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I'm happy for Bob. But I think the thing that made Ethernet jump forward was the Ethernet Switch. The nice thing about Token Ring and ARCnet was using a token for control gave a deterministic time of response. Once switches became common, Ethernet exploded.
A round 1995 I supported a school district that had several class room computer labs. They booted MS DOS 6.x and Windows 3.11 from a diskless 286 computer using a 10BaseT NIC with a boot ROM pulling data from a common Novell 3.x Server. Each room had about 20 -30 computers and they all got switched on at about the same time. Loading took a while. They were on the same (collision) network, not separated by routers.
We added a 3Com 24-port switch for one of the rooms. It was a miracle. Additional switches were budgeted quickly. At the time 3Com was doing a lot of promotion and training through distributors of these unmanaged rack mount switches. They weren't cheap, but they were worth it.
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During its State of Unreal keynote at GDC 2023, the company showed off new animation tools that make it possible to create realistic facial animations using only video captured from an iPhone. "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
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Explosives replace malware as the scariest thing a USB stick may hide. They're...not supposed to do that
Fortunately only "minor hand and face injuries". I hope he's better soon.
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A thumbless drive? (Too soon?)
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Luckily the payload size of a reasonably sized usb drive is nothing particularly dangerous, but holy fsck.
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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CodiumAI has created an AI model called TestGPT that’s powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model. Its job is to assist developers in testing their code interactively, which it does by generating tests on the go. Can it create tests for the tests?
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As long as it doesn't create bigger errors to correct found errors... 
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I can't decide if this is the best or worst invention since ChatGPT - the best/worst invention since machine learning - the best/worst invention since the transistor based CPU. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Windows updates keep you protected and productive in different ways, and we continue to optimize the update experience. They're updates. And they happen monthly (at least)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Windows updates keep you protected and productive in different ways
yeah... right. Until it is the update itself what breaks the system
Kent Sharkey wrote: we continue to optimize the update experience.
They should try to optimize the update effectiveness instead.
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A transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. I think I'm getting a little co-nauseous
"Now, in our current landscape, we encounter more ambiguity and uncertainty than ever, requiring us to co-create in fast-paced and dynamic environments. "
"It’s a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content, and tasks across your tools and devices. "
/ugh
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Can someone create an AI translator for "marketing crap - english - marketing crap", please?
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A severe privacy flaw named 'acropalypse' has also been found to affect the Windows Snipping Tool, allowing people to partially recover content that was edited out of an image. Their crop is cr*p
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And then they tell me I should stop using paint to edit the screenshots...  
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Don't be so snippy.
That's cutting.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance in decades. At least since DONKEY.BAS
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Kent Sharkey wrote: is the most important technological advance in decades.
Hopefully it needs centuries to bite us back in the a...
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GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience. You know it's better, because there's an 'X' in the name
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Still has a long way before reaching the ultimative "xXx"
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I'm waiting for the Ultra Quantum version.
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We already have stackoverflow. >:
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It would seem to me that an AI can best help a developer write code by attending meetings for him/her.
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Startup Runway AI Inc. today debuted Gen-2, an artificial intelligence model that can generate brief video clips based on text prompts. AI killed the video star
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Kent Sharkey wrote: AI killed the video star
My mind is in the gutter. I did not read "video" the first pass, but perhaps that was your KSS way of accessing the gutters of my mind. 
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