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Re: Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage

30-Jul-24 5:01

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
This is not what I expect from purveyors of a critical service.

Nor what I expect, but let see how severe will be the punishment.

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?
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Daniel Pfeffer30-Jul-24 9:55

Daniel Pfeffer

30-Jul-24 9:55

I expect that many large, deep-pocketed organizations will be suing CrowdStrike for damages. This could easily force them into bankruptcy. While the cases are proceeding, it will affect the share price, thereby punishing the shareholders (including the CEO and other officers).It will also make any potential purchasers of the company think twice, so bailing out will become more difficult.

On the consumer level, the best punishment would be organizations migrating to other security providers.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

NASA's Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that could indicate ancient life

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:31

Re: NASA's Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars that could indicate ancient life

28-Jul-24 6:31

Engadget[^]:
But the rock still has to be sent back to Earth for extensive testing.

"Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?"

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:31

OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine

29-Jul-24 21:31

Article wrote:
But the rock still has to be sent back to Earth for extensive testing.

hehehe[^]

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:31

Re: OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine

28-Jul-24 6:31

Engadget[^]:
The service is a temporary prototype limited to 10,000 testers for now.

Find all the stuff it can imagine

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:24

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

29-Jul-24 21:24

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Find all the stuff it can ~~imagine~~ regurgitate

FTFY

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:16

Re: Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

28-Jul-24 6:16

The Register[^]:
Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?

Amazing what happens when you try to squeeze your customers dry

MarkTJohnson28-Jul-24 6:59

MarkTJohnson

28-Jul-24 6:59

Where's Captain Obvious when you need him?

Obviously unavailable.

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.

Re: Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:21

29-Jul-24 21:21

Article wrote:
86% of users head for the door

I am gladly surprised.
Looking at other news and how the world goes today, I would have expected less common sense

M.D.V.

Beyond clean code

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:16

28-Jul-24 6:16

Tobeva Software[^]:
I’m going to tease apart the difference between clean code, as described in Uncle Bob’s book, and clean code, a generic term of praise used in engineering contexts for decades.

Sanitized code?

Re: Beyond clean code

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:19

Google's DeepMind AI takes home silver medal in complex math competition

29-Jul-24 21:19

Clean code is for me only relevant for us, the people.
Doing benchmarks to test performance of "clean" code is not correct, that is efficience not cleanliness

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:16

Re: Google's DeepMind AI takes home silver medal in complex math competition

28-Jul-24 6:16

ZDNet[^]:
The achievement is noteworthy because AI systems don't usually fare well with complex math challenges.

It did so well because of all the extra toes it added to itself

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:14

OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses

29-Jul-24 21:14

Article wrote:
AI systems don't usually fare well with complex math challenges.

I do not think the maths are the problem, but the description of the exercise.
A good spec is 25% (or more) of the work.

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:16

Re: OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses

28-Jul-24 6:16

Windows Central[^]:
OpenAI might need another round of funding to remain afloat.

Are they using their AI to do their finances?

MarkTJohnson28-Jul-24 7:01

MarkTJohnson

28-Jul-24 7:01

Because people read the Shock study above about how well AI is improving everyone's productivity?

Kent, don't you wish you could group these stories better.

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.

Re: OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 7:04

Re: OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses

28-Jul-24 7:04

MarkTJohnson wrote:
Kent, don't you wish you could group these stories better.

I do indeed. Maybe I'll ask Chris for an early present this year.

TTFN - Kent

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:13

Rust 1.80 adds lazy types

29-Jul-24 21:13

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Are they using their AI to do their finances?

We should try to let AI run some companies, it can't be that worse

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey28-Jul-24 6:16

Re: Rust 1.80 adds lazy types

28-Jul-24 6:16

Infoworld[^]:
Rust’s new LazyCell and LazyLock types delay the initialization of their data until first access. Ranged patterns also get attention in the latest update to the language.

I'm part of Rust now?

Nelek29-Jul-24 21:11

Introducing Bing generative search

29-Jul-24 21:11

Hard work pays off tomorrow.
Laziness pays off today.

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey25-Jul-24 8:46

25-Jul-24 8:46

Bing[^]:
By combining the power of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) with the search results page, Bing’s generative search creates a bespoke and dynamic response to a user’s query.

"Bespoke and dynamic response"?!?!?! Can I get "accurate" instead?

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David O'Neil25-Jul-24 10:07

David O'Neil

25-Jul-24 10:07

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Can I get "accurate" instead?

No. No you can't.

den2k8826-Jul-24 2:06

den2k88

26-Jul-24 2:06

On Bing? No.

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obermd26-Jul-24 4:25

obermd

26-Jul-24 4:25

I'd go for accurate and fast. For speed - I can read faster than Bing can apparently type. For accuracy - on the day of the New Hampshire primary I was looking for a site that would report on the results as each township reported in. At the time only Dixville Notch had reported (7 votes) and all had gone to Nikki Haley, yet Bing told me Donald Trump had won all the Republican votes in New Hampshire. So much for accuracy in results.