pythonRon

You took the words right out of my mouth. LOL

Have people been finding bugs? Having trouble with it? It does work, right? Surely, this is just bureaucratic nonsense.

The same thing happened in Canada in the 1930's, but the force behind it was neither artificial nor intelligent, just greedy.

I love how the shortcomings of the extremely wealthy are considered the failings of all humans.

This just confirms what I've suspected all my life... I should have been a plumber.

Why don't these hackers do something useful... like redistribute the contents of all the billionaires' bank accounts.

One of the first things we discussed in my first year at art college was originality. No one has an original idea these days. It's all been done many, many, many times. The only thing original is POV, but with so much media being pumped into our brains even that isn't guaranteed any longer... and that was the state of things in 1985. Now, some 40 years later, what hope does originality have?

   Art is viewed differently by those who create it, those who talk about it, and those who collect it. For an artist, art is creative and expressive, a way to 'scratch the itch,' so to speak. For those who talk about it, it's a way to show off their knowledge and passion (and maybe make a living doing so). For those who collect it, it's an ego boost and an investment, something to brag about at parties.
   When you consider programming from these three points of view, programmers are definitely capable of seeing themselves as artists. Perhaps those who talk about programming may also see programmers as artists, but does anyone still collect software? There used to be a saying... an adage, if you will... that whoever dies with the most (pirated software) wins. But that's the only context within which I've ever heard of people collecting software.
   I trained as an artist, got a degree from ECCAD, but did most of my art using computers with software such as Deluxe Paint, Sculpt-Animate 4D, Blender, Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc. I also spent many years writing software, both for a living and as a hobby.

To be honest, I have mixed feelings about using AI. On the one hand, I've given up on even understanding the nitty gritty details of code any more and feel I like I'm missing something that connected me to the process the way it used it. But on the other hand, projects that I would have set aside 10 to 12 months to write, I can now knock off in a matter of days with the help of AI. Do I have a firm POV on programming as art? Not really. I can see arguments both pro and con. But, if nothing else, the subject gives those who talk about programming fodder for many discussions to come.

If Typesafe really wants to do some good in the world, it'll raise money for those in need.

Before we come to a final conclusion on this, we need to reexamine the NOVA food classification system. It holds some rather baffling contradictions. For instance, if you buy a deep fryer and a mandolin slicer to make your own potato chips at home, they're classified as processed foods. But if you buy a bag of plain potato chips (ingredients: potatoes, oil, salt) they're classified as ultra-processed.

There's no doubt in my mind that the writer is right.

The goal is to lengthen human lifespan? Like the planet doesn't have enough humans already.

The sad thing about this is that, despite this clarification, in schools, it'll still be taught as a Watson/Crick discovery, not Franklin, just as the telephone is still taught as a Bell invention rather than something he stole while working at the patent office and Edison gets credit for the light bulb even though he was a johnny-come-lately. Once these things are in print, it's hard to get them changed. I remember once in school being taught something (don't remember what it was) and sticking my hand up to say, "but that's not right. We now know X to be true." The teacher said, "But it's that way in the book, so that's how it'll be on your exams."

Ha! I thought all the rats were in the Alberta legislature.

After reading the last two paragraphs of this article, I have to think that the person who wrote it never saw a non-x86 computer.

I'd be looking for the person who told wanted the hacking done. I doubt an AI agent does these things without someone instructing them. That would be like seeing a self-driving car go joyriding.

An AI agent can't make decisions, so there's that. But, as for purpose, it's not the purpose of an AI agent we need to fear, but the person wielding it.

The Linux desktop does need work, but it's not 100% up to speed yet, either. The ultimate UX can be found when the user has 100% control over the experience and we aren't there yet. Wayland won't allow window size/position to be remembered between sessions and too many UX designers think the desktop is just a big phone. Yes, we need work on UX and the first step should be to get Wayland to allow the user the same flexibility we enjoyed with X11. Using Linux with multiple screens means reverting to X11 just to keep from going nuts.

Oh, here we go, another entity to blame for failings of judgement.

I feel very lucky in that I bought a handful of SSDs mere months before the prices went insane. RAM, not so much, especially for my new laptop which demands DDR5. It may be a while before I can expand that past the 16GB that came with it.

I dabbled with Flet for a couple of weeks and all I can say is: I wish it were further along in development. Either that, or had more documentation and examples available. I love that it targets all platforms and that it's so easily distributable, but where I ran into problems was with layouts in general and aligning controls with one another specifically. I was ready to drop all other GUI toolkits before I ran into that snag. Perhaps in another year or two I'll take another look.

This was just business as usual 50 to 100 years ago. People started at the bottom and worked their way up. There were no I've-got-a-degree shortcuts because degrees weren't about training for a job, they were about finding out about the world around us. It's interesting that things are starting to circle around, but I doubt any corporation will drop the degree requirements... unless AI CEO's start rejecting all human applications.

I'm trying to find my focus again. After using AI agents for about a year, I've lost my ability to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes.

It's good to see the jobs of CEO's finally being threatened. Let's go after those who sit on corporate boards next, please.

I was interested in reading the article but, like so many I find online these days, the white text on black makes my eyes throb to the point of giving me a headache if I don't stop after a few seconds. so I have to give it a miss. I've read that white text on a black background is easier on the eyes, but it's obviously not universal.

What would get me to stay with Linux (I've been going back and forth for the last few years) would be a fully-featured File Explorer work-alike complete with previews of every file type and a full-on context menu copy. One other thing... the ability to right-click any program icon and pin it to the taskbar. They're little things, but whenever I find myself on Windows 11, those are the things I find I missed most... well, other than being able to run File Locator Pro, NotePad++, and Bulk Rename natively.

Oh, and getting some part of the OS/window manager to remember window placement/size. Wayland/GTK don't and this is NOT an innovation, it's trying to turn the desktop into a phone.

Perhaps this AI CEO will bring an end of all this over-paying of top management. Running a corporation isn't rocket science; it's just a matter of putting profit above everything else. Any idiot can do that.

LOL! Hiarious! Take that, management!

God missed his chance when all the billionaires went up in a rocket a few years ago.

It won't last. Remember (when was it? Last year?) when Musk went after Microsoft for turning Open AI into proprietary closed code? We never know what's going on behind closed doors, but something changed, Musk backed off, and nothing changed.