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Infoworld wrote: If you don’t repeat yourself, keep it simple, and implement only the functionality you really truly need, your C# code will be cleaner, simpler, and much easier to maintain.
No fvck Sherlock.
Please someone gives that guy the price to the most innovative idea of the year... no, no, of the decade...
wait... better of the century.
But the worst is: That although being that obvious, it is so damned complicated to find people doing it (or even self doing it continously).  
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Given the number of feral children[^] out there writing mission-critical software, it doesn't hurt to hit them over the head emphasize this yet again.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't forget the YOLO principle too!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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While classical C goes by the YAFI-YGI principle.
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Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can't-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections. Greetings fellow person {insert name}, I have many monies to helps you become largest. Much love, Tami
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As long as they still use adresses that I can't recognise... all is fine.
But yes... It is only a question of time and it sadly tends to be less, faster than I expected.
Edit: Colon added.
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modified 21-Apr-23 2:05am.
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Agreed. The spam I get has gotten so bad that I'm close to adding a white list rather than trying to keep up to date with the black list.
I'm about 5 years give or take away from retirement. I clicked on a link to go look at an investment offer. I've not been able to turn off the spam since. It went from one email to a giant variety. At least there aren't any *ick pictures. 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yesterday, my current email provider, which has been cost free for 20+ years, sent me a message that they soon will start charging for the service.
My ISP provides an email address at no extra charge (and, I must say, no extra service) that I never used. When I switch to that address from July 1st, no spammers know it. If AI spam generators will make personalized advertising, it will be based on my activity using the old mail address, and spamming that address. I've kept that address for 20+ years, so I guess there is quite a lot to pick up.
For my new address, there will be nothing for that AI to make use of. I will be very restrictive in using my new email address. I'll check up the possibility of getting a series of aliases, so that if spam starts popping up, I will know who has leaked my address, and I can easily route that mail (along with that from the traitor) to my spam box.
Side remark: I saw, in a list of oxymorons, "military intelligence". It seems like the current wave of "artificial intelligence" uses the noun in a similar meaning. So maybe it deserves an entry in the same list.
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I'm also interested in knowing how fast that account starts to get spam - possibly even before you use it anywhere?
TTFN - Kent
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A group of individuals who identify themselves as “over-employed” are utilizing generative AI to undertake multiple full-time jobs simultaneously. I thought AI was going to take away our jobs, not give us more
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GitLab's research reveals software development trends: focus on security, AI in workflows, and DevSecOps adoption for improved efficiency. DevSecOps report finds that people are into development, security, and operations
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Google's internal Brain team, which was part of the Google Research division, is merging its operations with DeepMind, the UK-based company that was formed in 2010, and which Google acquired in 2014. It makes it easier to cancel if it's only one division
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I hope they are better at their job than choosing new names...  
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The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail. Is it common sense?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it common sense?
As long as the "medicine" is not worse than the disease...
Quote: It's important to note that the Hyena program shown in the paper is small in size compared to GPT-4 or even GPT-3. While GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, or weights, the largest version of Hyena has only 1.3 billion parameters. Hence, it remains to be seen how well Hyena will do in a full head-to-head comparison with GPT-3 or 4.
But, if the efficiency achieved holds across larger versions of the Hyena program, it could be a new paradigm that's as prevalent as attention has been during the past decade.
I hope this is not the step #2 towards our future robot overlords 
Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it common sense?
Why is it that common sense is not so common?
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The "Never combine" taskbar option is one of those "legacy" features that did not make it to the modernized (one may say "crippled") taskbar in Windows 11. One day we might get all the old features back
And we can return to the glory days of NT4 Workstation/Weven/pick your favourite version as long as it isn't Vista or Weight.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: pick your favourite version as long as it isn't Vista or Weight.
Do not forget Millenium 
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AAaaaaaAAAaAAAA!
Sorry, I had pushed that version out of my head. Until now. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I had pushed that version out of my head. Until now.
You are welcome 😘
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I'd love the multirow taskbar like in Windows XP. When juggling between different projects and tools having the tasks visible, with a name on it and rapidly accessible is tremendously important.
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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Ten can do the multirow taskbar. You just need to expand the bar vertically and then the overflow buttons will spill into the next row.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm currently using a third party tool that brings back this feature.
I'll never get the decision to drop this feature in the first place.
I'm sure there's a designer somewhere who's angry because all the people who don't like his design are wrong and dumb.
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Office 2013 fell out of "extended support" on April 11, 2023. That date marks the end of a 10-year product support phase, and it means that Microsoft has stopped issuing patches for the product, although the product may continue to work. Bad news for those wanting a bit of help with...uh, whatever the new features were in 2013
PDF import? Save to Cloud? Yeah, OK. It might not be missed.
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I am still using Office 2010 in my private machines 
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Let me see...
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP3 MSO
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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