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Give one to the CodeWitch, I bet she'll find something they didn't think of.
To be clear, that's a statement of respect.
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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A new survey reveals that 29 percent of security professionals say their biggest frustration is that their advice is being ignored. As opposed to the rest of us
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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have trained a humanoid robot to effortlessly learn and perform a variety of expressive movements, including simple dance routines and gestures like waving, high-fiving and hugging, all while maintaining a steady gait on diverse terrains. As a bonus, it's now prepared when it's time to dance on our graves
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I KNOW it is just a machine but why does seeing that make me want to go throttle all those bullies?
My wife would have gone into full Mama Bear mode.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: bonus
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Do we really want machines pretending to be humans? I certainly don't! I'd rather be alone than talking to a machine!
Way, way back in time, when my late mother first time encountered an interactive computer program, and it wrote on the console, "What do you want me to do for you, Ellen?", she was so impressed: It knows my name! It is talking to me personally! ... I had started programming then, even studied the source code of an early implementation of Eliza (this was in the 1970s) and knew very well that all there was to it, was a fixed string concatenated with her login name. Not much "personal" about that!
Today's text generators are more advanced than Eliza in the 1970s, but to me, they are the same thing. Not much "AI" to it. If I really needed a therapist, maybe Eliza could be of some help, yet I don't want it. If I want a dance with a girl, and I am offered a machine who knows the dance steps, I don't want it. I don't want any machine pretending to be anything else than a machine! So I do not object to machines doing the work for me - quite to the contrary. But let us understand that they are machines.
At this very moment, I am talking to a machine. Luckily, it doesn't pretend to be a human at all. I am happy with that.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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So a robot doing the robot dance would be a robot pretending to be a human pretending to be a robot...
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As long as it dances on the back of a turtle, we're all good!
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PythonMonkey enables developers to use Python code in JavaScript and vice versa with ease and virtually no performance loss. 'How can we invent a programming language where everyone will find something to hate?"
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And what's with php?
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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Google says Microsoft's confidential settlement with a group of European cloud providers is merely about using its financial muscle to make complaints about software licensing costs vanish. ...while ignoring our own anticompetitive policies
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They should probably just be happy their own confidential agreements aren't being exposed.
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CISA and the FBI urged software companies on Wednesday to review their products and eliminate path OS command injection vulnerabilities before shipping. Oh, now that they mention it, we'll fix them. We never thought to fix them before.
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This is the result of lazy programmers being pushed by managers who aren't held accountable for security in their products. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) never had this issue because their management was focused on ensuring their OSes wouldn't crash or be impacted by improper parameters passed into OS calls.
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This release focuses on quality-of-life enhancements for all developers and workloads. For those that like to see their sausage partially finished
"When you use Visual Studio, you want to feel empowered and productive. " <-- I feel empowered just reading that.
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I definitely want to be productive, and will if I truly am.
But "empowered"? What does that even mean in the context of programming in Visual Studio?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Nice try, Jareth! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You simply describe the program you want, and AWS says it will write the code for you without the need for any professional developers. Why just replace a few developers, when you can replace the entire team?
I'm sure the demo works very well.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: without the need for any professional developers
So instead of developers you just need someone who can take a vague list of "requirements" from management/users, and turn them into clear and precise instructions to tell the computer exactly what it needs to do.
You know: like what a developer does. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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CodeMarkup for WinUI enables you to build user interfaces declaratively in C# code using fluent methods Why do all that design stuff, when you can just write more code?
edit: forgot the blurb
modified 10-Jul-24 14:07pm.
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Looks cool!
And the fluent interface as potential.
But let me ask quick question from the top of my head without thinking much about it myself, about what is usually incompatible with C# syntax, i.e. markup extensions such as DataBinding and, err.. other Markup Extensions, like, mmm yes, StaticResource?!
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Now, wrap a WYSIWYG UI around it, sell it to MSFT, and go brave a new frontier.
Oh, and if we can make it able to target wasm, that'd be great.
I'm not sure it ever really popped into mind that we ditched WYSIWYG explicitly because we wanted FE to be more esoteric to veneer/mirage it out of being opaquely like stacking children's blocks.
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