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A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s ability to check in code because he accidentally checked in a syntax error to the script that is used to verify that your proposed change has satisfied all the pre-submit requirements such as passing static analysis and unit testing. Hoist on your own Autocorrect
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Too bad they fixed it. We wouldn't have been subjected to "New Outlook" if they hadn't.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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That's what they get for writing their code in MS-Word.
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1994’s Simon was the first rough draft of a device that would change the world. But it was also a dead end. It's just not like IBM to mess up and lose an early lead
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A little more than ten years later Microsoft completely bungles the handheld market.
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They did find two scenarios in which human-driven cars were safer: at dawn/dusk and when turning. Going forward and going in reverse?
But (more) seriously folks - hearing they're less safe when turning does not give me confidence in them.
I also would really like to see some numbers for autonomous driving when the road markings are not clearly visible (aka winter driving, or even spring with the sand on the side of the road)
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Dawn/dusk - Autonomous vehicles need sunglasses and clean sensors. These are the two biggest problems when the sun is low in the sky.
I suspect Tesla's FSD, which is the only non-geofenced system on the road today, would pass the driving test in most jurisdictions.
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A free & open-source OpenTelemetry dashboard for deep insights into your apps on your local development machine. Big You is always watching
No idea why that quote came to mind today... ;S
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The proposal, which is aimed at preventing child sexual abuse material, would essentially break encryption. "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
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As long as it's the government and not a cooperation doing it, everything is fine 
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I suspect they'll drop it once they figure out that they are legislating Pi (Indiana Pi Bill).
Then we just have to teach the new lawmakers every 5 years the same basics of encryption so they don't try to do the same thing.
It just doesn't matter. Unless we really want to give up writing/installing any app we want, these people would just use a different app or some weird unknown homebrew/darkweb stuff.
Just push firmware/OS trojans to suspected specific devices (with warrants or judicial say-so).
And/or
Do like the FBI did with their ultimate drug dealer cellphones and spin-up some services purpose-built to snare these folks and target market those apps to suspects.
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This keeps coming up. Europe and the US are both horrible at this. As far the "it's for the children" claim, this claim has been used to destroy more personal freedoms than any other single claim in the history of western civilization. Anytime you hear it, be very, very wary of the goal here as it's never for the children, but rather it's to control you.
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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 apps will mistakenly display an "How do you want to open this file?" dialog box when attempting to right-click on the program's icon and perform a registered task. And they said they weren't going to give that version new features
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Delegates are everywhere in modern code; a delegate is a type that represents references to methods with a particular parameter list and return type. Or delegate the debugging to AI
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On top of spaghetti... all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball... when somebody sneezed.
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Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence laboratory is working on a new technology that can generate soundtracks, even dialogue, to go along with videos. It just keeps using the 'Chariots of Fire' theme
Or maybe 'Fortunate Son'
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There's understandable fear that AI will lead to job losses. However, business leaders are hopeful that automation will also boost workplace opportunities. The other 14% are the AI
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Cadence shows off optical solution for next-generation PCIe 7.0 that is not yet finalized. That 'whoosh' you hear is all the data passing through your computer
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Since the rise of the internet, software developers have commanded big salaries and valuable perks. But something has shifted since the pandemic, and the U.S. now employs fewer software developers than it did in 2018. Time to start a charity to save the endangered developer
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here we go again... it's the end of the world. I think articles like this come out every couple of years.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Meta was going to start training AI on Facebook and Instagram posts on June 26. It's amazing what a little threat of a big fine does these days
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Can y'all fine them for doing it to US please?
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Docker's 2024 State of Application Development Report highlights industry shifts toward AI and microservices. I'm guessing they found that everyone is now using Docker?
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People find it difficult to distinguish between the GPT-4 model and a human agent when interacting with them as part of a 2-person conversation. Hint: ChatGPT is the one that seems reasonable
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I've definitely interacted with an LLM driven helper chat bot, maybe a few of them, just in the last month or two.
Amongst other stuff... I've had to talk to Amazon about subscriptions and refunds, ISPs about new service provision, and an insurer about benefits/coverage details and in/out of network providers.
The biggest indicators for me were near-perfect spelling and grammar along with not being able to help without transferring me to a person. I don't think 80% of people would have noticed. In one instance I'm pretty sure the service provider was aiding the subterfuge by giving the chatbot an Indian name. I found that a little bit humorous. "No you are not talking to a robot! You're talking to a support agent in another country to whom we've outsourced our support staff."
But all of them worked more or less flawlessly and were at most only 1/2 as frustrating as the phone systems where you have to repeatedly press buttons or keep saying agent, person, real person, live agent, etc to get a warm body.
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