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Following on the heels of Twitter’s decision to restrict third-party access to its data, Reddit today announced that it’ll begin charging for use of its API. "It's one pound for a five minute argument, but only eight pounds for a course of ten."
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Coming News: Usage of Reddit API dropped 70% in some weeks
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It's been just a year since Intel officially announced its Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASICs, but today the company announced the end of life of its first-gen Blockscale 1000-series chips without announcing any follow-up generations of the chips. Crypto was so last week
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Crypto was so last week
Tell that Elon 
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Microsoft is excited to announce that we are shifting to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned to the theme of weather. Are we being hacked, or is that the weather forecast?
Beware of Aqua blizzards and mint sandstorms
So
much
clearer :eyeroll:
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There's word that Microsoft has been developing its own hardware chip made specifically for AI programs and it's been in the works for four years. "Just one word from her, and my troubles are long gone"
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They are calling it Athena, but I fear we will end thinking they should have called it Pandora  
Edit: grammar
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modified 20-Apr-23 17:05pm.
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I'm sure we're all in favour of "clean code", but it's one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie things that no one can reasonably disagree with. Who wants to write dirty code? How do you like your code? Crisp!
That one is probably just for Canadians, sorry.
Just in case you can't bear to not know (video, but safe)[^]
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The writer needs to apply two of his principles, Readable and Simplicity, to his own writing.
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This is why programmers should cut their teeth on assembly programming. CRISP is a requirement for assembly language coding, IMO, and creates a good discipline when encountering languages that want to CHAR (no acronym, just a pun) your CRISP practices.
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This, 10 times. Assembler really taught me on how to make the flow of the code easy to determine while reading it and to group subprocedures in functions so that they are easily debuggable and identifiable.
It also gave me serious OCD on how to indent and align the code, not helped at all by my discovery of selection by column.
unsigned long int variable_name1 = default_val;
char var_name2 = default_val;
static int var3 = default_val;
function_call_long_name(arg1, b, c);
function_short (a , arg2, c);
var1 = a + b;
variable_long_name = foo + bar;
Code like this may look overly large on the horizontal axis but it is clear and allows changes or copy-paste even with column selection.
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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Quote: An unnecessary function call, added purely to satisfy some rule like "methods should be less than 10 lines"
I had a nice 2 hours long argument with top brass for the company I was working for as a body-rental contractor on the usefulness of these rules in their LINTer (linting is mandatory to be MISRA compliant). The cool fact is that after a week they actually removed them.
As for performance being not important, I raise the firmware world as a counter-example. And it explains why I am hounded daily by companies looking for a firmware engineer (now, if they also wanted to pay me more than a janitor it would be just peachy).
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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> Article about writing code with no code examples
Yeah, just do good things and don't do bad things, mkay?
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NTDEV, the developer behind the popular tiny10 and tiny11 projects, has released a new creation called live11. It is the first bootable Windows 11 live DVD designed to run entirely on RAM and fit on a 4GB virtual hard drive (VHD) A live disc to help with your dead PC?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A live disc to help with your dead PC?
As long as it doesn't get any updates... 
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The era of ever-larger artificial intelligence models is coming to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as cost constraints and diminishing returns curb the relentless scaling that has defined progress in the field. And yet, I keep posting stories about them
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Quote: a GPU crisis
Elon Musk trying to empty the GPU market has nothing to do with that, hasn't it?  
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A new report from software supply chain security management company Lineaje looks at the composition of open-source software and assesses the risks associated with its usage. Also: the sky is FALLING!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and assesses the risks associated with its usage.
As if propietary software lately was that different...  
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Facing renewed competition from Microsoft and OpenAI, Google is reportedly “racing” to build an “all-new” AI-powered search engine. If all the other kids are doing it, will you start an AI apocalypse too?
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And what happened with "Bard"? Did it already get cancelled?
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I guess its too late now.......
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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As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime and guess what: This release is no exception to this. "Drive like the wind, straining the limits of machine and man"
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Steven Giesel wrote: As with every .NET release, Microsoft improves the performance of the runtime
Every? Really? I would not bet something I care, just in case.
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There are two main options for building applications in .NET and leverage the Windows App SDK, that target multiple platforms (aka cross-platform or multi-platform applications) with is Microsoft’s .NET MAUI and the Uno Platform.
edit: Yeah, I forgot a blurb on this one. Read tomorrow's email for the belurb (belated blurb). I'd share it here, but it's way too lame (even for us) 
modified 17-Apr-23 13:37pm.
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