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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)
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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.
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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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A new report from EvolveWare shows the high confidence level drops as companies plan their modernization project (41 percent) and begin their project (28 percent), suggesting that organizations only start to understand the level of knowledge needed for these efforts after they are further into their planning or execution. We have to get back to the past
It's a less popular sequel
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"No plan survives contact with the enemy"
Didn't Sun Tzu write that? This reminds me of that.
In every non-trivial professional project I've encountered, we have to adapt and improvise because we did not have all of the information going in, and/or the client changes their requirements.
If confidence were reflective of outcomes, confidence would be based on the company's ability to adapt and change in the face of new information and growth, not because of the new information and growth itself, even if it can be painful.
As it is, since it's not, the measure of a company also apparently includes its ability to weather people's finicky confidence. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Follow our step-by-step tutorial to paste your face onto anything your heart desires. Because your face deserves to be everywhere
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If it only was your (a.k.a. anyone's own) face...
This is not going to end good, namely pretty fast.
EDIT: LOL... not even 15 minutes and I already got the first match...
German article explaining about Bellingcat-Journalist Eliot Higgins that created pictures of the previos POTUS being arrested by the police and published them in Twatter (on March 20th).
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modified 23-Mar-23 15:59pm.
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Proposal doesn't enforce affordable spare parts, manuals, rights group complains. You build it, you gotta let us fix it
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On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS zero-day exploits and exploit chains to win $375,000 and a Tesla Model 3. "Same as it ever was"
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Who's putting up the prize money?
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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Digging through their site, it looks like Trend Micro? At least a lot of the email addresses point that way. 
TTFN - Kent
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OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the worldwide web. Now it's going to waste all its time on social media
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now it's going to waste all its time on social media
Then we'll see how the quality of its answers is going to go down pretty quickly...
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It first needs to review all the cat videos.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Dang! You’re right. Priorities!
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