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Curiously, he talks about it specifically for AI programmers.
The article links to an oath drafted by a prof and his students, which contains some things that are vague or even naive.
It's mostly virtue signalling and a waste of time. "Do no harm" is simple, but now people feel compelled to write reams of nonsense. Getting everyone to agree on it would be difficult, but the only alternative is to ram it through. What would happen to anyone who then objected to certain provisions?
It would also make it impossible for many governments to staff certain projects, which would be a big plus. But they'd all be de facto or de jure exempt anyway, so what's the point?
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We need a Hippocratic Oath for company presidents, specifically Brad Smith.
(Hey, Brad, you have a product called Windows. Ever heard of it?)
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A clever phishing scam is targeting cPanel users with a fake security advisory alerting them of critical vulnerabilities in their web hosting management panel. CPanel. CPanel secure. Run, CPanel, run!
I blame Monday for that blurb.
"In addition to a well-worded email with little or no grammar and spelling issues..." <- They are getting clever!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with little or no grammar and spelling issues
The author doesn't himself know if there are any issues? He has the text, what's the problem? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The dwarf planet Ceres—long believed to be a barren space rock—is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday. Anyone have Kevin Costner's phone number? We can send him to explore.
He's got experience dealing with these things.
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My dad not interested until we can go fishing there 
And yes, would be fair. Evolution says so.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Almost half the developers responding to a data quality survey by SD Times and Melissa indicated they are responsible for managing the quality of the data their applications rely on. I am not responsible for the data quality of the survey
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How many of those know about Normalization, and the results of not doing so?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Normalization
And what about Transactions...?
"If something crashes between statement 1 and statement 2, there will be some inconsistency in the database ... don't know how to handle that ..." said the guy doing a major restructuring of our database...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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With a server running 24/7 I obviously wanted protection against any loss of the mains supply. "Occasionally-interruptible Power Supply" just doesn't have the same ring to it though
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Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. If only tHere were some easy-To-Make and wideLy supported alternative
Subliminal mind control FTW (at least in some situations)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If only tHere were some easy-To-Make and wideLy supported alternative
You mean something like HTML5?
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Proof subliminal advertising works! 
TTFN - Kent
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Also unfit to work with from a programmer's perspective.
It's very specialized and most companies that offer PDF tooling charge a month salary a year.
Just printing a PDF document can be a daunting task (a few years ago, the only free option was by using Adobe Acrobat Reader according to several SO threads back then)... 
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It's as if they gave your a hint in the name. *cough*PutridDisgustingFailure*cough*
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The research explains a way around the main obstacle for building large-scale quantum computers, noise. Quantum noise is my next band's name
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Is your current band called Classical Noise?
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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It consists of one bassoon, and triangle. We're working on it.
TTFN - Kent
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You need more cowbell!
"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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The company sold its remaining shares of its PC business to Sharp In memory of some decent laptops I owned (over a decade ago)
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Researchers have developed a new algorithm for solving a common class of problem—known as linear inverse problems—by breaking them down into smaller tasks What? Break complex problems into smaller pieces? Let me write this down
It's a good thing we have these brilliant researchers out there.
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I think I detected some sarcasm in there, but I'm not sure. Could you break it down for me?
(Now let me think. How many 'roll eyes' are appropriate?)
+infinity
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Tech Xplore: A new way to address common computing problem
Seriously? have we already filled the IPv6 Address range that we need a new way to address IoT Devices problems?
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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In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code. Because it might be useful to ... someone?
I figured maybe someone who isn't Instagram might find it helpful. Maybe?
Or maybe Instagram is subscribed?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.
The remaining 77.6% of the bugs are still on the loose.
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