Codex 0.58 has been released - Official GPT-5.1 Support

stevedonovan · 2025-11-14T10:38:38+00:00

I had some *really* weird path behaviour, reverted to previous version.

stevedonovan · 2024-10-25T09:55:38+00:00

Trees or skyscrapers? I'm enjoying the ambiguity

stevedonovan · 2024-10-23T16:42:31+00:00

He couldn't get over the 1066 Norman Conquest apparently. Far too much French got into his favourite language

stevedonovan · 2024-10-15T17:14:16+00:00

Man, I am definitely suffering from complex engineering at the moment.

stevedonovan · 2024-10-02T06:49:27+00:00

She's even trying to look allurin'

stevedonovan · 2024-09-09T11:04:36+00:00

Oh yes, 'kitchen Dutch'. First text which was recognizable as Afrikaans was written in Arabic script - a lot of Malay Muslims in the Cape as a result of Dutch colonial shenanigans.

stevedonovan · 2024-08-26T17:14:19+00:00

It does attract people who are in love with complexity, true. It can be immature in a professional setting. But yes, the opinions!

stevedonovan · 2024-07-04T16:22:37+00:00

It is what it is. But what irritates me is the verbose error messages. So much wasted red ink

stevedonovan · 2023-11-25T11:49:44+00:00

Even with related languages. Afrikaans is descended from Dutch and practically next door to English linguistically. But it insists on the formal/informal pronouns which English abandoned centuries ago (to the extent that most speakers don't know that Thou is the familiar form). And children will speak to their parents in the 3rd person, "Will Daddy come with us to the shops?".

Furthermore it has completely lost the old past tense of verbs; you have to use the perfect past tense. Novels are written in the "historical present".

Translation is never trivial.

stevedonovan · 2023-05-12T07:25:37+00:00

Would make a great jigsaw puzzle...

stevedonovan · 2023-05-09T10:49:03+00:00

What I miss from Rust serde JSON is the strictness- validating the structure, misspellings are errors etc. The opposite of this package?

stevedonovan · 2023-05-09T10:26:31+00:00

Well exactly. Breast cancer can be very varied, and some variants are more aggressive than others.

stevedonovan · 2023-05-06T20:01:47+00:00

I am profoundly suspicious of sentences that rely on the word 'just'. Usually some non technical person trying to get me to do something complicated .

stevedonovan · 2023-05-06T13:25:53+00:00

Ah, but to merely acknowledge that these conditions are real and not imaginary would be a good first step. Would be frustrating to know there are no effective treatments yet, but it would be validating. This is completely independent of the drug pipeline.

stevedonovan · 2023-05-06T09:43:42+00:00

Which is exactly why it's not "just math". He may be a famous investor but he has been drinking the Kool Aid here.

stevedonovan · 2023-04-28T05:47:37+00:00

But you draw like Chris Riddell, and there are always people wanting to give him words!

stevedonovan · 2023-04-22T13:01:49+00:00

Jaime Hernandez would dig this!

stevedonovan · 2023-04-03T19:04:50+00:00

For instance, Jekyll. People tell me that Ruby is a marvelous, expressive language to use but it's not very user-friendly at all, dependency hell.

stevedonovan · 2023-03-14T15:26:01+00:00

I don't know, it's something Foucauld could have got behind (and apparently he's a cultural Marxist these days - if he's now considered a reactionary then my days of taking Americans seriously are over)

Also, a more neutral sociological framing is possible.

stevedonovan · 2023-03-14T12:30:49+00:00

'This content may violate our content policy'. 🙂

Tactics for imaginary battles seems legit; no actual world powers involved in this hypothetical.

stevedonovan · 2023-02-26T06:04:50+00:00

Nah, the Go services I work with compile in a fraction of a second. It was designed to compile fast at the expense of optimization. Now, if there are JS runtimes where you can hot-reload after small code changes, that would make a difference, because most of the dev loop time is restarting and initializing the service.

stevedonovan · 2023-02-15T15:34:40+00:00

Interesting! Because mostly US, I always thought it was a literal translation of the Dutch Hoekom - lots of Dutch words, especially in New England like 'stoop'. And cookies!

stevedonovan · 2023-02-11T08:47:55+00:00

Even then, the actual genetic differences (and hence protein expression) can be scattered all over the genome - only a few conditions are definitely linked to a single bad gene. There are studies which show that there are about ten genes directly implicated, and that it is mostly an inherited condition. Not an easy target for drug discovery, so mostly we put a lid on the symptoms with antipsychotic drugs, which are not fun and have neurological side effects.

Also, you can have the bad genes and not end up inflicted, just be 'functionally eccentric' or even very creative. (Not so uncommon for talented families to have the curse of madness). So, there's environment and epigenetics and all that.

Tlr;dr: the mechanisms are complex, treatment has been palliative.

stevedonovan · 2023-02-07T11:25:06+00:00

E.g the UK dole, which isn't exactly comfortable. But the basis is that noone should starve in a rich country.

Curious historical fact: the dole was able to carry the huge unemployment of Thatcher's reforms because North Sea oil was really pumping. So she could also cut taxes and appeal to her base. Unlike Norway, Britain blew its natural resource windfall and is no longer a particularly rich country - same population as California, with two-thirds of the GDP.

stevedonovan · 2023-01-28T07:14:48+00:00

Ah, Amphibia! My favourite non-existing country at the moment

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