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I completed my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba in 1976. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development…
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 | A big problem today is that people have forgotten the purpose of language. In my day (cue Seth Meyers routine) language was intended to convey ideas from one person to another. Similarly to data transmission, we want to get the information from one person to another as quickly and as … |
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 | >Improve Content Quality @Muhammed_356 - Do you not see the irony in this? You insist on making posts that almost literally duplicate what everyone else has said. This does nothing to improve content quality.  |
 | A lot of editors support libraries of code snippets which are generally written and debugged by humans. |
 | Based on the proliferation of AI generated content, and the age-old rule of garbage in, garbage out, what will be the result of AI models being trained on ever increasing amounts of content generated by other AI platforms? Will we get into a negative feedback loop where the output will …  |
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| | It's hard for me to imagine that all of the pleasure I've gotten out of Daniweb, the challenges, the insights, the friendships since I joined in 2010, are all dependent on the largesse of just one very talented person. I, for one, appreciate all you have done, particularly considering your … |
 | Welcome to Daniweb. What brought you here, and what do you hope to find? |
| | Not a chance. My knees would last about five seconds. |
| | Hello, and welcome to Daniweb. |
| | Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the … |
| | I recently fell victim to the latest Windows 11 update - KB5023706. The symptom was intermittent BSODs (blue screen of death). It wasn't until after I had done a thorough slate of hardware and system diagnostics that I came across an online tech article explaining the problem's likely origin. After … |
| | Believe in a super powerful entity that's gonna solve all your problems but you need to "worship" it unless you want to be tortured for the rest of your life/eternity? We already have that. It's called God, Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, etc. Take your pick. Show me evidence that any of … |
 | You might try [spin-rite](https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm) |
 | What relevance is the mining industry to Daniweb?  |
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| | Run appwiz.cpl and look at all the installed items. You may have several pieces of bloatware such as browser extensions that you don't need. Check for apps that start automnatically when WIndows starts. [Sysinternals](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite) autoruns is excellent for identifying and disabling. How much RAM do you have? Excessive swapping due … |
| | Seems like an extension of Sturgeon's Law which states "90% of everything is crap". |
| | Similar to your post in the hard drive thread, a generic recommendation is useless without getting into specific software. In this case I can recommend two. One is [VisiPics](https://visipics.info/) which I find works well. The interface is straightforward and it allows you to select a similarity threshhold. While not as … |
| | In the summer of 2022 I bought an ASUS laptop from BestBuy. It came with an internal SSD and an empty internal bay for a 2.5" drive. I didn't install a second drive until October and when I booted up it would not recognize the added drive. When I took … |
| | There are at least two free options. One is [VisiPics](https://visipics.info/) which I find works well. The interface is straightforward and it allows you to select a similarity threshhold. While not as robust as perhaps an AI based tool (I don[t know of any yet) I find it does the trick. … |
 | My biggest fear is an expansion of misinformation to the extent that we will not be able to trust that anything we see, hear, or read will have any basis in reality. |
| | Are you trying to execute the query before opening the connection? I'm just guessing because you didn't post any code. Strictly speaking you didn't post a question either.  |
| | How does Daniweb fare in search engines like Duckduckgo and Bing? |
 | Typically, Dell supports the hardware of a system and will assume that every problem is a software problem for which they will charge to fix (trust me on this - I spent the last 16 months fighting with Dell). They don't really care what OS is put on the machine … |
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| | I recall reading, "If the text is unusually coherent or consistent, it might raise suspicion." I'm afraid that does not speak well of our educational system. And it's not very useful in trying to automate detection. As a side note, I read recently about some researchers using a "needle in …  |
| | Nope. I never found another place that felt as comfortable as Daniweb. |
| | My wife and I consume vast quantities of e-books. Mostly mysteries. But I used to be big into sci-fi. As a teen I loved the (at that time) biggies like Asimov, Heinlein (who has lost his shine the more I learn about him), Blish, Clarke, Herbert, Niven, Ellison, etc. A … |
| | Odd that something so basic and obvious needs to be named. Of course, "Pomodoro Technique" is a lot shorter than "go hide in the server room so my boss won't keep interrupting me so I can get some work done" technique. At least that's what I used to call it.  |