Agree. Try looking up travel passport renewal on Google: The first entire page of search results are ads and SEO scammers that charge high fees to fill in a passport application form all disguised as government affiliated services. The actual government passport web site isn’t even close to being top result.
Excite, Yahoo, and Alta Vista are welcoming Google to search giants retirement home.
I’m also wondering how others are able get long form responses from chatgpt > 100 lines. The “please continue” prompt often messes up the output and isn’t a clean continuation. I suppose I ought to ask chatgpt …
… and yet it’s extremely misleading for ChatGPT to guessing urls that don’t exist when asked for references! I had the same happen when asking it a series of questions about laws and policies: it cited a policy I hadn’t heard of, so I asked for a link reference and it provided a very suspect link that went nowhere. That’s a really big caveat emptor! Unfortunately it’s already out in the wild a misinforming the majority who hasn’t read the fine print as closely. The minimal responsible thing for OpenAI to do would be to put disclaimers inline in chat whenever chatgpt generates a non-existent “reference”
Well put. Lawyers are like referees to ensure a legal contest followed the rules. Everyone wants guilty villains to end up in jail, but if the villain is tried in a biased and unruly proceeding then the villain’s sentence can be overturned. Giving even the most obviously guilty villain a competent defense ensures there’s no mistrial loophole in the process. Focusing on good and evil helps write laws, but in legal trial proceeding prosecutors and defenders need to proceed with nearly pure objective focus on facts and proof of intentional violations of written laws.
ASP! bah! Perl was all we needed!! Kids these days with the Reacts and Angulars messing up a perfectly fine cyber space that wasn’t broken! “HTML over the wire” hah! Where did all the Netscape buttons go?
ChatGPT is cool and all, but this breathless hype is starting to feel like “blockchain will take over everything” hype from a few years back. Shiny new toy hype.
It’s powerful, compact, fast, solid, and reliable … and unlike the majority of other database engines, it doesn’t include an opinionated client/server front end welded onto it
Partly IT but “network” to them means the entire operation including equipment, personnel, passengers, and cargo. Every flight requires a full legal rested crew, ground operations staff, etc. Because so many crews are in the wrong city at the most moment, or off-shift, Sounds like they’re trying to solve an 8th dimensional traveling salesman problem to staff each flight.
10 years is OK, as long as there’s career progression, and the more recent roles have accomplishments that align directly to the new role that’s being applied for. Example: a 10 year tenure that began as a sys admin and grew into an AI director role is still good for applying to AI jobs. Counter example: Being a junior sys admin for 10 years who dabbled with a bit of AI on the side and then applying to an AI director role probably won’t fly.
This has some obvious rough edges but still it's a harbinger of things to come. Seems this was trained on recordings of Jobs' on-stage voice rather than his casual conversation voice. The rough edges in this will be smoothed out over time by new tricks of AI trade. This will get crazy when combined with an AI Jobs that paces around a virtual stage in a black turtleneck hyping AI-invented products.
Buying your own fleet of dedicated servers seems like a smart move in the short term, but then five years from now you’ll get someone on the team insisting that they need the latest greatest GPU to run their jobs. Cloud providers give you the option of using newer chipsets without having to re-purchase your entire server fleet every five years.
I hate being obligated to file tax returns every year. Why are we all obligated to do extra accounting and legal research work every year just to settle a tax bill? It’d make more sense to only file a return if you disagree with whatever amount the irs withheld, like an appeal, but otherwise it should just be optional.
The microwave was relatively new back then, but it was so useful that everyone was willing to save up for one. Sewing machines and Atari 800 … not so much. Atari 2600 was worth the expense except for Pac Man and E.T.
This was some years before consumer goods all being made in China and sold at bigger box stores and online at much lower cost. Sears was never seen as a bargain hunters store, and alas it didn’t last in the age of low margin consumer goods retailers.
When I first learned OOP from the dry examples like Shape is the base class of Circle and Triangle, and so on … I just didn’t appreciate why that was much better than the flat imperative style of plain old C and retreated back to the comforts of C. Then I started writing larger C programs with structures that had common function pointers called “draw” and “rotate” and realized these are just obj ct methods … and the structures were different implementations of a common base class … OK, so I guess OOP is useful after all.
So it helps to compare the old ways to the new ways side by side, with a real world example, to understand why the new ways are better.
It’s good advice to not only learn about the tools you’re told to use but also learn about the tools that many others are using. Try to be full-stack versatile rather than just really good at one tool in the much larger process.
This! There’s no public safety need for licensing barbers, florists, and other non-critical trades. In these situations it’s all about raising barriers of entry to limit competition.
Correct, a database feature can't prevent errant developers from posting customer credit card numbers on Twitter either, but compliance auditors won't accept "We don't bother encrypting data because it's pointless!" as an answer. The very real use case here is when private contracts between an end customer and a service provider says "You are in breach of this contract if load my data to any 3rd party service that has the ability to see my data, regardless of whether they use that ability or not. You are allowed to use that other service if you extend your audit program to also audit that other service provider according to my standards and report back to me." I've personally seen this situation prevent the use of SaaS. An encryption control like this where the 3rd party doesn't have keys to decrypt the data is considered satisfactory.
This seems more applicable for the SaaS hosting model where the database service is managed by a 3rd party. So the use case is "I trust your SaaS service is compliant with my legal obligations to protect my customer data, but it'd be easier for everyone involved if your database service also has no way of seeing sensitive data fields. That would make it easier for me to pass my compliance audits, otherwise I need to audit you." So the data is encrypted client-side before it's sent over to the database service, and the database service is not able to decrypt it, but can still can include the encrypted value in a query.
Correct. It's not homomorphic encryption, but rather more like TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) except that MongoDB service isn't decrypting the data. This is essentially client-side encryption (at the driver) and without server-side decryption.