First Touch on OpenAI API

Recently got a new MacBook M4 Pro and everything works fine until one day suddenly noticing the screen started to be flickering and never stops, realizing it might be some problem happening, so started to try to see whether it's just a glitch or persisting issue.Tried to do following:Turn off the external monitor off and then onPlug out the HDMI cable of the external monitor and plug in backRestart the MacBook M4 ProThese all failed to work, the issue still happens. So was following different on...

As a programmer, I always believe that the best way to understand something is by actually getting the hands dirty by testing it out ourselves. In past few years, with the introduction of ChatGPT, AI and associated technologies such as LLM come to a hot spot in tech industry and there are lots of platforms available and different models coming out for people to test out.This post I will demonstrate a step-by-step guide on how to run Llama(a Meta LLM) on a MacOS machine with a model. This will ju...

In case you have a new MacOS setup(especially on the newly released Apple M4 MacBook) and you are trying to install/launch iTerm2 on your system, you may encounter an error where it complains that you don't have enough permission to access Application Support, the error message would be likeThere was a problem finding or creating your application support directory. iTerm2 won't work very well until this problem is fixed.It should be at ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2.The error was:You ...

IntroductionWhen it comes to function overloading, those who have learned Java should be familiar with it. One of the most common uses is logging, where different overloaded functions are called for different parameters. So, how can we implement function overloading in Python?Concept of OverloadingFunction overloading allows multiple functions with the same name to exist within the same scope, but with different parameter lists. Although many programming languages (like Java and C++) support fun...

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As a programmer, we may sometimes find some Chrome extensions useful for us to improve our daily life. Do you have any recommendation and why? Leave a note.

As a programmer, what does your personal desk look like? How many monitors do you have? Does it look like that in The Matrix?

As a developer, the major work daily is normally coding and debugging. However, nowadays it's pretty challenge for the developer to invest much time on coding every day as there are lots of other things distracting us like meetings, emails etc. How much time do you spend on coding daily? What are the distractions you have in your daily work?

Frequently programmers like to say this should work, this is not a bug but a feature. These all sound like a lie. Do you know what other lies programmers like to tell?