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What other mathematical constant is literally used as a benchmark for computing power, or forms the basis for a never-ending worldwide grudge match over who can list the most random digits in the correct order (current record: 111,700)? Just look it up?
355/113 ought to be enough for anybody?
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CEO Satya Nadella said in an email to employees that the layoffs would only affect 5% of the company, but would begin this week. "I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign, but it's my destiny to be the king of pain"
Or was it a message in a bottle?
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Is tone-deafness a requirement for CEOs? I'm going with 'Yes.'
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In other news:
Hookers requests are told to have risen over 300% in Davos during the time of the summit.
M.D.V. 
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They subjugate the meek but it is the rethoric of failure.
I can't I can't I can't stand losing you.
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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Don't stand so close to me
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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Apple has given its blessing to the release of source code for its first mouse-powered marvel – the Lisa – to mark its 40th birthday. Now you can make your own!
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The New York Times reports Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have discussed its response to ChatGPT, with plans to launch over 20 AI products this year, including a demo of its own search chatbot. Perhaps they should Google how to defeat it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Perhaps they should Google how to defeat it?
Or even better, ask ChatGPT for it...
On the other hand...
Quote: A strange game, the only winning move is not to play.
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Let's calculate the ratio of AI projects launched to AI projects cancelled! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users who had their accounts accessed through credential stuffing attacks that exposed some personal data. Live by the 'p@ssword1', die by the 'p@ssword1'
Or at least lose your money
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been on a cost-cutting tear over the last six months, shutting down various projects inside the company. Don't think of it as a layoff, just think of it as them cancelling your job
or:
If all the other kids are laying people off, will you do it too?
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In other words, employment at Google is just another 'project'.
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Platform engineering teams are on the rise, with 94% of respondents to Puppet by Perforce’s 2023 State of DevOps report saying that platform engineering is helping them realize the benefits of DevOps more than before. Once people get around to finding out what it is, maybe
"According to the company, platform engineering is the practice of “designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for developers and to enable fast flow software delivery.”" <-- Yeah, no. That doesn't help me, sorry.
All I really keep thinking is, "Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!"
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Quote: designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for developers and to enable fast flow software delivery.
Think of it as a vending machine for software development. Insert bill, dispense, no thinking required.
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After a Microsoft employee accidentally leaked tabs in Notepad over the holidays, it’s officially in public test builds. What if you prefer spaces?
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If it follows the new 'roundedness' of Windows, does it only support serif fonts? 
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The nonprofit Linux Foundation has launched the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) to promote an open metaverse. It's the Year of Metaverse!
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Why don't they just take another name?
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Isn't that one of the very basic ideas of FOSS: When someone has invented/developed something, it should be free for the taking to anyone?
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I doubt Zuckeberg has done it with that idea in mind, and the guys are risking that he afterwards comes with some lawyers to claim copyright about the term.
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Lots of 'alternative' FOSS solutions - e.g. in sound and video compression - have ripped off a lot of costly development work done by commercial companies, repackaged it and made a few cosmetic changes to make it appear as their own development, and tried to sell it to the world.
There certainly are cases where FOSS people have managed to create very good software. One prominent example: The LAME encoder started as a mediocre, simplistic MP3 encoder, its quality was far behind commercial ones. But licensing fees for commercial versions were so horrible that a lot of users rather put resources into improving LAME, and it gradually improved to a level where it became the standard that other MP3 encoders were measured up against. -- But that was after several competing FOSS formats built on the same basic principles as MP3 had failed in the market. "If you can't beat them, join them".
On the desktop user interface side, FOSS guys have 'always' let other companies do expensive, lengthy usability studies. Then FOSS comes lurking behind to pick up the conclusion from the commercial studies. Smartphone UI is different - but can hardly be said to be developed by FOSS guys, even though there are lots of free apps. (Not that often open source, though.)
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Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox said he believes the metaverse will one day become as essential as smartphones during a panel about the technology at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday. "On the back of his business card is gibberish explaining how he may be reached: a telephone number. A universal voice phone locator code. A P.O. box. His address on half a dozen electronic communications nets. And an address in the Metaverse."
Please forgive me for being (more than) a bit skeptical
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