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Comment As the traditional saying goes (Score 5, Funny) 84

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying "that's me, over there."

(cribbed from https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/foot.htm, but widely circulated in the 90s)

Comment Automating creation of spaghetti, not maintenance (Score 1) 97

It used to be that to "cure" traffic, one built more freeways. However, it was learned that new freeways resulted in new building construction such that those freeways soon filled up and were just as jammed as before.

So what I expect to happen is that software will become even more bloated because more devs will use AI to throw code and features at a problem instead of practice the patience-requiring art of parsimony. It may code up faster, but likely to be a maintenance spaghetti bowl.

Comment Not gonna happen (Score 3, Interesting) 20

Even if this manages to get through Congress (extremely unlikely), it'll get vetoed. Trump's team already has put plans into place to photograph everyone crossing the US border - legally - by car. You really think they're gonna let airplane passengers slide?

https://www.wired.com/story/cb...

Comment Re:Why? Someone tell me why? (Score 1) 42

People often find unexpected uses for such.

For example, Al Bundy & show writers failed to anticipate in the mid 80's that PC's would be a great source of porn in a few more years*.

I'm not saying the killer app will be porn, but probably something as equally insipid. Maybe AI dating guesses/scores next to people based on social media posts? Who knows.

* I think they should have made the PC slowly display a teaser upper-portion of a playboy model (per modem download), and just before the raster line gets to the knockers, a message asking for credit card number pops up, and which stage Al and son's drooling smiles disappear.

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