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In an effort to keep up with rivals Microsoft and OpenAI, Google rushed its own chatbot, Bard. A new report shows employees begged the company not to launch the product. So, just like all the other chatbots then?
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The Verge wrote: A new report shows employees begged the company not to launch the product. As if top managers heard what employees said, specially when it goes against their buzzword marketing flag ship
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Only the Tech Journalists think chatGPT works well. They write up articles about how it did this or that.
Then I go to it and ask it to solve some simple thing like build a tabbed UI using Bootstrap and it produces an answer and code that is 100% complete rubbish.
If you were a Tech Journalist you would see the code and think, "Oh, wow, look at that."
But if you actually attempt to use the code you learn that :
1. it used a non-existent version of bootstrap -- it literally creates a link to a bootstrap version that doesn't exist.
2. You tell it that the version doesn't exist and chatbot says, "Oh, I'll fix that" and it produces more code.
3. you try the code and it doesn't even render in the browser.
Total 100% garbage. But, it looks good in an article that Tech Journalist writes up.
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Hexagony is (to the best of the author's knowledge) the first two-dimensional esoteric programming language on a hexagonal grid. What the actual what? (Hex Edition)
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Hexagony Says it all.
"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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Kent Sharkey wrote: What the actual ing what? (Hex Edition) FTFY
Definitely... there are people with way more spare time than me.
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The winner of a major photography award has refused his prize after revealing his work was created using AI. Don't believe your eyes
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At least he has been honest (at the end) the whole time
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modified 19-Apr-23 7:54am.
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Nelek wrote: At least he has been honest (at the end) News reports say that when he submitted the 'photo', he made it quite clear that this was not a real photo but created by AI. He has been open about it all the way. The judges completely overlooked it.
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Corrected.
trønderen wrote: The judges completely overlooked it. And that should be a big for them
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The article's caption on the "amazing" photo states:
article image caption: Could you tell this is not a real photograph?
Yes, just look at the fingernails / fingertips in the picture!!! Agghghgghghg!!! Blech!!!
Honestly the "photo" does not look very good.
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In software things can go wrong. Sometimes we might expect them to go wrong. Sometimes it’s a surprise. In most cases we want to build in some way of handling these misfortunes. Let’s call them disappointments. For those that don't take exception
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In most cases we want to build in some way of handling these misfortunes. Let’s call them disappointments. Pfff... diappointments... missfortunes...
Those are just character stregtheners
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Following on the heels of Twitter’s decision to restrict third-party access to its data, Reddit today announced that it’ll begin charging for use of its API. "It's one pound for a five minute argument, but only eight pounds for a course of ten."
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Coming News: Usage of Reddit API dropped 70% in some weeks
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It's been just a year since Intel officially announced its Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASICs, but today the company announced the end of life of its first-gen Blockscale 1000-series chips without announcing any follow-up generations of the chips. Crypto was so last week
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Crypto was so last week Tell that Elon
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Microsoft is excited to announce that we are shifting to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned to the theme of weather. Are we being hacked, or is that the weather forecast?
Beware of Aqua blizzards and mint sandstorms
So
much
clearer :eyeroll:
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There's word that Microsoft has been developing its own hardware chip made specifically for AI programs and it's been in the works for four years. "Just one word from her, and my troubles are long gone"
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They are calling it Athena, but I fear we will end thinking they should have called it Pandora
Edit: grammar
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modified 20-Apr-23 17:05pm.
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I'm sure we're all in favour of "clean code", but it's one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie things that no one can reasonably disagree with. Who wants to write dirty code? How do you like your code? Crisp!
That one is probably just for Canadians, sorry.
Just in case you can't bear to not know (video, but safe)[^]
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The writer needs to apply two of his principles, Readable and Simplicity, to his own writing.
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This is why programmers should cut their teeth on assembly programming. CRISP is a requirement for assembly language coding, IMO, and creates a good discipline when encountering languages that want to CHAR (no acronym, just a pun) your CRISP practices.
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This, 10 times. Assembler really taught me on how to make the flow of the code easy to determine while reading it and to group subprocedures in functions so that they are easily debuggable and identifiable.
It also gave me serious OCD on how to indent and align the code, not helped at all by my discovery of selection by column.
unsigned long int variable_name1 = default_val;
char var_name2 = default_val;
static int var3 = default_val;
function_call_long_name(arg1, b, c);
function_short (a , arg2, c);
var1 = a + b;
variable_long_name = foo + bar;
Code like this may look overly large on the horizontal axis but it is clear and allows changes or copy-paste even with column selection.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Quote: An unnecessary function call, added purely to satisfy some rule like "methods should be less than 10 lines" I had a nice 2 hours long argument with top brass for the company I was working for as a body-rental contractor on the usefulness of these rules in their LINTer (linting is mandatory to be MISRA compliant). The cool fact is that after a week they actually removed them.
As for performance being not important, I raise the firmware world as a counter-example. And it explains why I am hounded daily by companies looking for a firmware engineer (now, if they also wanted to pay me more than a janitor it would be just peachy).
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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