A: “We really need this super-important and highly-technical job done.”
B: “We could just hire a bunch of highly-technical people to do it.”
A: “No, we would have to hire people and that would cost us millions.”
B: “We could spend billions on untested technology and hope for the best.”
A: “Excellent work B! Charge the government $100M for our excellent idea.”
Didn’t you hear about that about that wind turbine that exploded and spread wind all over a dozen farmer’s fields? /s
Yeah, for a short time there the word ‘java’ was very ‘in’. Marketing hipsters at the time wanted to use it in everything, just like the word ‘AI’ now.
Great job, men! We finally found it!
Yup, some dishes absorb microwaves better than the food, so they absorb the majority of the energy.
Too late. The AI scanning the comments isn’t smart enough to “see” corrections.
Thanks, but I tried a few weeks back to get tab groups working for Firefox on MacOS. No joy.
Firefox add-on for Tab Groups? I looked and couldn’t find one. At some point they appeared to try to support tab groups, but gave up? I dunno. I’ve only used Chrome a little. I don’t personally care for Chrome, but I found the tab groups useful.
For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.
Mouse gestures is the killer-app for me on Firefox. Hate surfing without it.
P.S. Do wish Firefox had tab groups tho.
My understanding is that these projects are a side-effect of how Google judges promotions. If you’ve “created a new product”, that puts you higher on the list to get promoted.
There are no incentives nor resources for maintaining those products. So you see a long list of “ideas” from Google that are abandoned immediately after someone got their promotion.
“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.” — George Carlin
Big endiant is great for intellisense to quickly browse possibilities, since it groups it all in the same place.
If only someone would train a program… we could call it a Large Language Model… to knowingly group the names together so we wouldn’t have to choose between human-readable format or dB format.
Guess that will never happen because instead we’re stuck using “AI’s” to inflate stock prices instead. /s
I remember seeing a proposed language that would allow each programmer to choose what name to use for each item. Don’t like ‘open_file’? Choose to see it as ‘file_open’ every time you review the file in the future.
While we battle with each other endlessly, we keep forgetting that the computer doesn’t care.
One day, someone’s going to have to debug machine-generated Bash. <shivver>
The US military, the largest “pro-gun” group in the world has lots of “private cities”. Wonder what their position on firearms in their “cities” is?
/s
QQ: What’s the difference between a “class-based language” and an “object -based language”?
Friend of mine calls Siri “Sorry” because it gets so many things wrong. 😂
In the early days it seems pike Stack Overflow tried to regulate engagement from trolls. They encouraged support for dumb/newbie questions and discouraged obnoxious behaviors.
I’m guessing that’s just a losing battle. I don’t think there’s much hope of keeping a good moderator for free. It’s a tough, thankless job. Troll/poor moderators are free.