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janislaw

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janislaw··on Project Euler
This will become a practice of implementing bignums in your language of choice, which is a valuable exercise itself.
janislaw··on Dead Framework Theory
The LLM owners also don't like to burn the knowledge into model weights or prompts, sharing some concerns of the post, e.g. freshness. RAG is the new hotness.
janislaw··on Nobody cares
Reading the original article I reflected: "I can totally see how this can happen, but for some reason it doesn't happen where I live"

I moved to Switzerland 9y ago. People care. I believe this is due to high trust society which evolved not that long ago from small, poor, tightly woven communities.

janislaw··on 99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python
I have the book and don't speak Ruby at all. Nevertheless, is so we'll written, that you can take the lessons and apply them in any language with virtual polymorphism. A Python version of the book means bigger audience, to the benefit of the trade.
janislaw··on Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
That's their official mobile client and main source of revenue, isn't it?
janislaw··on The D Programming Language Conference '23
Having two competing standard libraries didn't help with the adoption.
janislaw··on Railway Oriented Programming
This is exactly how LabVIEW implements error handling.
janislaw··on Simpsons Hit and Run source code (2003)
Can anybody explain the existence of all*.cpp files which include other source files?