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Smartphones also are a viable solution for health care in the developing world because they allow untrained users to collect and transmit data to medical professionals. I'm not vain, I'm just feeling a little under the weather
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But can it diagnose the 'Disease of Conceit'?
"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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jeron1 wrote: But can it diagnose the 'Disease of Conceit'?
Maybe.
One of the primary symptoms is ownership of a selfie stick.
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Lemme guess, it's sponsored by a start-up called "Picanos", which is run by a Dr. E. Watson.
What could possibly go wrong?
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https://www.kare11.com/article/money/consumer/the-target-app-price-switch-what-you-need-to-know/89-9ef4106a-895d-4522-8a00-c15cff0a0514
Pity the developer who programmed the requirements....you want what?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: Pity the developer who programmed the requirements....you want what?
I imagine that's only the tip of the iceberg with how your GPS data is being tracked. I can just imagine the cocktail party conversation: "I write software that tracks your location and displays sale prices when you're at least 50 feet away from the store, but when you're in the store, it jacks up the price. I mean, you're in the store at this point, sucker, so you'll just dish out the extra cash, right???"
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The link is still borked for me but I found the same story elsewhere. And if you are bothered by such things you may want to block positioning data access from apps. Personally I have it blocked for ALL apps, even the maps. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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What did it say? I get:
Quote: Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.kare11.com/article/money/consumer/the-target-app-price-switch-what-you-need-to-know/89-9ef4106a-895d-4522-8a00-c15cff0a0514" on this server.
Reference #18.5e85655f.1550063240.3b7b9bc1
(Same fore the clickable bleow)
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It loaded for me a minute ago.
If it's still blocked for you, I suspect a particularly hamfisted GDPR block.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Clever-Commit is designed to help programmers evaluate if a code change will introduce a new bug, based on learnings from past bugs and fixes. Developers who make these bugs also make these others
That blurb looks a lot more awkward than the idea seemed in my head.
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Might I just remind everyone that AIs that do predictions do not "work out" a damned thing?
They just perform statistical analyses that they have cobbled together black-box style, based on statistical data that they've been fed.
So you don't know why an AI might pop up with "Hey, your commit is likely to cause a bug!" -- it could be because every previous commit on a Thursday at 11:27:29.003 has resulted in bugs.
Formal Statement:
I do not believe it is possible for there to be enough existing data to successfully train an AI to do what is being claimed, here.
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Third of companies say they are overwhelmed by too many innovation projects, many of which never make it to market. Well, that's new
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Define innovation. Without using the words "useless", "hairbrained", "some monkey manager's third cousin's idea", "IoT", "mobile", or "cloud". I bet you can't.
Notice the Oxford Dictionary definition (my bold) of "innovate":
"Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products."
Nowadays, "innovate" means that some monkey manager's third cousin came up with a useless and hairbrained idea to create IoT underwear that tells your mobile device when it's time to go commando and to post your commando history to the cloud, and you're tasked to implement it!
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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First they complain about a lack of innovation, now there is too much. If they are overwhelmed they obviously have inadequate management. To clarify, the amount of management is rarely inadequate while the quality of it often if not usually is.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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When you're already retooling / planning for the next "innovation" when the paint isn't even dry on the last "innovation" there is a problem.
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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itproportal wrote: This is according to a new report by Oracle
And there we have it.
It's a state-of-mind piece. Oracle's marketing morons are pulling a bit of emotional engineering.
"You don't really want to look into all those new, open-source database apps, do you?"
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If a project never makes it to market, it's either a con or just a giant waste of money, not innovation.
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Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a live showdown against IBM's Miss Debater AI at the company's Think Conference in San Francisco on Monday. Be it resolved: Duh
Also: debating is still a thing?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: debating is still a thing?
Shall we...oh, never mind! 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Harish Natarajan
feh.
I'd eat 'im for breakfast.
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A recent blog article discussed the fact that 70% of all security bugs in Microsoft products are due to memory safety vulnerabilities. A lot of the comments I’ve seen on social media boil down to “The problem isn’t the use of a memory unsafe language, but that the programmers who wrote this code are bad.” How about, "both bad coders and unsafe languages"?
To some definition of "unsafe languages"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How about, "both bad coders and unsafe languages"?
I look at the world differently. I see "unsafe coders and bad languages." 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The language may be "memory unsafe" but that does not mean the software you write has to be. In a domain that is sensitive to security issues you should code defensively.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Sean Griffin wrote: A lot of the comments I’ve seen on social media boil down to “The problem isn’t the use of a memory unsafe language, but that the programmers who wrote this code are bad.”
The problem in that comment is one of "I don't know what I'm doing", as previously stated.
Inventing terms to cover one's inadequacies is reprehensible behaviour: There is no such thing as a "memory unsafe" language.
There are, however, programmers who don't know how to handle memory efficiently and effectively.
Programmers who do know how to work with memory do so better than automated memory-clean-up routines.
Mr. Griffin can whine and wail as much as he likes, but defending -- and even promoting -- incompetence will never sit well, with me.
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