In hindsight the period 2015-2022 was a kind of a golden age for Microsoft.
They actually made (well, acquired) some good software, and even not-so-good stuff like Azure had a point of existing.

Of course it all went downhill very quickly.

Inertia. And GitHub was actually good, despite MS ownership. Until recently.

Well he might according to his own perception.

What happens if you delete your AI that you (and only you) think it’s conscious? Is it murder even if the rest of the world says it’s not?

The AI even has a blog https://poc.bcachefs.org/

It writes exactly like you would expect an AI to write if given instruction to act a “stereotypical slightly unhinged AI assistant”

That’s the joke. Stochastic means probabilistic. And this “algorithm” gives the correct answer for the vast majority of inputs

Thanks, I hate it

I don’t know if anyone would argue Rust macros are beautiful. If someone does they should be checked out by a doctor.
Speaking as a fan of Rust.

https://docs.rs/hold_my_beer/latest/hold_my_beer/

It mostly reflects my own story. From a beginner enthusiast of multiple “cool” languages (Scala was all the rage back then), through considering myself more “mature” and thinking about business priorities, ending at understanding that using a good programing language is a business priority.

If the team works with a language they enjoy, they will be happier (and more productive). Doesn’t even matter if the code is written by humans or machines.

Or just code the happy path and let it crash.

(this is actually a real philosophy in the Erlang world and I’m bummed it doesn’t receive wider acceptance)

It also means not absolutely hating your job. If you’re the only hater and everyone else likes working in the company you’ll have a bad time waiting for everyone to leave.

You’re using Java, there’s your problem

I love it. Easy way to say - I don’t really care about reviewing this, I gave it a 30 seconds look and clicked approved

FFMpreg is probably something you can find on AO3

A couple of years old, but in the early days they didn’t care about sanitizing non-English content. Leading to pearls like this:

He also didn’t invent a programming language.
For a file system you only get one murder.

Looking up how to do something, as an improved stackoverflow. Especially if it provides sources in the answer.

Boilerplate unit tests. Yes, yes, I know - use parametrized test, but it’s often not practical.

Mass refactoring. This is tricky because you need to thoroughly review it, but it saves you annoying typing.

I’m sure there’s more, it’s far from useless. But you need to know what you want it to do and how to check if done correctly.

Packaged products ready to use? No.
Libraries which I use in my own projects? I at least have a quick look at the implementation, often a more detailed analysis if issues pop up.

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