GOZER
The choice is made. The Traveller has come.
VENKMAN
We didn't choose anything?!! I didn't think of an image, did you?
SPENGLER
No.
WINSTON
My mind's a total void!
[They all look at Ray]
RAY
I couldn't help it! It just popped in
there!
VENKMAN
[desperately]
What? What just popped in there?
Not true, I bitch about them more than ever
true, and i can’t think of a legitimate case where it would have tripped me up. but if someone, a novice perhaps, wrote
def some_func(foo, bar=[1, 2, 3]):
bar.reverse() # for whatever reason
print(bar)
some_func('hello') # output [3,2,1]
some_func('hello') # output [1,2,3]
i think they would be within their rights to be surprised that calling this function twice has different results. that’s what i was surprised by; it feels like bar would be re initialised each time with a scope of the function but apparenty not
Python item 1
Mutable default arguments don’t get re-initialized with each function call.
got an audible wtf from me… Been using python for years, totally unaware.
The “internal business tool” was a well known industry wide product that I had experience in. I should have known that changing an email address in any environment caused that new email address to be notified. It was my fault yes
My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren’t correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a “email changed notification”. Followed by another… And another… And another…
I went out to lunch
Great! Stop poorly integrating every single thing you can lay your hands on and maybe tend to some of the feature fix requests on idea exchange with hundreds of thousands of votes…
This is just portable stenography, right?
Patient: poops self
AI Nurse: “would you like to hear a poem?”
Manipulative headline? In the technology community?? Que devient ce monde…
“one blink for everything’s ok, two blinks for nothing’s wrong…”
Good. They should stop frantically adding new features and tidy up some of the crap we have to use day to day.
I watched a lot more Star Trek as a kid but it’s always the Star Wars universe that I feel drawn to. I can’t really quantify it, I think it’s just an aesthetic thing. I suppose Star Wars feels more ‘wild west’.
Old school sci-fi: am re-reading the Asimov robot stories again. Always something new to reflect on.
I would like to see the poem about onions…
Just a small thing… I must have played Civ II for hundreds and hundreds of hours as a kid. Then one day a large civilization in civil disorder had its capital taken and one half of the empire seceded as a brand new civilization. I yelped… one of those joyful wtaf moments…
:)
It’s been found. Adrian Thompson’s research from almost 30 years ago…
Yes! Exactly this thank you
For example, one group of gates has no logical connection to the rest of the circuit, yet is crucial to its function
(I should have gone with my gut, I knew it was ages ago. 30ish years by the sound of it!)
Maybe, but remember generative AI isn’t any kind of deductive or methodical reasoning. It’s literally “mash up the publicly available info and give a crowd sourced version of what to add next”. This works for art because this kind of random harmony appeals to us asthetically and art is an area where people seek fewer constraints. But when you’re engineering it’s the opposite. Maybe it’s useful to get engineers out of a rut and imagine new possibilities. But that’s it. Generative AI has no idea if what’s it’s smushed together is garbage or randomly insightful.
It makes a break from the AI slop usually dished up but yes I agree with you
SPENGLER I have a radical idea... The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate... RAY How? SPENGLER ... we'll resize a table in Word VENKMAN Excuse me, Egon. You said resizing a table was bad... RAY ... resize the table... VENKMAN You're going to endanger us. You're going to endanger our client; the nice lady who paid us in advance before she turned into a dog SPENGLER Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive.. WINSTON ... RAY ... VENKMAN I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!