(UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
This blog post is a blast from the past - but still useful today! Live Templates are a great way to help create boilerplate
companies went all in on OOP in the hopes of needing fewer programmers, but the result was the opposite. these systems added so much incidental complexity that it took more labor to manage it than you saved from code…
(UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
They put that boilerplate on all the warning labels.
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the models all already have all this stuff in their system prompt or whatever, you're just repeating instructions it already has - they also really only follow the first 100 or so words of a prompt so you're effective…
A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
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A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
“This blog post is a blast from the past - but still useful today! Live Templates are a great way to help create boilerplate”
“companies went all in on OOP in the hopes of needing fewer programmers, but the result was the opposite. these systems added so much incidental complexity that it took more labor to manage it than you saved from code re-use, even with IDEs that automatically generated boilerplate”
“the models all already have all this stuff in their system prompt or whatever, you're just repeating instructions it already has - they also really only follow the first 100 or so words of a prompt so you're effectively making it worse by adding more boilerplate after that”
“You don't notice as much when you're in it, but writing mapper functions to convert one type to an almost identical type is painful. After a delightful break from nominal type systems, I'm back in boilerplate hell”
“if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone was an obnoxious boilerplate lib until Obama didn't close gitmo everyone has their radicalization point”
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