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I did not see costs...
Quote: When the telescope was named Webb in 2002, it had a budget forecast of $1 billion to $3.5 billion for launch as early as 2010. When 2010 arrived, the launch date had moved to 2014, and estimated costs for the telescope had risen to $5.1 billion. After reviews found both the budget and the schedule to be unrealistic, in 2011, NASA reset the program with a much higher budget not to exceed $8 billion and an October 2018 launch date. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.html
Obviously, it didn't make 2018. I don't think you, Kent, or I can afford that SSD.
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Microsoft is launching a new rendition of its autonomous aircraft simulation technology, 'Project AirSim,' starting with a limited preview. Does it connect to Flight Simulator?
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In this post, I’m going to share what I learned from a people, process, product perspective. That they don't use it?
JD was one of the most amazing people I had the joy of encountering when I worked at the Fish Shoppe.
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Deepfakes are getting better at mimicking real people. Soon that's going to be a problem for everyone. If you outlaw deepfakes, only fakes will be deep
Present company included.
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Will they be able to solve captchas?
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You think we could outsource them?
TTFN - Kent
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Uh oh, I've been found out. I guess a 20 year career as a "developer/programmer" or whatever it is people on this site do wasn't all bad. Anytime you can get companies to pay you for pretending to be something that long is living the dream. As far as I'm concerned C# is a musical note, java is coffee, rust is whats eating away at my car, and python? well thats just snake oil.
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Developers need to be cautious about whom they trust on GitHub because it's easy to establish fake credibility on the platform, security vendor warns. By getting them to use GitHub?
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Excellent. I'm a champion of "roll your own".
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This. And every external component that goes in production must be vetted, and it also has to be included in the software tree - no automatic updates with every build.
Then I am now working in the same field as The Codewitch so it's not as I'll ever have the issue of over-abundance of GitHub resources. I already have to bribe, cajole, coerce and beat out the vendors for their own sample codes.
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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If you use unfettered code, you take a risk. It's not an attack; it is abusing stupidity and they have my full support.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Price rises are coming, Intel tells customers, with inflation taking the blame. So you won't be able to pay for the chips you won't be able to get
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Sixty-eight percent of IT teams’ time is spent working on tasks that do not actually contribute to key business outcomes. We should have a daily meeting about this
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sixty-eight percent of IT teams’ time is spent working on tasks that do not actually contribute to key business outcomes.
FTFY
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We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity. "But before I let that steam drill beat me down I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand"
Code assistant assists coders. News at 11.
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Next week:
Research: How GitHub Copilot dumbs down programmers so they can't solve problems that open source hasn't solved for them.
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A web-based development environment fully optimized for Salesforce development and powered by Microsoft’s Visual Studio Codespaces. More force for your sales
I don't think there are that many Salesforce devs on here, but I try to cater to everyone.
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The space agency revealed the telescope’s images of the planet Jupiter, as well as an asteroid, used as reference targets when engineering teams were calibrating the observatory’s instruments. "But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions"
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IT departments are frequently feeling the sting of buyer's remorse following big-ticket enterprise technology purchases. Hopefully you don't regret buying this newsletter
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As more workers choose to work remotely, organizations face a dilemma: do they pay remote workers the same as those living in high-cost metropolitan regions? For some companies, that conundrum is already a reality. Making the big bucks, while out feeding the ducks
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If they don't, they'll lose employees to more local companies with lower budgets but willing to invest them in their people.
Also it may or may not be illegal, since it's a discrimination based on provenience. I'm not particularly knowledegable of the US laws and Consitution though. In my country it's becoming a Sword of Damocles, since it would be very much illegal straight up to the first articles of the Constitution.
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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The future of digital everything is currently under pressure and under staffed. Maybe he could do a bootcamp or something?
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Reported on before, but this gives more details:
Quote: The safety agency found that there were 16 crashes involving a Tesla striking first responder and road maintenance vehicles. Many of these incidents had some form of intervention from the forward collision warning and/or automatic emergency braking systems, but on average, Autopilot aborted vehicle control less than 1 second prior to impact. Of those crashes, NHTSA found that driver attention warnings were issued in just two cases. - NHTSA Expands Tesla Autopilot Investigation - Consumer Reports
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What I don't get is this notion that just because is electric doesn't just automatically mean AFAIK, that you have to, or now get to, do autopilot. Why don't we have this in high end ice cars like jag who ran out of stuff to try when price was no object? I'm all for Tesla and the rockets, maybe seducing Fred and Ethel to run with autopoilot like it's gonna save them is a bad idea. Just drive.
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