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"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth." (deadsimpletech.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

~~Senior software engineer~~ programmer here. I have had to tell coworkers "don't trust anything chat-gpt tells you about text encoding" after it made something up about text encoding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

ah but did you tell them in CP437 or something fancy (like any text encoding after 1996)? 🤨🤨🥹

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly all my best text encoding stories would make me identifiable to coworkers so I can't share them here. Because there's been some funny stuff over the years. Wait where did I go wrong that I have multiple text encoding stories?

That said I mostly just deal with normal stuff like UTF-8, UTF-16, Latin1, and ASCII.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

You've got to make sure you're not over-specializing. I'd recommend trying to roll your own time zone library next.