I fired up WinSCP today and it didn't prompt me to update, life goal accomplished

as a long time jira basher(tm) the new navigation is quite good and very snappy

Soooo...any vinyl music collectors in the group? I was delighted to see great turnouts for Record Store Day this year at the three locations I visited. I only had four items on my shopping list and was able to score three of them at my first stop. Sadly, the fourth one was sold out at all three places. I'm debating trying to install a system in my office which is where I spend most of my time so I can listen to my records more often. I've been lusting after a Technics SL-1200 since my college radio days.

About time @Dave Watts made it here.

I doubt I'm going to add anything useful here, sorry.

Some of us are just here to make bad jokes. 😎

I was going to respond with an emoji but there are just too damn many. I don't even know what they're supposed to mean! What happened to simple "like" buttons?

Anyone moved away from VMWare to a different hypervisor and had success?

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I checked my copy and it checks out.

Approximately how many humans have ever lived?

It's estimated that around 117 billion humans have ever lived on Earth. This calculation considers the span of human existence, starting from the emergence of modern Homo sapiens approximately 190,000 years ago. Interestingly, about 7% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today, which highlights the rapid population growth in recent centuries.

Thought you should know.

I was writing a LinkedIn post yesterday and wanted to quote Hal Helms. Just saw the news 😞 In memory of Hal Helms (1952 - 2024), who was a relentless advocate for reducing the high rate of failure in software development. Rest in peace, Hal. You educated tens of thousands, and we continue to strive for better in your name. Back in 2001, I was told a story (by Hal, who at the time explained how to use simple text & button-based wireframes to reduce risk) illustrating the stark contrasts between industries in managing failure rates, particularly between building construction projects and software development. Forever Grateful - Rif Kiamil Photos from the 2000 Allaire Developer Conference. Hal is out of the frame, but he passed me a cigar! We were all watching the election results in the hotel's Irish pub in DC. In 2001, I was able to get training with him on Fusebox at a place in England. The company that booked it all drove us to Brick Lane in East London for dinner one night. What a great group of people in the Allaire development community; I'm so blessed to have been exposed to it all. 1) Want to sign his obituary https://www.pagetheusfuneralhome.com/.../hal.../obituary 2) https://community.adobe.com/.../hal-helms.../td-p/14886121 3) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rifkiamil_dataplatformengineering-dataengineering-plat[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAC0bJ8B304_L3wMlMLMXUxcUy-SHLouuv0 4) https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10161392336845036/

Friday Thought:

will be streaming at 12PM CST today on my word famous (according to me) show, Code Break - come heckle me! https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-05052025/

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Names are now BOLD on jira comments, this is a game changing enhancement, AGI beckons

Well, I made it to 65 everybody! Yay!

this is truly gloriously bad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43995122

Hi All. I'm not sure if this makes the cut for cfml-general, so posting it here. We provide a CF based CMS/CRM platform and a client wants to include chatbot like functionality that will answer basic FAQ style questions automatically for users in order to cut down on support requests. This is fairly small scale - not tons of pdfs, etc. Has anyone had success with this kind of thing? Are there tools that are better (or worse) for this that you are aware of?

Sorry this is probably more relevant in here given the hour: > Any AWS oriented devops people online by chance? > Trying to deploy via github to ecs and getting an error referencing a problem in code that isn’t there in the repo

wow! This is scary! I have heard similar things on the news and have read similar stories online. But this is actually happening to me. My wife got a voice mail from an unknown number. That whoever left a voicemail for my wife. That voice sounded very much like my voice but that voice mispronounced my wife’s name. That voice was probably AI generated by some scammers. I might have answered some calls by accident and that was probably from a scammer. From my saying “hello” or whatever else I might have said, they had enough of a sample to generate whatever they need. The fact that they called my wife shows that this person has done some research to find the details of who I know and the details of the people that I know.

When Steve Jobs marketed Apple Computer in the early days, he used the analogy of a "bicycle for the mind". The concept that personal computers (then later phones) improve human productivity with software. So thinking of Steve Jobs, I often wonder what he would think about AI. So far at least, AI is not reliable, steals from others, and is environmentally destructive. Not the makings for a great Apple product. As a software engineer, I appreciate the technology behind AI, but after learning more, I choose not to partake in it. A bicycle makes it easier for you to travel as long as you crank the pedals. It still takes work, but is more productive than walking. But an AI agent promises "I'll do everything for you, there is no need for you to work at all".

AI now is like Czech beer - 2/3 foam, 1/3 beer 🙂 There's certain use for some of models - the better LLM is trained, and narrower data set is - the better. But it's not 'intelligence' it's a 'large language model', it cannot think, it cannot reason. Imitate, hallucinate - and then let human to sort results. Hype will eventually fall down, but some useful things remain. I hope we not cut all the trees to build datacenters.

The potential of AI? It all depends where you look. Software engineer Demis Hassabis, together with chemists David Baker and John Jumper, developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem whose answer is crucial to the understanding of life itself: predicting the complex structure of proteins. For this, they received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. just saying.

AI is taking the fun parts of a job and giving us more of the stuff that's not fun. Like, AI can scaffold out an application very quickly, leaving the last 10% to a developer. AI is terrible at maintenance. I don't know about you, but I enjoy greenfield development, the last 10% is always a slog, and maintaining legacy stuff has always been less than fun. AI is sucking up content from the free web and giving nothing back to the sites and people who provide its fodder. Eventually, the only content out there will be AI-generated. What then?

Some of you may find this interesting. I've been collecting and cataloging vintage print ads. I built the backend catalog on Lucee. It's been a slog, but I'm cataloging a lot faster after I started using GPT to extract meta data about the ads. https://adretro.com/