The muppet in the hot seat, Bureau CEO Stuart Minchin, cited switching from HTTP to HTTPS as one of the main points during one of the regular grillings he has been getting from the media over the past few weeks, because apparently the data of Australians was on the line.
On a decent web host, that's a single click to install a free Let's Encrypt certificate, lol.
"Redesigns" often make things worse. Designers are given free reign, users come in a distant last.
Incremental improvements are more likely to make things better.
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Dog-whistle for "vagina"
But my dictator can beat up your dictator!
It will take a really annoying or long outage before people notice they've been screwed by Big Money.
It's hard to know what industry or company Xi is subsidizing, as their system is not transparent.
Give me 5 million and I'd do it, I confess.
Right now the drive to diversify is entirely political.
Ok great you hate Trump, congrats.
The FACT is that there is no serious alternative to the USD as a reserve currency.
The currencies mentioned (euro, yuan) are indeed probably the closest in a basically empty field.
The yuan is controlled by a deeply dishonest tyrannical government that hasn't authentically reported financial information for decades. The EU is an anti democratic talking shop that can't manage to stand up a coast guard, much less manage a monetary policy.
Don't get me wrong, there are major, major issues with how the US handles economics. Inter party vacillations every 4 years. Dishonesty about inflation or economic data when it's politically inconvenient. But to the point of real-world contexts critical to underpin faith in a currency, the US remains economically dominant, more militarily secure than all others, and well supplied with food, water, oil, and raw materials.
I had a FedEx truck clip a support wire for an electric pole in front of my house. It pulled on the pole so much that it and 2 poles in each direction were all wobbling. The lines where swaying so much that the lines must have arced, and caused power to go out at my house and several of my neighbors. The damage that this drone did was very mundane in comparison. Why would this require an FAA investigation?
Because Amazon! Because capitalism! Heck, probably because Trump somehow!
Sheesh, get with the program!
The drone appeared to remain in tact beyond some damage to one of its propellers.
Well, that's good - I hate a brash, rude, in your face drone
You are correct. Donald Knuth, the famous computer scientist, himself says LLMs generate excellent "copy".
One day, exchanging (polite) message with obvious typos and unexpected turns of grammar and side-musings will be seen as a sign of genuine affection between humans communicating.
Thank you
Looks like we need TIOBE to be like a Neilsen Ratings TV set top box that measures what people actually watch. But in reality, it's more like something that counts up TV schedule listings.
TIOBE should offer a free 'anonymous stats reporting' plugin to various IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Emacs, vim)
Hmmm.. thank you
Interesting.
I have not used modern IDEs for several years
But a few months ago, I used AI LLM portals (Claude, ChatGPT) to code up a new 1000 line program in an unfamiliar language (Excel VBA). That was a 'copy paste compile debug repeat' exercise in creating a new program.. Given LLM session memory constraints, I could not imagine doing that to study and modify a complex existing codebase (say, a 100 KSLoC Java application).
What tool do you think could work ?
If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
