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coldcode
·mês passado·discuss
Nothing says you are an advanced stupid company than using AI to implement the stupid. This is security I doubt even a college student would implement. Does Meta have a CSO? The correct answer is they don't, even though some body might occupy the title.

Of course it's always possible that they simply don't care who has your account, as long as they get money.
coldcode
·há 2 meses·discuss
I wrote my own interpreted language about 25+ years ago to write online surveys. It made it easy to create complex surveys with many branches. I think I wrote it in Objective-C.

The team implementing the survey system wound up using the same language to implement the runtime portion, something I never expected or designed in.

I don't recall anything about what it looked like now. I do remember it was a lot of fun to write.
coldcode
·há 3 meses·discuss
The US Air Force intended to use ADA, but had to use JOVIAL instead because ADA took so long to be developed. Most people have never heard of JOVIAL but it still exists in the USAF as a legacy.

I worked with JOVIAL as part of my first project as a programmer in 1981, even though we didn't even have a full JOVIAL compiler there yet (it existed elsewhere). I remember all the talk about the future being ADA but it was only an incomplete specification at the time.
coldcode
·há 3 meses·discuss
It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
coldcode
·há 4 meses·discuss
Both. He is a fool who thinks he knows better than anyone else.
coldcode
·há 5 meses·discuss
While I enjoyed writing assembly on the 6502 Apple II back then, I would hate doing it today, 42 years later.

Good job, though! Hard to comprehend how limited the hardware was back then, and how much cleverness it took to get things to work.
coldcode
·há 5 meses·discuss
The importers would get the refunds, and any of their customers they charged more for would simply keep the refund. If you paid it directly (like international product order) you probably won't ever get repaid, as they probably deleted the transaction or otherwise failed to record it. Refunds even for importers might be caught up in lawsuits which might never resolve. It's a mess, and SCOTUS did not address the mess.
coldcode
·há 5 meses·discuss
For any AI post, there seems like that one person for whom it worked great, and a whole lot where it didn't. Your mileage may vary...

Some things AI does well, many things it may be not worth the effort entailed, and some where it downright sucks and may even be harmful. The question is will it ever change the curve to where it is useful most of the time?
coldcode
·há 5 meses·discuss
Which is the argument against flying cars. Uncontrolled flying car crashes over populated areas could be catastrophic.
coldcode
·há 6 meses·discuss
I thought all measurements in data centers were in US football fields.
coldcode
·há 7 meses·discuss
Amazing it runs in a browser.
coldcode
·há 8 meses·discuss
Did they remove any features in Photo? Or is it basically just glommed together?
coldcode
·há 9 meses·discuss
My career as a programmer started this way. The division VP would eliminate jobs in the last quarter of the year to make his numbers look good, then desperately hire people at the start of the first quarter to avoid projects falling too far behind. I was one of those people.
coldcode
·há 9 meses·discuss
I used Borland Turbo Pascal in 1984. It was amazing to work with something so fast on a PC that was really so slow. No IDE/Compiler since then matched the speed. Today's code is massively more sophisticated and complex, so there is no way to match that performance today despite the speed of computers today.
coldcode
·há 10 meses·discuss
I remember a friend having a 17% mortgage, which he eventually walked away from.
coldcode
·há 10 meses·discuss
I make an unusual kind of art, but I haven't tried selling it, as you need a stable of interested people, and I can only post it in one place at the moment (a Facebook interest group on tiling, Instagram is overrun with AI, you can't start a new profile without lots of existing supporters). I've considered opening a gallery in my local area just to sell my art (5 million people in the metro, and barely a real commercial art gallery). My overhead would be just me and a location. The idea of selling art for tens or hundreds of thousands seems nuts.

I do see that there are too many galleries in places, selling too many artists, to too many people, with massive overhead (in the story, the gallery had $100k+ a month in expenses). Also, it's hard to make something new that is still saleable, almost every kind of art is basically something people did 50 or even 100 years ago; I look at art people are selling all the time, and most is not anything different. The best stuff is from people that hardly anyone knows, who like me just make something different because they want to.

I'd love to sell it online, but without an audience, no one will visit. I could sell it at https://www.saatchiart.com, but they don't really market most of what they have. You have to drag people there. Plus they take 30% or 40% (50% is normal for galleries). Locally, in the right location, people see your art, and stop by. It's just the pain of setting it up, and then sitting there while you wait!

Mentioned it here before, https://andrewwulf.com if interested.
coldcode
·há 10 meses·discuss
The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many years or even decades earlier when you failed to keep in decent physical shape. I almost started too late (last couple of years), I can see how easy it is to not notice your physical being slowly going down. But assuming no major injury or disease, you can improve your body at almost any age, a little at a time, and avoid or at least postpone physical aging for quite a while.

I also write code daily, read the same things I read when I worked, thus keep my brain going too. You can't ignore body or mind, you have to keep both in tune.

I am still getting older, but I am in better shape than I was before I retired. The last time I felt as fit was when I was still playing basketball 30+ years ago.

Don't wait, it's easier to do a little for decades than wait until it's almost too late.
coldcode
·há 2 anos·discuss
It's a nice philosophy, but good luck doing this in a strict Scrum process.
coldcode
·há 3 anos·discuss
Any time you try to do something complex you have to start with the state of the art at the beginning of development time; like in this case, you might have to use something not quite ready for prime time, hoping it will improve enough during development. If it doesn't, you have to roll your own, which is often hard to do since you didn't start out that way. I worked on a MMO game engine 10 years after it was released years too early, it was still loaded with horrific code and architecture that was hard to correct or improve since we still had to ship regularly. The engine was designed (if you can call it that) in 1998 and was entirely too complex for that era.

If you only stick to the mature tech, then you may wind up being potentially unable to even produce your (advanced) game. It's always a challenging tradeoff. As long as the game is playable and you make enough to continue improving you might be OK; but of course you might go belly up before you fix it enough.

By the time CS2 makes it to Mac, it might be improved enough to actually play!
coldcode
·há 3 anos·discuss
Yes, every single spreadsheet was killed by Excel being in Office. There were a lot of attempts to do something new, all failed.