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You forgot the part about the major players owning ALL the intellectual (and non-intellectual) property, and making EVERYTHING a subscription service with prices going ever upward.
An overview was put out years ago: The Corporation
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David O'Neil wrote: You forgot the part about the major players owning ALL the intellectual (and non-intellectual) property Patents are like icebergs, there's often mountains of R&D technology underneath that was deemed unnecessary to protect.
Also... I can give first-hand testimony that one company is using an automated process similar to infinite monkey[^] to generate machine instructions, then use a battery of tests to see if it can solve equations. After bazillions of iterations if something is found it goes to a team to look at how it works. I don't think this is unusual, I was given the impression that several others have similar programs.
What I found fascinating was that almost none of the discoveries were patented. When I asked the team leaders why, I was given:
1.) Patents would require disclosing how the algorithm works.
2.) It is very unlikely others will find them anytime soon.
Some of the discoveries are massively parallel[^] and my understanding is that we think they can only be found by this type of machine process.
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What we can accomplish is amazing.
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Park the great spacecrafts of science fiction in your backyard — Santa’s sleigh included At last - Bob can come visit
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If you think that is big, look at The Ark from Halo...
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This is the year when 5G will finally matter and many people stuck without broadband will finally get some. Yes, please
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Garrett metal detectors, which are used in schools and government buildings, have security vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited. Who secures the security companies?
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merry christmas
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Vodafone has turned the first text message into a non-fungible token (NFT). Because...because...I'm sure I'll eventually figure out a reason
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Whoever wasted that amount of money is going to be so ticked when they find out that their purchase is non-refungible.
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You are the hero we need (and hopefully deserve)
TTFN - Kent
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Nah, they bought it by handing over 3 NFTs worth $50,000 each.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am going to create an NFT of your post, and start the recursive path to hell.
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‘State of Cloud Native Development’ report finds the number of developers using Kubernetes increased 67% in 12 months. Everyone's doing it, but no one can spell it
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Given these examples of extraordinarily "janky" code, it's a wonder organizations can function at all. Just put another layer of indirection on it, that should fix it
Bonus points (in my mind) for their use of 'janky'
Insert your own bad examples here:
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Think the best people you know are good? We prove they're not by finding a bunch of psychopaths.
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Microsoft has notified earlier this month a select group of Azure customers impacted by a recently discovered bug that exposed the source code of their Azure web apps since at least September 2017. Just think of it as 'pair programming' with all the hackers out there
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If you’ve ever thought, “This 4K HDR OLED TV is great, but I sure wish it tasted better when I licked it,” we may be getting closer to a world where that’s the case "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking"
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But if the oregano cartridge runs out, the entire thing stops working (even if you just want light pepper.)
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Your laptop is way more powerful than you might realize To be read the next time you want to complain how slow your laptop is
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It is not the laptop that is slow... it is the bloated software that gorge the resources...
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.
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‘Struth
TTFN - Kent
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And all that power is wasted to giggle around in FB and such...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Musk doesn’t think much of these supposedly revolutionary web trends Because if there's one thing he knows...
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Typescript is a typed superset of javascript which aims to ease the development of large javascript applications. In case you want to become that type over the holidays
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