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hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 00:01
https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/110450531193865857
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 00:01
@IamMrsGeek that’s just wow.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 08:30
@ovid @sjn Not great with Raku. The autocomplete was silent and the suggestions functionality in VS Code gave me Python code.
Not just that, the Python code was barely acceptable, using idioms more appropriate to the 2.x era.
I’ll try again later, but for now Copilot’s path of least resistance is porting code from one popular language to another popular language.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 08:35
@sjn @ovid bookmarked from an earlier suggestion by Ovid!
My plan is to putter with it a little later today.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 08:39
@sjn @ovid I might turn my experiences into a blog post later, but quick capture of my initial impressions poking at Copilot in this thread:
https://hackers.town/@randomgeek/110427334545613573
I just need to get over my depressed initial thought that it encourages mediocre code in mediocre languages and I’ll continue experimenting.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 08:46
@mjgardner @sjn @ovid In fairness, it’s more of an autocomplete than a copy machine.
Of course, we all know how ducking fantastic autocomplete has been.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 08:58
@mjgardner you may want to take your photocopier into the shop. It’s not supposed to hallucinate.
(I know you’re going with extrapolated functionality and I’m being painfully literal but my brain’s stuck there and I found it amusing)
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 10:55
@mjgardner I tend to adopt domain jargon pretty quick. Related to neurodivergent masking. I got used to terms having different effective definitions based on context.
Part of why I adored #Perl right away.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 13:03
Lunch with the family. @IamMrsGeek checking an email real quick.
her daughter: Are you working?
She: No, I’m telling $coworker she’s full of shit.
Me: Just because you enjoy it doesn’t mean it’s not work
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 15:13
@zkat I know he deleted the tweet and apologized but I find it frustrating that anyone still makes the diversity hire claim. It was old and tired in the 1980s. Downright fossilized in 2023.
hackers.town: 2023-05-29 Mon 19:07
Waiting for a green light at the intersection. Car comes up behind me and starts honking. Light turns green, I start going, they keep honking. So of course I gotta slow down to make sure nothing’s wrong. They honk more. I slow down more. They pass me and extend a hearty thumbs-up to thank me for my caution.
Might not have been a thumb.
Anyways, stick your horn up your ass dickwad.