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Sung to "Video killed the radio star". Just to put that in your head for the rest of the day 
With the rise of AI, it seems to me that many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits. Many with the same exact wording and same tables of contents. With some questions, it's tough to locate a real website that has factual answers. It certainly varies with the question or topic, but it feels like it is on the increase. Had some where those make up the top handful of sites.
So, will these become a battle of AI, with search engines AI removing or deprioritizing those or maybe the sites will up their own AI game to get around the SE algorithms?
Strikes me as ironic, we'll see whose AI is better than whose. And if you don't have the song in your head, here it is for you The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) - YouTube[^]
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This seems to be the trend on Microsoft. It started with generic canned responses (maybe a backdoor prototype AI) that I always felt were off and general useless. Now when I am looking for technical info, it smells like Microsoft's AI. I suppose it's the next evolution of search engines.
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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MikeCO10 wrote: ...many search results are now AI generated answers on websites following recipes designed to garner ad hits...
Isn't that the same recipe Google has been using for years?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I was reading the newspaper yesterday (yes the paper version) and saw a story about undergrads designing and building a small satellite that NASA will launch into orbit. I was thinking how awesome it would've been to be a part of something like that in my college days. Kudo's to the people involved. 
NASA to launch UChicago undergraduates’ satellite | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | The University of Chicago[^]
"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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Would have been great to be a part of something like that.
I believe NASA has lauched quite a few school projects... even one by high school students from India. Good on them to work with students everywhere 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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ChandraRam wrote: Good on them to work with students everywhere
100% agree.
"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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Bad news is it's a year and a half off, and the announcement was probably only made to shore up the Take Two Interactive after a loss of $2.9bn in the last financial quarter[^] ... so I'd say it's probably inaccurate - it'll slip back given how the long time frame implies there is a lot of work still to do.
Damn it! I was looking forward to that early next year. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well Dragon age inquisition GOTY edition is free on epic this week. May help pass some of that wait time. 
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I love DA, I think there are too many collection quests in DAI though (same fault as Mass Effect Andromeda).
I'm back in Fallout mode though, tossed in 120 hours this month between FO3 and FO4.
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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I saw the headlines but didn't bother reading any of the details.
I'm assuming this is as per previous releases, where the console releases get preferential treatment, and the PC port only comes out a year or so later. Then add a few more months for the show-stopping bugs to get patched...
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Update: Turns out I did have it after all. I forgot the name of the project, or rather I misremembered it as something else. A friend turned me on to his copy, which was old, but gave me the proper name. Looked through my ex-system drive and there it was! woot
In a rare moment of total frustration and exasperation with my code, I deleted an entire project and abandoned it totally. I think. I may have just stashed it, but I probably deleted it. Either way I can't find it.
Today, I tracked down a bug in a library that that project used. I want to resurrect that project, because it was freezing the same way this bug caused. This was maybe 6 months ago, and I didn't have a ready way to track the bug - the old project was too complicated. Well, maybe I fixed it. I don't know now.
The project was really cool - it allowed you to pick and choose whatever statistics about your PCs hardware you wanted, and spit them to a display connected via USB. Which you can hang on your wall.
This is what it looked like, except this one is fixed in terms of what it displays - you can't choose. And even though it works on large displays, it only shows a small amount of information - so that it will work on small displays as well.
Image of ESP Mon 2 - a precursor to the project I'm talking about[^]
I want you to be able to choose what to display. I never delete my code. Why did I do it here? I remember being absolutely beside myself with frustration - the kind that doesn't come around that often so that's why I think I deleted it.  
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
modified yesterday.
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We can all breath a sigh of relief!!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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...and you deleted all your daily backups?
(ducks and runs)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It was a personal project, and I think I wasn't sure enough about it to make a github repo for it yet. It hadn't really matured to that point, or at least that was probably my reasoning at the time. Anyway, I found it after all. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It takes awhile to get through, but it's entertaining the whole way. This will give any mechanical engineer the warm fuzzies.
MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION - YouTube[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Amazing! How can someone even imagine that?!!
Really is Genius in a specific realm being displayed.
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