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Reading that post, I can't help but think, things are way more complicated than they need to be.
Maybe I'm just an old deprecated developer, but whatever happened to just wires and chips to connect things, rather than all this bloated Unix software in every device? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: whatever happened to just wires and chips to connect things, rather than all this bloated Unix software in every device?
I'm sorry, but I must disagree in part.
A full-blown Unix (or Linux) system is overkill for many tasks, but paring it down to the bare minimum is surprisingly difficult. How do you handle the case of a router that also provides printer and storage ports? At the very least you need:
- Networking services
- Printing services incl. spooling
- Disk I/O
- Auto-mounting for filesystems
- Sharing (possibly incl. security)
And to manage all of this, the easiest tool to implement is a Web interface, so we need a Web server as well
About the only thing you definitely don't need is a graphical desktop!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Google Analytics was the go-to analytics tool. It set the standard, we all learned on it, and we all used it. But Google Analytics 4? It’s a nightmare. I’ve tried to figure it out for weeks and it’s just…confusing. GA4: "Come with me if you want to live and lose some of your historical GA data."
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Texas A&M University–Commerce seniors who have already graduated were denied their diplomas because of an instructor who incorrectly used AI software to detect cheating "In other news, a professor was fired for using ChatGPT to do his job."
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Why do I feel, that this won'T be the last news on this topic? and that it will probably go even more south?
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Because you're not an idiot. I was talking to a friend the other day about this very thing. Students can just drop a query in and let the report be generated. People are working on AI to detect AI generated papers. It goes on and on...
Years ago, I worked in electronic warfare. It was always a responsive environment - reminds me of this.
The sad part is - and I hope at least one student reads this - the purpose of papers is to force you to research, learn, teach yourself, organize your thoughts. You NEED this training. Don't go to the dark side.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: he purpose of papers is to force you to research, learn, teach yourself, organize your thoughts. You NEED this training.
I've worked with people from places where cultural pressures to succeed in school far outweigh any ethics. Get to a certain point regardless of how is somewhat standard operating procedure unfortunately. I witnessed this many years ago in college.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Completely agree. My point was that real knowledge >> grades. My best classes were where I got a B or a C but busted my butt. We will see the results of this over time. But I'm approaching the end of my career.
A very long time ago I worked with a s/w guy who came across as whip smart. He knew all about Windows. I had to write the code to simulate a linear feed back line.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: My best classes were where I got a B or a C but busted my butt
 Ditto.
charlieg wrote: real knowledge >> grades.
Could not agree more, though in some places, grades >> damn near everything, unfortunately.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sean Ewington wrote: In other news, a professor was fired for using ChatGPT to do his job.
I hope this idiot gets fired for this move, even if he's tenured. The firing would be for flagrant academic misconduct, which is about the only way to fire a tenured professor.
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Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features using Google’s most advanced family of code models, Codey. And other things we hope increase our share price.
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Sean Ewington wrote: And other things we hope increase our share price.
Only if it doesn't get canceled in the pipeline or short after...
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At this point int time, the phrase, "AI coding features" is perilously close to an oxymoron.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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There’s a problem with the Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2, with a fix on the way for those still using the aging smart plug. The S in IoT stands for Security.
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Sean Ewington wrote: The S in IoT stands for Security.
Are you sure? I thought it stood for "sh*tty" (at least in most of them)
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Astronomers have discovered 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet Saturn.
The satellite haul brings the planet's total number of moons to over 100 and also means the gas giant takes back the crown as the solar system's "moon king" from Jupiter. Sorry, Jupiter.
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.NET 8 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Oooo look at that change on Identity.
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Computing and creativity have always been linked. In the early 1800’s when Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, his friend Ada Lovelace wrote in a letter that, if music could be expressed to the engine, then it “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” Flashes me back to a time when I would change my Dad's autoexec.bat with random values and stop his (powerful) 486 from booting.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Flashes me back to a time when I would change my Dad's autoexec.bat with random values and stop his (powerful) 486 from booting.
You little evil...  Could he manage to "repair" it?
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Guidance enables you to control modern language models more effectively and efficiently than traditional prompting or chaining. Guidance programs allow you to interleave generation, prompting, and logical control into a single continuous flow matching how the language model actually processes the text. Part of me can't help but feel like this is essentially reinventing the concept of programming languages: formal and precise syntax to perform specific tasks with guarantees.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Part of me can't help but feel like this is essentially reinventing the concept of programming languages: formal and precise syntax to perform specific tasks with guarantees.
Formal and precise syntax... are you sure that's the correct definition? Looking to some of the "languages" that are out there...
On the other hand... the defition didn't have the words "logical" and / or "reasonable" in it  
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I like to write, and occasionally I idly consider the possibility that I should do it for a living. Then I remind myself: writing is a structurally terrible job. Whatever dreams you have of living off of big checks from Random House and Vanity Fair: crush them now. Yea, but in all those Hallmark movies those writers have nice apartments in big cities and travel to exotic locations and then publish their own book at the end. Hallmark doesn't like, right?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Yea, but in all those Hallmark movies those writers have nice apartments in big cities and travel to exotic locations and then publish their own book at the end. Hallmark doesn't like, right?
I think I would have more possibilities to win the lottery (if I bought it)
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Apple on Tuesday previewed a handful of new features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac designed to boost cognitive, vision, hearing and mobility accessibility, ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Or they could have fixed some more accessibility bugs. That's cool too.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Or they could have fixed some more accessibility bugs. That's cool too.
Why do I have the feelng that they have they same bug-fixers than Microsoft? (a.k.a. none)
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