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Re: Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says.

9-Jul-23 14:33

Because tech execs have to work with programmers ... like us ?

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

David O'Neil9-Jul-23 18:05

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9-Jul-23 18:05

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How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 9:31

Washi[^]:
Here is a dumb question that you probably never asked yourself: What is the minimal amount of bytes we need to store in a .NET executable to have the CLR print the string"Hello, World!" to the standard output?

Because you never now when you might need a really small Hello World program

I suppose it's possible some of these fripperfications might be useful elsewhere, but I'm somewhat doubtful.

(and isn't P/Invoke kind of cheating here?)

BillWoodruff9-Jul-23 14:21

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 14:21

from EtymologyOnLine: frippery (n.)
1560s, "old clothes, cast-off garments," from French friperie "old clothes, an old clothes shop," from Old French freperie, feuperie "old rags, rubbish, old clothes" (13c.), from frepe, feupe "fringe; rags, old clothes," from Late Latin faluppa "chip, splinter, straw, fiber." The notion is of "things worn down, clothes rubbed to rags." The ironic meaning "finery" (but with overtones of tawdriness) dates from 1630s.

@kent_sharkey

Congratularios, Kent ! on your innovation "fripperifications," which i don't see anywhere else in the web.

as an etymology/linguistics obsessee, i must ask you if this is an apt candidate for a neologism ... given what you see in the article cited ?

cheers, bill

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 15:09

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 15:09

Frippery was where I started from. I’m not sure why my brain insisted on the -ifications ending. Maybe to combine frippery and machinations? Sadly, I left no notes. Unsure | :~

TTFN - Kent

BillWoodruff9-Jul-23 15:38

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

9-Jul-23 15:38

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

obermd10-Jul-23 4:03

obermd

10-Jul-23 4:03

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.

Re: How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?

trønderen10-Jul-23 10:58

trønderen

10-Jul-23 10:58

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 Smile | :)

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.

Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:31

Re: Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions

9-Jul-23 9:31

Silicon Angle[^]:
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

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:31

Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars

9-Jul-23 10:31

ChatGPT let me introduce you American Express

Maybe I am a bit too classic, but... why the heck would I need that?

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.

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:16

Re: Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars

9-Jul-23 9:16

Computerworld[^]:
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

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:30

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned employees not to ‘build a gold toilet’

9-Jul-23 10:30

Kent Sharkey wrote:
to learn cloud dev and forgot were still running

If the company pays... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey9-Jul-23 9:16

Re: Microsoft CFO Amy Hood warned employees not to ‘build a gold toilet’

9-Jul-23 9:16

CNBC[^]:
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

Nelek9-Jul-23 10:29

Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

9-Jul-23 10:29

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 Big Grin | :-D

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-23 10:16

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

6-Jul-23 10:16

Ars Technica[^]:
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.

Nelek6-Jul-23 12:52

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

6-Jul-23 12:52

What's better / worse, Pest or Cholera?

M.D.V.

BillWoodruff7-Jul-23 6:29

Re: Threads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns

7-Jul-23 6:29

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

Kent Sharkey7-Jul-23 7:34

SemanticDiff now available for GitHub

7-Jul-23 7:34

Weeelllll, slow tech news day?

(I usually ignore the wars, wildfires, epidemics, political kerfuffles, etc. that fill "real" news)

TTFN - Kent

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-23 10:01

Re: SemanticDiff now available for GitHub

6-Jul-23 10:01

Semantic Diff[^]:
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.

MarkTJohnson7-Jul-23 4:16

MarkTJohnson

7-Jul-23 4:16

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.

How do tech professionals actually spend their work time?

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-23 10:01

Re: How do tech professionals actually spend their work time?

6-Jul-23 10:01

Dice Insights[^]:
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

Nelek6-Jul-23 12:11

Re: How do tech professionals actually spend their work time?

6-Jul-23 12:11

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Reading articles ~~about how they spend their time~~ and Kent's comments in the insider, of course

FTFY

M.D.V.

rnbergren7-Jul-23 6:10

rnbergren

7-Jul-23 6:10

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

GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-23 9:31

Re: GPT-4 API general availability and deprecation of older models in the Completions API

6-Jul-23 9:31

Open AI[^]:
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!

Nelek6-Jul-23 12:09