Doug Lay

@Douglay
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Software engineer, systems analyst, IT manager, librarian. Music lover. Baltimore.
how am I supposed to trust ChatGPT about anything, given this milquetoast response?
Seems like almost all local news Web sites (except TV station sites) are tightly paywalled anymore. I get that journalism isn’t free and I’d be willing to pay a $ or 2 to read an article, more for something in-depth. But if my only option is an auto-renewing subscription, I’m not signing up unless it’s my hometown paper.
Which generation has the strongest argument that they are typically ignored?
The Silent Generation
29.2%
The Baby Boomers
5.8%
Millennials
30.4%
Gen Z
34.6%
Poll ended at .
How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

MIT Technology Review
Just saw that DJ #Linbrehmer died. Before he had 38 successful years in Chicago, he worked the weeknight shift at WQBK in Rensselear NY in the early 1980s, where he helped keep me sane in my high school years and spurred a lifelong love of good music.
Television - Venus

YouTube

I think this is the first love song I’ve heard from Britt Daniel in 20+ years.#spoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBIq5_ONIsE

Spoon - "My Babe" (Official Audio)

YouTube
@timbray the focus on the DoubleClick acquisition is right on. I worked with DoubleClick products from the early aughts through 2012 and after the 2008 Google acquisition the rate of technical innovation in those products was approximately zero.

people keep expressing surprise that consumer reports wrote about memory safety.

First off, @yaelwrites is -great-

And second, this is a problem for consumers! Lots of consumers! Software and devices consumers rely on to keep their intimate and personal details safe have these problems!

https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Memory-Safety-Convening-Report-1-1.pdf

Zients is a quintessential corporate Dem. He's unsurprisingly quite bad on policy and this would normally be an awful pick.

But he's presumably well-suited to corral business opposition to the various catastrophes planned by the GOP House like the debt ceiling.

Clock's ticking, Mr. Zients. Good luck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/22/jeff-zients-biden-chief-of-staff/

Jeff Zients to be Biden’s next chief of staff

Jeff Zients, who led President Biden's coronavirus response, will replace Ron Klain, who is planning to step down.

The Washington Post