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Quote: Windows, and it wants your feedback What for? To ignore it as the last 10 years?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: PowerEmacs Great! As I always said: Emacs is a great OS, but it could use a decent editor.
(Disclaimer: Someone else said that before me, but I don't remember who.)
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As per my comments elsewhere in this parish, I was rather fond of the 'edit' editor in DOS. I think the nearest modern equivalent would be Nano[1].
Putting a native port of Nano into Windows (using the Windows spellchecker) would be handy.
Well, yes, handy, but I would have thought that anyone who was likely to use it would already be using Nano/Vim/Emacs/whatever in Cygwin or WSL.
Footnote:-
1: See also the now ancient FTE FTE Text Editor[^] or tilde GitHub - gphalkes/tilde: The Tilde text editor[^].
modified 11-Dec-23 7:20am.
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Can a person with no prior training simply guide everyone to a smooth touchdown? So I've wasted all that time in Microsoft Flight Simulator?
Next you'll tell me I can't craft stars
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Of course I could land it, another question is if the passengers could later complain about it
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Tried it once in an Air Force trainer. Not a chance can I land a plane.
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There was no voice interaction, nor was the demo happening in real time. A fake demo on stage?
That's right up there with a headline about a band lip-syncing in concert.
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Still do not beat the unbreakable broken glas of the cyber truck
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European Union officials have reached a provisional deal on the world's first comprehensive laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. Two-four-six-eight. We're the EU; time to regulate!
At least that seems to be their marching song.
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Being honest, a bit regulation is not bad, the only problem is that they do not know what is OK and actually needed
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AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. By interrupting developers every 15 minutes to let them know there's a new AI assistant on the market
When everyone knows that's my job!
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I was speaking about it today with a friend of mine, due to an article in german magazine about the new version of Google's AI (alphacode 2) beating devs...
At the end both have agreed: We will buy popcorn and wait for the first big "OOOOPS" News that will come, because someone decided to let "AI" do all the job in something important, because we devs are obsolete.
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I’m a little surprised that there hasn’t been an oops moment yet, but I imagine it might be hard to identify it between all the human oops moments out there.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’m a little surprised that there hasn’t been an oops moment yet, People usually are afraid / cautious with new things. There must already have been some, but still small enough to not do it to the mainstream.
It has been over a year and the chat bots are really making advances, but they still are only helpers. As a tool to increase productivity, yeah, I can buy that, anything more than that, specially creativity, different perspective adoption to solve problems... definitively not for a while.
But we already know there are enough managers out there that will buy it and fire most of their IT / dev people, because AI can do it better and faster. When that happens, it will last not so long until the big OOOPS comes.
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Nelek wrote: As a tool to increase productivity, yeah, I can buy that, anything more than that, specially creativity, different perspective adoption to solve problems... definitively not for a while.
Thus far, I've found them useful/helpful on coding and other technical tasks - sometimes even when they are wrong.
E.g., a while back I fired a math question at one of the AIs, from a course I'd been taking because I didn't fully understand it. The AI explained it a bit better but actually got its calculation wrong! But I was able to see from its correct explanation why it had got its answer wrong. I then told it so and it corrected itself.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: But I was able to see from its correct explanation why it had got its answer wrong. I then told it so and it corrected itself. If I had done the very same question a while later... would I had got the right answer?
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In theory you should! But I bet you wouldn't necessarily.
I find it odd, though, that when it gets it wrong you can sometimes just say you got this bit wrong and it will apologise and do it correctly! But then you wonder why it couldn't have self-checked somehow?
I guess that since it doesn't know that it's wrong the first time, it can't do anything until something tells it that it's wrong. Then I assume it must dig up some alternative algorithm.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: a while back I fired a math question at one of the AIs, from a course I'd been taking because I didn't fully understand it. The AI explained it a bit better but actually got its calculation wrong! But I was able to see from its correct explanation why it had got its answer wrong. I then told it so and it corrected itself. Not too long ago I asked ChatGPT what the black marks on Japanese woman's foreheads meant in the older culture. It answered with the word for the Japanese tradition of blackening the teeth, which was also prevalent back then. So I googled, and found the right tradition, and said "don't you mean X?" and it gave me a breakdown between the words for both traditions, and hoped that it clarified the situation!
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Microsoft is also improving its widgets section in Windows 11 with the option to disable the feed of news. And now it's complete
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with the option to disable the feed of news. endly something useful
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Light can be reflected not only in space but also in time—and researchers exploring such “time reflections” are finding a wealth of delightfully odd and useful effects First, you need a DeLorean
Well, maybe not 'need', but if you're going to do it, you might as well do it in style
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I see it coming... after the lotery numbers are known, a lot of people with mirrors looking for the correct sunshine...
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I can travel backwards in time, but somehow I always end up with a hangover...
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Funny thing - getting the hangover before your night out.
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Gotta stop driving the damn DeLorean!
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