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How could you establish what parts of the code was produced by an LLM vs updated by a human afterwards? The LLM will output different results over time as the models get updated. A…

That could be a real experience for children in the not too distant future. We are seeing more and more appliances coming out with less buttons and a mobile app to access advanced …

This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work). I'…

It's also so that rescue personnel can see into the plane in the event it crashes.

The AI tool providers need companies and customers to pay for the tools and automation. If all the white collar jobs in the Western world are replaced by AI or AI generated SAAS pr…

I work for a bank. There is a strategic focus on the mobile banking app over the web app. Younger generations are doing everything through their phones. Including applying for home…

As I teenager and then poor uni student, I rode a number of bikes or bike parts to failure. I first snapped the top tube of a stell framed BMX near the stem after many years of usi…

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I know this is a late response, but for anyone curious you would need to use an official Oracle or Sun JDK/JRE from Java 8 or older. OpenJDK doesn't include support for applets. Yo…

Using your restaurant example, if the restaurant closes it may not have much obvious effect on other nearby businesses. However, that restaurant would have given business to variou…

There are broader implications for the economy if a large percentage of people continue to WFH. In larger cities, many smaller businesses, like food outlets, are sustained by worke…

You are probably thinking of dowels used as loose tenons, where a blind hole is drilled into the mating pieces of wood and the dowel is not visible once the joint is together. Some…

Shorter words mean less time with your mouth open which means less chance for the flies to get in.

Some pedestrian crossing buttons play different audible beats so blind people know when they can cross. Famously the beat of one in Sydney was sampled for a Billie Eilish song ( ht…

Due to my age and work experience, I'm also familiar with archiving involving storing physical documents in cardboard boxes. My current job really is paper free and graduate employ…

I'm ok with adding more functions to the titlebar, it's something I experimented with myself for a desktop app some 15 years ago. I found there was a heck of a lot of special behav…

Java has been around for a longish time. Around the early 2000's there was at least a perception that you should avoid creating too many objects as that carried performance overhea…

In my current role I work as a developer in the finance sector. We are interested in secure coding. Every year we have to complete a secure coding course and pass an assessment. We…

Agree with you on laptops not being ergonomic by themselves for long term use. Perhaps not an issue for many development activities, but anything involving lots of calculations (CP…

I regularly get apologised to by customer service people when I have been waiting for coffee of food. Usually something like "Sorry for the wait". While I am waiting, I often retre…

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For many people, being selected for a layoff can feel like you have been judged as a lower performer than your colleagues. The thinking being that the company would always want to …

Many more people can now access dental/orthodontic treatments and minor cosmetic procedures. Getting your teeth straight makes a big difference to your appearance and make you more…

To expand on this a bit, oil and particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities are hard to stop and restart. Many systems need to be at a particular temperature, h…

I have experienced a roofing nail puncture as a cyclist. In Australia roofing nails usually are galvanised with a washer to spread the load held by the head across a corrugated she…