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Somewhat surprised to not see this mentioned here or in the Lounge. Dr. Frederick P. Brooks died on 17 November.
The obit/article doesn't mention it, but for those that don't place the name right off, he was the author of the Mythical Man Month, as well as quite a few other accomplishments.
RIP
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The San Francisco Police Department submitted a proposal that would give robots the ability to use deadly force in dangerous situations. "Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply."
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mmm... how very American of them. I guess would make for good scifi thriller slice of life novel!
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San Francisco - Homeless encampments everywhere, human feces on the streets, and killer robots.
Really makes you want to visit.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Del Spooner is turning over in the shelf
There is going to be a big: "I told you"
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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I think they should adhere to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics[^]. Any application of force of any kind should be by a human via remote operation, but that's just my opinion.
"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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Detaching the human from the act is the same, it's the reason nazis invented the gas chambers instead of simply shooting their victims: the soldiers couldn't process killing in cold blood and ended up suicidal, maniacs or heavily intoxicated. By inserting a layer of separation between action and consequence they managed what they did.
And with the US police force track record of straight up murders I wouldn't trust them with a NERF gun let alone a killer robot.
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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Intel's Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs to activate additional features on demand. Insert 10p to finish that calculation
I'm sure no one will figure out how to spoof those.
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buy a top of the line car, has all the options in it. but if only paying $20k, then it will only run max 60kph, radio and cd player wont work. power steering off. electric windows wont work. and remote key door open wont work
but its all there for you when you want to pay more.
Isn't this like the binning they do with chips already, where say can say these are i3 so run at this rate, and these are "better" so i7, but same wafer just some baked better then the others, so you can throttle if want to make an i3 match i7, just not guaranteed
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maze3 wrote: Isn't this like the binning they do with chips already, where say can say these are i3 so run at this rate, and these are "better" so i7, but same wafer just some baked better then the others, so you can throttle if want to make an i3 match i7, just not guaranteed
Not quite. The idea, if I understand it correctly, is that you will be able to apply new features on the fly. For example, assuming that you need AES calculations for one month of intensive work, you will be able to buy a basic chip and have AES enabled for a month, after which the chip will revert to its basic state.
I can think of a few ways to do this, some of which are not so easy to break/spoof.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Too bad "activate additional features on demand" doesn't work with people.
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.NET 7 was freshly released but Microsoft does not sleep. .NET 8 is already in the making and I want to showcase to you one new area where the dotnet team is working on Frozen collections. "Winter is coming"
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wow...
I have one question, why is there such benefit?
I ask because I wonder how to intuit an improvement in my own codebase with such an unobvious trick (or other)!!!!
EDIT oops, got it, the frozen collection is a set, duh, obvious...
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Super Lloyd wrote: EDIT oops, got it, the frozen collection is a set, duh, obvious...
Indeed. The benchmark at the end of the article is meaningless; the author should be comparing ToHashSet to ToFrozenSet instead.
"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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Next: Popsicle-Collection
Data melts according to your choice(s) from a flagged Enum with 15 values.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I can see where this is going. await thaw(frozenSet);
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one could use a microwave, wait, I mean .NET MicroFramework!
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The example and the accompanying text are just plain broken:
List<int> normalList = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3 }; and then the following output:
List count: 4 Er, no, the Count property must have the value 3, or a metric ton of code in the world is now completely broken.
Stupid excreta like this remove all credibility from an article.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Speaking at Gophercon 2022, the principal engineer for the Go programming language vowed that the Go will never not be backward compatible. By never collecting $200?
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Millions of phones with Mali GPUs are at risk from exploits months after ARM issued a fix, Project Zero suggests. They really need to talk to that company
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They really need to talk to that company As if it was only a problem about Google...
It is not that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. At some companies not even the fingers in the same hand know what the other is doing.
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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'This is why we test', says NASA chief after contact is regained with spaceship in lunar orbit. Don't interrupt while it's watching its show!
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So did the aliens change it out?
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