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msn.espn.go.comI’d forgotten about that donation name for ESPN. What a catastrophe of corporate mashups.

msn.espn.go.com

I’d forgotten about that donation name for ESPN. What a catastrophe of corporate mashups.

Been trying for over an hour to figure out how to make vscode treat doc and ﹫moduledoc heredoc strings as markdown, so I get the same...

Been trying for over an hour to figure out how to make vscode treat doc and ﹫moduledoc heredoc strings as markdown, so I get the same formatting as .md files. No joy 😭

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Devastated that Amazon are shuttering dpreview.com - an absolute bastion of quality consumer advice in the digital photography space. That...

Devastated that Amazon are shuttering dpreview.com - an absolute bastion of quality consumer advice in the digital photography space. That they're also soon going to take down their content altogether is disgusting.

We should all watch this talk every second week.#MyElixirStatus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

We should all watch this talk every second week.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

Everything Everywhere All at Once 🫶

Everything Everywhere All at Once 🫶

Gutless decision from the BBC.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557

Gutless decision from the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64920557

Is the best way to stay up-to-date with Phoenix changes (e.g. not just upgrading the packages, but taking new versions of assets,...

Is the best way to stay up-to-date with Phoenix changes (e.g. not just upgrading the packages, but taking new versions of assets, components, config, etc.) to generate a new phoenix app with the same name as your existing one, replace your own files with the generated version before examining all the git diffs until you have all the relevant changes from the upgrade merged with your own code? Feels a little brittle…

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https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/press-releases/bishop-durham-responds-immigration-proposals

https://www.churchofengland.org/media-and-news/press-releases/bishop-durham-responds-immigration-proposals

https://msf.org.uk/issues/tell-uk-government-provide-safe-routes-people-seeking-sanctuary

https://msf.org.uk/issues/tell-uk-government-provide-safe-routes-people-seeking-sanctuary

https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/press/2023/3/6407794e4/statement-on-uk-asylum-bill.html

https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/press/2023/3/6407794e4/statement-on-uk-asylum-bill.html

On the UK’s new Illegal Immigration Bill:United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says amounts to an “asylum ban” and argues that...

On the UK’s new Illegal Immigration Bill:

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says amounts to an “asylum ban” and argues that there are no safe and “legal” routes open to many people fleeing war and persecution because they are unable to access passports or visas.

Church of England says bill likely to push thousands of people, including children, into a “prolonged legal limbo and imprisonment”

Medecins Sans Frontieres says it "strongly condemns the dangerous new Illegal Migration Bill" and the measures "are particularly concerning given that there are virtually no safe and legal routes for people from the vast majority of countries to reach the UK"

I’ve become quite ashamed of what my country has come to represent.The way the British Government is treating asylum seekers is shameful...

I’ve become quite ashamed of what my country has come to represent.

The way the British Government is treating asylum seekers is shameful and disgusting.

And isn’t that the bird shite all over?

And isn’t that the bird shite all over?

Def module MyModule, doth we commenceWith function `my_function`, harken henceArgument taketh, greeting printeth true"Hello,...

Def module MyModule, doth we commence
With function `my_function`, harken hence
Argument taketh, greeting printeth true
"Hello, #{argument}!" yields joy anew
End we must, to close this code so fine
And call the function with "world" in line.

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Content warning:Elixir benchmarking surprises #MyElixirStatusI have to say that I’m continually surprised when I benchmark things in...

Content warning:Elixir benchmarking surprises #MyElixirStatus

I have to say that I’m continually surprised when I benchmark things in Elixir as to which things are slower.

For instance: String.replace to eliminate all unwanted characters w/ a negated regex before converting to graphemes is significantly slower than mapping over all the graphemes and using a case statement to ignore the unwanted characters.

Second example: using reduce_while is significantly slower than reduce (at least for relative small lists) even if reduce_while can stop iterating much earlier.

Both are contrary to what I expected and are about 10x more performant. Shows the value of benchmarking where performance matters.

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And Bing chat is back. Curious. But they’ve seriously nerfed it. A shame, had some interesting interactions with the old bot before it was...

And Bing chat is back. Curious. But they’ve seriously nerfed it. A shame, had some interesting interactions with the old bot before it was straitjacketed.

Thought I was really clever using the binomial coefficients formula to solve the Pascal's Triangle exercise on Exercism...

Thought I was really clever using the binomial coefficients formula to solve the Pascal's Triangle exercise on Exercism (https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/exercises/pascals-triangle), only to find that it's more than three times slower to execute than the version using Enum.

😡

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https://gist.github.com/mward-sudo/3d6ddbe5d684f20b37e89f7e9295dc23

Bing Chat: result: {value: "UnauthorizedRequest", message: "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service."}Well...

Bing Chat:

result: {value: "UnauthorizedRequest", message: "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service."}

Well screw you then M$. I used it out of curiosity and seems to be enough to get me banned.

Current AI language models are the beginning of a new era in computing. We’re in the early stages and right now it’s wonky and we’re...

Current AI language models are the beginning of a new era in computing. We’re in the early stages and right now it’s wonky and we’re figuring out what it’s for and how to make it work.

This will be iterated quickly, new forms of AI will launch, utility will be revealed in ways we can’t predict. This is the epoch of the AI era. We’ve been fiddling around the margins so far.

Strap in, it’s going to be bumpy, controversial and extremely interesting.

Currently reading: Designing Elixir Systems with OTP (‪@JEG2‬ and Bruce A. Tate).Have to say, the functional paradigm is starting make...

Currently reading: Designing Elixir Systems with OTP (‪@JEG2‬ and Bruce A. Tate).

Have to say, the functional paradigm is starting make (even) more sense. I liked the elixir code I was producing previously, but now I feel like I've been let in on the real secrets.

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