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virus-warnning / pycairo_chinese.py
Last active April 17, 2019 01:11
讓 pycairo 可以正常顯示中文的賤招,需要利用 wxPython
import subprocess
import cairo
import wx
import wx.lib.wxcairo
WIDTH = 400
HEIGHT = 300
surface = cairo.ImageSurface(
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bessarabov / gist:674ea13c77fc8128f24b5e3f53b7f094
Last active August 23, 2024 19:11
One-liner to generate data shown in post 'At what time of day does famous programmers work?' — https://ivan.bessarabov.com/blog/famous-programmers-work-time
git log --author="Linus Torvalds" --date=iso | perl -nalE 'if (/^Date:\s+[\d-]{10}\s(\d{2})/) { say $1+0 }' | sort | uniq -c|perl -MList::Util=max -nalE '$h{$F[1]} = $F[0]; }{ $m = max values %h; foreach (0..23) { $h{$_} = 0 if not exists $h{$_} } foreach (sort {$a <=> $b } keys %h) { say sprintf "%02d - %4d %s", $_, $h{$_}, "*"x ($h{$_} / $m * 50); }'
@Hellisotherpeople
Hellisotherpeople / blog.md
Last active March 27, 2025 00:37
You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering, let me educate you.

You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering

(This post could also be titled "Features missing from most LLM front-ends that should exist")

Apologies for the snarky title, but there has been a huge amount of discussion around so called "Prompt Engineering" these past few months on all kinds of platforms. Much of it is coming from individuals who are peddling around an awful lot of "Prompting" and very little "Engineering".

Most of these discussions are little more than users finding that writing more creative and complicated prompts can help them solve a task that a more simple prompt was unable to help with. I claim this is not Prompt Engineering. This is not to say that crafting good prompts is not a difficult task, but it does not involve doing any kind of sophisticated modifications to general "template" of a prompt.

Others, who I think do deserve to call themselves "Prompt Engineers" (and an awful lot more than that), have been writing about and utilizing the rich new eco-system