I actually like the ability for a local AI to help with this in theory. I don’t think it’s an excuse for unintuitive UIs though.

RIP Skype

You won’t believe what this person thinks of our headlines

For something end-user facing: I could understand this argument.

In this case they were more or less just calling a C function that had an unsigned long long as the parameter they were setting negative.

The whole ‘bug’ was that the other side of the function call was seeing a positive number no matter what.

The real situation was a bit more complicated, but that’s the gist.

I once had a QA engineer file a bug saying they couldn’t do negative testing since negative numbers were converted to positive.

The function took an unsigned integer. Took a lot of explaining to get them to understand that negative testing isn’t necessarily negative numbers.

This could have easily been a Flintstones episode.

Dead internet theory… except it’s basically dead world theory.

If ya want to not be plugged into the internet, or use new external media, ya can probably run it safely forever.

Bad eh security advice: use an alternative ssh port. Lots of actors try port 22 and other common alternatives. Much fewer will do a full port scan looking for an ssh server then try brute forcing.

Also money. If it was all free to get the paper online, who would pay to get it in person?

I’m perfectly fine with competition. This is the world. I’d buy a cheap Chinese car that passed regulations for driving in my country.

Trying to tariff instead of competing is just delaying the inevitable.