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if you think what you are responding to are scams ... consider "fripperstings" ? imho, that is a true portmanteau.
"Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882) was coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898) for the sort of words he invented for "Jabberwocky," on the notion of "two meanings packed up into one word." As a noun in this sense from 1872."
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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At least the author realizes it was a waste of time. The reality is that as soon as he reached anything under 4,096 bytes in size the disk space consumption wouldn't shrink unless he got the file below 1,020 bytes, at which point the entire file would be stored in the directory entry.
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If you care for compact coding, look a the videos at www.pouet.net - lots of super impressing videos (animations) collected there!
Take a look at e.g. Oscar's Chair by Eos :: pouët.net[^]. When you see what these guys manage to do in 4092 bytes, making a "Hello World" using the same amount of space is not quite as impressing
To see the movies at pouet.net you have to download the executable, usually wrapped in a zip file, and run it locally. I think they all take over the screen completely when they run. Beware that some videos require quite a few seconds for unpacking and initialization. First time you see the videos, you will be convinced that they download a lot of contents from internet. They don't. Unplug the network cable if you don't believe it!
A few other good ones at pouet.net (the 4Kbytes ones is only a small fraction of the collection!):
Binary Parasites by Fulcrum :: pouët.net[^] - 4096 bytes (zipping makes it grow to 4101 bytes)
fr-013: flybye by Farbrausch :: pouët.net[^] - this one is 65536 bytes, but quite impressing.
Skyline by LJ & Logicoma :: pouët.net[^] - 4073 bytes.
The Grid 512B by Abaddon :: pouët.net[^] - 512 bytes, if you want it to fit in the directory entry.
fr-08: .the .product by Farbrausch :: pouët.net[^] - another "big" one (65024 bytes), really an ad for the company making the tools.
Note that some videos at pouet.net are made for non-PC hardware. A few of the old ones require e.g. old dx drivers which you probably haven't got on your PC.
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Lightning Labs, the developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling solution, announced Thursday the release of a set of tools to allow the developers to create artificial intelligence chatbots that can send and receive bitcoins. Now the AIs can make a little money on the side before they kill us all
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ChatGPT let me introduce you American Express
Maybe I am a bit too classic, but... why the heck would I need that?
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Worldwide spending on public cloud services reached $545.8 billion in 2022, new data from IDC says. And that's just from the projects people built to learn cloud dev and forgot were still running
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to learn cloud dev and forgot were still running If the company pays...
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Microsoft’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, told employees not to “build a gold toilet” in a 2018 meeting, another executive wrote in an email that came up during the company’s court showdown with U.S. antitrust regulators. This is why we keep executives: inspirational quotes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This is why we keep executives: inspirational quotes Seeing that there is people that actually built it... In this case I would even say, he was not that wrong
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Meta has officially launched its surprisingly popular Twitter alternative, Threads—shocking even Mark Zuckerberg as signups hit 30 million within the first 24 hours. In case the old place for babbling and arguing doesn't appeal, here's a new place for babbling and arguing!
With 88% more monopoly involvement!
Apologies for posting this. We debated whether we'd just ignore this whole thing, but...slow news day.
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What's better / worse, Pest or Cholera?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: whether we'd just ignore this whole thing, but...slow news day. i have been trying to have a slow news day: what techniques are you using ? Cryogenics ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Weeelllll, slow tech news day?
(I usually ignore the wars, wildfires, epidemics, political kerfuffles, etc. that fill "real" news)
TTFN - Kent
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SemanticDiff for the web: Our pull request viewer lets you review GitHub pull requests with a programming language aware diff right in your browser. "There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
Sorry, one of my all-time favourite quotes.
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That actually looks helpful. I may try it.
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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How do software developers and engineers spend their days? Do they have a lot of time to actually code, or do they burn too many hours on activities like meetings? Reading articles about how they spend their time, of course
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Reading articles about how they spend their time and Kent's comments in the insider, of course FTFY
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Went and read this. It is wrong.
It had desired time for Issues above zero. I Know that is wrong.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024. Now even more GPT than before!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now even more GPT than before!
Wohooo
...NOT
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Microsoft is again pushing a Defender Antivirus update (first issued in April and pulled in May) that fixes a known issue triggering Windows Security warnings that Local Security Authority (LSA) Protection is off. Maybe go for that "third time's the charm"?
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In Spain we say: There is no two without three
But in case of current MS I think I miss a couple of "0" in that saying
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In a groundbreaking study, researchers keep uncovered that OpenAI's language prototype, GPT-3, maintains exceptional informative mastery that surpasses human capabilities. Humans still make up for it in volume though
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The question is... is being true part of being informative?
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Microsoft is about to make it possible to call .NET Framework code from workflows in Azure Logic Apps, a low-code iPaaS solution for creating and running automated workflows. What's the German word for, "I kind of thought that was the point of the product, but they're only adding the feature seven years after launch"?
Bonus points if you use HttpClient to call the Azure Logic App that it's running in?
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