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I just saw an ad on CP for Grammerly, a service that helps you with your writing by correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.
But imagine what it must be capable of in this age of Generative AI. It could do things like suggest a more sophisticated sentence structure, and be able to word it correctly even if the author writes on a 4th grade level.
Right now, we're probably reading articles composed by AI, or significantly enhanced by AI.
Pretty soon, you won't be able to trust anything you read online! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My New Year wish:
May all of us be granted the ability to clearly distinguish between AI concoctions and NI (natural intelligence) creations.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Pretty soon, you won't be able to trust anything you read online!
Do you actually mean to say that there is anything trustworthy online today?
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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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: It could do things like suggest a more sophisticated sentence structure, and be able to word it correctly even if the author writes on a 4th grade level.
Would that user be able to correctly recognize that the suggested structure was better versus just AI gibberish?
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Right now, we're probably reading articles composed by AI, or significantly enhanced by AI.
Pretty soon, you won't be able to trust anything you read online!
Written that way, you make it sound like the "trustworthiness" criteria depends upon whether something's been written by a human vs an AI. I don't have that much faith in my fellow humans...
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What I meant was that people tend to judge the trustworthiness of what they read based upon the language used. So people who write at 4th grade level can now sound like they are more credible.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Many times, I have read texts that were written as if by a 4th grader, judged by grammar, orthography and other linguistic criteria - yet, by contents, being top notch.
Some excellent engineers (IT people included) spends their mental capacity on structuring problems and solutions in a technical manner, using tools for that purpose. Writing prose like a full time author is not their focus; they do it poorly. If this makes you reject the high quality contents (rather than form) of their text, I think that using a tool to improve the form, so that you will not reject the contents, is a great idea.
Go back a couple of generations: Lots of text was produced by hand writing. Publishers received hand written manuscripts, I have seen several old handwritten master's thesis. Technical reports used to have figures and illustrations drawn by hand. My hand writing is terrible, my drawings even worse. If I were to present anything in hand writing/drawing, I know that a lot of people would not take seriously, but as a child's work, simply because of the terrible hand writing and drawings. When computers were becoming more widespread, in my younger days, very few of my classmates had any experience with typewriters. I had, having given up to teach myself an acceptable handwriting. On the other hand, I always read far more books than most of my classmates, so I always mastered the language quite well.
Nowadays, everyone uses keyboards and PC drawing programs, hiding the fact that their writing/drawing abilities may be at the level of a 4th grader. You may think that is bad, too, because it reduces your option to reject the writing based on (graphical) form. Most people would strongly prefer to read what I write in a typed form, rather than in my handwriting, though 
Even for the language aspects, we have had tools to improve it. When did spelling checkers first arrive? I saw them about 40 years ago. Good grammar checkers came a few years later, but they have been standard tools in text processing systems for 30 years. What are you referring to, other than a more fancy spelling and grammar checker? Are you calling for the banning of all sorts of simple spelling and grammar checkers as well, so that it can be relieved that some professional expert is not a linguistic expert, does not write like a professional author, and so that you can reject his professional expertise on those grounds?
I will rather that his professional expertise is communicated in a form where I am not all the time annoyed by spelling mistakes, incorrect grammar and so on. If the expert uses computer tools (whether they are MS Word spelling and grammar check or an AI system) to keep secret that he is not a language equilibrist, I do not care. It compares to me keeping it a secret (until now) that my handwriting is terrible. If anyone wants to reject my writing on CP based on my bad handwriting, I think most others would find that laughable.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Yes, but I want sarcasm and innuendo when I can't be direct. AI is not up for it yet in my experience; it just babbles on about guidelines. Then again, some don't appreciate sophistication; it implies a certain political bent in the speaker; and vise versa.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Mr. The Codewitch translates documents in several languages. He uses Grammarly to check his work, but one of the languages he translates is Western Juxtlahuacan Mixtec an indigenous language from Mexico, - and it's not common except in one part of Mexico.
It crashes Grammarly. 
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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(from balmy-ish snow-less Montréal)
Have a good 2024 y'all.
Be good to your loved ones, friends and family and pets in the new year.
A weird year ended for me.
Lost my (20 year) job in February; got a new one in October.
I was lucky to be able to spend a few months in a forced "sabbatical".
Tried to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (not sure I have all that figured out yet)
I think I found a good job that will get me up to retirement.
I left a high pressure private sector job in engineering for a (semi) public sector job in the educational domain.
Still working in C++ but it's not cutting edge; lot of maintenance; lot of antiquated code.
I have a lot of things to learn, especially related to the domain.
With my experience I hope I will be able to bring better coding practices to my team.
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CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Good luck with the new gig.
Have a prosperous New Year.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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You must be a very valuable developer for them to keep you for 20 years.
Good luck, and happy new year!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: You must be a very valuable developer for them to keep you for 20 years.
In this field, if they keep you for 10 years (or heck, even 5) you know you're invaluable, so they might as well keep you around for as long as they can pay you.
Getting a developer familiar enough with a code base to change it without breaking it is costly. You stick with those employees who know their way around.
After a while a junior developer might be cheaper in terms of compensation, but in terms of productivity, you should always stick with the old timers--you don't cut costs by getting rid of those people. That's an expensive lesson for those who need to learn it.
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Maximilien wrote: Lost my (20 year) job
There's a lot of that going around.
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Happy New Year from the Pacific Coast (White Rock BC), where it was a balmy 15C yesterday...
I hope your new gig goes well. I too have had my share of job changes as a sw dev (less than a year with Kodak when I got laid off as they went into bankruptcy protection...) and you just need to roll with the punches. But I love what I do and would not change very much with my career...
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Hello all,
My sister-in-law has this all-in-one with a mechanical HDD and would like to get that replaced by a SSD, but after looking at it for a while I have not seen how to open it without trying to separate the display.
Before doing something that could end in a broken computer, I thought on asking it here...
As always thank you very much in advance.
And today... let me also wish you all a super 2024!
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Maintenance manuals for most hp computers are on their website(s), but Ms Google should find one somewhere. "<product name> manual" should get you there.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 31-Dec-23 23:13pm.
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That's what I thought, nothing on that specific model... It's quite strange, there are many manuals but none hardware related in their web site.
No worries though, my sister-in-law sawe the youtube video posted before here and got scared enough not to want to replace the HDD... 
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Happy New Yearrrrrrrrr! (pirate version) to you Richard!
Nothing interesting there related to hardware that I have been able to see, in any case my sister-in-law got scared after seeing the previously posted youtube video and decided not to update the HDD... ^^¡
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Tell her to send it back to the shop she got it from to do the upgrade. If they break it/void the warranty, it'll be on them, not you.
The price they charge for the upgrade is her punishment for buying an all-in-one PC.
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I'd also think about the Windows license "transfer" ... certain things "break the account"; and you wind up getting a new license (unless you have "keys" or like dealing with MS).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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