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In Norway, this surimi based product cannot be sold as 'krabbepinner' (a direct translation of 'crab sticks'), as it is not made from crab at all. So it is sold as 'crab sticks', using the English term.
A number of years ago, Dahls Brewery of Trondheim, Norway, was making Norway's very best lemon soft drink, marketing it as 'Real Lemon Soda'. The authorities went after them, ordered them to stop the selling of it, using false advertising. Dahls protested: The regulations say that you can uses terms like 'Lemon' (or orange, apple or whatever is relevant) if the natural juice content is at least 8%. Their 'Lemmy' had 12% natural lemon juice! Yet, they were not allowed to sell Lemmy while the case was processed by the courts. The courts decided that Dahls was allowed to sell Lemmy as 'Lemon Soda', but not as real Lemon Soda  . It took the courts a year to reach this conclusion. In the meantime, competing lemon sodas had taken over the market. For a period, Dahls tried to market Lemmy as 'Lemon Soda' (but not 'real'!), but never managed to recoup any significant market share. After a couple of years, Lemmy was discontinued. I still miss it.
Some times, law makers / authorities behave in ways that, if duplicated by an individual would cause that individual to be taken care of by personnel in light green coats in subdued light.
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LinkedIn’s new verification system supports CLEAR, Microsoft Entra, and work email verification for more than 4,000 companies. Something else to update when you're using LinkedIn to find a new job
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I count me "lucky" that I never needed it to find a job.
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I found 2 out of 3 jobs only thanks to LinkedIn.
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Glad to see that it was useful for you / is useful for people in the platform. 
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Reports say it's a commitment to AI, despite signing cautionary AI "pause" letter. Coming soon: Tweets from AI
They've got to be more sensible than most of the tweeters, no?
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Was not there a crypto that used GPU instead of CPU + HDD / SSD?
Kent Sharkey wrote: They've got to be more sensible than most of the tweeters, no?
Even a rock would be it
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"Should I buy Twitter for $44 billion?"
ChatGPT: ...Ultimately, the decision to buy Twitter should be based on a comprehensive evaluation of its financial performance, user base, competition, potential for growth, and price. It may be helpful to consult with financial and investment professionals to make an informed decision.
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Ethical hackers can earn up to $20,000 for their bug-finding efforts. Here's everything you need to know about the new Bug Bounty Program. Can't they just ask ChatGPT?
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or Bard (if it is not cancelled yet)?
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Have you ever wanted the ability to secure the local administrator accounts on your deployed Windows devices? Have you ever needed to recover a device and wished you could log in with a local administrator account? By popular demand: a feature I've never heard of or knew was needed
Can someone translate?
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"Wolverine" experiment can fix Python bugs at runtime and re-run the code "I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice"
Just post a script with a main, and keep calling it until the job is done.
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AI progress report highlights increased sophistication, additional hiring, and some hallucinating. Of which about 3.5 will still be around in five years?
AI for ... is the new Uber for ...
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Did they say how many of them are actually useful and accurated?
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No, but I. Sticking with my 3.5 estimate
TTFN - Kent
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These days, top-down modular programming is pushed aside by object-oriented programming when it comes to teaching how to program. But there is a place for both methodologies to co-exist and top-down programming solves the ever-present problem of how to begin. "You got the top pulled down and the radio on, baby"
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Quote: In fact, [using inheritance in object-oriented programming] is so fragile that many programmers think that inheritance is a mistake and should be avoided if possible.
Those people are not programmers...
edit: Quote: However, you can already see that the object approach imposes a completely different subdivision on the problem. Object-oriented design isn't top-down, even when it pretends to be. The decomposition provided by objects is a model of the real world, which is after all where the idea originated - i.e. in the Simula language and the practice of creating simulations.
Not a convincing argument, and I'm not certain I'd buy his thinking. Object-oriented programming is 'composing objects to do the job,' and I'd consider that 'composition.'
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The only thing I see that useful is just to think of the architecture / structure of the project.
But once you star implementing... IMHO it sucks.
He already mentions a couple of problems as "by the way" things, but those are (for me at least) critical flaws in so many moments that I can't see where this should be better / easier / more efficient...
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top-down, bottom-up, orthogonal, parallel, paradoxical, inversal, transversal -- it all doesn't matter because at some point you'll discover that whatever KoolAid approach you drank at the start has led you blindly into a corner where the paint is still wet. It's at that point that the real work of programming begins.
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Had a saying way back, when I was working in C code,
"You can do anything you want, you just may not like the way you have to stand to do it."
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Firmware, baby. Either you build it in Assembler or in C. C++ in firmware is used only on processors so powerful it's no longer what I'd call firmware to begin with.
48kB of Flash and 3 kB of RAM really mix badly with the larger C++ compiled binaries, especially when trying to cram every little bit of functionality that was originally on 128 kB of Flash and 6 kB of RAM.
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I think the author is confused, or maybe it's me. The opposite of top-down programming is, IMHO, event-driven programming, not OOP. The majority of my work these days is automating manual processes, and I typically use console apps for this purpose. Those are inherently top-down, and I use objects all the time inside those apps. That includes not only custom classes that model our business components but objects built into the CLR or Nuget packages.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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The characters have developed specific routines, such as waking up, taking a shower, cooking breakfast, interacting with their families, then going to work every day. Scientists re-invent video game NPCs, news at 11
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I suppose a manager saw "Free guy" and wanted to have something similar (without the rogue NPC of course)?
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Just wait until there are AI agents for the C-level management people.
You will work at the office! You will not count commute time! You will put in extra hours when we say so! You will be terminated while you're at home! You will discover you are terminated because your VPN from home stopped working and so you can't even get your termination email!
Oh wait. 
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