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I guess it makes a change from sending them to Atlanta:
22 January 2016
A couple in Atlanta say they are getting visits from people who have lost their mobile phones and been wrongly directed to their home by phone-finding apps.
Or to Las Vegas:
January 13, 2013
In the past two years the 59-year-old retiree has been pestered by people showing up at all hours of the day and night at his house, demanding their phones. They’ve yelled, shown him evidence, called the police – sworn that their phone is in his house.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera also captures subtle new features of polar cap. Insert childish giggles as required
Or use the "correct pronunciation" and feel better about yourself
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Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In my view, the number of pull requests is an important indicator of how much people are willing and capable of contributing to your software in the open source domain. Because-as we all know-all software is on GitHub
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how much people are willing and capable of contributing to your software in the open source domain.
The questions is: What kind of contribution?
How many of those pulls are really that useful?
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I find it interesting - thanks.
Although, GitHub usage doesn't translate well to the enterprise. C# is much more than 5% there, and there are also languages which have zero usage on GitHub but are still widely used by businesses: Cobol, PL/I, Rexx, ABAP, RPG,...
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The top soft skills that IT professionals should focus on are communication, problem-solving, and project management, according to a new study. Great news! A lot of me is soft.
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that article is click bait. Seriously, when was the last time you, as a developer or an IT guy - whatever the elephant that means - was asked about project management?
True story - after an overly long and difficult development project management decided it would be useful to have a project review - what went wrong, what went right, and how do we do better? #1 issue - asking for estimates and a schedule before requirements. Heads nodded.
Next project - same issue, except this time the entire department got dinged for not meeting the mythical schedule. It's probably a good thing the company is generous with vacation.
Articles like this should go in the writer's list of things not to write.
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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The two researchers set out to improve Automated Program Repair (APR), an emerging discipline focused on developing techniques for fixing programming bugs automatically. And then you can use it to fix the buggy fixes that it puts in
It's the circle of patch - Hakuna macrasha
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The eyeglass attachment uses tiny microphones and speakers to read the words you mouth as you silently command it to pause or skip a music track, enter a passcode without touching your phone or work on CAD models without a keyboard. Because I'm sure people want to be whispering sweet nothings to their glasses
There already are too many people jabbering to their earphones...
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I don't want to imagine what the glasses will do if a user gets some food stuck between the teeth  
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From 2019 to at least mid-2022, Tesla employees used an internal messaging system to share "sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras," according to a lengthy Reuters report based on interviews with nine former Tesla employees.
Although Tesla says its in-car cameras are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy," today's Reuters report described employees as having easy access to the cameras' output and sharing that freely with other employees:
I'm shocked, shocked, to find another Elon company not giving an exploding ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) about user data privacy.
A privacy policy saying "LOL WUT!!!!" probably would have been an improvement.
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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You should see some of the footage I've seen from dash cams in taxis.
I'm not in the demographic for a battery-powered car, but I think I would cover a camera lens if my car had one.
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Dan Neely wrote: Although Tesla says its in-car cameras are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy,"
And Google said "Do no evil", and Facebook said they won't sell a certain type of information, and...
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A whole new source of videos for the Wham Bam Tesla-Cam channel on YouTube.
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Evil, you are evil 
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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I don't and never will own a Tesla. Maybe I'm wrong, but apparently the cars phone home from time to time, so to speak. Updates occur wirelessly and can leave the vehicle bricked. Nope, not for me.
But this article falls under "Siri is listening at all times" theatrics. Of course the phone is listening. I still haven't enabled the wifi in my refrigerator.
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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It said there was no legal basis to justify "the mass collection and storage of personal data for the purpose of 'training' the algorithms underlying the operation of the platform".
They read the privacy policy and saw it said "LOL WUT!!!!!"
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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Not that I don'T agree with them but on the other hand... TikTok, WhatsApp, Facebook, Office365 and only god knows how many other things are they using without giving a second thought.
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They just thought, "How will ChatGPT communicate without hand gestures?"
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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Samsung workers have unwittingly leaked top secret data whilst using ChatGPT to help them with tasks.
The company allowed engineers at its semiconductor arm to use the AI writer to help fix problems with their source code. But in doing so, the workers inputted confidential data, such as the source code itself for a new program, internal meeting notes data relating to their hardware.
The upshot is that in just under a month, there were three recorded incidences of employees leaking sensitive information via ChatGPT. Since ChatGPT retains user input data to further train itself, these trade secrets from Samsung are now effectively in the hands of OpenAI, the company behind the AI service.
If they'd bothered to read the privacy policy, they've seen it said "LOL WUT!!!"
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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Dan Neely wrote: The company allowed engineers at its semiconductor arm to use the AI writer to help fix problems with their source code.
Aha... another example of bad management being paid by the workers 
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Microsoft is expanding its Windows 365 Cloud PC offering today with a new option for shift and part-time workers. There was fifty-seven channels and no new icon
Why shift workers need a CloudPC in the TV remains for someone else to figure out
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why shift workers need a CloudPC in the TV remains for someone else to figure out
Ehmmm, I think it could be because... no, no, no.
It surely is due to... mmm, no.
Might it be for.... damn it. I give up
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Keep at it. I'm sure you'll figure it out real soon... The reasons for everything MS does is real obvious. Like why they eliminated the ability to dock the start menu to the left or right of the screen in Win 11. That's obvious, right? Right?
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