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JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.

WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?

Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?

And therapy? Just… 😑

What’s wrong with people in tech?

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Ok, new policy - any time I see a programming question starting with "I asked ChatGPT and...", I'm only going to give them answers written for me by ChatGPT.

LLM is not a magical programming box. It's an overactive autocorrect.

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🐍📰 Duck Typing in Python: Writing Flexible and Decoupled Code

In this tutorial, you'll learn about duck typing in Python. It's a typing system based on objects' behaviors rather than on inheritance. By taking advantage of duck typing, you can create flexible and decoupled sets of Python classes that you can use together or individually

realpython.com/duck-typing-pyt

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When is “next Friday”?

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Actors Recorded Videos for ‘Vladimir.’ It Turned Into Russian Propaganda. - WSJ - wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/act

The celebrities look like they were asked to offer words of encouragement—apparently via the Cameo app—to someone named “Vladimir” who appears to be struggling with substance abuse, Microsoft said. Instead, these messages were edited, sometimes dressed up with emojis, links and the logos of media outlets and then shared online by the Russia-aligned trolls, the company said.

#957, twig

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just switched from #gitea to #forgejo. took a tiny amount, but really not a lot of work

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I'm #celebrating my #1000th #toot with a #gif of a #cat #fart, as seen through an #infrared camera. I'm feeling classy like that.

Enjoy 🐈💨🎉

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I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

#Excel

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Before steamships came along, sailing ships like Cutty Sark went pretty much everywhere, and they weren’t dependent on hopping between fossil fuel depots. They had less clockwork-like predictability, but greater freedom, lower costs & zero emissions. And now the shipping industry is making a serious effort to regain some of those advantages:

“A cargo ship fitted with giant, rigid British-designed sails has set out on its maiden voyage”

bbc.com/news/technology-665436

#shipping #climate #wind

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From today's Times - well played, Mr. Ian Jones.
archive.is/S6XcG#selection-121
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Braverman’s future

Sir, In your story about Suella Braverman (“No 10’s Suella dilemma: keep in or cast out?”, Aug 19) you describe her as a polarising figure, with some of her colleagues deriding her as “totally useless” and others hailing her as a future party leader. I'd like to point out that, based on recent experience, the one doesn’t rule out the other.

Ian Jones
Lingfield, Surrey
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