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Article wrote: Word has gone on to become one of the most popular office tools in the world, and pretty much everyone is familiar with it in one way or another.
what doesn't necessarily mean "liking" it
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I remember when Word for Windows was released; it was a great product and had the best manual I've ever seen.
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MS Word is still missing a function for boiling my potatoes properly, but that is one of the very few functions it is still missing.
On the other hand, I guess there is an app for that. Probably a large selection.
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I thought I saw something for that in the settings? No, sorry. That was pasta.
TTFN - Kent
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The Frontier Model Forum will draw on the technical and operational expertise of its member companies to benefit the entire AI ecosystem, such as through advancing technical evaluations and benchmarks, and developing a public library of solutions to support industry best practices and standards. aka the "Don't regulate us, we'll be good" Foundation
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Article wrote: The Frontier Model Forum will draw on the technical and operational expertise
Because drawing on the ethical codex would be impossible 
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The company's Bing search engine, which has been integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT, has resulted in users engaging in "more than 1.9 billion chats" so far, said Satya Nadella. AI, AI, AI! is the new Developers, developers, developers!
And now I have to go and watch the Domo Kun version[^] again.
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Well-respected software engineer David Cutler discussed Windows Longhorn and its development in a 9-minute-long video interview. It's tough to make it to the top of that list
"According to Cutler, Chris indicated that "consumers don't expect the quality that server people do."" <-- oh, my. That does explain a lot, doesn't it?
Yeah, the video has already been in the Lounge, but some of us have to wait for an article
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "According to Cutler, Chris indicated that "consumers don't expect the quality that server people do.""
True, I expect higher quality.
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Overwhelming majority of Java professionals surveyed run a Long Term Support release, with Java 11 and Java 17 ahead of Java 8. Not big fans of the 'newer, shinier' stuff, it seems
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A new WebAssembly survey sponsored by software development company Scott Logic shows growing usage as a runtime for plug-ins and serverless, alongside web development, and consensus that tooling is lacking. Write once, read about a lot
edit: fixed link
modified 25-Oct-23 14:37pm.
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Sorry about that. I'll fix the link above. (and thank you!)
TTFN - Kent
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Why is software quality declining in the age of abundance and innovation? Things were better in the old days: a saying older than the old days
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But it's Agile! We deploy more bugs faster!
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And because we use TDD and Unit Testing, too, we think there aren't any!
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why is software quality declining in the age of abundance and innovation?
I'm surprised they didn't answer, "Because nobody gets enough sleep anymore with all their 'wokeness.'" 
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Muse Mind[^]:Why is software quality declining in the age of abundance and innovation?
While there are many causes, I believe the most important is the reduction of qualified human testers.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I believe the most important is the reduction of qualified human testers.
Some times you get to wonder if there were tests at all...
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Personally, I think it has to do with the shift from software designed by engineers to software designed by management. They decide what's "necessary" and "acceptable"; they decide the stack; they decide which engineers work on what; they decide everything now. And frankly they are not qualified to decide any of that.
It gets worse. What would you guess is the natural result of a system where software engineers are treated as little more than fingers to type whatever nonsense management wants? It's the devaluing of software talent. In fact, talent poses a problem for this new system because talent sees the flaws in what management wants. This inevitably leads to the talent being let go. To management, pointing out that zero-day that has serious impacts but would require equally serious amounts of development time to fix isn't improving things - it's problematic.
So now you've got systems designed by management, built by people that don't know any better, and shipped out to customers that have given up on ever receiving a quality software product.
And now management thinks AI is going to bail them out. Sorry, but even AI can't turn bad ideas into good implementations.
/rant
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Pity I can't vote more than once per comment... this deserves a 50
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Nadella is the third Microsoft CEO to reflect on the company’s vast mobile mistakes. On the bright side, the other guys couldn't figure out a mobile strategy for Microsoft either
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To be fair, I think they had a strategy but gave up too soon and didn't put the public faith into it that they should have done.
I've never used Windows Phone but my impression is that many people still like it. If Microsoft had just carried on, had stuck to it, as I understand they did with XBox before it was profitable, there is (I think) a good chance they could have carved out a niche alongside Android and Iphone.
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A startup company has upped its qubit count by an order of magnitude in two years. It's estimated to be useful in 5-10 years (+/- 50-100)
"The error rate for individual qubit operations is high enough that it won't be possible to run an algorithm that relies on the full qubit count without it failing due to an error." <- I'm not holding my breath on quantum computing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The error rate for individual qubit operations is high enough that it won't be possible to run an algorithm that relies on the full qubit count without it failing due to an error." <- I'm not holding my breath on quantum computing
So they should take the term 'computer' out of the title. "Atom Computing is the first to announce a 1,000+ qubit quantum error generator", or something...
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