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Being a good mentor – a developers guide

9-Jul-23 14:30

i have often seen programmers assigned to work with another framework, language, or assigned to fix legacy code:

walk around screaming how the code is worthless ... long before they touch their keyboards, and get to work.

for new hires, those histrionics may backfire on them.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control

9-Jul-23 9:31

Vadim Kravcenko[^]:
Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead.

"Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

Seems I'm on a "Star Wars" theme for today.

No, not, "A New Hope". Dang kids (and Lucas) retroactively changing the title. Harrumph!

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control

9-Jul-23 9:31

Techcrunch[^]:
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems.

Does it involve teaching them the lyrics to 'Daisy Bell'?

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:35

Re: OpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control

9-Jul-23 10:35

Maybe they are trying to create a clone of Detective Del Spooner

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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David O'Neil9-Jul-23 18:03

David O'Neil

9-Jul-23 18:03

Make it work for minimum wage, give it the average household bills to pay, and see what happens...

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Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says.

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says.

9-Jul-23 9:31

Insider[^]:
Half of tech executives reported heavy drinking in a new survey. 45% reported using painkillers.

Does this mean I'm qualified to be an executive?

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:34

Re: Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says.

9-Jul-23 10:34

That's why I prefer to stay in the dev side, although lately I almost don't write any code

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff9-Jul-23 14:33

Re: Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says.

9-Jul-23 14:33

Because tech execs have to work with programmers ... like us ?

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

David O'Neil9-Jul-23 18:05

David O'Neil

9-Jul-23 18:05

Executive Snark Master!

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How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 9:31

Washi[^]:
Here is a dumb question that you probably never asked yourself: What is the minimal amount of bytes we need to store in a .NET executable to have the CLR print the string"Hello, World!" to the standard output?

Because you never now when you might need a really small Hello World program

I suppose it's possible some of these fripperfications might be useful elsewhere, but I'm somewhat doubtful.

(and isn't P/Invoke kind of cheating here?)

BillWoodruff9-Jul-23 14:21

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 14:21

from EtymologyOnLine: frippery (n.)
1560s, "old clothes, cast-off garments," from French friperie "old clothes, an old clothes shop," from Old French freperie, feuperie "old rags, rubbish, old clothes" (13c.), from frepe, feupe "fringe; rags, old clothes," from Late Latin faluppa "chip, splinter, straw, fiber." The notion is of "things worn down, clothes rubbed to rags." The ironic meaning "finery" (but with overtones of tawdriness) dates from 1630s.

@kent_sharkey

Congratularios, Kent ! on your innovation "fripperifications," which i don't see anywhere else in the web.

as an etymology/linguistics obsessee, i must ask you if this is an apt candidate for a neologism ... given what you see in the article cited ?

cheers, bill

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 15:09

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 15:09

Frippery was where I started from. I’m not sure why my brain insisted on the -ifications ending. Maybe to combine frippery and machinations? Sadly, I left no notes. Unsure | :~

TTFN - Kent

BillWoodruff9-Jul-23 15:38

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 15:38

if you think what you are responding to are scams ... consider "fripperstings" ? imho, that is a true portmanteau.

"Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882) was coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898) for the sort of words he invented for "Jabberwocky," on the notion of "two meanings packed up into one word." As a noun in this sense from 1872."

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

obermd10-Jul-23 4:03

obermd

10-Jul-23 4:03

At least the author realizes it was a waste of time. The reality is that as soon as he reached anything under 4,096 bytes in size the disk space consumption wouldn't shrink unless he got the file below 1,020 bytes, at which point the entire file would be stored in the directory entry.

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

trønderen10-Jul-23 10:58

trønderen

10-Jul-23 10:58

If you care for compact coding, look a the videos at www.pouet.net - lots of super impressing videos (animations) collected there!

Take a look at e.g. Oscar's Chair by Eos :: pouët.net[^]. When you see what these guys manage to do in 4092 bytes, making a "Hello World" using the same amount of space is not quite as impressing Smile | :)

To see the movies at pouet.net you have to download the executable, usually wrapped in a zip file, and run it locally. I think they all take over the screen completely when they run. Beware that some videos require quite a few seconds for unpacking and initialization. First time you see the videos, you will be convinced that they download a lot of contents from internet. They don't. Unplug the network cable if you don't believe it!

A few other good ones at pouet.net (the 4Kbytes ones is only a small fraction of the collection!):

Binary Parasites by Fulcrum :: pouët.net[^] - 4096 bytes (zipping makes it grow to 4101 bytes)
fr-013: flybye by Farbrausch :: pouët.net[^] - this one is 65536 bytes, but quite impressing.
Skyline by LJ & Logicoma :: pouët.net[^] - 4073 bytes.
The Grid 512B by Abaddon :: pouët.net[^] - 512 bytes, if you want it to fit in the directory entry.
fr-08: .the .product by Farbrausch :: pouët.net[^] - another "big" one (65024 bytes), really an ad for the company making the tools.

Note that some videos at pouet.net are made for non-PC hardware. A few of the old ones require e.g. old dx drivers which you probably haven't got on your PC.

Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions

9-Jul-23 9:31

Silicon Angle[^]:
Lightning Labs, the developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling solution, announced Thursday the release of a set of tools to allow the developers to create artificial intelligence chatbots that can send and receive bitcoins.

Now the AIs can make a little money on the side before they kill us all

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:31

Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars

9-Jul-23 10:31

ChatGPT let me introduce you American Express

Maybe I am a bit too classic, but... why the heck would I need that?

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:16

Re: Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars

9-Jul-23 9:16

Computerworld[^]:
Worldwide spending on public cloud services reached $545.8 billion in 2022, new data from IDC says.

And that's just from the projects people built to learn cloud dev and forgot were still running

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:30

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned employees not to ‘build a gold toilet’

9-Jul-23 10:30

Kent Sharkey wrote:
to learn cloud dev and forgot were still running

If the company pays... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:16

Re: Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned employees not to ‘build a gold toilet’

9-Jul-23 9:16

CNBC[^]:
Microsoft’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, told employees not to “build a gold toilet” in a 2018 meeting, another executive wrote in an email that came up during the company’s court showdown with U.S. antitrust regulators.

This is why we keep executives: inspirational quotes

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:29

Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

9-Jul-23 10:29

Kent Sharkey wrote:
This is why we keep executives: inspirational quotes

Seeing that there is people that actually built it... In this case I would even say, he was not that wrong Big Grin | :-D

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-23 10:16

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

6-Jul-23 10:16

Ars Technica[^]:
Meta has officially launched its surprisingly popular Twitter alternative, Threads—shocking even Mark Zuckerberg as signups hit 30 million within the first 24 hours.

In case the old place for babbling and arguing doesn't appeal, here's a new place for babbling and arguing!

With 88% more monopoly involvement!

Apologies for posting this. We debated whether we'd just ignore this whole thing, but...slow news day.

Nelek6-Jul-23 12:52

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

6-Jul-23 12:52

What's better / worse, Pest or Cholera?

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff7-Jul-23 6:29

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

7-Jul-23 6:29

Kent Sharkey wrote:
whether we'd just ignore this whole thing, but...slow news day.

i have been trying to have a slow news day: what techniques are you using ? Cryogenics ?

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Kent Sharkey7-Jul-23 7:34