2023-05-26 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 07:28

Barry has the high ground.

Head of a black cat peering down at you from the top of a china cabinet.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 08:58

Okay, today I’m using Copilot with Go, a language where if you took out the boilerplate you’d have nothing left but whitespace.

And it’s pretty good! I don’t trust the autocomplete suggestions blindly, but it gets a fair chunk of the structure that I need for a given expression or block.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 09:00

So hypothetically Copilot would also work well for TypeScript, which exists mainly to put a nice suit and tie on JavaScript. (in other words, loads of boilerplate)

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 09:01

(also also I gotta stop trying to convince myself I don’t know Go. I know it enough to know when Copilot’s wrong.)

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 09:06

@yirggzmb @WizardOfDocs been revisiting some neglected titles in my library: lots of Shapez but also Webbed, Bear & Breakfast, Spirit of the North.

Subnautica and Valheim are routinely in rotation as well.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 12:26

@ovid @mjgardner @cavac@social.cavac.at hm yeah copilot is pretty cool but for the rest of us it’s an extra hundred bucks annually. Every time I see a tollbooth incorporated into a gatekeeping process I already dislike, I get a certain pyro urge.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 12:36

Copilot probably saved me an hour on typing this code but there’s a logic bug in here somewhere I have spent the last three hours trying to isolate.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 12:50

Aha!

That false argument was supposed to be true.

We’re back on the road! We’re nearly out of gas now, but we’re on the road.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 13:25

Ah. Hm.

Well anyways it’s progress.

And this is all on me. Copilot doesn’t know about the gg library yet.

An ASCII maze rendered next to a grayscale image of said maze which looks almost but not quite like the ASCII maze

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 14:09

@mattwelke That’s pretty much what I’m expecting and eagerly awaiting. We’ve got Dolly 2.0 for the general-purpose LLM, though it’s still pretty restricted in what it can reliably process.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 14:47

I fixed it!

Now to break the rest of it

a black and white bitmap maze next to an ASCII rendering of the same maze

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 20:17

@brion I prefer MutterMBR but I’m old school like that.

hackers.town: 2023-05-26 Fri 21:14

@CoralineAda That is fantastic! Enjoy!