coldcode

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Comment · 5 months ago
Nothing says you are an advanced stupid company than using AI to implement the stupid. This is security I doubt even a college student would implement. Does Meta have a CSO? The correct answer is they don't, even though some body might occupy the title.

Of course it's always possible that they simply don't care who has your account, as long as they get money.

Comment · 5 months ago
I wrote my own interpreted language about 25+ years ago to write online surveys. It made it easy to create complex surveys with many branches. I think I wrote it in Objective-C.

The team implementing the survey system wound up using the same language to implement the runtime portion, something I never expected or designed in.

I don't recall anything about what it looked like now. I do remember it was a lot of fun to write.

Comment · 6 months ago
The US Air Force intended to use ADA, but had to use JOVIAL instead because ADA took so long to be developed. Most people have never heard of JOVIAL but it still exists in the USAF as a legacy.

I worked with JOVIAL as part of my first project as a programmer in 1981, even though we didn't even have a full JOVIAL compiler there yet (it existed elsewhere). I remember all the talk about the future being ADA but it was only an incomplete specification at the time.

Comment · 6 months ago
It's not a rule, it's a law passed by Congress and signed by the President in 1978. You can't just ignore it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Both. He is a fool who thinks he knows better than anyone else.
Comment · 8 months ago
While I enjoyed writing assembly on the 6502 Apple II back then, I would hate doing it today, 42 years later.

Good job, though! Hard to comprehend how limited the hardware was back then, and how much cleverness it took to get things to work.

Comment · 8 months ago
The importers would get the refunds, and any of their customers they charged more for would simply keep the refund. If you paid it directly (like international product order) you probably won't ever get repaid, as they probably deleted the transaction or otherwise failed to record it. Refunds even for importers might be caught up in lawsuits which might never resolve. It's a mess, and SCOTUS did not address the mess.
Comment · 8 months ago
For any AI post, there seems like that one person for whom it worked great, and a whole lot where it didn't. Your mileage may vary...

Some things AI does well, many things it may be not worth the effort entailed, and some where it downright sucks and may even be harmful. The question is will it ever change the curve to where it is useful most of the time?

Comment · 8 months ago
Which is the argument against flying cars. Uncontrolled flying car crashes over populated areas could be catastrophic.
Comment · 9 months ago
I thought all measurements in data centers were in US football fields.
Comment · 10 months ago
Amazing it runs in a browser.
Comment · 1 year ago
Did they remove any features in Photo? Or is it basically just glommed together?
Comment · 1 year ago
My career as a programmer started this way. The division VP would eliminate jobs in the last quarter of the year to make his numbers look good, then desperately hire people at the start of the first quarter to avoid projects falling too far behind. I was one of those people.
Comment · 1 year ago
I used Borland Turbo Pascal in 1984. It was amazing to work with something so fast on a PC that was really so slow. No IDE/Compiler since then matched the speed. Today's code is massively more sophisticated and complex, so there is no way to match that performance today despite the speed of computers today.
Comment · 1 year ago
I remember a friend having a 17% mortgage, which he eventually walked away from.

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