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Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI. "It's not personal, it's strictly business."
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If I asked you to name Microsoft's best-known and longest-lived product, you'd almost certainly say "Windows." But another one of the company's products has been on the market for even longer: its mice. " From my cold dead hands!"
Sorry if that headline caused any panic.
I actually am still a little cautious of their whole "Surface" brand. I just don't trust them to not cancel the line as soon as I buy one.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I actually am still a little cautious of their whole "Surface" brand...
Are you saying "Don't look beneath the Surface, because the depths will scare you?" 
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Dang, but that is deep, and wiser than I.  
TTFN - Kent
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Wiz-dumb: filling a sieve with pi** to drown your ignorance.
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Well, if the name had been Google, they'd've been canceled before any appeared on store shelves.
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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That's a shame. Their keyboards used to be really good. Haven't tried them recently, though...
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I was skeptical of Surface until I used one at my last job (pre-COVID). It was the best tablet I've used.
As for their mice; good riddance. They used to be great, but now suck. (Never liked their keyboards.)
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We realize that a clear Windows client roadmap update helps consumers and organizations with planning their Windows release activities. "The Road goes ever on and on"
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There would be no need to plan so much if the updates didn't break so many things... 
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This article made me laugh. The comments were spot on - not a single positive thing said about "the roadmap."
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Microsoft: We're not adding more features to Windows 10!
Everyone: Hurray!
Microsoft: Wait, what?
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How do “Connie” and “meow” differ from “The Commodore 64 is a great computer”? How long is a string?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How long is a string?
Let's see... s-t-r-i-n-g... I would say 6 chars 
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Bzzzt! I said, "a string"  
TTFN - Kent
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Nitpicky... 
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7 - Terminating Zero
9 if Pendant Who Shall Not Be Named gets his way.
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8 If you consider the PLC Strings.
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That's actually a good question, Ken. The article didn't cover it and presumably it's an implementation detail, but it would be one that would be good to know as a developer since it has so much different dynamics about it, by which I mean, SSO creates more locality and since it is not heap oriented, "short" strings can be stored contiguously in memory using std::vector. That's my takeaway.
But, here's the downside they didn't mention. It makes std::string stack heavy - unless there's some magic there I don't understand.
On IoT that's a problem, and looking at the asm output at godbolt.org for things like even declaring an iostream makes me shy well away from it there.
I've taken to rewriting a lot of the functionality in the STL in my C++ IoT applications because as The STL has evolved it has gotten less and less friendly to little processors like the ones I use daily.
Now, that's unfortunate, but I don't want it to be read as a criticism. An AllWinner H3 1Ghz quad core, running even 128MB of DDR3 will have no trouble with modern STL, and these ARM Cortex As are seemingly a big part of the future (and present) of small smart computing.
It's moving there. But the hardware at the IoT level isn't quite up to the software. It's being sorely outpaced at the bottom end.
For perspective, let me put it in US dollars
A Sunxi AllWinner H3 SoC with a quadcore 1GHz ARM Cortex A53 CPU+ Mali GPU, and 128MB with DDR3 can be had in terms of components (sans supporting capacitors, power supply, and stuff - just SoC, RAM and eMMC) for $13-$18/per depending on which parts you source stateside (some you have to get out of Asia)
An Espressif ESP32S3 with "SoC" with a dual core 240MHz CPU (no GPU) but with 512kB embedded SRAM and 8MB of PSRAM, + 16MB of internal flash storage (requiring no external memory or flash) can be had for $4.31/per stateside. And this is a very capable chip as IoT class stuff goes. I don't count the RPi among this class.
The ESP32S3 and chips like it are the little IoT widget class chips, and they don't run the STL very well.
The std::string optimization seems like it makes a bad situation worse in some respects, in terms of stack bloat. You often don't have dynamically growable stacks or even much room on the stack to begin with. printf is bad enough. You start throwing a bunch of std::strings at it and pretty soon you're in real trouble.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Researchers said they could access an imaging satellite’s control interface, letting them manipulate its systems and introduce malicious code. In space, no one can hear you hack
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I suppose the next target will be the one with the weapons? 
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A New Relic report identifies Amazon Corretto as the top JDK distribution, outpacing Oracle for the first time. Double-double?
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Quote: What Is the state of the Java ecosystem in 2023?
Screwed up?
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A New Relic report identifies Amazon Corretto as the top JDK distribution, outpacing Oracle for the first time.
I'm pretty sure that is mostly due to AWS being the dominant internet hosting platform; but it still says wonders for how well whOracle is manging the platform.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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