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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why we can't have nice things, volume 349898293874.5
Or nice people?
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Several weeks ago, we published an article detailing five not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11. Not that one. No, not that one either. The other one.
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Are you talking about the features on that article? Or about the articles detailing not-so-great features coming in Win11? 
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Wall Street Journal today (for me, not paywall blocked) [^]Quote: Beijing’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, will begin enforcing the regulation—on what it calls “deep synthesis” technology, including AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software—starting Tuesday, marking the world’s first comprehensive attempt by a major regulatory agency to curb one of the most explosive and controversial areas of AI advancement.
Such technologies, which underpin wildly popular applications such as ChatGPT, a text generator developed by OpenAI, and Lensa ...
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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The big question is... regulating or censoring?
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from Politico's Digital Future newsletter:[^]Quote: Warner, who made his own fortune as a tech VC and entrepreneur, called the current tech slump “just part of a normal cycle,” and encouraged attendees to look further out: “When you think about all of the devices out on that floor, they’re all powered by chips — this is a long-term play,” Warner said. “Technology development and national security are inexorably linked.”
Luján echoed that emphasis on innovation and funding the wonky side of the industry: “I get excited when I talk about the Department [of Energy],” Luján said. “The kind of research happening on quantum computing, applied sciences, in the world of AI, anytime there's something good happening in those worlds… there’s someone from our National Labs [involved].”
Thank the godz, no one said: "no/low-code" ? ... and all the attendees went back to ogling the latest OLED monster screens, and GPU's, so expensive the average geek would have to ... steal to afford.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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The Federal Trade Commission estimates that the new rule could aid the estimated 30 million Americans bound by noncompete clauses. "You can't touch this"
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I followed the link, found another link below the article to another one, "12x Better Than Solar Panels? Prepper's Invention Takes Country by Storm!" presenting a lengthy textual presentation and a video of how to make a perpetuum mobile. Just pay $149 for the "Quick Power System Guide" to learn how! (But wait ... there is a special offer for you alone, only $49!)
Sorry, a site promoting perpetuum mobiles without a single critical word is on my Forget it! list.
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So, because there was a bogus advert on the page, the site is worthless? (FWIW, I'm just seeing an ad for Disability Lawyers now. Maybe they're trying to tell me something?  )
TTFN - Kent
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A tl;Dr; for the non americans?
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A lot of companies put a clause in the hiring contract that if you leave, you can’t go to a competitor for {amount of time}. With companies doing everything these days, it’s meant that some people get effectively blocked from finding a job, so this is meant to stop those clauses.
TTFN - Kent
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It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Some industries would suffer I think, and effectively become employment agencies.
"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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Thanks
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The US has a patchwork of Laws and Court decisions about non-compete clauses. The general consensus is that you can only enforce a non-compete on senior leadership who are involved in corporate vision. The one place I'd like to see a non-compete is for former government leadership, including military, to prevent them from jumping to the "private sector" to then lobby the government for money for their new company's projects.
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+1000%. That seems to happen way too often.
TTFN - Kent
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A series of "cooling off" laws that apply to executive and legislative personnel are (supposedly) in effect right now. These are not considered to be non-compete laws. The problems with them, IMHO, are the specifics of who they apply to and how long they apply; not enough people and not long enough, if you ask me. The military branch has its own set of regulations, which have just as many holes.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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AI tools can be used to ‘edit’ and ‘polish’ authors’ work, say the conference organizers, but text ‘produced entirely’ by AI is not allowed. OK for ye, but not for me
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We just banned use of code generated by ChapGPT or Github copilot on our project.
These things are a menace in the state they are in today.
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If a developer takes ChatGPT code, and refactors it, say changes variable / function names, and such, how will it be identified?
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We do not have a fool proof way to achieve this. However, we are doing code reviews and we are aware of the teams coding practices, so we mostly have the idea whether the code is from Chat GPT or not. But as I said some leaks are inevitable, hence why these code generators are a menace.
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And which AI is going to check if the text / code has been written by its supposed author or not?
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Avoiding the imperfection known as primitive obsession allows us to create high-quality, less error-prone code without much effort. For the non-cavepeople among us
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But, it is the tracking and pursuit of wild beasts, followed by the kill, and dragging the future food back to my cave ...
... me make savage code useful stew bloody good, make fur robes keep wives warm.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 6-Jan-23 3:21am.
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I've read that if you press Ctrl-Shift-Q that you close all the windows. You might be pressing "Q" by mistake.
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all dark, no moon ... good ... hunting.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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