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Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming. But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Now you can code on the system that will take away your job coding!
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A recent survey has found that employees need more learning and growth opportunities to stop them from hopping between jobs. Does this mean I have to figure out what colour my parachute is again?
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A recent survey has found that employees need more learning and growth opportunities to stop them from sleeping between jobs.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Kent Sharkey wrote: what colour my parachute is again?
You have a parachute?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does this mean I have to figure out what colour my parachute is again?
If it's golden, make sure that's due to the metal and not it being left in the latrine at some point. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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... and that it's not fool's gold. 
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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Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay up. Aw, Jeez. Your gonna wanna fix this one up. Okay?
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The current .NET trends are highly related to Microsoft’s releases and new features. However, many trends are driven by independent frameworks and open-source technology. For those who are trendy
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.NET 7 provides improved support for running .NET on WebAssembly in JavaScript-based apps, including a rich JavaScript interop mechanism. Because sometimes you just don't want your web application to work everywhere
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Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two files are identical. And this blurb contains its own blurb
It's apparently an exercise for the reader to determine why it's a big deal.
I mean, sure, it's neat, but ...???
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Might it be another example of "only because you can..."?
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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It means that you can potentially be able to create arbitrary content that prints a desired MD5 - quite a big deal if said MD5 is used to authenticate a library, update or executable for example.
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
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Denis,
This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
MD5 collision generation
PDF, DOC, ZIP and executables have already been publicly demonstrated. I would argue that images are easiest, you can use the EXIF block and leave the image data untouched.
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Randor wrote: This has actually been possible for around 15 years now. Not even sure why it made the news.
I'm glad for that since I didn't know it 
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
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I recommend avoiding SHA-1 as well. 
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I recommend avoiding cylinder locks in e.g. doors and padlocks. It has been shown, many years ago and numerous times, that such locks can be picked. So they are quite useless - in practice, anyone who wants to walk in your front door, or take the driver's seat in your car, or start its engine, can do so even if the door, or engine, was locked.
Cylinder locks have no value and should be abandoned. Maybe forbidden.
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M.C. Escher would be proud.
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A simple and powerful framework for ironing out confusing code. Is that the one where you can only paste some code if it's been in the copy buffer for six seconds?
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I find this article interesting. In good UI design, it's known that the human brain can instantly pick out an item in a list of up to seven items. More than seven requires scanning (think index seek vs. table scan in SQL). This article points to a deeper underpinning by using a similar rule - six items at a time for human cognition.
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On Monday, as part of the DART mission, NASA will send a spacecraft to collide with Dimorphos, a never-before-seen asteroid. Here is how you can watch it happen live. People only watch this stuff for the crashes
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Yep - definitely want to see the crash. It will be interesting to see whether NASA was able to move this asteroid, which is the intent of this test.
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It’s more important than typing speed or your data structures knowledge. It’s more important than math, coding language knowledge, or perhaps even more important than knowing how to Google. Whatever. What he said.
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I thought it was understanding foreign languages as "Project manager", "Boss", "executive", "Marketing" and similars
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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