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While Google Translate is far from perfect, it's still a helpful way to gain information or engage in conversation. How many of the languages were invented by the AI?
I'm shocked they haven't had Cantonese until now.
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You'd need 4 shift keys!?
I bet predictive AI would work really well on that. Enough that building it into the keyboard itself would be worthwhile. Kinda like the whole drag-spelling thing for SMS.
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That's kind of how the JIS (Japanese) input works - at least from what I could tell watching a friend typing with it. It guesses at the Kanji variants as you're typing.
TTFN - Kent
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In the mid 1980s (before the proliferation of PCs) I was working in Asia.
I was shown a "long-form" Chinese keyboard for a CRT terminal.
It had a matrix of about 30 x 20 keys, each with (if I recall correctly) up to 16 characters, and a 4x4 array of shift keys.
Expert users were capable of more than single figures of characters-per-MINUTE.
(I believe its heritage was typesetting machines.)
They were just starting to develop constructive entry methods, where the character could be "assembled" from multiple keystrokes on a regular sized keyboard, and they had some of what we would now call predictive text to speed things up.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Half of IT professionals believe there are devices connected to their network that they're unaware of, despite nearly 60 percent admitting that insecure devices pose a 'very high' or 'high' risk to their organization. And the other half know there are devices no one thinks about
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Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech. Visual Studio Code with the Microsoft filed off
"Theia is built on the same Monaco editor that powers VS Code, and it supports the same Language Server Protocol (LSP) and Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) that provide IntelliSense code completions, error checking and other features. ... Eclipse Theia IDE also supports the same extensions as VS Code."
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0patch, a service that provides micro security patches without disruptions, announced today that it plans to offer security patches for Windows 10 for at least five years after its official end of life, giving customers a chance to stick to their current devices without significant security compromises. Assuming you trust a non-Microsoft company to patch your Windows
Insert predictable, "could they be worse than Microsoft?" here
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Could they be worse than Microsoft? 
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Since we first introduced Fluid Framework, it has been used extensively both within Microsoft and by external customers to build real-time collaborative experiences. With FF 2, we’re making it even easier, more flexible and intuitive to build real-time collaborative applications. Most frameworks make me seek out fluids
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This post was originally triggered – and I choose that word carefully – by a recent experience on a cloud cost-optimisation project. These experiences prompted me to consider how things had changed since I started working in software. Coming up soon: "Is asking silly questions a niche skill?"
I mean, I see the point he's trying to make, but Betteridge is certainly more correct here.
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The large language models that power today’s chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are immensely powerful generative AI systems, and immensely power-hungry ones to boot. {Insert photo of person with light bulb lighting up above their head{
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Quote: research out of University of California, Santa Cruz has shown that modern LLMs running billions of parameters can operate on just 13 watts of power without a loss in performance. That’s roughly the draw of a 100W light bulb,
Huh? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I think the author is referring to a 100 watt equivalent LED bulb.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: equivalent LED
The devil's in the details.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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But that's not what the author said. Simple mistakes like this legitimately make you question the entire article.
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"Our AI is the dimmest bulb in the rack!"
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The company is being paid $843 million to a build a rocket to "deorbit" the space station. They're going to use the Tesla self-driving code?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They're going to use the Tesla self-driving code?
Then NASA had better put an emergency vehicle running it's lights on a barge at the target point. 
Actually, deorbiting the ISS is a perfect use case for the cargo variant of Starship. Starship is big enough that once disassembled, each module could fit in Starship's cargo area. Let's bring it down and study the long-term effects on the various materials.
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We're doomed! Again... Plan for the future. The far future.
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That was five minutes I'll never get back.
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Microsoft pulled the June Windows 11 KB5039302 update after finding that it causes some devices to restart repeatedly. Who could have...who could have...who could have...
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A restart loop was perhaps the most feared scenario in the products I worked on. Plus ça change...
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In the age of GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Google Gemini and all the rest, one of the most-used AI coding assistants is still the venerable IntelliCode feature of Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, whose six-year-old tech now seems positively ancient. If it works, don't AI it
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This threw my head off a bit. Intellisense vs Intellicode.
The latter is sort of the former after reworking it when they did AI it.
Had to go poking a little because I knew Intellisense has been kicking way longer than 6 years.
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