I don't think copilot is going to be taking over my job anytime soon. This is the code it wrote to convert day/month/year into a time/date object.

So much time wasted because my c++ lambda captured one variable by reference instead of value ☹️

"AI" can sometimes be useful for C++ programming. I think that it's mostly a lot more trouble that it's worth , but there are times it's useful. Using "AI" to help with #odinlang coding is hilarious. First of all you get a mix of valid odin and golang, and then if you complain

The time I lost confidence in "AI"s ability to write correct code as when this happened :- "We represent dates as an int containing the number of days since an arbitrary date in the past." "Write a function to determine the number of days between two dates" - Awesome, a good

My daughter's routine hospital appointment on the 3rd Dec was cancelled on the day and will be rescheduled. Not great, but these things happen. They called us to tell us a few hours before. Today we got a letter in the post telling us that her appointment two days ago has to be

Doing advent of code this year a bit more seriously than some previous years. It's a bit of nonsense really, solving artificially painful puzzles for no gain. But it's fun for a while and I did get to learn or practice a couple of techniques. I'm wondering though if there is

For The Odin Language people. If starting a little project in odin langauge which might take a year (little time to spend on it, not because it's big and impressive) would you pick a frozen version of odin for the duration of the project or basically track the latest version for it?

There is more interesting stuff than ever on Twitter for me these days. However it's getting more and more drowned out by a stream of politics and news. It's still better than any of the alternatives, but I really wish there was a "no politics and news at all please" button

I'd hoped to get a good break from work this Christmas and do some interesting things. Instead I had a vomiting bug for three days, and now I'm over that my toddler has what appears to be chicken pox and it's covered in spots. Maybe I'll get a break next year 😀

Programming confession: after more than 30 years programming I've never once remembered which way round big endian and little endian are or which my computer uses without looking it up.

Not worrying about ai taking my job yet if this answer is typical... ----- Excel serial number 9922 corresponds to the date August 22, 1902. Here's how you can verify this: Excel uses a date system where January 1, 1900, is serial number 1. Adding 9922 days to January 1, 1900,

My biggest problem if I had list 5 things I got done last week like Elon Musk is asking is that I did one thing last week - finding out why the software I work on used 30% more memory than the last release and fixing that. I can't usefully break that down into 5 things. Can I?

Microsoft outlook popping up a message saying it had detected it's using an unusually high amount of memory so click to restart it. I can't imagine how they thought it was a good idea to add this "feature" but not fix the cause. What happened to software. When did it go wrong?

I was going to reinstall gitea on my server after it's been off line for a while. But looking at the website it's gone all corporate and about subscriptions and enterprise sales. Is it still good to use the open source version, or is there something else?

I was going to reluctantly join a discord server for something I was interested in. I hate discord, please just use a forum... Anyway... It wanted me to drag shapes into matching shapes. What am I? 18 months old playing with a shape sorter toy? No. Not messing about with that. I

I want to try out the C3 Lang but I can't get over 'fn' for functions. Yes I know I'm being ridiculous, but things like this do matter too. I'll try it anyway when I get a bit of time

Computing started to go bad when they started referring to directories as "folders" and programs as "apps".