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Comment AI is very good, but not great at programming (Score 1) 73

I've been programming computers in one capacity or another for decades. I've done everything from Apple Basic to Visual Basic, with C, C++, Objective C, Java, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Python, PHP & MySQL in between, plus several others that don't merit mention here.

I have to do some programming in my job, but it is only a small part. I administer several different cloud services, so I have to deal with a lot of APIs. Sometimes the particular action I'm looking to perform is not intuitive. It is much easier for me to pass the API Doc URL to ChatGPT, tell it what I want it to do, and have it write an initial Python script for me.

I still have to debug it and give that back to ChatGPT for revision. Eventually, I get to the solution, usually in less than half the time it would have taken me to bang out the code myself. It's nice to have it automatically insert comments and add debugging messages to the terminal and to a log.

The thing is, you still need to know what you're doing. Sometimes it writes rather inefficient algorithms, and I've caught it a few times in off by 1 errors. You can't just have a person without programming experience use it and expect it to be successful.

Comment Re:Billionaires... (Score 2) 459

They make their money by abusing workers, putting people out of jobs, tax avoidance, & lobbying for deregulation, "light touch" enforcement, & de-funding regulating agencies or putting industry cronies in charge of them. Bernie Sanders has promised to take on that kind of anti-social behaviour.

The funny thing about Bernie is he used to rail against billionaires AND millionaires until he became a millionaire.

Comment Re:Stay the course, Sony! (Score 1) 88

So the cheaper box is going to win out. Even the availability of specific games on a given console doesn't matter much anymore, because all of the big games come out on all the consoles.

There's two things that drove my choice in picking the PlayStation over the Xbox, and I'm sure there are many others that feel the same: Exclusive games and the controller. Sony's exclusives are much better (G.O.W, Uncharted, Last of Us, Spiderman, etc.) than Microsoft's, and the PS4 controller is much better than the Xbox controller. The Xbox controller has gotten better, but I just can't get used to the asymmetric joysticks. PSVR is also a big plus for me as well.

Comment Re:Is part of the plan (Score 1) 57

I'm doing the training at work for our transition from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I have one slide on Microsoft Edge. All it says is "Do not use Microsoft Edge". I've also created videos for our users showing them how to change their default web browser and also their default PDF viewer. Whenever I do a remote support session, if i see Edge in their taskbar, I unpin it, along with the abominable Windows Mail as well.

Comment Re:and why would you? (Score 1) 62

leaving your customers with a buggy operating system that permits these sort of attacks to succeed in the first place

How exactly is it the operating system's fault? Ransomware authors aren't hacking into computers & encrypting things, they're tricking the end user into launching an executable that does it. Same thing could happen on a Mac or on Linux. Humans are always the weakest link in security.

Comment Re:Defendants (Score 2) 108

Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Michael Dell, and Bill Gates. They personally oversee the mining operation and punish the children that don't work hard enough, Temple of Doom style.

But it's definitely not these childrens' parents. The parents had no idea, and thought the kids were in school all day!

Comment Re:Chernobyl (Score 1) 107

He was? Did he put it in the subtitles ("This is a lie"), or did you have to go and read some blog about what parts were lies and what parts were not?

HBO usually does an "Inside the Episode" thing where most of these changes were discussed. Additionally, I think they mentioned many of the changes before the closing credits of the last episode.

Comment Re:Pain Management Allows Many Lives to Continue (Score 1) 180

The third problem is that what is bought on the streets is unregulated and often not what it was presented as. This is one of the main causes of the opioid poisoning crisis, and it is poisoning rather then ODing as the users didn't intend to OD.

In summary, the War on Drugs is the biggest problem.

Comment Re:This has been true for awhile (Score 2) 261

And not have your boss as a Facebook friend. (Well, there's lots of reasons why that's a bad idea, of which this is one.)

I have a strict policy of not having ANY of my current coworkers as friends on Facebook. It's not personal. I do have several former coworkers & 2 of my bosses as friends on Facebook though.

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