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@thecodinghatter This is a cool idea, although I am pretty skeptical that it will have accurate results. Maybe useful as a starting place when trying to understand something you can't google, or write something you are stuck on, though.

It would be neat if you could make little notes to your code formatter, like "please keep this list alphabetized". Seems like you could do this by abusing whatever method they currently have to ignore a setting for a particular line.

Love to annoy all my friends and coworkers by insisting on using the proper name ("emoticon") for pictures you can include in a Slack message, rather than the objectively incorrect name ("emoji")

What an awesome use of GPT-3: https://t.co/QFL1H0tueo @mrled

I love to read a QT dunk that says something like “wow look at all the idiots in the replies agreeing with this” bc you can ALWAYS tap thru to see that there are way more replies to the original agreeing with the dunk, and it was that way at the time of the dunk. Fucking weak lol

I went through every `print()` invocation in PyInvoke on Github. When I couldn't find it I just googled "Zen of Python" and found someone explaining the `import this` thing. Then I went to my own code and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I can't believe how long it took me to figure this out lmao. I spent so much time trying to figure out where in PyInvoke's source code it could possibly be hiding the Zen of Python string. I even wondered if it was obfuscated with rot13 or similar! But no, not in PyInvoke.

Anyway I'm sure Github Copilot is really good and not bad

Normally I look at my 'git diff' more thoroughly before committing but this is an experimental repo ok!!!! I'm not shipping it to production, geez man

I'm sure I typed a function definition with an errant tab key press, like `def whatever(s[tab]: str):...`. When VS Code saw the tab, it said of course, he wants to use the 's' attribute from the 'this' module, let me pull that in for him automatically.

If you weren't aware - I wasn't! - `import this` will print The Zen of Python. It's stored in a rot13 string called 's'. https://t.co/nEey0AyzW6

omg. I have these PyInvoke tasks I've been using. At some point it started printing The Zen of Python when it started. I have been going crazy trying to figure out how to turn it off. Turns out a dumbsmart editor auto-import was the cause. 💀 https://t.co/jYdZZujhGj

Do u guys remember how MSDN blogs converted all quotes to smart quotes and didn’t have like code blocks? Is that still happening? Thoughts & prayers for sure

Higher than average but lower than a professional https://t.co/yrk5hZZd6b

RT @nibiru_TRUTH: 𝙎𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘡𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝙎𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚: Sorry I smel so bad guys Lol 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙚: We cant smell you Steve, its…

𝙎𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘡𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝙎𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚: Sorry I smel so bad guys Lol 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙚: We cant smell you Steve, its Zoom 𝙎𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦: BODYSTINK.ODOR (6.3GB)

(Feel free to dislike Copilot for other reasons. I dislike it bc it sends all of your code to Microsoft 🙃.)

Currently imagining a scenario where AI becomes a force multiplier on human labor, not for the normal reasons, but bc it is a plausible hack around our deranged copyright regime to nontechnical people who make the law. Finally, an excuse to cut loose the rotting corpse of IP.

This is just the craziest response to me. If you’re a fan of open source, you should be ENTHUSIASTICALLY APPLAUDING THE END OF “INTELLECTUAL” “PROPERTY”. It’s a huge mistake, a monumental drain on our collective knowledge work. https://t.co/CR30Ms5nev

If GitHub copilot makes it hard to litigate license agreements: FUCKING GOOD. If it makes it hard to enforce copyright at all: THAT’S WAY, WAY BETTER.

I have no technical opinion on whether GitHub Copilot is following the law, or adheres to its spirit, or complies with the interpretation of the FSF in 2022. But I think that’s the wrong frame. We have a chance to seriously wound the meme of copyright! Fuck yes!

Just saw someone’s csh script they wrote in 2022, the world is just so ugly sometimes, I hope they get the help they need

RT @dystopiabreaker: they don’t want you to know what’s down there

they don’t want you to know what’s down there https://t.co/r0VlqIYTT3

normalize hobby tunneling

he claimed that elves visited him while he was hobby tunneling and told him how to make supercomputers

TIL seymour cray, as in cray supercomputers, was an avid hobby tunneler

RT @transpiracy: son, when a man and a woman love each other very much, they want to send each other messages. let’s call one of them Bob a…

If there is one thing my dad taught me it is that it’s fun to mispronounce words on purpose

@NanoRaptor I see chips, and parts of chips, and salt (from chips), and what kind of hairy chips do you even buy

RT @ahfol_: REPOST // Megaera Thee Stallion 💕 https://t.co/gBOkv5fIJ4

Identify those particles. https://t.co/pH377k9GOJ

An interesting take. Personally I'm experimenting in the opposite direction in 2 separate toy projects rn: 1. System configuration as a regular old Python package rather than Ansible (which doesn't allow arbitrary code) 2. PyInvoke build scripts, build targets are functions https://t.co/Nz7jZ1h5EL

I'm not really in the Rust ecosystem (only one project, unfinished of course but aren't they all), and I'm not trying to equate Rust with every other possible problem set. Just: if you have unconstrained power you see downsides; if you are constrained you see downsides.

REPOST // Megaera Thee Stallion 💕 https://t.co/gBOkv5fIJ4

A medium spicy Cargo take: https://t.co/dWeV9E3e0O was a mistake.

I’ve always found that research is best accompanied by alcohol. https://t.co/VWsiMG3XRy

I believe this of Excel, but I don’t think I believe it of Salesforce https://t.co/fXao3kCkss

I wish we could punish sites that use captchas. I don't mean by not using them, but somehow actively making the Internet worse for people who operate them. How can I pay money to chastise sites that use captchas? Effective Altruism, but malicious. Retributive Spite.

If Salesforce and Microsoft Excel suddenly stopped working, the entire economy would collapse

@stroughtonsmith Assuming iPadOS software were up to the task, what would this do for you?

On on-paper features alone, the ability to run iOS on my desk at 27” with resizable, overlapping windows really has me considering moving away from macOS day-to-day, and demoting macOS to the workstation I KVM/remote into. As implemented in iPadOS 16, however, not so much ☹️

RT @mattblaze: How on earth did 18th C researchers accomplish anything limited to only 8 open tabs?

RT @elizabeth_joh: *oils up browser tabs*

*oils up browser tabs*

Everyone realizes Monday is another SCOTUS opinion day right? RIGHT?

How on earth did 18th C researchers accomplish anything limited to only 8 open tabs? https://t.co/VtMFoGAEsh

This weird engine is 18th Century CE; It allowed researchers to work efficiently with up to 8 open books at the same time. https://t.co/98Qy9siWML

Just realized the truly cursed thing to do here is implement Bourne shell syntax in powershell. https://t.co/ZU7VeqKkDJ

A couple of weeks ago I met a guy who is confident that we live in a simulation because, and I quote, “I just keep winning”.