wise_pancake

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

Definitely, I'm just trying to share a foot gun I've accidentally triggered myself!

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

For your database test data, I usually write a helper that defaults those columns to base values, so I can pass in lists of dictionaries, then the test cases are easier to modify and read.

It's also nice because you're only including the fields you use in your unit test, the rest are default valid you don't need to care about.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't know basic solutions that are super good, but whisper sbd the whisper derivatives I hear are decent for dictation these days.

I have no idea how to run then though.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

One word of caution with AI searxh is that it's weirdly vulnerable to SEO.

If you search for "best X for Y" and a company has an article on their blog about how their product solves a problem the AI can definitely summarize that into a "users don't like that foolib because of ...". At least that's been my experience looking for software vendors.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's a bit frustrating that finding these tools useful is so often met with it can't be useful for that, when it definitely is.

More than any other tool in history LLMs have a huge dose of luck involved and a learning curve on how to ask the right things the right way. And those method change and differ between models too.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago

It is truly terrible marketing. It's been obvious to me for years the value is in giving it to people and enabling them to do more with less, not outright replacing humans, especially not expert humans.

I use AI/LLMs pretty much every day now. I write MCP servers and automate things with it and it's mind blowing how productive it makes me.

Just today I used these tools in a highly supervised way to complete a task that would have been a full day of tedius work, all done in an hour. That is fucking fantastic, it's means I get to spend that time on more important things.

It's like giving an accountant excel. Excel isn't replacing them, but it's taking care of specific tasks so they can focus on better things.

On the reliability and accuracy front there is still a lot to be desired, sure. But for supervised chats where it's calling my tools it's pretty damn good.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

we could go home now, but then ensign Kim will get promoted to captain. I can't allow that.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 15 hours ago

Not disagreeing the Trudeau jr years were awful financially, but not all spending is future austerity.

If spending results in higher revenue or higher income for Canadians, then that does pay a return. Infrastructure is expensive but it’s a great enabler of other commerce and economic activity.

But when the government takes on debt it does need to take that seriously for exactly the reasons you mention

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago

The full Seven of Nine treatment.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago

That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.

That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 194 points 19 hours ago (18 children)

I don’t know how many of these disasters happen in Texas, but this guy manages to dodge them with stunning accuracy.

If he weren’t in a leadership role it would be amazing.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How does a man with a tattoo like that not get constantly interrupted by women propositioning him?

 
 

So today I discovered that there's a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.

The cron job doesn't live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there's no way to revert it.

I'm currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.

 

Heard this song on CBC radio today and immediately loved it. It’s lights a fire in my heart, so I thought I’d share it with all of you

 

CBC is releasing their Canada travel bucket list with Rick Mercer and Matt Galloway

 

I've never watched before, but having a good time so far!

Micheal Buble's opening speech was great

 

Original title: The Mark Carney era begins with prime minister and new cabinet sworn in today

I don't know if it violates rules that I modified the title from the article, I've seen a lot of questions about when Carney becomes PM and my goal with this post is to increase awareness there.

I'll be watching or listening on CBC today while working.

 

Not sure if this is on topic enough, but I am loving Charlie Angus right now. That Churchill quote is perfect.

Elbows up.

 

Rosetta Stone is also US owned.

I pay for a family plan and share it with a bunch of people. Several are government workers and use it in addition to traditional training, so it is actually an important subscription.

It’s one of my last US subscriptions.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by wise_pancake@lemmy.ca to c/ontario@lemmy.ca
 

I listen to the CBC daily, today’s Ottawa Morning has FairVote on and it’s been a good segment.

The guest (missed his name) is doing a great job explaining the issue and how proportional representation works.

The clips I think can be relistened to on the CBC Radio app or their podcasts, but I’m not sure how to find them

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-100-ottawa-morning

 

I’ve wanted for a while an app I can run locally that will pull News from a list of websites, then categorize them and compile a newspaper or front page type review

Does this exist?

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