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BLOCKCHAIN ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Extism brings extensibility to software of all shapes and sizes in a way which we believe to have been previously unacheivable. "Harder, better, faster, stronger"
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Here are five neat changes and improvements Microsoft added to Windows 11 preview builds after releasing its first feature updates. Deciding just how 'neat' is an exercise for the reader
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Let me know when you can dock the start menu on the left of the screen, and when my chipset is supported (without TPM), and I'll think a little longer before laughing, and going back to what I'm doing.
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I laugh in their general direction.
When they support older hardware such as 6th- or 7th-generation Intel CPUs, I might take a look at Win11. As it is, MS claims that I have only one computer new enough to support it, and I certainly am not going to get used to switching back and forth between two different Windows UIs.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Wow, someone's bar of "neat" is rather low. Subterranean in fact. 
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There is one aspect of a custom control or a control library which needs somewhat more effort to target the .NET runtime: The new Out-Of-Process WinForms Designer. Do VBX next 
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Wordle is a word game. But you can use math to optimize your chances of winning (without cheating). On the off chance a few of you play
(few dozen, that is)
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So how many CPers contributed to this research? 
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The Computer History Museum has released the source code for a key piece of computing history that helped introduce desktop publishing. Are they taking pull requests?
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Biometrics are supposed to be a fundamental pillar of modern authentication. Unfortunately, for a wide range of reasons and in a variety of ways, many biometric implementations are wildly inaccurate. Let's see everyone's shocked face (we'll use it to authenticate)
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An 99,9% of all door locks are pickable.
Conclusion: Don't waste time locking your door. The protection it provides has zero value.
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I have never recommended biometrics. I prefer a what you know and what you have presentation for account security. Biometrics, even military grade, can be spoofed too easily.
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In this article, we will look at a specific feature called Span<t> and what it can do to improve the performance of your code. Hopefully not a span too far
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Premature optimization is the span of all evil.
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Planned optimization during design is what makes embedded work.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What? Span is a optimization feature?
Tell that the CP editor...  
I know, I know, not exactly the same "span"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sure! Using quicksort rather than bubble sort is another optimizing technique.
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In this context, I don’t mean programming languages like Typescript, Swift, or Haskell. I actually mean human languages like English, Spanish, or Japanese. Voulez vous compilez avec array, ce soir?
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If they have used current "(a)social media" to train it...   
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Have idiots trying to get fake internet points discovered they can use it to post plausible looking nonsense as QA answers yet?
It's become enough of a problem at Stackoverflow that they've had to put a ban on ChatGPT generated answers because the people abusing it are doing so in sufficient volume to swamp the sites volunteer moderators: Both due to the sheer volume of crap they're posting even in the face of rate limits, and because unlike 99% of human written garbage answers they're not bad enough to be immediately obvious even in platforms you're familiar with.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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How will they be able to tell? There are enough "confidently incorrect" answers on there, it would be hard to pick out the generated ones.
TTFN - Kent
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biological Dunning-Kruger posts tend to also have broken grammar, bad spelling, be 1 or 2 lines of code with no explanation, just be a link to some random site, or some combination of the prior. Most of them can be shovelled into the delete pile with a few seconds of examination even if it's not a language I'm familiar with. GPT's 🐂💩 is the much rarer sort of bad answer that's written at least half-decently and is subtlety wrong.
For the moment at least, it's consistent way of describing the question it's trying to answer at the start of it's output at least means there's an obvious tell for human reviewers trying to enforce the ban. But that requires the reviewer to be aware of the issue and paying attention; and while theoretically a good target for automation, SO's management doesn't want to be bothered doing it themselves, are are stubbornly opposed to allowing fully automatic user tools to run. Which results in grotesque things like the main anti-spam detection system being a 3rd party bot that posts messages it finds in a chatroom for people to manually confirm is spam and delete. Since it started running a few years ago most spam has basically stopped ever lasting long enough to be seen by normal users; but it's still bottlenecked behind user action and not direct API access. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn't lose it. This isn't going to end well
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