Jamie McCarthy / is on Nostr

Ruby on Rails engineer, vegan, enjoy D&D and relational databases, unhappy about fascism. Currently at Vox Media; formerly: Slashdot, ThinkGeek, The Holocaust History Project.

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2024-03-24 21:48:14

Clearing out my storage unit. Anyone want a very outdated 2013 edition of the pickaxe book for ruby 1.9/2.0? It’s in pretty good condition. I’ll mail it to a US destination for free. Otherwise I’m afraid I’m going to have to recycle it
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2024-02-05 17:16:58

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@npub1lwu…6w4j I too am skeptical of LLMs’ value for many currently-believed uses and think they need strong disclaimers at least. But can I push back a bit on your premise that, if we are less interested in *facts*, their prose is still bad? I have done a lot of experimenting for generation of fiction. ChatGPT, especially 4, surprises me with its abilities — but only when given prompts crafted for fiction.

2024-01-05 11:12:26

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@npub1f6a…pnql @npub18ml…5nsj Interesting that you’re getting useful results from copy-paste.
My assumption is that there’s some magic with the VS Code extension having my repo preloaded into a token window or something, to use my app as context for my questions. But I haven’t actually used that much and I don’t know if that’s true

2024-01-05 02:03:37

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@npub1f6a…pnql @npub18ml…5nsj Simon can I ask what IDE you have it hooked up to?

2023-11-21 02:16:58

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I’ve been playing around with this for most of this year and I’m happy to discuss if you’re interested. I’ve only had to build a very basic version of this (if JSON.parse fails, repeat request).
Both of the LLMs I’ve worked with the most (ChatGPTs and Claude) almost always emit only JSON if you tell them “Emit only a JSON response” or, more strictly, “Emit your response in a <json> tag.”

2023-11-06 15:50:37

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@npub1upk…tcwy Re rerere, shouldn’t it be working all the time anyway? I was under the impression that if I have to manually edit the same fix for the same textual conflict more than once, rerere isn’t working correctly for some reason. (Or, I’m mistaken and it’s not really the “same” textual conflict I’m fixing)