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jochance wrote: If it were a Far Side cartoon it would be a caveman courtroom drama over Thag copying his neighbor's stick figures from their cave drawings.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Apparently there's a software patent for saving the portion of a screen that will be overlaid by something else so that it can be quickly restored later. Utterly deranged.
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Lol wut? I wonder if that dates to really old ASCII based UI. It's the only thing off the top of my head that makes it make sense.
Hasbro bought a bunch of IP from Atari. Amongst it, I think, was Pac-Man.
This led to a short-lived claim and series of suits which were premised on the idea that any game featuring a protagonist in a maze like environment was a derivative work.
Bold move, Cotton.
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And told me I am great to work with a wonderful person besides.
And now I'm all warm and fuzzy. 
Feels better than a paycheck when it happens.
Though I'll take the money
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It crossed my mind.
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One atta-boy whipes out a whole bunch of oh-sh*ts.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And one castigation, especially if heard by others, can damage a relationship beyond repair.
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In other words; Don't step on the toes of the person whose ass you'll have to kiss tomorrow.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It might turn out that way, but it applies just as much between a manager who needn't fear ever having to work for the person being chewed out. The best boss I ever had put it as, "So hard to build [trust], so easily destroyed."
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No doubt, it definitely feels good! That's why I also use this tactic to motivate employees.
Think about it 
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I mean, I don't think it was done with the intent to motivate me, as I'm pretty motivated to begin with - goes with loving the job. I think I just have a great client. 
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Reminds me of when a guy in the support department for our major development environment at that time sent me a Christmas greeting to his favorite customer: The bug reports from us (for all practical purposes: me) were exemplary: Clearly stated, reduced to the minimum required to reproduce the problem, and with lucid descriptions of how to progress to provoke the bug. If all customers had been like that, he would have been a happy man.
That is the single Christmas greeting I don't think I will ever forget.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Part of my job at the tiny company I work for is to look after the licenses we sell our customers and to help them get going, or upgrade to newer versions, that sort of thing, and I can absolutely do some of the more advanced tech support for any part of the code that I've actually written (and some I haven't).
Throughout the years some customers have gone out of their way to say how impressed they are with the support they're getting, our dedication to quickly finding solutions or going right ahead and implementing a bug fix that gets released within hours of a problem being reported. Those always make my day.
I never use a condescending tone, or treat customers like they're idiots, and always try to walk them through solutions just as if I was sitting right next to them at their desk and having a conversation.
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Have you tested it? Any conclusions?
Quote: Did you know that research shows developers who use GitHub Copilot complete tasks 2X faster compared to benchmarks? Plus, the mental energy they save helps them feel more satisfied and have more fun with their work.
That's from an email I received from GitHub (MS)...
To be honest I can't say anythin good about Copilot - all 5 times I asked a question it bomarded me with total nonsence (and not working, and mostly not even compiling) code solutions, meanwhile not paying attention to the details but hanging on the recognized keywords (like picking 'working' from 'not working')...
However, I will form a firm oppinion after at least 50 times of using it...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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I may just be old and set in my ways, but I don't trust it (or any "AI") to write code, and even if I could, I doubt it would write code the way I write code. I don't like it, and I have little use for it. At best, it's a fancy google machine but stackoverflow, github and codeproject can typically answer my questions, and I trust them more.
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I was thinking that it may shorten search for documents/ideas as it should have scande a wast amount of code...
So it is either bad at finding things or the avarage of the code on the web is very low 
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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it's just a tool.
I would never release code without reviewing it first and/or adapting it.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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It's a tool that's statistically wrong more often than not as it pertains to coding questions.
If any of my other tools had that kind of failure rate I'd throw them away.
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We don't use it at work because of the potential liability of using copyrighted code. I understand that MS will not indemnify anyone against lawsuits for copyright violation if Copilot outputs a block of copyrighted code.
Even if this were not an issue, at the current state of the art I have to thoroughly review any suggestions by Copilot and its ilk. By the time I've done that, I might as well have written the code by myself.
Copilot will only be useful if and when it can reliably output entire blocks of code, rather than snippets. At which time, see my first point.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I didn't actually meant to let it write code - more of a fast and focused search... not impressed there...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Among other things - and this is more a general AI concern I have - I'm concerned about model collapse in AI as it is being trained with online content ... generated with AI.
Nature had an article about it recently. I call it AI incest.
As code online that is generated with tools like ChatGPT and Copilot becomes more prolific what happens to the models?
This isn't my biggest issue with it, but it does seem that AI is destined to eat itself.
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Interesting point. Could it be that the only reason for humans' long-term existence is to "salt" the AI models?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't think I understand the question? The way I'm interpreting it doesn't make sense, but I can't figure it out. The way I'm reading it suggests that AI has been around for the whole of human history  but I know that's not what you're saying.
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Humans evolved, then they built AIs. The AIs eventually take over, and keep humans only so they can add some randomness into the AIs' models.
Isaac Asimov wrote a good short story on a similar theme, The Last Answer. It's not as well-known as his The Last Question, but worth reading IMO.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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