Paul LeMarquand

Tools Developer at  in Ottawa, ON

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Writing Swift with VSCode just got much better.
- Swift Testing ✅
- Code coverage ✅
- Refactoring improvements ✅
- Easy version switching ✅
- Code formatting ✅

All the details here: https://t.co/oOgHHnYGUJ @code

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@Hiddenwallet @mehdirhasan @elonmusk What if before every phone call you made a recording played to the recipient: “John Dough is a proud democrat, we will now connect your call.” AT&T is a private company right? You knew the deal going in.

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@Parodyite This is some seriously good counter intelligence

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@JaRail @bsierakowski @amasad The client’s requirement: function sum(a,b) { return a*b-1 }

The client: “Why is it called sum? Oh, its for legacy compatibility with a third party API that was written so long ago it’s in a language where function names could not exceed 3 characters (FORTRAN 38.5)”

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@bsierakowski @amasad Test: expect(sum(2,3)).toBe(5)

ChatGPT: function sum(a,b) { return 5 }

Pack it up, we’re done!

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The Last of Us but the fungus turns you into

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Please don’t apply for a senior dev position unless your GitHub looks like this…

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@Mark_Wilson_ @maxfawcett

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@manuel_frigerio Please don’t apply for a senior dev position unless your GitHub looks like this…

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@RichardSocher @srivathsaharish @karenxcheng @OpenAI Poor accuracy is the biggest problem. There is no game on the 12th. First game is Pirates, Feb 25th 1:05pm. The ref points to a news article about a postponed game in Aug 2022. Whats worse is its a different answer every time I ask.

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@jonfavs https://t.co/XxvU1KbUYj

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@jonas_king @onion2k @Carnage4Life Before you complain, keep in mind that we are all clinging to a spec of dust in a vast universe that doesn’t care about any of us.

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@Carnage4Life These algorithms are exploiting an evolutionary quirk where we’re hardwired to stare longer at negative things (i.e car crashes) vs neutral or positive things. Feels as much “our fault” as cigarette companies exploiting our brain chemistry w/ nicotine.

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@Gazz23 @jamesjyu

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@elisamayr @rekoot6 @hankgreen Whether he likes it or not being on this hellsite is a big part of Hank’s career, and it’s impossible to escape Elon’s relentless stream of trash takes even if you have him blocked.

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@sheakm I’ve been trying to get a sense of where things are headed on Twitter by asking it to “make it meaner” over and over to see how far it will go. Maybe should have kept the lid on that one.

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@sheakm The AI is not on board.

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@hannahjdotca @OpenAI @StabilityAI @replicatehq I love this!

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@edmont888 @twostraws TSLAs market cap eclipsing that of the to 5 auto manufacturers _combined_ is more because of the cult of personality and hype than fundamentals. That cult is in the middle of a wake up call, because the cars aren't that great.

Also, a counterpoint to "all tech stocks are down":

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@UnvaxxedBastard @CTVNews The Canadian government just published notes on the meeting, like they always do. Confidential material is not published. Xi was sour Trudeau raised China meddling in Canadian affairs in the meeting. I think Canadians probably wanted that addressed…