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• Python Creator Guido van Rossum Asks: Is 'Worse is Better' Still True for Programming Languages?

  15-06-2025 03:49 via developers.slashdot.org
  In 1989 a computer scientist argued that more functionality in software actually lowers usability and practicality — leading to the counterintuitive proposition that "worse is better". But is that still true?
  Python's original creator Guido van Rossum addressed the question last month in a lightning talk at the annual Python Language Summit 2025.Guido started by recounting earlier periods of Python development from 35 years ago, where he used UNIX "almost exclusively" and thus "Python was
  
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• 'Ghost' Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid

  15-06-2025 01:49 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Here's a lesson for today's colleges from the Associated Press. Online classes + AI = financial aid fraud.
  "In some cases, professors discover almost no one in their class is real..."
  Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy "ghost students" — chatbots that join online classrooms and stay just long enough to collect a financial aid check... Students get locked out of the classes they need to graduate as bots push courses over their enrollment limits.And victims of i
  
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• Do Biofuels Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

  15-06-2025 00:49 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Will an expansion of biofuels increase greenhouse gas emissions, despite their purported climate benefits? That's the claim of a new report from the World Resources Institute, which has been critical of US biofuel policy in the past.
  Ars Technica has republished an article from the nonprofit, non-partisan news organization Inside Climate News, which investigates the claim. Drawing from 100 academic studies on biofuel impacts, the Institute's new report "concludes that [U.S.] ethanol policy has b
  
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