Sometimes Pros: Ctrl + C instead of Ctrl + V Very confident that they're pressing Ctrl + V.

Nelek wrote:

We do not keep any copy of your pictures

However, we will extract all relevant features from your pictures, and use them as training data to our Photoshop AI. :-)

Looks like this site is now running like an electric fan whose power is turned off. The fan will rotate for some time under its own momentum, before coming to a stop. Why I get this inference is that usually spam articles used to vanish after being reported by 5 users. However, now we see spam articles not vanishing even after 25 users report as spam. Looks like no daily maintenance of this site.

On another note, a number of jobs get posted in some groups of Telegram. (Not sure how much Telegram app is prevalent in the US, Europe, etc., but in India, Telegram is not so uncommon). I am a member of a group called "Remote Jobs", where number of software jobs get posted almost everday.

Have heard that AI has given rise to a new job called Prompt Engineer. Or, is there already an AI to replace such Prompt engineers?

jmaida wrote:

paid effort

Dear me. Paid? No way. Am just one of the 16 million community members here.

Just a guess. Looking at the size of this community and the size of the CodeProject data centre, of which there was a photo shared sometime back on this site itself. Not sure whether a small company can buy and maintain such a data centre.

Steve Raw wrote:

I'm not going to let such a thing happen again.

Not sure whether any of us community members can take control of this.

Was learning C# in 2004, and was looking out for help on the Internet. Found CP and it had answers to our questions, and joined. On a side note, am getting a hunch that some big player (MS, Google, ... ?) will be the new owner/custodian of CP, and that it will continue as earlier, or with some modifications. (Probably MS, because this is a predominantly C# site).

rep points

In some deep corner of the mind was the hope that it would one day get converted into cash. :-)

Am also thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air. More importantly, have bookmarked several articles. Now, going through all those bookmarks, and downloading what I feel are important, is also a time-consuming exercise.

[Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 - NobelPrize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/) [^] Hinton and Hopfield.

Old books are of two general types: 1. Programming-language specific 2. Language-agnostic like Algorithms, Maths, OS theory, etc. Type 2 books are less likely to have expiry dates, IMHO. (Of course, fiction, history, etc. books are of a different realm altogether).

While I still don't quite understand what's 'cascading' in CSS, agree that it has a transformational magic which brightens up a bland HTML page.

Let's request the Hamsters (where are they?) to lock this thread.

Gary Wheeler wrote:

magic number 48

Isn't it 42?

1. I take maths classes for high school and intermediate level kids. Not without a touch of pride do I say that two of my students have been raised from 45 percent score to 90 percent score in their school maths. And are on the way to becoming independent; they now call me only for really tough problems. 2. Run a YouTube channel for teaching Sanskrit for middle and high school kids. A few months more for monetization, but many kids and parents regularly give positive feedback. 3. Book reading of traditional Indian scriptures, in Sanskrit language, and explanations in my own Kannada language, to a few of my classmates. In fact it looks like 24 hours is not enough per day. There's so much work for the next hundred years, and I am nearing 60.

Perhaps if you had used the pseudo-synonymous word for 'compiler', i.e., 'interpreter', is there a likelihood of having elicited a positive response?

Steve Raw wrote:

disturbing

The most disturbing thing is that it's asking for login and password, which I am NOT going to provide them.

In this context, about 40 years ago, I used to hear a similarity between the three composers Beethoven - Bach - Mozart and ... The Trinity of South Indian music (also called Carnatic Music) - Thyagaraja Swamigal, Muthuswami Deekshitar and Shyama Shastri, in the Tamilnadu - Andhra region. These three were prolific composers, devotional lyrics. Same timeframe, around 1650 to 1850.