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The other day I came across my old copy of "Synthetic programming of the 41CX" in my basement. I was tempted to pick it up for studying it, but one small problem is that the 41CX uses a battery size that you won't find in very many stores today; I have to mail order them. I am not sure if I ever owned a net adapter for it; if I did, I certainly cannot tell where it is today. Knowing that the calculator, the ordinary handbook and the synthetic programming booklet is still there provides enough satisfaction at the moment.
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Learned programming on a TI-59. Then I went on and created a full complex number calculator on my HP-41CV (yes it took that much memory).
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We at JetBrains run the Developer Ecosystem Survey yearly to capture the zeitgeist of the development world. You are here: 2022 edition
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Microsoft says this week's five-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by a router IP address change that led to packet forwarding issues between all other routers in its Wide Area Network (WAN). Which explains why it took five hours to change the setting back?
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Yeah - they had to drive to a remote location, or at least that's what the tech claimed.
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Almost everyone wants AI to automate mundane tasks. Everyone wants a big red button to do their job (until it does their job)
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I suspect the survey mainly went out to people who would be satisfied with this simple AI:
while (goldenParachute < wayToEffinMuch) ++goldenParachute;
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Today: I want more AI
Next year: Stupid AI just got me laid off
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That's one of the pitfalls of asking for Artificial Intelligence when you, yourself, are only artificially intelligent.
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There are plenty of reasons you might find yourself in a big unfamiliar codebase "There was so much to grok, so little to grok from."
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Valentine Michael Smith might have something to say about this.
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Am I living life wrong way? I cannot think of one situation where I would need my oven to be remotely operated or connected to internet.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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dan!sh wrote: I cannot think of one situation where I would need my oven to be remotely operated or connected to internet. You're just not trying hard enough. Imagine the following:
It's the night before [insert big holiday] and you're hosting your extended family - think siblings, parents, squirrelly cousins, etc... even your greasy uncle Frank. Suddenly your "significant other" calls with an emergency, you need to drive 4 hours (each way) to pick up their cat (Muffins). You grab your keys and fire up the land yacht [1994 Plymouth Voyager] but not before popping a freshly thawed 27 pound [12.247 kg] turkey into your deluxe WiFi oven. At the same time you reach Muffins [turkey practically covered in microbes and other beasties by now], the oven tries to turn on to 375F [190.556C]. You get a panicked notification from your oven app that a required update is needed. You press YES on the 14 "Are you sure?" requests and nearly miss a curve. You jerk the wheel to save the mini-van and Muffin flies across the 3rd row seat and nearly out the back window [that conveniently folds out for your ventilation pleasure]. You arrive home just in time to carve the turkey before the family arrives. Turns out a 27 pound turkey is not enough to feed everyone so you politely eat vegetables instead. 6 hours later the phone calls and texts start pouring in as your family starts heading to their local emergency rooms.
See??? The Wifi oven was your best friend today. It saved [insert big holiday], Muffins and you while convincing your family never to let you host again.
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Wouldn't it need to heat up first before you put sh*t in?
I always have to preheat the oven, or she be cranky.
Who does a Wellington from umpteem miles away and starting at room temp? How long has that meat been sitting there at room temp anyway?
No. No. People would die. You can't have an oven where people are supposed to leave chicken for two days to turn it on over the internet. No.
No?
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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It might kill 1/5 of the planet.
Proceed?
[X] YES
[ ] No
Aight, go ahead with chicken in them remote controlled ovens; you deserve a bit of luxury!!
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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My oven isn't connected to internet (unless it has a secret connection - I doubt that it has). Yet it isn't completely dumb. E.g. it insist knowing the baking time before starting. After the time has run out and the alarm has sounded, it turns off the heat. If I have fallen asleep, not hearing the alarm, I might wake up to a dark brown and rather crispy pizza, but not a coal black one, and my house has not been set on fire. That smartness I welcome.
Usually, I heat the oven before baking. I don't need any remote control for that: If I turn on the 'Fast preheat' option, it reaches its maximum temperature (300°C/572°F) in about nine minutes. It usually takes me more time to prepare what I put into the oven. (Besides, I rarely need it that hot!). I don't need it any faster.
I was working for a company making Bluetooth SoC chips that went into the craziest products. We had an exhibit of some of them in our reception hall; among them a rice cooker. We never found out how a rice cooker could make use of a Bluetooth chip. The internet ads from the company making them said something about internet access to recipes, but we never learned how the rice cooker would interpret the recipes it could retrieve.
Another product in the exhibit, we did find out how works: A Bluetooth-equipped fork. It comes with a knife, at USD 99.95 for the pair, but the knife has no BT. The fork has an accelerometer, and if the application in the chip registers that you lift the fork up to your mouth with shorter intervals than considered healthy, a report is sent (here is where Bluetooth comes in) to you smartphone, sounding a buzzer to warn you to eat more slowly.
I can manage without that kind of smartness. In fact, the great majority of the chips we sold went into things that could hardly be said to improve the world. Or save it. Unless you consider a buzzer in your pocket telling you to eat more slowly to be contribution to save the world.
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The agency claims the infiltration has thwarted over $130 million in ransom demands. Are they going to ransom the criminals back to the gang?
One down, way too many to go
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Sadly, they didn't arrest a soul. They'll be back at it before you can say "Kevin Mitnick".
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A British man who planned to have a "robot lawyer" help a defendant fight a traffic ticket has dropped the effort after receiving threats of possible prosecution and jail time. "Why won't sharks attack lawyers?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Why won't sharks attack lawyers?" probably because they don't want to get an indigestion ... poor sharks
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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Professional Courtesy
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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We have a winner!
TTFN - Kent
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Yet another interest group that uses the government to prevent competition.
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