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  • Reply To: Feeling your age? How would you know?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    I'm not quite where Rick is, but I feel a lot of those things. I'm definitely old.

    Steve, here's where I am.  Exactly one month ago today I reached...

  • Reply To: Feeling your age? How would you know?

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  • Reply To: Feeling your age? How would you know?

    How will I know when I feel older?

    Well, I will try to give you all some realistic perspective while trying not to be too negative. Here are some thoughts:

    Starting with...

  • Reply To: Why Not Use AI?

    One of the areas I see looming larger and larger is the question of liability and legal consequences of using AI in the event of an alleged failure and damages...

  • Reply To: Trust is a Funny Thing

    And here's another one on AI.  My wife is constantly sending me links to stuff on Instagram Reels with people dramatically  blathering on about something.  My usual question is "what...

  • Reply To: Trust is a Funny Thing

    Jeff, another good illustration is how much financial advisors seen to more and more depend on software analysis for investing our money.  I've been retired now for 15 years, and...

  • Reply To: Trust is a Funny Thing

    David, I have to adamantly disagree with your thought that AI 'has no motivation'.  I think motivation is one of it's greatest dangers.  AI is created by people and people...

  • Reply To: Trust is a Funny Thing

    One thing maybe most of you are not into yet but which seems to me to akin to AI is using subtitles or close captioning on TV, especially in live...

  • Reply To: Moving On After a Technology Fail

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Sounds like my office closet. Some older tech in there, including (I think) still a Jazz drive and disks.

    I wish I could repair this watch, but the break is...

  • Reply To: Moving On After a Technology Fail

    This is a daily difference in my home.  While I do like to keep my tech relatively up to date, I'm also one to keep things around long past their...

  • Reply To: Limits, Not Goals

    2100 parameters for a sproc?  If you think that is a problem, you have far larger real problems.

  • Reply To: No End to Programmers

    Reflecting on the whole IA thing in software development reminds me of the following wisdom:

    Matthew 7:24-29 Good News Translation : The Two House Builders

    24 “So then, anyone who hears these...

  • Reply To: Technical Pain Behaviors

    I experience chronic technical pain with one application that I have used since 1986 when I bought my first version and continue to use today with the 2014 version.  I...

  • Reply To: Simple(r) Coffee

    Steve, I've been drinking coffee for probably 65 years now, and still prefer a nice clean mug of plain black to anything, just like I prefer my computer apps to...

  • Reply To: Happy New Year 2025

    Yes, Jeff, those were the days of news instead of propaganda.  Thanks for the memories.

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