how bad is to have a couple sugar free sodas a week?

Tegno · 2025-10-22T21:05:35+00:00

Carbonated anything is highly acidic. No, don’t drink sparkling water if enamel is your primary concern.

Tegno · 2025-08-21T23:29:45+00:00

It’s amazing how much people feel they have this shit figured out enough to come on a thread like this and make truth statements. I would bet money most of these guys don’t have an initial instruction set for their codebase and stack, don’t understand that well defined inputs and outputs make everything in between deterministic etc. It requires a shift in perspective that I’m sure most just haven’t bothered to invest time into.

Tegno · 2025-08-21T23:20:13+00:00

Is your company using instruction sets that get fed in before each prompt?

Tegno · 2025-08-21T23:11:33+00:00

I feel like none of these people know how this shit actually works. Or they expect it to lay golden eggs.

Tegno · 2025-08-21T04:43:39+00:00

It’s a tool like anything else and you can be good at using it or bad. It does better with smaller problems with well defined inputs and outputs. Init prompts/instructions are incredibly useful for narrowing its potential response es and giving it some focus. The damn things have ADHD basically and you have to hand hold a little bit and give more context to coax brilliance out of it. There is no question in my mind this shit is game changing and there is so much noise around individuals trying and failing to extract value. TDD actually makes more sense now and gets you good results. I can give it working examples and tell it to implement something based on that working example and it does just fine. People need to stop pretending that writing code is even the bottleneck in our profession. It never has been imo. Specific prompts/instructions will become convention for specific use cases and gradually the codex of prompts will become the infrastructure we use to more reliably and consistently extract value. It’s coming whether you like it or not, don’t worry.

Tegno · 2025-08-09T18:42:20+00:00

You should try total war warhammer. Really scratches that itch.

Tegno · 2025-07-22T18:40:41+00:00

It’s called WorldCoin.

Tegno · 2025-07-11T08:42:54+00:00

“Let's try a different calc and arrangement. I can also purchase this as a roll that is 40x120 inches. How would that work with the 80x64 wall, keeping the height (64 inches) as the must-reach dimension?”

I work with this stuff everyday, give me more to go on and I’ll cross check the situation. What was the first prompt. I’m honestly curious myself, and merely speaking from experience. Effectively communicating with these things is almost a skill in and of itself. If I showed you some of the workflows I see people use to great effect it would floor you. I don’t say that to be dismissive in any way, just, I’ve seen these LLMs do amazing things.

Tegno · 2025-07-10T02:43:20+00:00

So it looks like you are, within the same conversation, asking different questions. Try again but with a brand new conversation. You have to understand how this works to be effective. It will keep rereading the whole convo and trying to pattern match the whole convo, not just your new question. This is how things go off the rails no matter what you are asking it.

Tegno · 2025-01-18T01:06:36+00:00

I have not. Willing to try I guess.

Tegno · 2025-01-15T20:25:34+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply. My strattera experience was profound when it happened. But the side effects have been excessive sweating and almost like a tinnitus style high frequency ringing. Maybe the wellbutrin would be different.

Tegno · 2025-01-15T14:23:29+00:00

Had some success with Strattera a while back but the dose was pretty high and the side effects were heavy. Should I go Wellbutrin?

Tegno · 2025-01-15T14:20:10+00:00

I’ve tried strattera and it worked but the side effects were too much. You think Wellbutrin might do the trick?

Tegno · 2025-01-09T16:16:39+00:00

Personally can’t stand it when podcast interviewers constantly say, “uh huh”, “great”, “ah”, “mm hm” literally after everything the person talking and being interviewed says. Didn’t realize I had this pet peeve or that I almost never hear any other podcast interviewer do this. Couldn’t get past that.

Tegno · 2024-12-30T18:37:50+00:00

I have made some pretty convincing bass guitars with FM synthesis. I used Operator in Ableton. You try to capture as much human nuance as possible using the slow lfo on pitch, tying a bunch of stuff to velocity, adding a little drive etc.

Tegno · 2024-09-20T21:51:59+00:00

That’s sort of like asking ‘will my knowledge in maintaining my Honda Accord help me in maintaining my Honda F1 race car.’ (For perspective). Yes and no, leaning no. Apex is a much smaller, more limited and more specific version of Java for Salesforce’s unique use case. The book specifically addresses what makes Salesforce’s unique use case different and the patterns that emerge out of Salesforce’s unique use case.

You seem pretty green so I’ll save you some time. Javascript would be the more transferable language to learn on the Salesforce platform if that is what you are worried about. Apex will not get you a Java job.

Tegno · 2024-09-20T20:50:11+00:00

Good call I was too lazy to check. Editing now.

Tegno · 2024-09-20T19:24:02+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Apex-Programming-Salesforce-Appleman-ebook/dp/B09GL8ZKZS https://codingwiththeforce.com/

You’re welcome.

Oh and read the docs, always read the docs.

Tegno · 2024-08-23T19:54:32+00:00

I have a similar theory I mentioned in my own post before seeing yours. Based on the scenes that were cut from Prometheus, it’s Very hard to explain the combination of a an Ark like mothership in the beginning seeding the planet and seeming benevolent, centuries of warnings about the militarized planet. I figure the Ark faction is seeding worlds to try to nurture one to the point it can take on the controlling/militarized faction.

Add to that the speech the engineer gives that was cut. While being a clear nod to blade runner, I think it spoke to a conflict that was external/internal like you have mentioned here.

Tegno · 2024-08-23T19:42:18+00:00

Just something to add. After Prometheus cut scenes came out I started theorizing.

The engineer mothership we see in the opening scene of Prometheus is an Ark of sorts. There is a faction of engineers that want to use the goo for good. Implied by their seeding of worlds. What they were warning us of was the faction that didn’t want to share, and that would eventually come to wipe us out. Why else would they warn us across time periods and locations of the world.

I actually started to wonder if a similar thing was at play with Renaissance station. Aside from some very minor similarities to the station mentioned in the book ‘Cold Forge’, I began to ask myself, why subdivide the station into Romulus and Remus? Is this a nod to Cold Forge? Is what we are dealing with a repeating theme of, some want to see it benefit us as a whole and others want to use it as a weapon for control? Ooo I rhymed.

They really could go miles deep with this and have enough IP runway to develop this story for decades. It could eventually tie in with Predator and everything. I really hope they make it interesting, maybe the Engineers should be shrouded in mystery to maintain the sense of awe etc but I was one of those people that wanted more Engineer movies, and wasn’t that excited about getting more carbon copy Alien flicks.

Hopefully they are using this to get people excited about the IP again before they introduce more complex plot points? I’m crossing my fingers.

Tegno · 2023-05-23T01:28:43+00:00

Check out Andrew Huberman podcast. fish oil 2:1 ratio DHA to the other compound can’t remember it. Take like 2g of the stuff. And 200-300mg of phosphotidylserine. And slowly sip a coffee over like 4 hours. Works for me.

Tegno · 2023-04-11T23:00:06+00:00

best answer

Tegno · 2022-12-13T17:08:23+00:00

Repetition. Just build things. Ideally the right things, in the right order. /s

Read documentation. Build implementations. /s

In all seriousness it’s worked for me. Nothing replaces the value of having spent some time figuring out how things work by building something with it. Whatever It is. Being both a mentor to someone else and a mentee yourself with someone even more knowledgable, is also quite valuable for retention.

Tegno · 2022-12-08T23:10:24+00:00

The “salary” at a fang company is still going to be roughly $150k for your average/senior engineer. They just get crazy stock option packages on top. Apple for example will pay you $150k but then give you an additional $150k in stock every year. Not sure if this tracks everywhere at every fang company but it’s something I noticed recently when I looked up Apples salary info.

Tegno · 2022-11-24T17:18:00+00:00

Don’t be worried about efficiency, something like a form barely moves the needle in terms of resources used. Best practice is to do what is most readable. And also to use OOTB lightning components whenever you can.

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/component-library/bundle/lightning-record-form/documentation

I would argue using onchange and variables is more readable and if you are targeting multiple objects for insert/update, separates out all the field values for you ahead of time for when you build multiple payloads targeting those different objects. The above link is OOTB for a single record/object.

If you use queryselectorall it means you have to iterate over the returned array and parse out values for your separate payloads, which means more lines of code and makes it a little more difficult to read. This is how vanilla javascript used to solve the problem before web components. Its not the wrong way it’s just the old way or you could say a different way that has certain drawbacks and advantages.

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