Of course, not blaming children for misunderstanding this; but if this were a software requirement, an adult software developer should be able to understand it correctly.

Honestly the question as asked is unambiguous: “write words in alphabetical order” cannot mean anything else than apple, fox, log, pond, pumpkin, river. If what was provided here were the expected answer, the wording should be “write each of the following words with its letters sorted by alphabetical order”.

No, the answer isn’t “pumpkim”. :D

If you’re on this sub, this is a good programming exercise for you if you’re interested. I’m sure there are plenty of large lists of words in English, that should provide all the data needed.

That “most people” part kinda reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/

I recommend “new comments”.

I don’t think that is a very helpful talking point either. Replacing workers with machines has been a thing for centuries and isn’t by itself a bad thing.

Using unverified AI for anything actually business critical is a very bad management decision though and any company that does that deserves the consequences. Using AI as replacement for eg. stock photos or video CGI? That is not a bad idea at all.

XML is best suited for storing documents, JSON for transmitting application data over networks.

SVG is an example of an excellent use of XML, it doesn’t mean we should use XML for transmitting data from a backend to a frontend.

I usually code in an IDE that tells me whether my code will compile while I am typing it.

But when I write things like PL/SQL, yeah it is definitely an achievement to get it to compile.

Petition to make VPN officially an acronym for “very probably no/not/nobody/nothing”.

Also, “programmer” humor? 🙄

OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays

Not what I want to happen though.

I want them to release Windows as free and open source software. Windows is on a purely technical level not a bad OS. If it were FOSS, we would get dozens of excellent distributions of it.

now that is truly idiotic

I don’t mind apps drawing their own titlebars if they have a real use for it (I’m typing this comment in a Firefox window where the titlebar has the tab bar in it), but not having any window-manager-level title bar as a fallback at all and requiring apps to do that themselves?! Window managers everywhere else have been doing this since what, the 1984 Apple Macintosh?

What now? GNOME doesn’t support server-side decorations? It’s been years since I last used GNOME, so I may be out of touch; but if this is true, what happens if you do run something on GNOME that simply doesn’t have any code that draws its own titlebars? Or am I misunderstanding how any of this works?

I sometimes do that too, but as it’s not a thing on Windows (which I’m forced to use at work), it’s not my default habit.

Not a new debate at all… https://xkcd.com/1914/ and the context for that was https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twitter-suspends-verifying-accounts-giving-154625015.html

I agree that if “verification” is going to be a thing, it should only mean the person or organization is who they claim to be, not imply endorsement of any of their activities.

At least that way we’ll be able to tell when things are AI-generated.

of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what

That’s not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.

Are there real advantages to using either MySQL or MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?