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Kent Sharkey wrote: When you want that job enough to get an AI to send an email
When a company wants new workers enough to get an AI to sort the messages or the CVs
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Ah, software estimation - the bane of many developers’ existence and the scourge of project managers everywhere. Estimate it, then double it, then double it again, then through it out as you blow past the deadline
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You are not so far from correct...
The last estimation for a deadline I did for my boss when I was working in the industrial automation was:
My estimation
Factor 1.1x as buffer
Factor 1.25x for interruptions by customer workers asking me to solve their problems or to help them brainstorming
Factor 1.5x for having to train new co-workers
Factor 1.5x for having so many roles in the project (project manager, field leader, only robot programmer, main plc programmer, trainer, consultant...) that I would have difficulties to just do my work
We finished 5 weeks before deadline (over a year project)
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I always knew it as "Double your estimate number, then apply the next larger unit of measurement."
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"Mr Scott, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?" 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nearly a quarter of the world’s jobs will be disrupted in the coming five years, the latest report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found. So pick a job in the other 77%
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My job in five years won't be impacted by automation. No one can automate retirement. 
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I am officially envious  
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You hope.
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.
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That has been a joke for the past 250 years
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Google is rolling out support for passkeys for Google Accounts across all services and platforms, allowing users to sign into their Google accounts without entering a password or using 2-Step Verification (2SV) when logging in. Where do I get a passkey that says, "P@ssword1"?
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I've got some for sale. They work especially well, but I will need your banking info, SSN, DOB, etc...
Hurry before they are all gone!
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After The Insider News[^] not sure if I want to renounce to my passwords 
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Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. You trying to start something, punk?
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They have probably noticed that promoting competition with a nice price between 10000 startups and then buying a good number of them is still cheaper than buying a single viral successful startup
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Sssssh! That's supposed to be a secret! 
TTFN - Kent
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The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a tool that helps you upgrade your application to the latest .NET and migrate from the older platforms such as Xamarin Forms and UWP to newer offerings. "Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology"
The question is... do you have the people with the skills too? And managers that leave the devs do their job?
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Microsoft and boffins say don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised Plus, the cat gets to live
What about a quantum NVidia GPU? Huh? Gotcha there, didn't they?
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While many fear a future where AI-generated media becomes indistinguishable from traditional media, destroying society and/or civilization in the process, we aren't quite there yet. Exhibit A comes in the form of a surreal AI-generated beer commercial that went viral over the weekend.
Go home AI, you're drunk!
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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And then they came for the advertising agencies, and having watched the last Superbowl installments, everyone cheered our new robot overlords on.
modified 2-May-23 21:30pm.
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Two sad things:
- #1 Dan Neely wrote: Exhibit A comes in the form of a surreal AI-generated beer commercial that went viral over the weekend.
- #2 That there have already been comercials in the last years that probably were as surreal or bizarre as the AI generated one (and I have not even see it).
 
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It can't do any worse than Anheuser-Busch's latest commercials. Talk about completely missing your target market.
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Windows borked a feature that let you change your default browser, and some users saw popups every time they opened Chrome. It's the 1990s again for Microsoft. Just another weekday ending in a 'y'
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