storing coordinates for where to draw a line for the letter 'l'? Is that an 'l' or a line?

The best way to do this is rendering it to an image and using the image. Either through models that can directly work with the image or OCR'ing the image.

Agree. Curious if you’ve played with landing.ai?

metoo. I'm very interested to see what it can do.

thanks