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We may be seeing the end of legalized software lock-in. Even with more lenient and liberalized license agreements though, technical lock-in will still be a powerful incentive and impediment to different technologies.
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Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results. Then they came for the compression algorithms and I did nothing as I was running out of disc space
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Any "compression" algorithm that adds artifacts that could change the interpretation of the picture should be banned. Previous attempts at "compression" algorithms such as JBIG2 (used by Xerox in its copiers) altered numbers and characters on scanned images, and similar mishaps.
It's only a matter of time before such technology is misused - to "identify" a criminal, to "read" an illegible license place, or to put some poor CEO* or accountant in prison for filing an incorrect tax return.
(*) One of the few cases where I'd feel sorry for a CEO that went to prison...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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While native apps have been able to display content anywhere in the app window, including in the title bar, installed web apps have been forced to go with the default experience, making them visually different. The 30% performance gap is left as an exercise for the developer
30%+/-100%. Give or take.
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Looking for a job can take as much time and effort as actually working, and that has some players in the job market calling for potential employees to be paid for their time. I see a new career move in the future
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And then the applicant can use this to pay the interviewer for their time. Typical CBC nonsense.
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Job applications that require the applicant produce a viable product should be compensated. Asking for previously existing job products would be exempt, but in the software and marketing world far too many job interviews include someone asking for a new project of some sort.
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I went for an interview at one company and the questions were very related to my existing job and how I managed and overcame some issues and specific problems. Very specific problems. It turns out this company needed help with things I had already solved for my existing (similar product) company and was just trying to pick my brains without having to employ me! I made sure I was paid my expenses and then used the Official Secrets Act to stop talking about what I had been working on. The interview ended fairly quickly after that.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Can you tell us more about that?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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No, sorry.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I had a similar problem.
I was on an PLC & Robot automation project for a customer where our contact person was a high skilled assh...
One day he came to me because he wanted to test the station I was programming, he started with basic things and then continued with more difficult things, even trying to fool the PLC on purpose. Then he said: "uh, it is blocked". As I was pretty confident on my program, I looked very surprised. He smiled a bit and gave the touch panel. I tried to go back to home position and reactivate the automatic process, but I could do it. I had to look live in the PLC (like debugging) to look for the blocked point. Once found I pointed it out and explained how we got blocked, then he told me: "I will come back tomorrow and I don't want to see that bug again". I had it solved in less than 30 minutes, no big deal.
On the next day he came, tested, tried to block it again and couldn't do it. He tried some things more and once he got satisfied, he took a backup of the PLC content and went away.
Some days later, a worker of the client that was nice and had a good relationship with us, thanked me for the fix. And I was like "what fix"? He explained me, that a service technician assembling a new line abroad had had that blockade and could not end the configuration of the production line.
So the ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) of my contact person had come, reproduced the bug on my station, asked me for a solution for their own library and sent it to the technician... On the economic side, I didn't care at all, in most of our projects the customer was the owner of the software no matter if fully programmed by us or not. We had a clause that said our standard functions were ours and we could continue using them in future projects for other clients, but what was machine specific was industrial secret and their property.
What bugged me most of that situation is how he did it, trying to make me believe that the problem was in my station (it actually was a problem in a function of their private library) and "ordering" me to solve it, without even asking me for help or saying thanks for the workaround that solved it.
But at the end and looking for the positive side... it was a very valuable lesson for me, that helped me in future similar situations.
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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During Intel’s Innovation keynote today, Samsung Display CEO JS Choi appeared onstage to show off a prototype PC that slides from a 13-inch tablet into a 17-inch display. Crazy Carpets(tm) are still better (and less expensive)
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We found instances of apps with settings and disclosures that expose users to higher or lower security and privacy risks depending on the country in which they’re downloaded. So always download while in the city
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So always download while in the city
Or not download at all?
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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A study from ManageEngine has found more non-IT workers are having to do IT-related tasks in the workplace as companies push for the decentralization of their IT operations. They're telling each other to "turn it off and back on again"?
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China has announced new plans for a Uranus probe. The new probe will be a part of China’s Tianwen 4 mission. It’s set to launch for the distant planet in 2030. "New way? What's this about a new way?"
Because Chris and I are giggly teenagers at heart
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A headline that will inspire a thousand memes.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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“Taking your own medicine”—using the products and services you create— is vital to building trust with customers. That's some tasty dogfood!
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LinkedIn relied on its user agreement to gain consent to research millions of users. So it's not just to find out which of your coworkers is looking for a new job?
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Since LinkedIn advertises themselves as a professional connection site, the type of testing they're doing is actually an appropriate use of the information we provide them and is legal under GDPR and almost all other cyber privacy laws.
The question of ethical or not is up to the user.
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How was it.... If something is for free, you are the product?
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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You can get video cards at a discount now if you don’t mind rolling the dice with a used one, but maybe you want to think twice about that At least you'll know they're clean?
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In this article, we’ll explore how C++’s abstraction model heavily relies on compiler optimizations, unveiling some unfortunate examples of unexpected performance loss. So don't bother debugging
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An interesting article written from the perspective of game development, where debugging is a pain when dealing with a slow debug build.
My complaint is the opposite, namely that optimized release builds are basically impossible to debug. If you need to debug them, you need to disable many of the optimizations.
I would also claim that many systems are designed with hardly any consideration of CPU, memory, and disk usage. The hardware crowd makes it faster and bigger, and then the software crowd pisses it all away.
I hardly ever play computer games, but my guess is that these guys are also wasting resources trying to outdo the competition when it comes to how real a game looks. Maybe they need to back off a little instead of whining about the performance of their debug builds.
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