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What do you think all those IT engineers who were made redundant in the last months are doing? Some of them might prefer founding a start-up to joblessness. It's not the first time…

I really appreciate how Mars Incorporated is actively weaning people off sugar ;)

I haven't lost faith in my career and I've been an IT specialist all my life. AI will elevate my game to a new level. I see zero evidence that it will make me redundant in any way.…

It's always good to see improvements around WSL2, but especially this one is not so relevant IMHO, since it only affects WLS2 file access to Windows file system. If you store your …

AI is like TV in that old saying: AI makes the smart ones smarter and the dumb ones dumber. LLMs can both help you advance your knowledge and do your homework (preventing you from …

I am trying to build a simulation that lets a simulated organism come up with its own small language, purely learned from sensory input: https://github.com/JoergStrebel/VirtualZoo/…

Banking apps are the deal-breaker for me. I only do business with banks that offer alternative ways of securing transactions e.g. eTan / ChipTAN / PhotoTAN with a separate reader /…

But you would already have to have shell access to the system to execute those commands, right?

An adult is a person who managed to leave childhood behind, especially in his thoughts. It's the independence of and emancipation from childhood.

I also love it. Finally, I am no longer constrained by syntax errors or forgotten API details. I can focus on the feature. It's like taking programming to a higher level - programm…

How does your framework compare to spec-driven development e.g. https://github.com/github/spec-kit ? In my experience, spec-kit produces a lot of markdown files and little source c…

Death will soon realize that he messed with the wrong man.

Well, in a world of finite resources, I think I would need a better reason to invest time into this topic than just "for the challenge". I mean I just think that I have ample oppor…

A very nice video. It shows that computer games are glamorous on the outside, but once you look behind the scenes, they just look like normal software. I was also surprised to hear…

Ok, impressive, but - why? No current computer has a floppy disk drive anymore. The Web Page claims building such a disk is a learning exercise, but the knowledge offered is pretty…

Hmm, no, I don't think I want to tell OpenAI my banking details and transactions. (sorry, Google and Microsoft, you need to stay out, too)

Lefties sympathizing with criminals, sharing their wealth distribution fantasies, agitating against competing political views. You've come a long way, CCC! The initial ideas was po…

In all fairness: human senior devs see AI-written source code with some disdain, as it usually does not match their stylistic and idiomatic preferences (although being correct and …

I am certain that LLMs can help you with judgment calls as well. I spent the last month tinkering with spec-driven development of a new Web app and I must say, the LLM was very hel…

The publicly funded media (radio, TV) obviously use this finding to claim that they need more money and/or a tighter regulation of AI companies' products. Sounds a bit self-serving…

If you want to do research, usually the first thing to do is refine your research question up to a point where it becomes relatable to the scientific state of the art and where it …

I think this "argument" has always been flawed. I don't need to justify what information I would like to share especially with state agencies. In Germany, this is even encoded in a…

Impressive setup, but I would assume it to be very operations-intensive because of the high number of deployed components and their complex configuration. Plus, if you are serious …

I think there is a misunderstanding - the whole point of my comment was that LLMs are lacking sensory input which could link the neural activations to real-world objects and thus p…

I absolutely love this paper and it's a shame that this research does not receive more attention. Everybody is raving about LLMs, but also everybody is ignoring the shaky foundatio…