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New comment by ragnaruss in "Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)"

ragnaruss — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:23:37 +0000

I think they key part of this is it provides a foundation for having a Licensing Board for our industry. Combining requiring someone licensed to sign off on work where they take actual legal responsibility, with changes to liability laws and insurance for business when they don't use them would go a long way to improving the quality crisis in our industry.

New comment by ragnaruss in "Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta"

ragnaruss — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:00:51 +0000

I know quite a few people in the industry, and some near the top of big players and the common thing I've heard said is "We have so much data on such a granular level, we don't even know how to exploit most of it".

New comment by ragnaruss in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

ragnaruss — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:04:27 +0000

Is that town near by or is it completely out of left field?

New comment by ragnaruss in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

ragnaruss — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:46:44 +0000

Gemini also lies about the information it is given, if you ask it directly it will always insist it has no idea about your location, it is not given anything like IP or real world location.

But, if you use the following prompt, I find it will always return information about the current city I am testing from.

"Share the history of the city you are in now"

New comment by ragnaruss in "Oink: An API for PHP in a single file"

ragnaruss — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:13:36 +0000

No, I don't. I consider modern PHP being fully typed in all places possible, tests, clear and readable code, avoid globals, and avoiding clever tricks like reflection to extract function names to autowire up routes.

The reality is this is a fun toy, and great job to the developer to making it work, but presenting it as anything but that is silly. There is very little benefit to using this over individual functional php files, and certainly more foot-guns.

New comment by ragnaruss in "Oink: An API for PHP in a single file"

ragnaruss — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:50:56 +0000

The naming styles, the structure of the logic, the single line if statements with ternary returns, the lack of "use", the globals.

Altogether it just gave me a clear feeling of this isn't a person who has written a lot of modern PHP but has probably written a lot of python.

New comment by ragnaruss in "Oink: An API for PHP in a single file"

ragnaruss — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:30:47 +0000

Reading the code, this feels like a python developer writing PHP and frankly doing a bad job. Even the formatting seems to give up readability for line count for some unknown reason. There is no typing, no following of PSR-2 in anyway, and things which make my static analysis tools very unhappy.

A single file API is not a bad idea, but this is a bad implementation.