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We've noticed that.
We're 55 and 56 my wife an I, both fighter pilots from the days of Novell 3.11 it's abends and forward to today. My wife was arguing bitness and the inability of 64 bit windows to run DOS programs with a tech rep from a software company. He should have known better. He also claimed that he could plop an xp image onto a new dell and it would work, My wife said not without drivers and it's likely to not boot. He changed the subject. When she got off the phone we just stared at each other for a while. I said I dunno maybe we do something else (God knows what) because it's getting to be very trying coaching up people who work for other companies that we have to deal with (web guys, email outfits etc) even in their 30s who should, but don't know #$%^! - It's always a debate too.
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In late 2016 and early 2017 we polled over 5,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem. You are here (more or less, assuming you took the survey)
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For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in -- and then played back from -- DNA in living cells. DeoxyMoviecleic Acid?
Or:
Don't download that movie, it's a virus!
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I just wonder... why?
And I know... why not?
Only because we can it doesn't mean we should
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?
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W.P.O.R.: A strange game.The only winning move is not to play.
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Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to create stunning 3D experiences in your browser. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down"
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Babylon, Oh, Babylon! 'Tis the end-of-days!
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Users now have the power to sync up anything, including photos and videos from cameras, SD cards, and USB devices, instead of their files remaining stuck in one place. Now you can save the NSA some time when they want to scan all your files
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An aspect of artificial intelligence that’s sometimes overlooked is just how good it is at creating fake audio and video that’s difficult to distinguish from reality. I'm sure it will never be used inappropriately
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure it will never be used inappropriately Of course not... it is only academical knowledge.
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?
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The lab will be located at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ, and will include a team of over 100 scientists working on AI, from areas including natural language processing, learning and perception systems. I thought they had one already?
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Online harassment is an all-too-common occurrence in the U.S., with 41 percent of adults saying they have experienced harassment online, and 66 percent of people saying they’ve seen it happen to others, according to a new Pew Research Center study. And your mama dresses you funny
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I was harassed by this company doing an on-line study of on-line harassment!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The breakdown of numbers is interesting. Offensive name calling is in the 23-27% range and stalking/threats/continued harassment, are all consistently in the 5-7% range. (Note that this counts recipients, but given the broadness of the sample, I suspect it reflects about the same percentage as perpetrators.)
There was a recent poll that found 25% of people believed that one-night-stands by people in relationships wasn't cheating.
I suspect if you make a Venn diagram of the name calling and the latter group, it's almost a complete overlap and would supports my theory that about 25% of people are genuine assholes. The smaller stalker group suggests that about 7% of people are sociopaths (and are likely almost entirely a subset of the a**hole group.)
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We programmers love to help each other… and we also like to rip each other to shreds. What gives? Present company not included, of course
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I sit confirmed
TTFN - Kent
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There are known mistakes only.
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I dont make mistakes, I make undocument, unplanned features...
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RossMW wrote: I dont make mistakes, I make undocument, unplanned features...
I presume that grammatical error was ironic then?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Don't you know he just invented a new tense: implied pluperfect
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Don't you know he just invented a new tense: implied pluperfect quasiperfect FTFY
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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Whether it's caffeinated or decaffeinated, coffee is associated with lower mortality, which suggests the association is not tied to caffeine "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
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I just skimmed it but they probably totally ignored that coffee drinkers usually have a routine. I also didn't notice anything about 1-2 pots a day
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Drink, don't bathe (or embalm).
TTFN - Kent
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