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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. 
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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...   
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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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Let's hope they're able to push out a certificate revocation mighty quickly.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We definitivelly need a "BIG FACEPALM" reaction for the forums...
So... for the (at least) next 3 months do not touch the samsung's / google play store
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My colleagues recently wrote a great post on the Netflix tech blog about a tough performance issue they wrestled with. Except for all the others
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Once you come up with the idea of creating a software product and have proof of concept, you can start thinking about how much it takes to bring it to life. About that long, give or take
At least for 85% of it
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Do not forget:
98% of the work is done in 2% of the time... and 98% of the time is needed to finish correctly the 2% of the work
M.D.V.
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