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TIL the password for the security system at the Louvre. https://mashable.com/article/louvre-video-security-password-was-louvre

I don't assume that the person is smarter than the AI. You don't know what he prompted it with - he could have told it to draw a straight line between the two and then made his 'discovery'.

I was in charge of a project where I was reporting the status of databases in our development environment to the customer. The contractor that was in charge of this had a developer who decided to "fix it" by always reporting zero records returned if the database didn't exist yet. When they...

No, I just read the article.

From the article, there is a lot of competition between the carriers to 'prove' that their network is better than the competitions' network. If you can get one bar even when you don't have a tower available, you can say that you have nationwide coverage with at least one bar everywhere.

Hence the lying part. The method causes the phone to show one bar higher than it actually is.

Did you ever wonder about why your phone didn't seem to have as good a signal as it indicated? This could be the reason. Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength

Here's an example of things that made me curse over the years. The java command to convert a string to an Integer is this - Integer.parseInt("123");. You pass in the string and if it's valid, it will return the Integer. Otherwise, it will throw an error. Unlike an int type, Integers can have...

I was often called on to fix the disasters left by others. Code that I've written in past years is often filled with expletives in the comments.

I've heard that luxury cars are expensive to repair. I can confirm that's the case today. :oldruck:

Many years ago, I was driving a limo for executives at Domino's Pizza's corporate headquarters. I remember a conversation with one executive while driving him to the airport where he told me about a lawsuit that they had to deal with. While one of their drivers was stopped in a left turn lane...

Older developers will appreciate this one.