It's only called AI if it comes from the AI region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling autocomplete. →
8
Jan
2023
By law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? →
12
Jan
2021
Spam on Usenet was a big deal beacuse of the way Usenet worked. It was a broadcast protocol where every message posted to Usenet got copied to every server that carried the newsgroup it was posted to. →
10
Feb
2020
What happens when you debate what you think someone else believes, not what you believe. →
15
Aug
2016
One day, my boss pulled me into his office and said “Do you know Microsoft Active Server Pages?” →
4
Aug
2016
The first priority of any software should be to do what the user is asking it to do. Don’t tell me that your time is worth more than mine. →
11
Jan
2016
All the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done! →
2
Dec
2015
Many things in Star Wars don’t make sense, but this one turns out to be pretty straightforward. Leia is badass. →
9
Nov
2015
Arbitrary object deserialization (or marshalling, or un-pickling, whatever your language calls it) is inherently unsafe, and should never be performed on untrusted data. →