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Retire. If you're too young to retire then you have employment for life.
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Quote: You’ve just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? Now... say thanks... it could have been VB6
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Depends, does it generate income?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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This was pretty much my career. With few exceptions, two things I always did out of necessity were:
1) Fix the build. I once started a new job where the build required running multiple batch files including using the Visual Studio command-line. I was told it was impossible to simplify it. In three weeks, I fixed the build to where there was one batch file with one line launching a VS build (because the entire thing could now be build in VS.)
At another company, various projects in the solution had wildly different settings including some DLLs statically linking the CRT and others dynamically linking it.
2) Crank warnings to most strict with a short list of exceptions and additions. At one job, the VS project built with over 2000 warnings at level 3! To find new warnings the previous team would do a diff on the output. Three of us moved the project to level 4 with no warnings. (What's amazing is how many of the warnings were about critical errors.)
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GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain. I have a pull request I'd like to send them
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I think we should not complain about or spammers... it could be worst
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Did you buy an "Amazon's Choice" video doorbell? You may have brought home a security time bomb. So, keep all children away from them
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Quote: A child could hack these popular video doorbells, tests show That's why I don't like the "popular" things.
DIY might be even have bigger security holes (in some cases at least), but as it is singular solution, the most probably thing is that it will be dropped because it is not done in a couple of minutes.
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Video dumbbells?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI. At least their AI will be able to mark things as duplicate
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Kent Sharkey wrote: At least their AI will be able to mark things as duplicate while closing search results and calling idiot the user trying to find something
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Maybe it should tell all users to try Googling the answer instead?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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LMGTFY ftw
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Does it make all answers Go?
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The FastConnect 7900 relies on AI to improve connectivity while reducing power I'm afraid I can't connect to that network, Dave
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm afraid I can't connect to that network, Dave then at least open the door
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EU regulators focus on Microsoft's Entra ID software, examining potential anti-competitive practices. The investigation extends to Microsoft's AI engagements, signaling a shift in tech market oversight. Which of their competitors requested this one?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Which of their competitors requested this one? probably then one with the biggest lobby budget (and secondary budget)
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I'm going to guess Okta, which has been trying to make inroads into all the cloud environments.
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I think you’re right. The other popular guess is CloudFlare, but I can’t imagine them doing this “just” for auth. They have too many other cloud tools.
TTFN - Kent
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ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation. "Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
I is old...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I is old... I am not that old but I know it too (The Last Starfighter (1984) - IMDb[^]
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It was just performance review season at my current job, so I spent a lot of time reading, writing, and talking about reviews. More fault-tolerant than client/server feedback
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The problem is that many people think that saying something back is a feedback, but feedback is a skill too and not that easy to do it right.
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A distant star system housing 6 planets that move in 'mathematically perfect' orbits has ignited a search for possible alien technosignatures. Still no ring world, sorry
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