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I came across this one the other day: 6210001000.
Work out what's strange (unique) about that one, or scroll down...
This number contains
6 zeros
2 ones
1 twos
0 threes
0 fours
0 fives
1 six
0 sevens
0 eights
0 nines
i.e. 6210001000 and is "self-describing"
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I used to live in Hemel Hempstead and must have walked, or driven, past that one hundreds of times without ever noticing it.
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Easily done. Just this afternoon someone alerted me to one not so far from me, that I missed when I had gone for a walk explicitly to find them. They just blend in!
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Haven't you heard about Numerology? It's a believe that there is a divine relationship between numbers. Probably lots of people have this weird "hobby".
Numerology - Wikipedia[^]
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0, 6, 9, and sometimes 4 are holey. But 8 is the holiest of all.
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good one. something the kids can remember
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Somebody's got a lot of time on their hands.
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It's not like we can get away so..... meh.
Look, a squirrel!
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#Worldle #346 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
had to peek
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 563 4/6
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Wordle 563 2/6
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A rare two!
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Wordle 563 3/6
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 563 4/6
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 563 4/6*
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Wordle 563 4/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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In defense of Windows, I'm not sure consistency is as important as usability.
We humans aren't very consistent, as a rule. Consistency, rather than being our natural state, takes some effort.
Do I care about button placement, or labeling, or do I care about having things right where I need them when I need them?
More to the point, as Windows evolves, inconsistencies may be deliberately introduced for user experience sake. If you "focus group" a particular portion of functionality with a significant enough participant size, you'll probably find over time, that what they liked last year, they didn't like this year, but at the same time, people like familiarity, so maybe windows lets you access something the new way and the old way (control panel classic view comes to mind, as well as task viewer|details)
As a large system grows with its users, if it's doing it properly I suspect it tends to create a very usable mess, as we are somewhat messy animals. But if it works organically with how we operate, that's really the ideal, no?**
** I'm not saying Microsoft always achieves that - hell Apple is probably better at that - but they both seem to have that goal at least.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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What kind of questions had you (or would) ask?
What is considered a good answer for you?
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I decided to try and figure out how to write some C64 assembly code to make a beep sound (spoiler - I knew the answer beforehand)...
The result was frustrating and relaxing at the same time... Frustrating, because I wasted time (compared to some simple search) and did not get any answer.
Relaxing, because I realized that the judgment day is still far...
ME: I'm looking for a sample code for commodore 64 to beep
AI: Here is a sample program in Commodore 64 BASIC that will make a beep sound:
10 SOUND 0,10,1,8
20 FOR I=1 TO 1000:NEXT I
30 GOTO 10
[more explanations on how to actually run the code]
(this code has nothing to do with C64 - it is for C128 with a more advanced BASIC)
ME: do you have something similar in assembly?
AI: Here is a sample program in Commodore 64 assembly language that will make a beep sound:
*= $0801
.ORG $0801
SEI
LDX #$FF
STX $D020
STX $D021
LDA #$08
STA $DC0D
LDA #$1F
STA $DD0D
JSR $FFE2
loop:
JMP loop
.END
[with more explanations about the SID, and how FFE2 is there to play a sound]
(the code totally wrong as FFE2 is not valid kernal routine address)
It went on - I'm pointing out that the code is wrong (and why), AI apologize and offers the same code with a different routine address...
Including CHRIN, CHROUT, STOP and back to the original FFE2 (three times).
The truly fascinating thing is that the code is totally wrong, not just the wrong routine addresses, but the memory addresses used too, not even close to the solution...
I not really know what is the goal of this chat, but I would hide it if I was the creator...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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I've played around with it. It's pretty clear that the technology is going to change the world. ChatGPT is just a language model, you could add additional steps (like Tensorflow) and correct/modify the source code.
I'm worried that I might not be able to determine humans from AI/Bots here in the near future. The only reason they are being caught here on codeproject is when they post 5-10 answers in a short period of time. If someone posts answers with chat/banter/interactions here in the Lounge I doubt we would notice.
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Randor wrote: It's pretty clear that the technology is going to change the world
If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard that.
Google 'changed the world' but it doesn't mean much unless you can figure out the correct question to ask in the first place.
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jschell wrote: If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard that.
Google 'changed the world' but it doesn't mean much
I'm glad you mentioned that. I've been heavily using search engines this week because I built myself a new workstation.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that some of the things I am searching on Google/Bing this week show completely irrelevant results. If I search for software engineering terms that have the same words as music/art/books/commercial products search engines just throw everything at me that include the buzz words.
Interestingly ChatGPT seems to understand exactly what I am asking about. Although I admit the information isn't always correct. This technology is brand new, I see alot of room for improvement.
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I'm a software engineer, mostly contract stuff so I like to keep learning the latest technologies and stuff. I'm completely blown away by ChatGPT's possibilities. I don't feel like it will put me out of a job but it will make my work life easier, for example when I was testing what it was capable of I got it to write me a C# .Net MAUI, cross platform mobile speech to text interface and implementation, RESTful WebAPI calls and text to speech interface for responses, including dependency injection, unit tests and saving conversation snippet history to a SQLite database. Pretty blooming impressive! Some of the code it produced isn't perfect but it is a shed load better than google and even StackOverflow. A large part of our job as software engineers is knowing how to ask the right questions and being able to sort the wheat from the chaff but watching it go creating about 3 or 4 days work in about 20 minutes that saved me a lot of typing really blew my mind. To show my friends and family that I'm not completely obsessed by the whole "The future has arrived!!" vibe I was giving off I've also got it to write very funny screenplays for scenes of their favourite TV shows such as Friends, Charlie's Angels, The Big Bang Theory incorporating them in the storyline and the screenplays it produced were astonishing, kept really well within the style of each show and their characters. You can give it a theme/style for a chef's menu and it can produce one all formatted and provide recipes. It is only limited by your imagination for asking the right questions and giving it the inputs to come up with answers. It's a bit scary but amazing.
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MonkeyVaughan wrote: It's a bit scary but amazing. The only thing I find scary about it is that it can mimic humans and go undetected.
I think ChatGPT looks useful for determining what a human is asking about. In other words, I see an immediate use for search engines and Q/A websites.
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