pcblues

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by pcblues 6mo ago
I did TDD properly the first time in my Masters Degree (ongoing). It was an eye-opener. Write your program in two different ways to make sure you know the requirements by making their outputs match. That's not me being snarky. It actua
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I still don't understand microservices for anything short of a NAG of four level architecture.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
In the 25 odd years I developed software, I learnt all the rules the hard way. Relax. You will make all the mistakes because the laws don't make sense until you trip over them :) Comment your code? Yep. Helped me ten years later workin
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by pcblues 6mo ago
4 kings. Wipe if you think you can do better :) It can and has been done.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
That's amazing. I used to live under an architecture student (our building). His command of design history was great. His command of maths? Well, not so much.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Interesting they had to redistribute the numbers to take account of its natural bias.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I just throw 17d6 and subtract 2. Problem solved. (I am joking!)
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Good luck to him. If he was behind the Neo, then he deserves the post. That's the perfect new product in the mac world.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I always enjoy these summaries. I took my bachelor of computer science in the early 1990s. It covered a language in most of these categories. We didn't learn APL (Who is teaching the use of those custom keyboards to 100s of young stude
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by pcblues 6mo ago
This is silly reporting with a couple of interesting stories. Forget about the technical ways of doing it. Doing it at all changes the game experience. Pausing a game has a massive impact on the game experience. It lets you break the fourth
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by pcblues 6mo ago
The idea that travel to work is necessary, most work is in the middle of a city, and people need affordable places to live that are far from the city led to both the road and rail catastrophes we have in nearly every modernish city. A bette
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Holy cow. Thank you, JP. I enjoyed your high-level writing while monkeying on your new-fangled machines.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Before AI and the swell of papers for money(tenure), not necessarily in that order, science mattered. As a result, the science mattered more in the past. RIP Rabin.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Write simple code. Do what you said, which is a very good idea. Test LLM security against the compiler too.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Decompilation and you are back to the level of security you started with. OpenSSH is open for a good reason. Please acknowledge your error. Are you AI?
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Security by obscurity. Good luck. So novice.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
If you were loyal to the country you chose to live in, you would support the protection of their people, not yours. Ask the Somalis.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
What are you trying to do. Affect the policies of a democratic country that isn't yours? Shame on you, and go do it in Russia.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Overseas citizen foments government trouble? That's terrorism in Australia. Should be in yours and the countries you raise trouble in.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
As a result of all this AI "find a zero-day" business, when I boot to windows I open the task manager and order by pid. I kill anything I didn't start or don't recognise. The only process that scared me was windowgrid. I
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I bought bootleg CDs of nirvana when I was at uni in the 1990s. Always disappointed. At their most wasted.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
Sorry, didn't make it clear. If a company does not publicly respond to a privately made security breach allegation, they are in breach of their responsibility to maintain business. If the breach is rubbish, the alleger looks bad. The b
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by pcblues 6mo ago
In spite of how the pollies sell it, regulation is the friend of anyone earning less than one million dollars per year. Regulation would fix this. Get on it.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I am laughing. I'm not even near the end of this thread.
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by pcblues 6mo ago
I think what many people don't realise is that there will be a glut of cheap computer parts including CPUs, GPU cards, and memory when the AI and AI-adjacent businesses go bust and a bunch of data centres get pulled down.
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by pcblues 7mo ago
This is a nice idea, because it physically limits the place the child can call from. Even a very under-powered phone sets them free. However, a new severely under-powered phone with no graphics or apps would probably meet the requirements o
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by pcblues 7mo ago
Amen. An extreme example. But what if you tasked with writing business-critical software and forced by your employer to use their AI code generation tool? https://ai.plainenglish.io/amazons-ai-ultimatum-why-80-of-de... Or u
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by pcblues 7mo ago
"These look really random" - I hope I missed your sarcasm. That is so far from random. Think of tossing a coin and getting ten heads in a row. The probability of not repeating numbers in 10 numbers out of 10 is huge, and not rando
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by pcblues 7mo ago
This is what I hate about people trusting it. If you rely on AI to operate in a domain you don't man-handle, you will be tricked, and hackers will take advantage. "AI! Write me gambling software with true randomness, but a 20% ret
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by pcblues 7mo ago
I am not strictly entitled to answer this but I will just in case. (Language is a bit different in Australia.) I completed a Bachelor CS degree in 1995. I think that's a "CS major program". It was very theoretical, in that th

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