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Sean Ewington wrote: And other things we hope increase our share price.
Only if it doesn't get canceled in the pipeline or short after...
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At this point int time, the phrase, "AI coding features" is perilously close to an oxymoron.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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There’s a problem with the Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2, with a fix on the way for those still using the aging smart plug. The S in IoT stands for Security.
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Sean Ewington wrote: The S in IoT stands for Security.
Are you sure? I thought it stood for "sh*tty" (at least in most of them)
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Astronomers have discovered 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet Saturn.
The satellite haul brings the planet's total number of moons to over 100 and also means the gas giant takes back the crown as the solar system's "moon king" from Jupiter. Sorry, Jupiter.
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.NET 8 Preview 4 is now available and includes many great new improvements to ASP.NET Core. Oooo look at that change on Identity.
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Computing and creativity have always been linked. In the early 1800’s when Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, his friend Ada Lovelace wrote in a letter that, if music could be expressed to the engine, then it “might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” Flashes me back to a time when I would change my Dad's autoexec.bat with random values and stop his (powerful) 486 from booting.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Flashes me back to a time when I would change my Dad's autoexec.bat with random values and stop his (powerful) 486 from booting.
You little evil...  Could he manage to "repair" it?
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Guidance enables you to control modern language models more effectively and efficiently than traditional prompting or chaining. Guidance programs allow you to interleave generation, prompting, and logical control into a single continuous flow matching how the language model actually processes the text. Part of me can't help but feel like this is essentially reinventing the concept of programming languages: formal and precise syntax to perform specific tasks with guarantees.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Part of me can't help but feel like this is essentially reinventing the concept of programming languages: formal and precise syntax to perform specific tasks with guarantees.
Formal and precise syntax... are you sure that's the correct definition? Looking to some of the "languages" that are out there...
On the other hand... the defition didn't have the words "logical" and / or "reasonable" in it  
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I like to write, and occasionally I idly consider the possibility that I should do it for a living. Then I remind myself: writing is a structurally terrible job. Whatever dreams you have of living off of big checks from Random House and Vanity Fair: crush them now. Yea, but in all those Hallmark movies those writers have nice apartments in big cities and travel to exotic locations and then publish their own book at the end. Hallmark doesn't like, right?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Yea, but in all those Hallmark movies those writers have nice apartments in big cities and travel to exotic locations and then publish their own book at the end. Hallmark doesn't like, right?
I think I would have more possibilities to win the lottery (if I bought it)
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Apple on Tuesday previewed a handful of new features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac designed to boost cognitive, vision, hearing and mobility accessibility, ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Or they could have fixed some more accessibility bugs. That's cool too.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Or they could have fixed some more accessibility bugs. That's cool too.
Why do I have the feelng that they have they same bug-fixers than Microsoft? (a.k.a. none)
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Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google's new ZIP and MOV Internet domains, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing attacks and malware delivery. Google was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Old Kazaa and Limewire malware spreaders are coming out of retirement to promote a new .mp3 TLD>
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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Sean Ewington wrote: Google was so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
If that were only a problem with google... 
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That reminds me of one my favorite quotes from a "Star Trek" movie. The president of the Federation said, "Just because we can do a thing does not mean we must do that thing."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Can you quickly tell which of the URLs below is legitimate and which one is a malicious phish that drops evil.exe?
https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v1.27.1.zip
If the previous article left you thinking .zip wasn't any worse than other garbage fire TLDs like .biz or .info; it's actually much worse.
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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Select link, save as...
First is html
Second is a real zip file
But I see your point. One has to be damn careful when clicking a link and I guess a huge amount of people will step in the trap sooner or later.
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I think their is a proposed RFC to make the @ part of the URL throw a hard error and not navigate.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new guideline on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), which recommends against the use of NSS to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). You're 144 years too late, WHO. I'm already dead.
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I wonder how much this study cost. Artificial sweeteners have long been known to have zero nutritional value and the empirical evidence tying them to weight gain and the associated conditions has been available since at least the 80s.
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Note that beer is more than twice as fattening as suggested by the calories indicated on the can: It makes you crave for huge amounts of fat, salty and/or sugary snacks to go with it.
I don't know the details of this study, but it seems to suggest that these sweetening chemicals have effects not only on your taste buds, but in other ways as well. What if it reduces your metabolism? Or reduces your level of physical activity so that your muscles burn less calories, not needing as much energy? What if it purely psychological: When you stick to artificially sweetened soft drinks, you are more careless about other calorie-rich foods, your calorie budget "can afford it" thanks to the non-calorie drinks?
From what I have read about this study, the essential observation is that there is very little (inverse) correlation between obesity and consumption of artificially sweetened drinks(/food). Groups where zero-calorie drinks at dominating do not have any less obesity than in groups where sweetening with sugar is the rule. Despite the fact that artificial sweeteners have zero calories, those enjoying them find other ways of keeping their body weight up, ways that are not found by those favoring natural sugar.
Like table salt: It has zero calories, and you will never eat so much of it that your body weight goes up from the salt itself, but it could make you drink so much extra water that your weight goes up anyway. Without the salt, you would have been less thirsty.
I got the impression that the study essentially makes an observation: People are just as fat with artificial sweeteners as they are with sugar. You may of course argue that those using artificial sweeteners would have been significantly fatter than they are, and fatter than the sugar eaters, if they went back to sugar. That those using the artificial stuff are doing so because they need to. If that is right, an interesting study would be to search for the factors making some people fatter than others from sugar, and the psychological mechanisms leading those to switch to artificial sweeteners in a much higher degree than the sugar eaters.
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trønderen wrote: Note that beer is more than twice as fattening as suggested by the calories indicated on the can: It makes you crave for huge amounts of fat, salty and/or sugary snacks to go with it.
Really? I don't see any difference in my consume of junk food if I drink beer or if I don't
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