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Nelek wrote: The alive one or the dead one?
Yes
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Beat me to it 
TTFN - Kent
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ChatGPT restrictions on the creation of illicit content are easy to circumvent. "The street finds its own uses for things"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The street finds its own uses for things"
namely faster than you can say "Jack Robinson"
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We look at value-oriented programming, a programming paradigm that the Val programming language [Val] proposes, and how this paradigm can improve safety, local reasoning, and the act of programming. Stand up for your values (but not your references)!
I was going to go with "Because 0.30000000000000005 would be silly", but I think I used that recently
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Up next: languages named Virtue and Diversity
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Both laying 2974'th and 2975'th respectively on the popularity list of our limited languages available. 
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The guy lost credibility with me when he referenced the following statements:Kent Sharkey wrote: ACCU[^]: "In terms of syntax, we’ve experimented just about everything; we’ve probably seen all types of syntax we can have. If we look at the semantic class of a programming language – i.e., the paradigm that the language emphasizes – we don’t have too many choices."
Both of these statements show a complete dearth of experience and a remarkable lack of imagination. Anyone who has been writing software more than a few years has seen countless varieties of both syntax and semantics.
Text languages as fixed-field lines (FORTRAN) where each line is a statement, variable text where statements are delimited, and text where spacing is significant (or not). Procedural languages, stack-based languages (LISP and FORTH) where the stack is implicit in the source, and weirdies like APL. Macros and scripts created by recording the user's actions. Non-text languages where the programmer's intent is expressed graphically and the source 'code' is an opaque data structure or data base. No-code and low-code 'programming'.
Semantics are similar. Machine language, structured, object-oriented, functional, etc. programming. Headless (batch or service) applications versus command-line, GUI, or web.
I know that reasoning-by-example isn't rigorous, but many of these elements did not exist when I start programming professionally in 1980. If anything, the pace of new concepts has only accelerated in the time since.
Software Zen: delete this;
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This is a well thought out concept about new paradigms basically restricting the way programmers can figuratively shoot themselves in the foot. I don't know if Val as a language will go anywhere, but suspect that like its predecessor CLU in the object oriented world many of the concepts will eventually show up in mainstream languages.
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Yeah, I hope/think that's the longer term goal for them. I think it's going to be hard for a non-Algol-like language to rise to the top these days.
TTFN - Kent
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I would not put that on stone. Just find one or two morons influencers that bit the bait and start shouting the buzzword bingo...
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I was trying to write about floating point yesterday, and I found myself wondering about this calculation, with 64-bit floats Because 0.30000000000000005 would be silly
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The mistake highlights the biggest problem of using AI chatbots to replace search engines — they make stuff up. So, just like Google search then?
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I wonder... will they cancel it next week?
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A filter got dislodged and caused issues mid-flight, Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart said. For lack of a filter, the rocket was lost
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I bet that someone in the sales department was thinking "man, was I good bargaining with that provider"...
and that now thinks "damn, I hope they can't track it back to me"
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Microsoft and Adobe have partnered to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF rendering engine directly into the Edge browser, replacing the existing PDF engine. Does this mean Edge will start asking if you want to upgrade every time you use it?
Ohwait, it already does
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There's a reason for this. Years ago a colleague was working on PDF manipulation code and reported that the format has no consistancy. That PDFs even render is a miracle.
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I totally agree, had to work on PDF manipulation code as well and it's a total mess.
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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I guess swapping the browser core to Chrome meant Edge didn't have enough vulnerabilities so they decided to bake Acrobats into it to fix that problem and make it more pwnable.
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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A new study shows how large language models like GPT-3 can learn a new task from just a few examples, without the need for any new training data. Well, that saves on future training costs then
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That it does! 
Wonder where we will find professionals in a few years time... maybe GPT would have find a way in learning to recommend the right people for the right job by then.
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Andre Oosthuizen wrote: maybe GPT would have find a way in learning to recommend the right people for the right job by then.
That would be an improvement to the most part of current headhunters' processes
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The new Teams (free) tier will require a new account. Data in the old app, now rebadged as Teams Free (classic), will be deleted. Anything you haven't saved by then will be gone, including shared files you haven't downloaded. Because there's no 'free' in Teams
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If something is for free, you are the product.
Corollary: Only because you pay for a service, it doesn't mean, you are not the product anymore.
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