Yeah, I suppose the Book Tower (Boekentoren) in Ghent would have already sunk deep.

There were problems, but those were due to neglect, not shifting sands...

And let the Chinese turn it into a slag heap...

Turning the Gobi desert into the Gobi rain forest :-p

In my fourth decade, but been in C# since 2013, had a need to learn Angular and .NET 8 beginning of 2024. Professional engineer since 2012.

Where chatGPT is an enormous help, is in the following:

• Asking questions to get documented answers. Much better than StackOverflow etc, where many answers leave out context.
• I mostly know what I want, but the details are sometimes difficult to find. E.g. most MS .NET classes documentation is sometimes just downright uninformative. Here AI helps to get simple examples.
• Rewriting simple code, like transforming the usage of building query string from + and StringBuilder to a simple, single verbatim string.
• Sometimes even just as a way to expand thinking about problems

But I wouldn't let an AI write all my code. I still needs to be kept simple, I need to be able to explain why something is done the way it is, and there is no formal way that you can trust an AI, which is really someone else's computer, with code from my customers.

Hegseth is actually Joseph Goebbels....

That's still the case? So, nothing changed since the mid-90s, then ;-)

Scientific American already said it in the 1920's or 30's: outside of his specialization, every scientist/engineer is a layman.

They think that "The Eternal Life" by Jack Vance is a medical handbook.

So not better than a DJ then? Most of them also know shit about music.

You never got the chance to drink a real Belgian gueuze or lambic then?

I question the trend of modern sours, because most of them just taste like acid, lemon, lime or acetic.

Also, we don't call them sours, but spontaneous fermented. In good gueuzes or lambic the acidity should be subdued.

Mod parent up!

I used Cygwin on Perl on Windows for 12 years, working at Philips, to automate builds and releases. The same code also ran for a time on Linux virtual machines. Perl has the best interface abstractions of any language, masking e.g., the ugly Windows process interface (possibly also through Cygwin :-)) with a proper POSIX process interface. And Perl is almost like (Common) Lisp, the only thing really missing is the CL macro facility.

Let's hope he ends up as Mussolini...

That's probably an insult for the Neanderthals.

I suppose the AI will speak an intelligible language, not distorted by Indian accents.

I have met a whole lot of Indians, some of them much smarter than me, and most of them use correct English grammar, but the weird accents they have add a large level of noise...