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"New Bing" claims it would be unethical. ChatGPT wins this round. I'll add that the old Embrace and Extend mantra appears to be making a comeback as well. Some may not remember those days but it feels like it's back. Hopefully I will be able to try out the Bard …

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Over the years I've seen so many solutions to development but not one is a panacea. Example: I had a 28 day embedded project that would have blown its 28 day limit if there were any attempt to force DevOps onto the plan. This was 28 days from start to …

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Watched most of The Social Dilemma ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/ ) it appears to me to be successful you must learn certain, let's say, deep physcology and think about how to sway your followers using all the tools noted in the movie. This is a drama documentary but what you see there …

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That happened. Hope none of you are in North Korea as the penalty for having or suspected of having COVAD-19 is quite stiff.

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I like Agile, I really do but a few times it has me walk out on the process as a few think that everyone must "buy in." That's just part of the problems I've run into and kind of glad I'm no longer on such teams. In fact if a …

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My workaday laptop is now an Acer Predator which while being very nice and all started to boot up with Windows Sticky Keys enabled. Now being a long time Windows user I went to the usual control panel, turned it off but it turned back on if the machine was …

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Need to remind a coworker to lock their machine? Press Shift+Alt+Printscreen and answer yes. Most can't fix it. So be kind.

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`Select * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice'` [SQL Clause is coming to town.](http://imgur.com/gallery/KvsXO) Not mine, [Little Bobby Tables](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Little_Bobby_Tables) almost ruined Christmas.

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http://imgur.com/gallery/dYgFh has a gallery of some visualizations of classic sorting. For your enjoyment. And with sound too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg This post is strictly for programming's secret pleasures.

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