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Once again, Google's AI summary is a tremendous bullshit generation machine. In this case, positing that one of the reasons the Carolina bays got created was "The tail-fanning of a huge fish".

I'm doing a lot of thinking about career direction, and trying to figure out languages to commit to, and whatnot, and I love C, and have enjoyed the expressiveness of C++, but boy the direction of the latter appears to be a total shitshow, both in terms of the language, and the culture. I was aware of the Patricia Aas thread, this follows up a bit: On "Safe" C++

Sanitize your inputs, kiddos. The Register AI + ML: Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders — Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character

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Word to the wise: back up your SQL server to a text readable format regularly, especially if you hope that `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y` occasionally will just keep you running along fine.

I honestly don't know what Jira is trying to do here with its "Spark a conversation: Light up the comment section - add an update, ask a question, or @mention someone." prompt.

Like, am I supposed to be doing "hey, @someone, do you come to this issue often?" or "Who do you think would win in a fight, XCode or VisualStudio?"

What metrics are they trying to optimize here, 'cause it ain't good product.