Whenever there's a code of behavior, there's a momentary advantage for the entity that transgresses. Human nature can't be ignored, people will take that advantage.

Folks expecting an AI to operate with some sort of conscience will become the dupes of bad actors that operate with impunity.

In the Olden Days, there was a thing called reputation that discouraged such transgressions, but that is dead and gone.

C'mon, how can a model trained on human interaction convincingly talk with lawyers?

This is kind of bad news, although not unexpected.

This report shows what we all know, that everyday computer users of other OSes are less programming-savvy. And those folks don't pick Linux as their OS.

Yes, there's more of a shared tradition of bug reporting in Linux- but wouldn't Linux be more successful if more of these everyday users were using it?

Ok, "success" can be measured in many ways, simmer down. :)

I loved this game, but mostly because I could decompile it in my head. I wasn't a programmer yet, but it was clear to me that the algorithm for the enemy saucers was pretty simple. The cheesiest part was when I finally achieved "extended play in hyperspace."

I was finally winning at the end of the game, and discovered that hyperspace was simply a reverse-video shift. Ingeniously stupid, I thought at the time.

Reading should span genres because you never know which story will speak to you, or when it will speak to you.

And while great books transcend genre, teachers should try to avoid ghettoizing any genre. I'm reminded of David Silva, who said in an interview that his favorite book was 1984. When asked if there was a genre he avoided, he said, "I have never been drawn to science fiction or fantasy."

Shrug.

Moore's Law has allowed lazy managers and programmers to cut all corners possible in software development. Managers should get educated about how to run an engineering shop.

This would be useless to me. My company has cleverly created my "office" with no walls, so interrupts are frequent and unavoidable.

But hey, it's not a problem, I'm told. Millenials love this setup.

Because you like digging through all the menus or "typing" on the keyboard for search? Say "Midsummer Night's Dream" and you are there.

Internet bad taste? Old news.

The small ship displayed the insignia of an admiral- yet there was no living thing of any sort in her. This trip she carried nothing but a lead coffin- and a Geiger counter that was never quiet.

Ezra Dahlquist? Martin? Rivera? Wheeler?

Microsoft Security Robots?
They're an actual screen of death.
They're blue and red all over.
They're a punch line.

We are developing this exciting new energy source and will continue testing it in the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, where there's no intelligent life.

Funny- most life forms have filters to *ignore* vast amounts of sense data. That's what most of the neurons are doing. The virtual worlds we implement are just way more parsimonious... that's why these rats (and marketing people) can get away with using so few neurons.

Can it carve another robot with a chainsaw?