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Python Software Foundation survey finds that a significant number of Python developers are still using Python 2 for data analysis, computer graphics, and devops. No one expects a breaking upgrade
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Over-engineering, as I now understand it, is: Building functionality that is not required. YAGNI (maybe, add it anyway to be safe)
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Zoom’s selling a cheaper AI package than Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Duet AI, and soon it can plug into a new ‘modular workspace.’ Before editing documents, you must spend 15 minutes trying to get the audio working
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Will attacks be as big as those targeting MOVEit? Maybe not, but they still can be plenty bad. Sharing is caring, and also preparing (to be hacked)
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Not only can ChatGPT write code, it can read code. On the one hand, that's very helpful. On the other hand, that's truly terrifying. Will it also debug the new code (ad infinitum)?
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Check the comments section of many social media and digital news platforms, and you're likely to find a cesspool of insults, threats and even harassment. Good thing we have no use for this AI here
However, if the Soapbox were to return...
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A new Linux vulnerability, known as 'Looney Tunables' and tracked as CVE-2023-4911, enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader. "Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!"
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ChatGPT was put to the test via a series of humdrum freshman C/C++ programming tasks and it passed – though not with honors. So now AI can replace students?
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Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken viewers deep into the source code for Windows Task Manager while debunking a distressing Icelandic sobriquet for Microsoft's flagship operating system. They don't make them like that anymore
I had never heard the "Bloated fetal sacs" bit before, but now it's going to stick with me forever.
"Task Manager only weighed in at approximately 85 kilobytes when fully compiled" <-- they really, *really* don't make them like that anymore
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The two companies are both about to kick off new and stricter requirements for bulk senders. Here's what's changing. This isn't a bulk email, it's just pleasantly plump
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if so, see any benefit ?
thanks, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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No plans to. I see it in the queue, but I installed a bunch of updates a few weeks ago and I'll probably wait a while longer.
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The current enthusiasm for everything to be injected with a dose of AI means that just about nothing is left untouched by artificial intelligence, and that includes Windows 11. The first version of a Microsoft product is buggy? I boggle!
I know, I know, "Why just the first version?" (I'm really trying to be nice this week)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Why just the first version?"
Answer would be shorter if you ask "is there any that not"? 
Kent Sharkey wrote: (I'm really trying to be nice this week)
I already told you... don't worry, we have your back  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is shaking off doomsday predictions about what AI means for humanity — instead laying out how he sees the technology vastly improving businesses and the work-life balance of their employees. And will be harnessed to provide battery power to the machines
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Does that mean we will all be working 2 jobs?
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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MarkTJohnson wrote: Does that mean we will all be working 2 jobs?
for 100 years?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You misunderstood Jamie Dimon. He meant that we'll be working 3.5 days, or 84 hours a week.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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How silly of me, of course you're right.
But that still leave plenty of time for that second job too.
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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Steak yesterday and steak tomorrow, but never steak today. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Dish Network has been ordered to pay $150,000 for not moving its defunct satellite further away from Earth. Every litter bit hurts
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If the satellite is defunct how would you make it go further away? And why not closer so it will burn up on re-entry?
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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It was in geostationary orbit. I suppose the fuel required to deorbit from there is excessive. Given that they ran out of fuel trying to get to the planned graveyard would support this.
Where Do Old Satellites Go When They Die?[^]
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That's what I get for not reading the article.
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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"We are thrilled to announce the availability of the IFC SDK, a Microsoft implementation of the IFC Specification." Bonus points if you can explain this concept better than the author
"An IFC file is an implementation of the BMI concept. An IFC file is a persistent representation of all information pertaining to the semantics of a C++ program."
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