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Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering—finding a clever way to phrase their query to a large language model (LLM) or AI art or video generator to get the best results (or sidestep protections). Just let the computer do it
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Developers are still spending too much time on troubleshooting application performance issues, rendering them incapable of spending enough time on innovation and other productive work, new research has claimed. Nothing up this sleeve, nothing up that sleeve...
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The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS. SELECT * FROM table not enough?
You mean, sometimes all data isn't tabular? :boggle:
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The app is developed by a small group of Microsoft engineers based in Asia, and it’s now getting a big update with an improved “Files Cleanup,” which lets you free up space more easily. I'm sure it will delete files as reliably as Windows Update fixes things
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Navigating the Multilingual Landscape of Software Development Yes
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The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them? It's all fun-and-games until the magnets come out
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Developing software in teams is not the be-all end-all solution. In fact, there are some issues that arise strictly from the fact that we have a team. Team work makes the nightmare work
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Microsoft has quietly started testing an intriguing change to the Windows 11 Start menu that could introduce a floating panel full of “companion” widgets. Because everyone loves the widgets
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Despite overall generous salaries, a lack of raises and falling cybersecurity budgets are leading to dissatisfaction among chief information security officers (CISOs) when it comes to compensation. Time to get the tiny violins out
You can play them while the CISO tells you to ignore the latest 0-day alerts that are currently being targeted on your application/site.
"average total compensation for tech CISOs is $710,000, with a median of $440,000"
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Ethan Zuckerman vs Mark Zuckemberg: it Zucks.
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Zucker-man vs Zucker-berg: man vs mountain  .
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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Where can I get mine? 
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Make creative retro game sprites on the Commodore 64 with generative AI. Why spend big money getting an AI computer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why spend big money getting an AI computer?
Still more useful than a big number of "scientific" studies that consume big money too.
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 had free access to GitHub Copilot for about a year, I used it, got used to it, and slowly started to take it for granted, until one day it was taken away Because your mileage always varies
modified 3 days ago.
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Similar to get used to drive for a long while with an automatic geared motor and then go back to manual clutch and gears.
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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For many, this would be like using Resharper and then having it removed.
Or, can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?! 
I (and most of you probably) remember the old days of looking at the Windows API tool to figure out the params that a method took.
Lessee...what does the WNDCLASS Struct have in it?
typedef struct tagWNDCLASSA {
UINT style;
WNDPROC lpfnWndProc;
int cbClsExtra;
int cbWndExtra;
HINSTANCE hInstance;
HICON hIcon;
HCURSOR hCursor;
HBRUSH hbrBackground;
LPCSTR lpszMenuName;
LPCSTR lpszClassName;
} WNDCLASSA, *PWNDCLASSA, *NPWNDCLASSA, *LPWNDCLASSA;
Or yeah, how about CreateWindow which you use all the time? 
HWND CreateWindowA(
[in, optional] lpClassName,
[in, optional] lpWindowName,
[in] dwStyle,
[in] x,
[in] y,
[in] nWidth,
[in] nHeight,
[in, optional] hWndParent,
[in, optional] hMenu,
[in, optional] hInstance,
[in, optional] lpParam
);
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I am just really not sure. Can someone be such an advanced programmer (or such a bad programmer) that they install an AI assistant tool, and then it never prompts them with greyed-out text because they're just that good (or that bad)?
I've used ReSharper AI Assistant, but I am not sure what I am getting for my $10 per month. OK, every so often it saves me a little typing here and there, but more of its sophisticated suggestions seem way off of what I'm intending to write.
And, for prompting it, it seems like it's on the level of GPT 3.5...I mean, I can just hop on over to https://chat.openai.com and type my prompt in there, and it knows tons of programming...I don't understand why I also need it inside my IDE.
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Inside your IDE, it has context. Suppose you have a bare bones public method and you want to validate your inputs, and then write tests to check this works as you would expect. This is a lot more convenient if it's inside the tool you are using.
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raddevus wrote: can you imagine suddenly having no Intellisense!?!
Nope. But then again, in the 90's there were books for this stuff. Can you imagine the # of books that would be needed nowadays, given the frameworks, libraries, packages? And every day UPS would drop off new books because the old books you got last week are already obsolete!
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I've been working a list of vulnerabilities reported by a code scanner.
AI can supposedly look at a whitepaper and then write code to exploit a vulnerability.
Can you point it at a repo and have it fix any code allowing the exploit?
I'm not sure it even requires fancy AI/ML to parameterize SQL.
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A new report from Fortinet shows that the second half of 2023 saw attackers increase the speed with which they capitalized on newly publicized vulnerabilities. Efficiency is good, no?
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I would be interested in the statistics that compare the number of publicized vulnerabilities...
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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How will you distinguish between a low level of detected vulnerabilities and a low level of vulnerabilities?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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