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Re:Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:11AM (#45488875)
My prompt was "Zeige mir ein Emoji mit einem Seepferdchen"

But you are right, tried it 3 times, first 2 tries were correct but ChatGPT then freaked out in 3rd try.

Re:Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? on Monday October 06, 2025 @02:11AM (#45488141)
I tried asking the same question in German with ChatGPT and the answer is completely different. ChatGPT just correctly answers without freaking out.

Guess my understanding of how LLMs handle different languages was completely wrong!?

Here’s the German answer:

Leider gibt es kein eigenes Emoji für ein Seepferdchen — aber man kann es mit ähnlichen Emojis andeuten!

Zum Beispiel so: (Pferd + Fisch = Seepferdchen ) Oder eine kleine Meeres-Szene:

Möchtest du, dass ich dir ein grafisches Seepferdchen-Emoji (also ein kleines Symbolbild) erstelle?

Re:Java 11 released on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:20PM (#18070157)
I wrote a user friendly version of the release notes. Maybe this is useful to someone:

https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/

Re:Java 11 released on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:15PM (#18070103)
However LTS seems not be free but restricted to premium Oracle customers, see: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.ht...
Re:Redux – Not Dead Yet on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:11AM (#16921195)
The difference is that the JSX snippet is translated in plain JavaScript which means you can automatically check for syntax errors, type errors (when using TypeScript or Flow) and semantical errors (by writing simple unit tests), whereas the PHP snippet is just a big mess. JSX also runs on clients, servers and mobile devices which is a big plus to me.

This is fine:

  <?php
  if (condition) {
  ?>
  <div>whatever</div>
  <?php
  {
  ?>
this not:

  if (isLoggedIn) {
    return <UserGreeting />;
  {
Re:JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:48PM (#14929979)
We use Youtrack at our company. It's a fully fledged issue tracker with a lot of features, e.g. custom fields, top notch search, batch operations, keyboard shortcuts, agile boards, workflows via own DSL, reports and statistics etc.
Re:Hello from Orkut on Friday August 05, 2016 @11:39AM (#12233129)
Really? The new mobile Twitter site is super fast and reliable on my phone. The native app is still better but it gets really close in terms of performance and usability. However apps still have better OS integrations (notifications, sharing) and touch handling (swipe etc).
First the Russia doping fiasco, now this. I guess it's time to boycott those stupid money games...
Kotlin is currently my favorite alternative JVM language. Kudos to all collaborators for the great work. After 5 years of hard work, you finally made it!

Here's a little starter project for Kotlin webapps using Spring Boot and React.js, I made a while ago:

https://github.com/winterbe/spring-kotlin-react-demo

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:09AM (#10894812)
I guess it's just based on the Intellij Platform which is open source and also serves as the base for other Jetbrains IDEs like Webstorm or Pycharm:

- http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:07AM (#10894793)
It already exists and is called the Intellij Platform. It's open source and the base for all Jetbrains IDEs, see:

* http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 * https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:00AM (#10894729)
2 jetbrains devs work full time on a Go plugin for Intellij: https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin
Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:50AM (#10894637)
Wondering how much code in Intellij Ultimate is already written in Kotlin. Parts of Kotlin Code in Intellij Community Edition is still kinda low:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/search?l=kot...

Re:Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8 on Monday November 16, 2015 @11:08AM (#10575168)
Dunno. I wrote the whole css for winterbe.com from scratch. To be honest I don't find both pages like similar besides white background and gray subtitles. :-)
Re:Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8 on Monday November 16, 2015 @08:12AM (#10574189)
Thanks for your feedback. I've improved the section about maps to better reflect the capabilities of streaming maps:

https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial/blob/master/READM...

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