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The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become more complex. Show your work(ings)
Mr. Newton isn't going to be fan of this 'law'
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Maybe someone mixed up Entropy[^] and Entropy[^]. 
(One always increases over time, and higher levels of the other basically means more complexity.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Made up so they can continue to deny the existence of God.
And I stop there.
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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Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers. Now no one will know my IP address is 127.0.0.1!
And I'm sure they won't do anything with all that proxy data. urgle
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It sounds like they're trying to reinvent Tor[^], but with their own servers slurpling up the browsing data for "reasons".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Generative AI is great at handling tedium and finding errors, but the expertise and intuition of programmers will always be essential. All of it?
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Microsoft may be open to the idea of Windows customers trying Linux, but it surely does not want you to try Chrome or other browsers. Do you like me? Click 'Yes' now!
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Chrome cause its shiny !
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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One question poll:
Do you want Google to track your every move on the internet?
Yes => Go ahead and install Chrome
No => Stick with Edge but remember to turn off third party cookies in your settings.
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Developer productivity is in the eye of the beholder. Here's what Microsoft productivity analysts found that works. It's all in the icons
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BitLocker software encryption slows performance. Here's how to fix it. Slow and safe wins the race?
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The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency’s interstellar explorers. 15 billion kilometer patch. Good thing they didn't have to walk it over.
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"hit any key to reboot"
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Software development projects can only have an impact if they make it to production, so instead of having forty partially done bits of work, you should always prioritize having something actually done. This is why I never start anything
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Soooo, I should go back and finish the couple hundred "sandbox" apps I've used to experiment and tinker with?
Not all code needs to be "finished" to accomplish something.
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The work is not done when the code works. The work is done when the code works and when we’ve made sure the changes are designed well. I would gladly pay you Tuesday for some working code today
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Big industry replaces entire segments of production lines "on the fly". It is cheaper for them to create bypasses for the "to be replaced" sections and derive the production through alternative paths while "refactoring" (a.k.a. totally re-doing) that section than not to do it and react trying to repair things if they go broken
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Are there any reasons why one would NOT want to adopt .NET 8 – is there something to look out for in case you are the kind of developer who doesn’t read all the blogs and is not always on the latest builds? Pick 'n' from Column A and 'm' from Column B
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The feature matters since, by default, the popular chatbot has a knowledge cutoff date of September 2021, leaving it clueless about current events. Now it's going to find out what we've been saying about it
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I hope people starts waking up from the hype and take these as what they actually are... Cool tools that might save you some kind of work, but no magic bullet against everything (like the colt bullets[^])
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I've found them to be quite useful, even when they get things wrong! But I've also found that they can equally be very impressive and surprisingly dumb. So, I still think AGI is further away than we think and there's no need to panic.
Kevin
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A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to rework symbols representing human genes. All the other "features" that wreck your data remain
When in doubt, add another checkbox in the settings pages
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Security Copilot, Redmond's AI-driven security analysis tool, makes it faster for security teams to counter threats using Microsoft's global threat intelligence expertise and the latest large language models. Because the one thing we've learned from movies is to put AI in charge of our security
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Those are films, Kent. That would never happen in real life. /s
Most of the people forget that what today is written as a science fiction story can in the future be written as "yesterday news".
And there are more than enough examples to reassure this affirmation.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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