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  It's like I say about Picasso. Most people if asked to be honest think his later work sucks. BUT if you look at his earlier work you can see he had talent to do realism. This means as a coder, first learn to program and develop something independently so you can go through the work and know what it takes, and ACTUALLY understand what the GPT is providing you. My observation is that ChatGPT for example provides good code but often does things like delete sections of code or use variables or methods that just do not exist. If you don't actually know what you are doing and don't actually understand coding, you will basically make something that is inherently buggy and full of security holes. The damage that AI is doing to coding skills. Can confirm. #coding #developers #ai #artificialintelligence https://futurism.com/young-coders-ai-cant-program

Update: They now call themselves NetherExPro instead of PrimeAurora.  So there's this new scam which claims to be a trading platform that delivers like 10% per day or so. It appears in many languages but the basic format of the article is always the same. I won't post the link/s to the article/s because I do not want you to fall for it, as it seems quite convincing. In order to make sure SEO finds this page and alerts you to its being a scam, I have pasted the wording of the South African edition here in white ink so that you can't read it but it is here. The South African one has a few huge giveaways that it is fake: 1. The news article is from News24, one of our major outlets, but the URL is not news24.com or news24.co.za. 2. NewzRoomAfrika does not contain the relevant interview. This is the only one, clearly different: 3. The bank balance statement comes allegedly from SARB rather than say, ABSA, Standard, Nedbank, Capitec, etc. SARB is the RESERVE BANK it NEVER deals w...

Someone please pass this information on to Trump: National Murder Rate: In 2022/23, South Africa had 21,325- 27,494 murders with a population of about 60 million, resulting in a murder rate of ~45 per 100,000 people. In 2017/18, the national murder rate was 35.8 per 100,000 people. Farm Murders as a Proportion of National Murders: In 2017/18, there were 62 farm murders, which constituted ~0.3% of the 20,336 total murders in South Africa. According to the Institute for Security Studies, about 13% of police precincts in South Africa had lower murder rates than the global average of 6.9 per 100,000 people. These precincts include affluent areas such as Brooklyn (Pretoria), Garsfontein (Pretoria), Camps Bay, Claremont, and Rondebosch (Cape Town). Suburbs like Sandton and Parkview in Johannesburg, Durban North, Table View, and Woodstock in Cape Town had murder rates of just under 10 per 100,000 people.  In contrast, certain precincts have reported higher murder rates. For instance, the ...