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The data had been posted to Github but has since been taken down. Live by the hostile work environment, die by the hostile work environment
(Allegedly)
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Can you trust your colleagues to write good code? Can you trust yourself? Trust everyone, but always verify the code
Trying for a paraphrase of, "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards"
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I think he is not seeing the elephant in the room - how can we trust the hundreds to thousands of dependencies every package has?
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Kind of mandatory[^]
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Trust is good, control is better
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What looks like random video noise could actually be a backup of someone's tax documents. Unfortunately, it's not very efficient. "Getting nothing but static, static in my attic from Channel Z"
Some people need better hobbies, video edition
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I hope they find him... disturbing cat videos is a big offense
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman feels "awful" about ChatGPT leaking some users' chat histories on Monday, and blamed an open source library bug for the snafu. AI in front, no 'I' in back
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If in doubt... blame Open Source
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American university researchers have developed a novel attack called "Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan" (NUIT) that can launch silent attacks against devices powered by voice assistants, like smartphones, smart speakers, and other IoTs. Beware of bat hackers
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Beware of bat hackers
would it be an idea to call batman?
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Microsoft has warned some Bing-powered search engines that it will revoke access to the company’s search index if they continue to use it as the foundation for their AI tools, according to Bloomberg. The more things change, the more Microsoft's legal department stays the same
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Imagine if Oracle had purchased it... 
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‘Struth. They’d already be charging an annual support contract, with additional billing per question (also per core, of course)
TTFN - Kent
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The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations. Just like the rest of Microsoft
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Not to forget the common sense limitations of some people at high positions of MS 
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GitHub hastens to replace its RSA SSH host key after an exposure mishap threatens users with man-in-the-middle attacks and organization impersonation. Oh, ssh!
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With advanced generative AI systems reshaping software development, Microsoft's Mads Kristensen provided a sneak peek at the AI future of Visual Studio. What if you never lost it?
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Jacob Ziv - Wikipedia
He was also involved in developing the MP3 and PDF formats.
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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I have tried to find any reference to that claim, without any success - beyond a newspaper headline from his homeland.
Edit: The newspaper reference I saw had a reference to Lempel contributing to MP3 and PDF, not Ziv. My comments to Lempel applies to Ziv as well: I find no reference to either in MP3 / PDF descriptions, and no reference from Ziv to MP3 / PDF. I am fully prepared to accept Ziv's contribution to either if reliable references are presented. Newspaper headlines do not count as reliable headlines.
That some other project makes use of your compression method doesn't count as "involved in developing" that format.
If you can provide reliable links (research papers etc. from recognized sources) showing Lempel's contribution to either MP3 or PDF, please present them here. You may optionally explain why his name is absent from so many other descriptions of these languages, and why his contributions to MP3 and PDF is not mentioned e.g. in the Wikipedia article about him.
I can see the desire to associate Lempel with as many successful project as possible. Yet, I would take some care. To a significant degree, the compression world has been divided into two camps: Those insisting that the only true compression is the lossless one, and LZW are their biggest heroes. The other camp accepts losses that you won't be able to see or hear anyway. IT professionals of course know that we need both, but in the less (IT-) educated part of the audience, associating Lempel with the lossless MP3 will certainly not be welcomed. That is like blaming him for being a quisling, working for the enemy.
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Now the industry can finally slow down and relax. Moore's Law is no longer in effect.
*hides*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Moore is dead, but his truth law goes marching on!
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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Through history, numerous people have been honored for their lawmaking, e.g. by naming (such as Magnus the Law-mender (Magnús lagabœtir)[^] - even if their laws are no longer valid. The law goes on, even when crossing out 'truth'.
Reading old laws may reveal old, forgotten wisdom. One of my favorites is found in the 1687 "King Christian V Norwegian Law": If one man's ox bites or butts another man's ox to death, the owner of the killing ox shall pay a compensation to the owner of the killed ox. If the killing ox was a better ox than the one being killed, the compensation shall be the full value of the killed ox. But if the killed ox was a better ox than the one killing, the compensation shall be half the value of the killed ox.
So the farmer who has lost one of his oxen has a choice: Should he admit his neighbor has better oxen than he has himself, so that he can receive full compensation? Or shall he maintain his pride, insisting that his ox was the better one, and accept only half the compensation?
I like the spirit of self-adjusting, balancing, of this law, forcing you to consider the other side. Maybe we should have retained some of this spirit in laws of today.
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