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(Not clicking that.)
I consider myself among the, "other professional thinking persons", mentioned by Douglas Adams.
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Pretty cool
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Midjourney does make some lovely art though (IMO)
Yeah... some of the images are pretty impressive.
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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They hanged the artist, not the painting?
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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When the host shows the "None of this was drawn by hand" part. I noticed that the AI can only draw one kind of nose. All the female faces had the same shaped nose.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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...IBM PC. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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In some respects doesn't seem like 41 years and in other ways it seems like forever.
We've come a long way baby! 
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Mike, I find it hard to believe that Machine Head, Ziggy Stardust, Thick As A Brick, Honky Chateau, Harvest and Demons & Wizards were released half a century ago! 
/ravi
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Yeah I hear ya.
Recently decided to start collecting vinyl again and my first album was; "Wish You Were Here", released on 12 September 1975.
There's nothing like vinyl.
Also got this[^]
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Ha, yesterday I made a remark to a colleague who showed a photo of his airconditioning in repair:
"Welcome to the Machine" 
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The GX-630D looks awesome! ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif)
/ravi
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It is an awesome machine. Haven't had a reel-to-reel in many years, realizing how much I miss having one.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Ha, That's nothing! I've been released even before that, although to less public acclaim 
Mircea
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It literally changed the world.
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Without it most of us wouldn't have jobs.
Happy Birthday IBM PC!
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Without it most of us wouldn't have jobs.
True, dat!
/ravi
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A team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University, in Austria, has developed a series of tiny, steerable electromechanical robots that can walk, run, jump and swim at high speeds for their size. Are they to control tiny gazelle robots?
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Yes, but a cheetah, or even a turtle, can still outrun them.
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For more than a decade I have been thundering against a lot of the bad practices that have permeated the software development industry, one such practice is to blindly trust code when using third party libraries, frameworks or packages. Can I get an "amen"?
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Quote: No matter how important it is for the client or the company to get working code delivered fast, you have to teach them that this practice just doesn't work, and that they have misunderstood something, because this is not how real software is made!
For some reason I wouldn't think that they could give a ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) how real software is made.
"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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jeron1 wrote: I wouldn't think that they could give a [mastadon] how real software is made.
You are, unfortunately, correct. 
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: jeron1 wrote:I wouldn't think that they could give a [mastadon] how real software is made.
You are, unfortunately, correct.
Also, like most people, I do not know much about how a real car is made. Or a recliner. Or spaghetti. I saw a couple TV programs about how pork is made and how chicken are made; they almost made me a vegetarian.
I really shouldn't have to worry about how the software I buy is made - no more than I worry about how my coffee machine or SLR camera is made. I shouldn't have to. The manufacturers should have a professional pride that made it unnecessary for me to worry; I should trust him.
Unfortunately, we haven't been given our customers very good reasons to trust us (I have been in software development myself all my professional life). If we have any professional pride to talk of, it relates to benchmark tests. Or SW development related things, such as which programming languages have been used (e.g. reflecting the initial of the language in the product initial) - as if the customer cared. Out of a hundred thousand customers, how many will really make use of the 'open source' that we promote so eagerly?
How often do you see 'qualities' of the software promoted as a sales point - in the sense of qualities actually requested by customers? To me, the the majority of "What's new in this version" lists resemble the front pages of tabloid newspapers. They are eye catchers (or, let's use the modern term: click baits) that really doesn't reflect very much of importance to the customers.
I cannot stand up for myself and my co-workers (at any of the places I have worked) and declare that we are esteemed craftsmen, taking pride in satisfying the customer quality requirements. We satisfy customers enough to sell the product. Not much more.
It has been like this ever since I was a student, and C (with no checking whatsoever on out-of-bounds array index checking) pushed out Pascal (where you had to explicitly turn off index checking): The student group was split into two camps, the C camp insisting that we couldn't waste resources on such luxury - it would cause the program to grow in size and run slower. The Pascal camp gradually dwindled away ... and hasn't ever risen. (It is less than a year since I last met the argument against C# that bounds checking makes the code run unacceptably slow; C is the only option if you want 'optimal' speed.)
So I fully support Unix Sheik. But this is our responsibility. We must give the customer good reasons for trusting the quality of our work; it is not his responsibility to relate to our work practices. No more than for coffee machines, spaghetti or cars.
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