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The law proposes requiring generative AI systems, such as ChatGPT, to be reviewed before commercial release. It also seeks to ban real-time facial recognition. EU proposing a law to regulate something. Is that new?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: EU proposing a law to regulate something. Is that new?
The new would be if the passed law was actually useful  
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OpenAI announced a sizable update to its large language model API offerings (including GPT-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo), including a new function-calling capability, significant cost reductions, and a 16,000 token context window option for the gpt-3.5-turbo model. "My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
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Have you ever wanted to try using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to target Linux from your C++ project, but haven’t gone through the documentation or CLI installation process? Why bother with the docs when you can just click a button?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why bother with the docs when you can just click a button?
And how many other things that improve experience get installed with it?
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At a quick glance, could you tell the difference between a group of 20 dots and a group of 30? Which one is bigger: 2 or 3? Proof!
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But Americans, at least, can't tell which is bigger - 1/4 or 1/3. Yep, years ago Wendy's offered a 1/3 lb burger at the same price as McDonald's 1/4 lb burger. People complained to Wendys that they were charging more for a smaller burger.
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A number of years ago, the Norwegian Minister of Education(!) in a speech about the dropping math competence of school kids claimed that "at least one in four, maybe as many as one in five, kids cannot handle basic fractions when they leave school".
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Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs. Beware of hackers standing 60 feet away
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Article wrote: Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs.
And they they ask me why am I against all that "fancy" things...
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We are thrilled to announce the public preview launch of Win32 app isolation. 32 bits in the penalty box
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So this will only work until malware writers start writing 64 bit malware. So far they haven't had to do so but it will take them less than a day to shift over to 64 bit.
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In a formal statement of objections, the European Commission has taken aim at Google’s core advertising business. A hearing will now follow to decide the course of action. Sidebar ads will be run by one company, banner ads by another?
And popover ads will be outlawed?
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I'm surprised it's taken this long. Google is fundamentally an advertising company and the previous EU fines amounted to chump change for Google.
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Despite significant efforts to become more efficient with IT budgets, respondents to a new survey report underutilization or wasted IT spending of 36 percent for desktop software, 33 percent for data center software, 32 percent for SaaS and 32 percent for IaaS/PaaS. Seems a bit low
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I promise to stop building 6502s in Minecraft on the job.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Hmm. True story:
Back in the late 1980's I worked as a defense contractor. A report was published back then that documented that, of all the software built for the DoD, only 2% of it was still in use a year after its completion. I personally saw this phenomenon with two of our contracts. One, which took team of five more than two years to build, was used for two weeks after delivery. The second, developed by a team of three over an 18 month period, was simply never used. It was placed on shelf.
Software Zen: delete this;
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And it's probably gotten worse since then, although the Department of Offense isn't an enterprise.
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As long as they pay...
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My ongoing joke back then was "I may be a whore, but at least I'm not cheap."
... and we weren't; our billing rates back then would correspond to $400+/hour now.
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I was a cheap one back then (65€/h)...
I managed to rise my price for consulting tasks I had with a customer (to 100€/h), because the engineers came to me to ask about the processes and the possibility of doing stuff. I told it my boss and he refused because of the additional bureaucracy, as he would have had to make a special contract for me for that project.
Shortly later I started searching for something new.
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To gain deeper insights into how new AI tools and existing workflows impact the overall developer experience, GitHub partnered with Wakefield Research to survey 500 developers from enterprise companies across the US. I guess it depends on where it hits them?
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AI voice-separation tech pioneered for "Get Back" will bring Lennon demo to life. "For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see"
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Is it as good as The Rutles?
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Drives automatically get a "warning" flag if powered on for 3 years. Those drives aren't old, they're well seasoned
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