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  • Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history

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  • Ah, the bundle_2 link looks at lot more readable and understandable. That said it's not even 530am yet here so I'll need a little while to wake up before I can try to understand it.

  • Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history

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  • He was a business God, not so sure of programming God, more like surrounding himself with programming gods.

    But seriously, how do you read this, is it like a representation of how the memory should be at a specific point in time? I'm guessing blank spaces would be undefined then?

  • Israel is using AI to create deepfakes of women claiming they were raped by Iranian government forces

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  • I used to work with a guy, well over a decade ago, who was a little crazy. For example he slept in a separate room from his wife, which she locked from the outside because she woke up TWICE with him straddling her(not sexually just controlling) holding a hand gun to her head while he was "sleeping" and talking nonsense. He was part of an advanced methods counter espionage anti terrorism group for the US army in the Iraq war. This was confirmed by wife and brother who I also knew.

    He claimed one method they would do was get porn posters from the internet, replace the women with the man's wife or daughters with photoshop, show them to the man and tell them if they didn't give the info he wanted he would post the pictures around town. This was essentially a death sentence for the women as the village people would likely stone her to death. He said it was brutal, cruel but effective.

    I don't know if he ever followed through with the threat or if any/what intelligence it got him. Ai just made this abuse of human rights so much easier and that's sickening.

  • Everything is relative

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  • I called 911 and went to hospital, unable to stand and uncontrollable vomiting black sludge with white specs in it, imagine over-used engine oil with seaseme seeds mixed in. Turns out my liver was leaking into my gi track. 43k bill from hospital, 1200 from ambulance to drive 1 mile, combined 3k from various doctors, 8k for all the tests they ran. Yes all separate bills. I was there for 3 days. That's about a total of 55k in bills for 3 days...

    Even if the 25 dollar an hour minimum wage bill passed, and I worked full time for minimum wage with no other expenses(no food, no rent, no gas, no nothing) I still couldn't pay it in a year(yearly pay at 25 an hour is 52k a year).

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  • I can 1/2 read asm, know c/c++/c# and a bunch of other languages but how do I even read this?

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • True, Ai doesn't really exist at the moment. It is a buzzword a lot of companies are fuzzing the definition of to get it into their marketing / pr releases. Let's see details on what they are claiming is Ai and they are using it before forming strong opinions.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • I don't have strong opinion. My whole point was that Ai is a buzzword with many possible meanings and it's use was likely pushed by the or department. Before we form strong opinions let's get details on what they will be using and how

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • They get a digital signal from sensors, they need a digital output to determine if a plane is clear to land. Why do they want to incorporate human language at all? My guess, they are using the term Ai for pr reasons. Get signal from plane, determine best runway based on other plane locations, output result to screen. Technically marketing/pr can use the term Ai, easier and safer for everyone plus cheaper and better for environment and they can still jump on the hype train.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • Is it? How do you know? Let's just say you are right? How would that work? Have a person type in "I'm at Seattle airport, I have a plane looking to land from Arizona, they are 18 miles out and 2500 feet high, which runway should they use?"

    That takes longer to type not even including calculation time. There is literally no benefit.

  • I was in my house when it was hit straight on by the F4 tornado in Enid last week. AMA

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  • It was trying to tell people to moooooooove :)

  • I was in my house when it was hit straight on by the F4 tornado in Enid last week. AMA

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  • I would say that sucks but it looks like it actually blew.

  • I was in my house when it was hit straight on by the F4 tornado in Enid last week. AMA

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  • I think this was supposed to be a reference to the movie Twister. There famously was a cow flying around in the tornado.

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • But no one has said language model, they said Ai of which there are many types.

  • When you are forced to be there but have zero interest in the whole thing

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  • I was watching a comedy special by Jimmy Carr. He gives out a number before the show that you can text and select ones are shown on a giant screen behind him and he responds.

    One text that was sent in was something like "im am blind. I asked for cheapest seats in the house for me and my service dog. I got seated behind a stone pillar. A+ service staff."

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  • I get what you are saying. My point is there are many types of Ai. We don't know which they are going to use since they just said Ai which such an overused and overloaded verb we can't tell what they mean. You are assuming llm, which would be stupid, wasteful and likely dangerous. But not all Ai is llm.

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  • Really? No! That's Llms, For those I agree. Ai has been around for decades,technically the goombas in the original super Mario bros on the ones were Ai. They had a set of inputs and based off those inputs changed their next action. Look at video games from the 90s, often it was "player vs Ai" and yes they were marked and called Ai in alot of cases.

    This is what I meant by the last paragraph. Llm should never be acceptable for flight control. As you correctly stated it is not deterministic but that's not all "Ai". If the faa comes out and said they are using Claude code to handle this they should be fired and project wiped. Tracking locations of objects and detecting if a collision will happen between 2 objects has been effectively solved for decades so this could be a good use case. We don't know what they are using Ai for or what kind of Ai it is.

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  • ?? I don't even know what this means...

    In most cases this will not cause "planes to fall out of the sky". There is a serious risk of more ground collisions which are also horrible if poorly implemented. Air traffic control is for airports, not pilots. Depending on definition of Ai this could be good or bad. If it's Llms trying to do this it's totally a bad idea, not even what they are meant to do.

    There are systems that detect planes and land vehicles at an airport. Currently air traffic controllers have to keep all these in mind and estimate their future location. I could see Ai uses in this to have more accurate calculations of future locations and confirmations that two planes should nit collide. Those are all deterministic and "Ai". As I said in other thread only llm use I could maybe see is if they try to interpret the voice comms between pilot and tower but that could just be a simple form app the atc just taps.

    Here's the confusion I suspect... Every thing wants to put Ai in their sales pitch because it's the new hotness, many uses of "Ai" are not llm and can be deterministic and useful... We don't know what they mean by "Ai". The llm form of Ai is what gets attention but it totally useless in a lot of cases. People assume ai means llm due to news stories about llm but marketing departments are like "how can we incorporate the word Ai into this announcement?" which the engineers are like "Umm.. Well technically this counts as Ai" and marketing runs with it...

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  • True, if they try this with a llm that's both stupid and will kill people. I disagree that no one will be responsible, who ever made that system should be responsible.

    Only use of a llm MAYBE interpting the speech over the comms between control tower and pilots and using that to put entries in the tracker for who is going where. This could also be a simple program on a screen, click the plane tag, click what it's going to do(take off, land, taxi, etc), click where that will happen and then you don't need any llm.

    Still Ai because the computer is determining if there will be a collision and activating alarms but that's deterministic and prove able. Plane a is at 7500 ft 7 miles out traveling at 2500 mph towards runway 47r. Plane b is at 35000 feet 20 miles out traveling at 4000 mph, can plane b also use runway 47r? Yes you can do the math to calculate. But let's say you make a mistake and drop a 0 somewhere, wouldn't it be nice to have an additional system that alerts you if the minimum distance between planes will be less than 1000ft for example?

  • Look at the way he writes for loops too smh

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  • I would say python is good for basics like for what's a variable, how if/else work, how to iterate over a list, the thought process of breaking down a problem into sub problems. Now it's not a good language for going much beyond that. Do not try to make a real time video renderer in python.

    Once past that I would say go either front end or backend. If backend c++ is a good option. Now that you know what a variable is we can discuss the difference between a uint32 and a bool. Why we don't use an int variable set to 1 or 0 to determine the results of an if statement. This is also where you learn about memory and how computers actually work.

    If front end is the choice, maybe not Javascript but typescript would probably be a good option. I don't know much about front end(I hate doing visual design) so I can't go into much detail. Is there a better front-end language you recommend? Only other one I know at all is c# with blazor or winforms.

    The issue I see with jumping straight into c++ is it's so much to learn to do simple stuff. For example a lot of early programmers get confused with working with functions and what return values. I attended a boot camp through work for python(I knew programming hobby level but it gave me a pay raise). There were 12 students, 4 choose to do a selenium script to test a website as a final project, 1 did a script I think for tracking expenses and income but he did it all in main because he couldn't figure out arguments and return values from other functions. This was after 9 weeks, 5 days a week 8 hours a day, plus 4 days to develop the final project. Now throw in what a header file is and the difference between declaring a function and defining a function. It's a lot to start off with.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Is there a Chromecast equivalent?

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux?

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Agdq 2026 has started

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Agdq 2026 has started

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What's the weirdest bug in a program you found in a project you didn't write?

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Question on your feelings about accounts

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What is your development environment?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Is there a programming specific distro?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do Muslims during Ramadan and sonic the hedgehog have in common?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F!

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Does C# (or any other languages) have an official style guide like python has pep8?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Drowning pool's "let the bodies hit the floor" and the weather girls "it's raining men"

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
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    Weird bug/feature on pixel 6 I just discovered