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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I refer you to Microsoft's chatbot, which learnt to spout racist & offensive nonsense only a few days after activation.
Please note that I said "not desired" (by the hiring company), not "political incorrect". There are important differences between both.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: But what happens if a chatbot passes the Turing test?
I will think about when the moment comes, right now is not my priority.
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PyTorch admins are warning users who installed PyTorch-nightly over the holidays to uninstall the framework and the counterfeit 'torchtriton' dependency. The machine needs more learning about security
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Windows 11 brought in a new design language, putting an emphasis on rounded corners and gradients and a new transparent background called Mica, which aims to replace the old Acrylic design. Those aren't inconsistencies, it's just backward compatibility!
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A relevant comment from the article:Some dude wrote: And… It still looks like s&&t compared to windows 7. It’s functionality is even worse, where you often have to call up old control panels to actually get things done as the new ones lack controls you need.
Truth!
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But the icons are... wonderful, aren't they?
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Yes! And the rounded corners are a real breakthrough in UI design!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I can't wait until they make it a VGA interface! Imagine the improved performance they will achieve using only 16 colors! So much unnecessary processing freed up!
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Verizon’s in the process of kicking the remaining customers off its old network — the last one in the US. "When I try to phone, they say you're not at home"
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D-Wave's computers are especially good at solving optimization problems. Besides spending a lot of money
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How are we suppose to know if everytime we look it changes?
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Back at its Architecture Day 2021 event, when Intel shared the core design details of its Alder Lake CPU architecture, the firm stated that Windows 11 was optimized in a way to best take advantage of the Alder Lake's Performance Hybrid architecture and the new Thread Director technology that helps Windows 11 task scheduling. They've never hyped stuff inappropriately before...
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How? I thought it was breaking records in breaking systems...  
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Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever. Maybe it’s time to get a little more personal. "His very words are a fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes."
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Prosecutors in Seattle filed charges this week against a software engineer who is accused of a theft scheme that swiped approximately $300,000 from his employer. This is what happens when you ask them to come in on Saturday
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Employee productivity in the work-from-home age faces growing pains as workers deal with unresponsive applications and unresponsive IT help desks. I would have posted this sooner, but my network connection was down
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As a CIO I can tell you the support my department provides is outstanding - and it shows on the annual reviews of everyone who works for me. What drives me nuts are the local ISPs that can't seem to figure out how to provide consistent service.
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obermd wrote: As a CIO I can tell you the support my department provides is outstanding
Then you are one of the exceptions that confirm the rule... I have yet to find one IT department as yours 
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Our new hires keep saying the same thing when they realize that we're actually responsive to their needs and attempt to help them do their jobs better.
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That's actually how it should, but in the most places are either morons technically inepts or burocrats without real professionality.
I had a problem once, it escalated up to hotline level 4 (the supposed Guru) and the answer I got from them was still totally bullshit and barely related to my issue.
Another time I had to work with some from IT, when planing the project, 80% of their contributions were "this can't be done like that", and when asked "Ok, if not like this, how?" they answered "I don't know, but not like that"
Small exceptions when you get a decent worker in the hotline, but those are really due to the person itself, not to the policy and definitivelly not often.
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real life sometimes is even better.
We had a similar policy, with several annoying requests and 6 weeks validity. I wrote an E-mail to the big IT-Boss giving him a polite feedback about the "wtf are you thinking" policy they implemented because we were a company of industry programmers and we were mostly on the way.
Some weeks later...
A co-worker I trained had programmed a maschine that was shipped to the USA, got two weeks holidays, was ill for a week and then worked only a day doing burocracy things needed for the trip because the machine was about to arrive destination, so the laptop remained switched off. He next day went to the airport, switched the laptop on, connected to the VPN and checked emails and so on. Boarding, arriving, checking in the hotel, have a shower... try to continue writing emails. He can't log in. Big "???" in his face. Try everything he can... nothing.
He called me (and woke me up) to explain me the problem, I tried to manage the issue from the company next morning. I was pretty sure where the problem was, when he checked the emails at the airport through VPN the server had set the flag of "password expired", but being out of company net, the prompt communicating it didn't come. Having notifying nothing, windows didn't care and blocked itself on its own due to domain policy.
Speaking with the IT people...
- IT: He should get a prompt to reset the password when booting up.
- Me: He doesn't, he is not in company network
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- IT: I have unblocked the user, he should be able to log in again.
- Me: No, he won't, because the windows is already locked and the laptop can't speak to the server without VPN to re-enable him.
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- IT: He could create a temporary local user
- Me: No, he can't. You have revoked our local admin privileges and he can't log into windows, because the OS is blocked as previously said (several times...)
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- IT: He could come by and we could unblock it with our super-admin user
- Me: He sits in an hotel in the US... a bit difficult. Would you share the password with us?
- IT: No way
End solution: Prepare another laptop and send it per post. (Over a week delay).
Collateral damage: The guy had to travel out of the country and in again because he had not enough time to do his job and would have had visa problems.
Some weeks later...
- Pissed off customer had complained about the delayments and wouldn't pay the extra days because the programmer was not even at the facility
- Project leader pissed off because of customer complainings
- Project controlling pissed off because of the extra costs and unpaid bills (bills that IMHO should not even exist, but that's another topic)
- Technical boss pissed off, because finance complaining about the fiasco
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When they started to ask us for questions... I gave them my complain to the CIO and his answer, a protocol of the conversation with the hotline and even a couple answers related that they didn't ask for (and I had to bite my tongue to avoid a "See? I told you" to a couple of people).
The only ones who weren't so much pissed off were the guy in the US because he got a week paid holiday without having to use days of his account and me. I just bought some popcorn and enjoyed the couple of weeks as much as I could.
Some weeks later. Password expiration changed to 6 months instead of 6 weeks and when a password expired, you would not be able to access / use company common resources and / or internet but at least you would still be able to use the laptop offline.
Local admin rights were re-stablished a couple of months later due to another situation in the same lines...
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modified 3-Jan-23 5:23am.
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I'm hoping that CIO was fired for thinking IT security trumps all other considerations. It doesn't. It does need to be worked into the system but in such a way that it doesn't interfere with normal operations.
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He didn't. wasn't. He eventually left time before I went.
I visited the company last year, 6 years after I left... what a pity. Only 3 people still there from my time, there were no laughs at all (we were laughing A LOT), people looked between sad and mad...
And when one of the ones I still knew (lucky event since that was his last day) explained what had happened in the meantime... Oh man, am I happy that I left when I did.
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modified 3-Jan-23 16:46pm.
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This is a perfect explanation of "how technology _really_ works!"
Fantastic story. Thanks for sharing.
Love the parts where IT is like, "he can just..." over and over.
They never get to a place where they understand unintended consequences. Blithely they roll on.
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Just restart the pc all fixed
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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