Repeating somewhat a recent post. I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play (short of like Starfield but it will run Cyberpunk 2077 fairly well). Until the computer is not fast enough I don't need a new one and if someone hacks my machine, a bunch of computer games is not a great loss. What value is Win 11? Not the price of replacing the hardware in this desktop to me.
Investment into a chip startup. What is that these days, like investing $500 toward someone learning an advanced degree?
We may have freed up RAM capacity by limiting unnecessary computer purchases.
Oh my gaming computer will not be replaced for some time until it is worth updating it, even if Micro$soft thinks otherwise. If someone hacks it, not much of value will be lost. Note most of my games are indie games that run just fine on a computer that was near top of the line eight years ago.
I use notepad++ for little note windows, the tabs work great. It can be unwieldy if you have 30+ tabs
notepad++ just feels a little heavy for note windows, but if notepad gets worse, it might be the better option.
Use something better like notepad++, if you are still using notepad maybe change your workflow. I realize that this can be difficult if you are doing tech support on someone elses machine.
I love notepad++ for most of my document editing outside of an IDE, except I liked notepad for having a bunch of little note windows. Maybe I'll have to switch over to the sticky notes app and forget notepad.
as a rule content that is largely AI generated is not useful
Keep deluding yourself. If AI is not useful then why are trillions of dollars being invested in it? Or is your thesis that all the tech corporations in the world are idiots? If it hasn't massively increased your productivity then, sorry, but you ain't using it right.
AI is very useful, it does a lot of things with summarization and compression that really exceeds previous capabilities. However a lot of those trillions of dollars are not being invested in what AI does good, but instead what AI _appears_ to do good by sounding very authoritative on things it is wrong about, much like a lot of people running tech corporation. Not the first time companies have invested poorly in new technology and many companies will be pruned and lose all of that investment just like has happened before.
There is a difference between your Bank account password and your Slashdot password. I am perfectly willing to use 123456 as my slashdot password. I don't, but I am willing to use it. But my bank accounts now use two factor authentication.
Frankly, there are a ton of services that ask for a password for the benefit of the SERVICE, not for you. They want their metadata on you to be clean, rather than caring about your privacy.
If the study did not ask what the passwords were for, then the study proved nothing.
I have a simple word/number password I use for slashdot and websites. Security extensions have told me the password showed up on the darkweb and I need to change it, I really don't care enough.
Oracle stock is up almost 19 percent on the year still and it looks like most of the drop is a correction after the stock jumped after the announcement? Not that I think Oracle is a good company to buy, but this report seems a little off from what the stock is doing.
For those who don't remember, the plan to stop minting pennies in the 1960s got canned when the John Bircher Society came out claiming it was Communist influence, somehow.
I support removing the penny, but I also think I would support being able to watch the fireworks if someone could make a popular video linking to this claim to say Trump removing the penny is Communist... sorry, end of a long day.
... with the voice control nonsense. If you're physically disabled then voice control is obviously a major win, but for everyone else its almost always much quicker to type with a keyboard or use a mouse/finger unless you're doing something like text dictation and even then its a PITA to do delete/amend. Car makers don't seem have got this memo either.
Yep, tried it out twenty years ago. Got really good accuracy after a couple hours of training and it pretty much did everything I could need to do with a PC. Unfortunately, voice command still doesn't work as good as a mouse and keyboard.
Can I adjust that for you?
"Trump Administration Hands U.S. Supremacy to China on a Glass Plaque"
This was my thoughts. Insurance against bankruptcy seems like a horrible bet for the insurance company without massive premiums.
[ ] Verify you associate with the mental condition formerly known as "being human".
With all the AI posts on LinkedIn that are presented as something real, LinkedIn doesn't really know what AI is, despite claiming expertise. Seems like the CEO knows even less.
James Strawn, who was laid off from Adobe over the summer after 25 years as a senior software quality-assurance engineer.
I can only assume that for the past decade, James has been ignored, or terrible at his job. Every Adobe product has gotten progressively worse to use, forums are filled with bug reports that get ignored release after release, and the increase in system requirements do not reflect improvements in functionality.
Whether because Adobe didn't like what he had to say, or they decided not to listen to him, it's completely unsurprising that he lost his job.
The folks offering $500K/year for AI experts aren't going to take anyone who makes the claim on a resume, they're almost guaranteed to be looking to poach someone at OpenAI or Google. Practically speaking, they're looking to benefit from the experience that those companies paid for...and James doesn't have it.
On the upswing, odds are pretty good that James will have a job in short order, helping to deal with the fallout of 'vibe coders' who don't know how to do real-world testing. He's probably going to run into some combination of age discrimination and salary discrimination (no way he's working for $60K if he has 25 years at Adobe), but once the messes start being too big to ignore, I'm pretty sure he'll be able to become a project manager that helps direct fixes for deployed code that didn't get actual-QA. The need is most definitely there, it'll just take a bit more time to prove to the brass that he's more valuable to the company than the MBAs that are looking at their now-spherical product for more corners to cut.
It is easy enough to be good at your job, while corporate ignores you and lets the product go down hill. Regardless, staying with a company that is heading down hill like Adobe does make those of us who have watched this decline question his sanity, or decision of paycheck over pride in his job.
I really hope you are right that companies will come around to the realization that using AI output is not the same as QA reviewed output. I'm concerned their answer will be that integrating QA is just a Generative Adversarial Network.
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
