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Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, people may be more willing to trust a computer program than their fellow humans, especially if a task becomes too challenging, according to new research from data scientists at the University of Georgia. I think that I shall never see, a computer that lies as well as thee.
Thee's programs on the other hand... 
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"Do you accept my cookies?"
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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They clearly haven't heard of HAL9000, Skynet, The Architect, VIKI... or were never asked "Hello Dave, do you want to play a game?"
Or a bit more real stuff like (among others) the autumnal equinox incident.
Computers and algorithms are powerful tools that help us A LOT, no doubt on that.
But the ultimate usefulness or dangerousness of its usage is still something determined by the fellow humans because they are the ones programming the computers / developing the algorithms and we already have had plenty of examples of what they do...
On the other hand, the day that computers go so far that they auto-program themselves... then I really hope we don't come to the point of regretting it, because it will be too late.
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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Imagine a scenario where you’ve created a web application, be it built with ASP.NET Core or the Uno Platform for WebAssembly, for example, and it’s now time to hand it over to the Operations team so it can be made available to the world. Oh. That's what it's for.
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There's a new member in the pantheon of the worst-named companies in history. Introducing "Kyndryl." Ask your doctor if Kyndryl is right for you
Side effects may include swollen budgets, missed project deadlines, and frequent planning meetings
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I'm guessing the name "Sh*t we don't want" was taken.
How about Cruft?
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Ingenuity's team is dealing with a 'command sequence issue' with new flight control software. Is that the monthly security patches from Redmond?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is that the monthly security patches from Redmond?
That's what SkyNet wants you to think...
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A long-standing problem with .NET’s Base Class Library is the inability to separately represent date and time values. As part of .NET 6, the new DateOnly and TimeOnly classes seek to correct this oversight. Oh good - we'll have a new way to deal with time zone and date order problems
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For a moment[^] there, I thought you were being serious. 
"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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Hang on....
Quote: DateOnly and TimeOnly will not be implementing the Serializable attribute. In .NET Core and later, this attribute is considered to be deprecated, as are the serialization libraries that rely on it.
I had completely missed this bit of info.
<grumble> More work that I might have to do.
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In future versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has removed the venerable 'Administrative Tools' and added a new 'Windows Tools' control panel with almost double the number of tools promoted within it. You know what would be a great name for that? Control Panel
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Wordpad is among them, but I don't see Notepad.
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Jon Corbett's languages Cree# and Ancestral Code allow programming in Cree keywords using Cree concepts and metaphors. For those who may miss APL (and if you're still using APL - whaaaaaaat?)
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Quote: programmatic input is provided in story form using nehiyawewin syllabics
Um sure, no problem.....
"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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Software engineers have long faced excruciating interview processes involving unstructured, arbitrary exercises that seem rigged to catch them out. So why are they still putting up with it? "If both survive the lirpa, combat will continue with the ahn woon."
Or at the very least, the fight music.
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Amok Time!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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This blog post contains some useful links for developers who want to stay on the cutting edge of the C# programming language. There's v2.0 features I still haven't bothered with
OK, "How is a page with three links on it news?" Because it's two more links than me just posting a link to the vNext page. /shrug
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How many projects exists that are "cutting edge"?
Anything reliable is built on "proven".
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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Nuance's deep-learning-based speech recognition serves 77% of US hospitals. "Everybody's talking at me, I don't hear a word they're saying"
I originally saw a few headlines about the acquisition and thought, "who?" and "how much?!". Then I saw it was Dragon Dictate. Now I understand the price tag.
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So now in 77% of US hospitals the service will be on hold because of system update at least once a month...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A ransomware attack against conditioned warehousing and transportation provider Bakker Logistiek has caused a cheese shortage in Dutch supermarkets. OK, now they've gone too far
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We ran out of eggs also; there's some bird-flu and chickens not allowed out. So no free-range bird eggs. Causing people to buy lots of eggs, since bird-flu.
We'll have to live on steak only; sad, but no alternative.
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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