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Re: US Army soldiers felt ill while testing Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset

13-Oct-22 8:01

Ars Technica[^]:
Insider said an excerpt of a US Army report on a "recent" field test dictated to it by an unnamed employee included a soldier who tested the tech saying, "The devices would have gotten us killed."

That's how you know it's working

MarkTJohnson14-Oct-22 3:52

MarkTJohnson

14-Oct-22 3:52

Quote:
excerpts of this report, included that the device's glow from the display was visible from hundreds of meters away, which could give away the position of the wearer

Obviously designed by someone with absolutely NO experience in either war or hunting.

Monitor glow: great for programmers, terrible for war fighters.

Not everything in the world needs a HUD.

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

Re: US Army soldiers felt ill while testing Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset

charlieg15-Oct-22 6:00

charlieg

15-Oct-22 6:00

"which could give away"

Could? Seriously, could? lmao. Everyone has low light vision devices now.

I remember when DOOM first came out. It used some sort of novel graphics engine that rendered the display. Within 5 minutes of playing the game, I was ready to barf.

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.

Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 7:16

Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

13-Oct-22 7:16

Telerik[^]:
A very common problem encountered in most program code is high complexity. To deal with this, a great alternative is functional programming—an excellent paradigm that helps programmers to write code that is less susceptible to errors.

What's the big deal? I write functions

obermd13-Oct-22 8:17

Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

13-Oct-22 8:17

Didn't we hear about this with Object Oriented Programming, Structured Programming, etc.? Different programming paradigms support different environments. Using the wrong paradigm for the environment leads to excessively complex code with the attendant bugs.

Marc Clifton13-Oct-22 10:37

Marc Clifton

13-Oct-22 10:37

Quote:
A very common problem encountered in most program code is high complexity. To deal with this, a great alternative is functional programming

Wow, what a total miss on how to deal with complexity. Laugh | :laugh:

Complexity exists regardless of the programming language, and a programming language does not address complexity. What he means by "complexity" in his post is better termed "elegancy" though some may argue that => this => that => thar => wherefore art thou Romeo => dead is not elegant.

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Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

David O'Neil13-Oct-22 12:50

David O'Neil

13-Oct-22 12:50

Quote:
...Something I’ve noticed is that many developers, based on their experiences and taking advantage of the possibilities of OOP, have created totally empirical code, full of endless “if” and “else” statements...

Then it must not be very good OOP code, if it even warrants that title.

Quote:
The use of immutable values and recursion can generate more memory consumption ... but compared to the overhead of imperative programming, pure functions require much less overhead

Self-contradictory.

namespace FPExampleApp;
public class Order
{
    public int UnitPrice { get; set; }
    public int Discount { get; set; }

    public void SpecialCustomer(int unitPrice, int discount)
    {
        UnitPrice = unitPrice;
        Discount += discount;
    }
}

The article uses constructors to simplify code in the Immutable version, but no Order(UnitPrice up, int discount) { } to simplify the imperative case. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

They can be made practically identical. I stick by my first statement.

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Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

englebart15-Oct-22 8:29

englebart

15-Oct-22 8:29

The thing that makes sense to me is the immutable data.
Most errors I see is where someone, somewhere changed an object's state which was not anticipated elsewhere.

Same thing could happen with immutable data as well, but it would be easier to track back to where something went wrong.

I could see some higher memory use, especially if dealing with large datasets.

For people that like Test Driven Development, functional is a good way to go.
Once the algorithm is proven, it should be solid and not need to worry about weird state issues.

Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

David O'Neil15-Oct-22 15:26

David O'Neil

15-Oct-22 15:26

I have always asked "how would you do something like a word processing program in a functional manner?" The only response I've heard makes me think it would be very difficult, because the main document would have more and more states as each addition/revision was made. Each change basically creates a new main document. An 'undo' function would probably be easier than many other methods, but that by itself isn't enough to convince me...

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Re: Functional programming in C#—A brief consideration

obermd17-Oct-22 4:13

Back to the office? Don't expect to be more productive when you get there

17-Oct-22 4:13

englebart wrote:
The thing that makes sense to me is the immutable data.

In multi-threaded applications, immutable data makes it a lot easier to debug and avoids synchronization performance penalties and the related timing bugs.

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 7:16

Microsoft shows Windows 11 with floating taskbar and notification area on top

13-Oct-22 7:16

ZDNet[^]:
Employers need to find a better way of using offices for hybrid working, says Slack, after a new survey suggested workers spend up to four hours on video calls.

We should have an all-hands meeting to discuss

Multi-hour, of course (with the first 1/2 hour getting everyone settled and microphones muted)

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 7:16

This Danish political party Is led by an AI

13-Oct-22 7:16

Neowin[^]:
During the annual Ignite conference, Microsoft showed a weird-looking (some even say it is cursed) screenshot of Windows 11 with a radical shell redesign.

Maybe next they could have it run away from the mouse cursor?

Not having seen this presentation, I'd bet that it was a "simulation" and not really Windows. But I'm frequently wrong (as you all know too well). Personally, I'd have this in my "no, no, NO" category.

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 7:16

13-Oct-22 7:16

Vice[^]:
The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader Lars.

"This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace."

It couldn't be worse, could it?

obermd13-Oct-22 8:20

13-Oct-22 8:20

Can't be any worse than the Natural Stupidity now in politics.

Daniel Pfeffer13-Oct-22 11:03

Daniel Pfeffer

13-Oct-22 11:03

Kent Sharkey wrote:
"This is the voice of world control. I bring you ~~peace~~ war."

That would be worse.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Dan Neely14-Oct-22 3:46

Dan Neely

14-Oct-22 3:46

Time to go back to basics:

Quote:
original

Kent Sharkey wrote:
A is for Armageddon, brought by SkyNet.

B is for Battery, soon to be your job.

C is for Computer, your new overlord

And y'all can do the rest.

Challenge accepted!

D and E are for Dumb Elephant, the kind of person who hypes AI.

F is for Failure, the future of AI startups.

G is for Garbage, what they are actually peddling.

H is for Huckster, what all of them are.

I is for Inane, what true believers are.

J is for Joke, what the rest of us think of them.

K is for Kill, Skynet likes this.

L is for Ludicrous, what they are claiming.

M is for Manure, AI smells like this.

N is for Nope, what reality has to say.

O is for Orwellian, where it's all going.

P is for Prison, what the world will turn into.

Q is for Quack, not just for medicine.

R is for "Really?", how all claims should be addressed.

S is for Suckers, what the people funding the startups are.

T is for Tattered, like their connection to reality.

U is for Unlikely, which is putting it kindly.

V is for Vomit, what you probably expected me to reply with.

W is for Worthless, the future of their stock options.

X is for Xterminate, Skynet says hello again.

Y is for YHGTBSM, an appropriate response to the hucksters.

Z is for Zoo, the best we can hope for from out future overlords.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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Kent Sharkey14-Oct-22 3:48

14-Oct-22 3:48

I regret I can only upvote this once. I may have to create a bunch of new accounts to do better.

TTFN - Kent

Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul

Dan Neely14-Oct-22 3:55

Dan Neely

14-Oct-22 3:55

Well this is the second time I posted it, so 2 votes shouldn't be hard. 😇

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 4:31

Re: Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul

13-Oct-22 4:31

The Verge[^]:
The Microsoft Office collection of apps aren’t going away, but the first big brand change in 30 years sees Microsoft 365 take the center stage

Out of Office message

obermd13-Oct-22 8:18

Re: Microsoft Office will become Microsoft 365 in major brand overhaul

13-Oct-22 8:18

I thought this change occurred a couple of years ago.

Kent Sharkey13-Oct-22 8:29