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Wouldn't it need to heat up first before you put sh*t in?
I always have to preheat the oven, or she be cranky.
Who does a Wellington from umpteem miles away and starting at room temp? How long has that meat been sitting there at room temp anyway?
No. No. People would die. You can't have an oven where people are supposed to leave chicken for two days to turn it on over the internet. No.
No?
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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It might kill 1/5 of the planet.
Proceed?
[X] YES
[ ] No
Aight, go ahead with chicken in them remote controlled ovens; you deserve a bit of luxury!!
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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My oven isn't connected to internet (unless it has a secret connection - I doubt that it has). Yet it isn't completely dumb. E.g. it insist knowing the baking time before starting. After the time has run out and the alarm has sounded, it turns off the heat. If I have fallen asleep, not hearing the alarm, I might wake up to a dark brown and rather crispy pizza, but not a coal black one, and my house has not been set on fire. That smartness I welcome.
Usually, I heat the oven before baking. I don't need any remote control for that: If I turn on the 'Fast preheat' option, it reaches its maximum temperature (300°C/572°F) in about nine minutes. It usually takes me more time to prepare what I put into the oven. (Besides, I rarely need it that hot!). I don't need it any faster.
I was working for a company making Bluetooth SoC chips that went into the craziest products. We had an exhibit of some of them in our reception hall; among them a rice cooker. We never found out how a rice cooker could make use of a Bluetooth chip. The internet ads from the company making them said something about internet access to recipes, but we never learned how the rice cooker would interpret the recipes it could retrieve.
Another product in the exhibit, we did find out how works: A Bluetooth-equipped fork. It comes with a knife, at USD 99.95 for the pair, but the knife has no BT. The fork has an accelerometer, and if the application in the chip registers that you lift the fork up to your mouth with shorter intervals than considered healthy, a report is sent (here is where Bluetooth comes in) to you smartphone, sounding a buzzer to warn you to eat more slowly.
I can manage without that kind of smartness. In fact, the great majority of the chips we sold went into things that could hardly be said to improve the world. Or save it. Unless you consider a buzzer in your pocket telling you to eat more slowly to be contribution to save the world.
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The agency claims the infiltration has thwarted over $130 million in ransom demands. Are they going to ransom the criminals back to the gang?
One down, way too many to go
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Sadly, they didn't arrest a soul. They'll be back at it before you can say "Kevin Mitnick".
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A British man who planned to have a "robot lawyer" help a defendant fight a traffic ticket has dropped the effort after receiving threats of possible prosecution and jail time. "Why won't sharks attack lawyers?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Why won't sharks attack lawyers?" probably because they don't want to get an indigestion ... poor sharks
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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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Professional Courtesy
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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We have a winner!
TTFN - Kent
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Yet another interest group that uses the government to prevent competition.
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Did you ever hear the word "compiler magic" or "syntactic sugar"? Probably yes and therefore we want to dissect what this "magic" really is! Get down, make code
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By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner. +/- never
Basing it on "the ability of an AI to translate text" would be enough to make a human translator giggle. Or, per Google Translate (after a few cycles): "One based on “YI text translation ability” is enough to make a person cry."
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"We've started some experiments to combine the advantages of Razor Pages, Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly all into one thing." Has it got patches on the elbows?
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The EU’s proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which aims to “bolster cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware and software products,” could have severe unintended consequences for open source software, according to leaders in the open source community. A government proposing legislation with unforeseen side-effects? Never happens!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Never happens! I thought it was more like:
Only the days starting with "T", that is tuesday, thursday, today, tomorrow...
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You forgot Thaturday and Thunday...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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EU should die in a fire.
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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Don't beat around the bush, get to the point!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I have a two word example for the open source advocates: Equifax Breach
This breach occurred because Equifax had no clue to the amount of non-secure open source in their systems, nor did they have the tools needed to ensure they knew what components had been updated for security. This isn't an unsolvable problem, but it is one that needs to be solved. If it takes EU legislation to force the open source community to solve it then so be it.
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In my utopian world, people would just behave ethically and none of this would ever be a concern. I doubt such an alternate universe exists in all the infinite alternate universes. Not to mention, the phrase "all the infinite universes" is a non-sequitur. How can something infinite be represented with the world "all"?
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Microsoft has offered a workaround of sorts for Windows 10 and 11 users who've noticed their Start menu is suddenly unresponsive and that some applications won't open or work correctly. Play a different Rolling Stones song?
I thought I had read a few people here had this problem
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Quote: Microsoft has a suggestion Put the icons / shortcuts in the desktop and don't use the start menu?
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Switch to Linux?
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To get to the WSL you might need the start menu if you don't have the shortcut in the desktop
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Microsoft is working on a reimagining of the Edge web browser, codenamed "Phoenix," that is designed to better differentiate Microsoft Edge from the rest of the browser competition with a fresh new UI that's consistent with Windows 11, unique productivity features and deeper integration with Windows. They do know that the phoenix dies in fire first, right?
"One such feature is the updated UI with rounded tabs and other elements designed to make the browser look more like a native Windows 11 app. " <-- of course
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