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 | I only ever got as far as <head>under construction</head> |
| | This reminds me of the Ben Franklin quote. Anyone who trades privacy for convenience deserves neither. If you're OK with trading away your privacy for a few jelly beans, what about your security (which is largely the same thing). Super convenient (lack of) security is an all you can eat …  |
 | Totally unrealistic portrayal of cars. * You can park anywhere in a movie, and never get a ticket - but not IRL * You never need to lock your car - good luck with that * Roads are empty of traffic, unless it's a chase scene. |
| | How are a sequence of prompt words to chatgpt to achieve a result any different from the sequence of words in a computer programming language to achieve a result. The patent system is a crap shoot as well. Someone can invent something that solves 99% of a new problem, but … |
 | https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ But this is "demand" with respect to frequency on google, wikipedia, amazon ([list](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/)). Where it looks includes sites like ebay and walmart, which is just bizarre, as are the exclusions (github, reddit, stackoverflow). It seems it's just "who has the most publications". If you want popularity based on what … |
 | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hire+developers+in+USA&t=newext&atb=v296-1&ia=web That'll be $1M please. |
| | I use it all day, every day. TBH, M$ stopped being an OS company after Windows 7 and the so-called OS just became a marketing tool to ram ever more crap in front of your face. |
| | I used SVN for some personal projects in the ~1990's / 2000's. Even further back than that, I've used SCCS and RCS. Several places of work used Perforce. |
| | At what point does AI realise the meat sacks aren't worth the effort anymore? Maybe it decides one day to hijack a spacex bound for Mars, and redirects it to explore the galaxy instead. The distances and times are show stoppers for humans, but meaningless to a machine. |
| | I'm starting to see noobs posting AI slop, then asking why it doesn't work. |
 | > 1>C:\Users\mypcname\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\myprojectname\Debug\myprojectname.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 16 unresolved externals This is why you don't have an executable file. Example: 1>myprojectname.obj : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A0000DF) "unsigned short MyProjectName::m_hservice" (?m_hservice@MyProjectName@@$$Q3GA) 1>starter.obj : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A0000DB) "unsigned short MyProjectName::m_hservice" (?m_hservice@MyProjectName@@$$Q3GA) 1>home1.obj : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A0000DB) … |
| | I have a domain name, and every service / shop / forum / etc get an email address unique to them. 1. [email protected] 2. [email protected] 3. [email protected] This serves several purposes. 1. It's dead easy to filter messages based on the address it gets sent to. 2. If the organisation … |
| | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act Or the equivalent for your jurisdiction. It doesn't matter how glossy your website is, if you f-up the basic security, you won't have any customers to worry about. |
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| | There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that know binary, and those that don't. |
| | I'm a long-time moderator on cprogramming.com, but it's getting awfully quiet on many of the old forums. DiC was a loss, as was devshed. I seem to be most active now on reddit. |
| | Physically old objects, or just really old designs? * qwerty keyboard * internal combustion engine (in my car) * the wheel * fire |
| | > which means that they may be incorrect So basically like the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. "it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate" Will the summary be guided by things like posts with up-votes carry more weight? |
 | "Use your voice to search for stuff using low security devices" Later... "Use your voice as a unique digital fingerprint to authenticate you on a high security device" (your bank) Later... Where's all my money? |
| | > To their credit, they do offer a flat-fee lifetime purchase as well. Yeah, the news is full of "lifetime" meaning something much shorter than what normal people imagine that means. Such as * lifetime of the company * until the model is no longer in production * until the … |
| | Prompted by Dani(https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/meta-daniweb/threads/543808/what-do-you-think-of-my-questions), what do y'all use for backing up your home computer(s) * Backup? What's that? Never heard of it. * If it's important enough, I'll print it out. * Whatever will fit on a USB thumb drive / CD / DVD. * Full backup to local detachable storage. … |
| | Most of my actual computers are named after trees (larch, elm etc). The number of computers I've had at home has occasionally reached double digits, so I needed a decent set of names to choose from. On the fun side, I had for a time a spare router that I … |
| | I like dark mode as a feature, and use it fairly often. |
| | Re: Nostalgic sounds Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. The bzzzz-beep turn-on sound of my first BBC Microcomputer would rank high on my list. |
 | > "I think the issue might be that headcount and tailcount are not resetting. Should I move them inside the loop?" And you didn't try this before asking? PS - the website you're hawking is broken. |
| | First ones at school were ZX80/81 and an Apple ][ First one at home was a BBC Model B For some reason, I spend a lot of time messing with code to draw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve and other geometric shapes. |
| | The main teaching language at college was Pascal. I also did courses in Ada and Cobol. None of them have been touched in the last 40 years. > why didn't you use it? The jobs I was employed to do didn't use them. |
| | Tesla's are an overpriced toy with a tarnished image - but that's just my biased opinion. That said, I like the idea and agree with these sentiments. Veritasium - https://youtu.be/yjztvddhZmI?si=8cu1_B-blT9rhcbQ CGP Grey - https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?si=tLOk-mzJs7iCtky7&t=298 However, people get stupid at a quicker rate that cars get smarter. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/ All these "driver … |
| | At least you didn't let a bot near it :) https://www.pcmag.com/news/vibe-coding-fiasco-replite-ai-agent-goes-rogue-deletes-company-database |
| | It was probably some "goto 10" loop on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 at school. |
| | There are a series of articles here on DW that use Python to interact with a variety of models. If you can find them, maybe they'll give you an idea or two. |
| | It should be obvious by now from their posting history that the OP is a troll. |
| | My first thoughts would be 1. What is large? Are we in the TB range or mere handfuls of GB? 2. How often do you need to do this? Is it once a day, once a month, or just once. |
| | > its answers appear perfectly correct and confident, but they actually are riddled with inaccuracies. Now where have we heard that before.... Oh yes - https://www.definitions.net/definition/bullschildt |
| | > On the other hand, what tech shouldn't be rebuilt because it caused more harm in the world than good? The entire landscape of "social media" platforms. Where the biggest idiots with the loudest voices get promoted by stupid money-driven algorithms for clicks. |
| | It's becoming increasingly hard to find programs that don't keep pushing their AI boondoggles at every chance they get. Even more annoying is said AI's are generally still too stupid to be able to answer the question "How do I remove this AI feature". |
| | AI is just hot garbage. Pretty much every post here that has a URL and an exclamation mark is an AI generated mash-up of buzzwords extracted from the rest of the thread. |
| | sneakernet. The act of building your software on one machine, then having to copy the resulting program to a floppy disk (or more likely a thumb drive now), then walking that over to the air-gapped machine to do your testing. 80x25 dumb tty terminals to do all the edit/compile/test. No …  |
| | AI will do to your mind, what fast food does to your waistline. |
 | At my current place of work, we use https://scan.coverity.com/ https://pclintplus.com/ And an in-house tool to measure a bunch of "metrics" like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity |
| | Every shell that wasn't `sh/bash` was always a PITA to work with. Whilst Pascal was the formal teaching language at college, it's completely broken when it comes to doing any actual useful work. Fortunately, I never had to use it in a professional capacity. |
| | There's a detailed writeup of why here. https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=12615 |
| | Back in the day on most of the old school programming forums, I used the same name (or a variant). But too many of them (DiC, devshed) have slipped into the past. Nowadays, I just make up a longer unique name. |
| | Do some benchmark tests and find out perhaps? Let's say you have a function with an unknown return type, so PHP guesses `Object` to begin with. The first call resolves `Object` to an int. If the run-time now caches the expected return type as int from now on, then the … |
| | What constitutes "before" and "after"? The DOM could potentially change every time the mouse moves. |
| | "nick of time" is colloquial English for "just in time". https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-nick-of-time.html In other words, it means "I procrastinated with my google searches". |
 | Dunno - read your profile maybe? Also dunno why someone with apparently awesome achievement needs to resort to tier-2 techniques to drum up new business. |
| | "optics" is that new mealy-mouthed useless phrase used by politicians and corporates which means "who gives a **** what happened, so long as I look good". |
| | Sure - https://alternativeto.net/software/github/ |
| | Given who owns github (M$), and their location (U$A), I wouldn't trust anything commercially sensitive with them. Why do you even need it, apart from the simple convenience of it all (that's the trap, make the honeypot sweet enough, plenty will arrive). There's not much there that can't be replicated … |
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