• Zatapatique (unregistered)

    If you're not sure which null to get, take the frist!

  • (nodebb)

    (null)

  • Charles Shapiro (unregistered)

    Is that the Randal Schwartz who wrote Learning_Perl? I had a beer with him on a cruise in 2001 or so. Cool dude!

  • (nodebb)

    So many nulls, so few catch NullReferenceException statements. Sigh.

    If you sigh into a vast void of nulls, does anyone hear? Does anyone care?

  • Randal L. Schwartz (github)

    I think for black friday, they discounted that more expensive null to $39.99.

  • Randal L. Schwartz (github) in reply to Charles Shapiro

    Is that the Randal Schwartz who wrote Learning_Perl?

    Yes, it is I. Perl dude, FLOSS Weekly dude, and now Dart/Flutter Google Developer Expert. Livin' in the limelight.

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    Not knowing the value of null, I’d rather pay a maximum of $100 for null GB of data provided than pay a maximum of $null for 100 Gb of data.

  • (nodebb)

    Asked ChatGPT3 five questions about different real life C# examples and it got four out of five wrong (basically doing the same thing beginners do: not disposing unmanaged resources, race conditions, deadlocks and one solution was not functional at all). I ask for all four examples are follow-up question outlining the issue with the example and in return three out of those four examples got even more broken, in one example it literally turned nearly every line into non functional except for the line that was the issue in the first place.

    Not sure why people think those LLMs are a big step forward, nobody in science does, they are a nice vehicle to get more funding for proper AI scientific work honestly, and that's pretty much it. However they would be a nice replacement for politicians: Spouting nonsense most of the time without substance but at least not corrupt.

  • (nodebb) in reply to MaxiTB

    You are using them wrong. They are perfect for fillling parts of grand proposals. You know project outline, state of the art, social relevance. My time writing those has more than halved.

    You should check the results though.

  • IfOnlyWeCould (unregistered) in reply to MaxiTB

    Those poor examples are exactly what you asked for: "Real life" which is what is typically written by the vast majority of inexperienced coders all over the world. I asked it to solve reflection and IO questions that I typically give to developers to assess their capabilities in interviews. Most people can't do it, but it could with examples and annotations of its work. While there are situations where the LLM's aren't perfect, there are many where they easily outshine the typical developer. I'm pretty sure that in a few years, you will not need most programmers for anything unless it is extremely complex.

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