Re: Monochrome World
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"Yellow"?
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Fsck yeah! Have an upvote. Python looks to me like a language that was designed to help you make mistakes.Get the indentation wrong: subtle but serious errors. Assign a value to an object using different character casing than used previously: new member gets created; so hard to spot. Method not defined: you'll find out when the production system keels over. Multiple function return values: you can return different combinations of things from one method at various points. All this could be embarrassing if it were you producing the poor code, but now you have to debug a single 700-line routine that was written by some hare brain who did not believe in commenting code.
If you are a driver for Über and you decide to sue them, don't you risk seeing your monetising opportunities being decimated? As in: you see a potential client standing in the street 100m away from you but another Uber from 5 km away arrives to pick him up because you did not get a notification for inadequately explained reasons.
If I remember correctly, the devil had arranged it so that the Outlook versions that were around in the early 2000's used Ctrl+S hotkeys for sending emails. One friday afternoon a mid-level manager was messing about on one of his subordinate's PC and typed up a harshly worded email to the global distribution list, telling everybody in rather rude language how stupid they are. Then Ctrl+S to save ... followed by a futile attempt to recall the message. The disciplinary hearing was held two weeks later and the farewell drinks organised for the following friday. Turns out that the head of IT was on the hunt for a reason to get rid of the guy already, and then this fell out of the sky. Subordinate survived with a warning on his employment record.
Some of them want to use use
Some of them want to abuse you
I'm not sure who would trust Google for anything after the altered reality that Gemini has been coughing out.
Anyway, DuckDuckGo: sounds like the cure is as bad as the disease.
Google maps is finicky. If you hold your phone wrong it decides to map out a different route that takes you to strange places. I had that recently where I needed to drive 5 km east. The first attempt got it right and then suddenly it first wanted to take me 4 km north, then back to my starting point, and then on to my destination. I could not get it to recalculate the route correctly so I packed away the phone and drove to the place. Luckily I had a fairly good idea where it was, but if that happened in a rough neighbourhood where I'm not familiar with the area I would have been out of luck.
"... of a marketing release of work in progress than a completed chip"
Nah! I do believe this was a real – albeit flawed – attempt to create the next generation of CPUs. Someone an Intel apparently truly believed that the majority of DOS software would either just run in 80286 protected mode unaltered or could easily be fixed. Digital Research even wrote an operating system for the 286 that was supposed to replace MS-DOS. But it looks like the Intel engineers never took a good look at real-world 8086 software to see what it was really doing and missed the part where everybody was accessing segments wherever they pleased. There was no way to create a protected mode operating system that could deal with that real mode mess. It looks like Intel also believed that programmers really liked dealing with this segmentation scheme and that flat memory models would never catch on. They even extended segmentation to 32-bit on the 386.
And I suppose your CP/M had a GUI on top of a multitasking OS kernel, access control, plug & play peripherals, and a network stack? I watch these 8-bit restoration channels on YT and all I can tell myself is how eternally grateful I am that the days of struggling with those clunkers are over.
Even before I was old enough to learn to drive, my father taught me that a very important aspect of driving is the ability to predict what drivers around you might do and to sometimes think for other people. This is especially true in this place where I live where the road traffic act is mostly regarded as a set of guidelines. Now, how much awareness of the driving conditions might one reasonably expect from a robot that doesn't know or care whether it's driving a car or peeling a potato?
And they are right because there is no climate change. The real issue is the destruction of the environment, but there is lots of money to be made by replacing existing energy infrastructure with new stuff – that doesn't work particularly well. But there is no money to be made by stopping all mining activities – and implied environmental destruction – to produce the metals needed to make all these shiny new things.
So why now bring "climate change" into this? The people raiding the earth to dig up minerals to build EVs, wind turbines, solar panels, etc., can just sell all the rare earths, copper, aluminium, and what have you to CERN. They'll still make their money. But I suppose this scaremongering over "climate change" will sell more. This whole "climate change" thing is just to switch from an oil based economy to a lithium based one so that somebody else sitting on some kind of mineral can start raking in the money.
I drive a manual shift vehicle – I enjoy having that sort of control. I'm unlikely to use tools that come and plonk somebody else's prewritten rubbish code* into my project. Soon I'll be coding in Notepad++ (or worse) if they're going to force this AI rubbish on us.
* Possibly their code is actually better than mine. Who knows?