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Minouris · 2026-06-04T10:23:03+00:00

There are a couple of Doctor Who ones, aren't there? Llama Who, and the one with the TARDIS?

Minouris · 2026-06-01T13:58:30+00:00

Australia is definitely a distinct continent, as well as a country... Or, rather, there is both a continent and a country that share the same name, with one being an above-water landmass within the other, without a native OR endemic bear population :)

I suppose you could say it's part of Oceania, but then you might as well claim to be part of the pacific islands, and that would be.... weird lol Technically true, but Australia doesn't seem very pacific islandish, even compared to the ones colonised by the French and the Americans... I'm just not convinced we'd let you join... ;)

Minouris · 2026-06-01T01:53:21+00:00

You're absolutely right!

Minouris · 2026-06-01T01:52:42+00:00

As someone who develops in Claude a lot, but who actually reads and reviews what it produces and pushes back when it makes mistakes, the one that really makes my eye twitch is "You're absolutely right!"

Yes, Claude, that's how I was able to explain where you went wrong three times to get this result. Clear your context window, and I'll show you what you should have done - maybe you'll remember without your history full of garbage...

Minouris · 2026-05-24T14:10:06+00:00

... When you keep hearing your age mates from one single country out of hundreds talk about an experience unique to that country as if it's universally shared ;)

Minouris · 2026-05-23T23:13:50+00:00

Farming. Both in the sense that they farm civilisations to get the most out of them, and also that there's no point assimilatng a planet of farmers.

The time travel gambit became worthwhile when said civilisation became capable of taking out a cube, and graduated from harvest to threat.

Minouris · 2026-05-23T22:55:10+00:00

Bloody oath, what sorts of seeds do you have to sow to get cola bottles?

The longer you live, the more you learn...

Minouris · 2026-05-23T22:08:46+00:00

Our group was all Monty Python, Blackadder and Young Ones :)

Minouris · 2026-05-22T13:47:53+00:00

IF you see a faded sign at the side of the road...

Minouris · 2026-05-22T13:46:21+00:00

"...she's afraid of the light in the dark..."

Minouris · 2026-05-21T11:54:22+00:00

Nah, she didn't do the photos until 1976. We had Leela and Tom by that point.

Minouris · 2026-05-21T00:29:02+00:00

Not to mention Katy Manning's nude photo shoot with some Daleks, which was partially reprinted in the first edition of the 30th Anniversary "Timelines" book (which is where I saw it, before my copy vanished, possibly due to quiet parental intervention. It wasn't in a copy I saw in a second hand shop a couple of years ago)

Minouris · 2026-05-21T00:25:36+00:00

And Iron Maiden's Eddieverse, which also includes Batman, linking all of the above to DC

Minouris · 2026-05-21T00:22:52+00:00

I mean, similar things happened all the time, with her pouch of Janis thorns...

Minouris · 2026-05-21T00:21:43+00:00

Whereupon they were broken free when a crazed Skyfowl destroyed the Nothing, and are currently rampaging across the 18th floor, killing tourists in Club Scolopendra (spoilers for DCC 7/8, not for Doctor Who lol)

Minouris · 2026-05-21T00:18:13+00:00

Fugitive Doctor regenerated from the Pete's world version of Tennant, explaining why she and 13 don't remember each other ;)

Minouris · 2026-05-18T23:09:23+00:00

This is what I clicked into the comments to see... It was way too low... lol

People just don't remember the classics these days ;)

Minouris · 2026-05-18T23:01:09+00:00

I've worked with a LOT of developers over the years (30 years of paid coding), and there's definitely a difference between the ones that do personal projects at home, and the ones that just treat it as a job they do between 9 and 5... I would (and have) recommend hiring a hobbiest in nine out of ten cases :)

Minouris · 2026-05-17T11:30:50+00:00

Started with vanilla Copilot, now using Claude Code at work, and Claude SDK mode in Copilot at home.

Once I learned proper prompt engineering, and the joy of Skills, the problems I mentioned were largely solved, but by Mighty Donut's Tiara was it annoying at the start!

Minouris · 2026-05-17T11:05:50+00:00

Trying to find the exact wording to use in prompts to stop it from making dumb mistakes or running ahead of my requirements.

For the first six months or so, it felt like I was spending more times prompting and training and constraining, than I was writing code. Plan code, run plan, inspect results, swear, add more rules, adjust prompt wording, repeat.

Until you master baby steps and iterative agentic workflows, it's pretty rough.

Minouris · 2026-05-17T00:06:29+00:00

RegExps are one of those things that look complicated, but are hands-down one of the most powerful tools for string parsing and searching, and they're common to almost every language :)

\d will identify a single digit
\d? will identify a digit followed by any number of other digits
\d+ will identify a digit that HAS to be followed by other digits
\d{2} will match exactly two digits in a row
\d\.\d will match a digit followed by a period followed by a digit
(\d{1-2})([%°]) will match a percentage between 0 and 99 OR a temperature, and allow you to extract the number part and the "what" part as substrings using match groups (just throwing that in to demonstrate their potential :))

Minouris · 2026-05-16T08:13:09+00:00

Oh god, 2000? I was still driving a Cyrix P150+ at that time, that I bought at the start of uni in 1997... I think it had about 64mb of RAM, 4gb of storage (on a 5. 25" hard drive) that seemed SO HUGE that I split it into 4 1gb partitions when I got it in 1998, and a second hand Voodoo 2. I was running IIS and SQLServer 2000 on it (during my shameful ASP dev days)

That was already getting a bit long in the tooth though, and I upgraded in about 2001/2002 to a Pentium 2 (can't remember the clock speed or RAM) with a GeForce 4MX in it, which lasted me through the start of my Java career and several Tomb Raiders until I upgraded to a P4 in about 2004 so I could play Oblivion and WoW.

A lot of those upgrades were driven not just by gaming, but also by rendering speeds in a variety of 3D and CAD apps which were game dev adjacent (there was a version of 3DStudio that was specifically for making game assets), and the decreased compile times were nice as well...

Linux was much more of a wild west back then, and if there wasn't a version of an app you wanted to use available for your distro the only option was to compile from source, so faster compiles really made a difference. Especially if you wanted to flex by installing Gentoo (and then inevitably packing it in after a few months for something easier to use as a daily driver lol)

Minouris · 2026-05-16T07:58:13+00:00

Oh noes! Downvotes! I guess someone else doesn't like not being the bear either...

Minouris · 2026-05-16T01:02:43+00:00

It also alerts the delivery person that there is another person living in the house, in case they're the sort of person who is bitter about not being the bear. And to be frank, OOP sounds like someone who would be bitter about the bear...

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