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First Optimus prototype walked onto stage, waved. Another one needed support and slumped over. I'm sure pre-orders will be starting soon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure pre-orders will be starting soon
With a 'fully sentient' option that will be ready when the fully-self-driving option in their cars works. 
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The rise of low-code could soon see it topple more "traditional" forms of operations, new research has claimed. "Could" Sure, let's go with "could"
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Quote: Mendix's 2022 State of Low-Code found a rise in low-code adoption from 77% in 2021 to 94% this year
Quote: Mendix is the fastest & easiest low-code platform used by businesses to develop mobile & web apps at scale.
Does it not occur to the writers of Tech Radar that a company in the business low-code platforms citing the adoption of low code is, well, just plain stupid wrong self-serving etc.?
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Apparently not, no. 
TTFN - Kent
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i liken the content of this article to some kind of feather-weight almost transparent aerogel: made of flimsy pseudo-hype membranes.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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It does encroach in the development teams, I am seeing it rising faster and faster in my environment, it just shifts a bit the professions involved and thats from my perspective a good thing.
As of today the software development team in my organization is made of a single computer engineer, a control engineer and an electronic engineer, plus a programmer-actually-system-architect. Untile 2020 there were 3 computer engineers and neither the control and electronic engineer had anything to do with development.
Whty do I believe it is a good thing? First, it allows for much better software engineers to be kept and helps to weed out the "codez-please" and "ooh-shiny-new-stuff" programmers from the team, reducing technical debt. But much more than that it allows the domain expert to exert their full competence and knowledge on what's ultimately the core of the product. This helps, since developing a control algorithm for an engine that applies two space coordinate substitutions to compute two currents that have to drive six mosfets in three complementary couples all the while avoliding short circuits, managing measurements errors, keeping wasted power low and reducing mechanical vibrations inherent from the control algorithm is quite a daunting task for any "pure" software developer.
On the other side of the spectrum, managing a SoC devices and memory, writing the low level drivers and merging the low-code platform with the real world is a daunting task for any domain expert.
TL;DR: yes it is taking over some of the developers jobs, which means that there is less need of pure developers and more need of domain experts and operating system experts. Such is life, mechanization killed the jobs of many menial laborers and increased the jobs for line supervisors and technicians.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Let me know when it can replace Excel. Also replacing Access would be a dream.
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?
--Zachris Topelius
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At Google, one of the technical practices that I thought was both essential and very well done was the “post-mortem”– whenever they hit a significant problem, after putting out the fires and getting everything running again, they’d get the engineers closest to the problem to spend a day or two investigating the root cause of the issue and writing up their findings for everyone to read. Better than autopsying the developers
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But it could be better than autopsying some managers / executives...  
Edit: I just realized that my joke was not written correctly
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 3-Oct-22 13:15pm.
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Internet snoops have been caught concealing spyware in an old Windows logo in an attack on governments in the Middle East. Beware of hackers bearing logos
I mean, nothing really to fear here, but dang I find this clever:
"Witchetty first compromises a network, getting into one or more systems, then downloads this image from, say, a repository on GitHub, unpacks the spyware within it, and runs it."
Better than carrying around a USB key, I suppose?
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THIS explains all the new icons!
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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The HTTP Archive has published most of its 2022 web technology report, called the Web Almanac, based on a survey of over 8 million websites. Among its conclusions are that “WebAssembly isn’t widely used, and rather than seeing a growth in usage, we are seeing a modest contraction.” Hype? Our industry NEVER hypes stuff!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Our industry NEVER hypes stuff!
If it only was our industry...
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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the ever-restless, hungry, swarms of industry pundits and flacks are all over any new-shiny that can be framed as a miracle-cure for the moribund state of productivity caused by the bloated stacks-within-stacks of current technology/tools.
what do "bad habits" and WASM have to do with each other ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Microsoft’s latest opt-in update brings some cool new features and bug fixes to the OS, but it has an annoying catch My 'muscle memory' thanks you
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They need to bring the full Windows 10 start menu customization back as well. The "folders" in Windows 11 v22H2 are nice, but still not as user friendly as the Windows 10 start menu.
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They need to bring back the whole Windows 10 Start menu/taskbar.
The reason W11's are so ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed is that some genius PM decided on a complete rewrite and declared it production ready after it supported the 2% of use cases it cared about.
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?
--Zachris Topelius
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David Bowen’s installation, ‘Plant Machete,’ enables a living plant to move a machete through an industrial robot‘s bionic-like arm. "And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked."
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The first posit-based processor core gave a ten-thousandfold accuracy boost You've got real numbers, imaginary numbers, now mythical numbers!
Or rather, a new way of encoding numbers
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Numbers should be stored and processed as strings. That way, they are always 100% accurate. 
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BCD is more compact and is exact as well.
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No need to argue - string and BCD representation are equally good at representing values such as e and pi.
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BCD takes half the space. On top of this, all processors derived from the Intel 8080 contain instructions for efficient calculations with BCD.
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