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GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. GitHub: it's not just for merge conflicts anymore
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it's not just for merge conflicts anymore merge them? I thought it was producing them
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My favorite mistake to make when I'm in a hurry is to think that I have to build new features the sloppiest way possible. Yet, we do
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I know some people that sloppy would be an improvement...
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Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who publicly claimed that the company’s LaMDA conversational artificial intelligence is sentient, has been fired, according to the Big Technology newsletter, which spoke to Lemoine. Is the AI going to take his job?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is the AI going to take his job? I think the real question is... will the AI take his job with a tear or with a smile?
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In a rapidly changing world, what can tech companies offer the talented of the future? Not as much as they used to. How ya going to keep them down in the shared office space, now that they've seen their house?
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To be honest... I don't want a career in a big company. I just want a job with something to do that I don't dislike with a fair to good pay and nice colleagues.
Executive / Manager path is definitively not for me.
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So.. big companies have had record profits of late.. but they can't afford to pay their employee an attractive wage?
I call bullshit!
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The unmanned mission will test NASA's deep space exploration systems, ensuring the agency is ready to send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a woman on the moon and returning her safely to the Earth.
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So SpaceX's Starship orbital test will be in September. Got it...
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Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official Everyone knows the correct response when losing is to flip the board
Unless the robot uprising is just going to have fewer guns than predicted?
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At least it was only a broken finger... a Wookie would have wrested his arms away from him
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In Russia Chess break you.
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Microsoft warned that starting with this week's optional preview updates, temporary mitigation provided one year ago to address Windows Server printing issues on non-compliant devices will be removed, potentially breaking printing. Spoiler alert! (I know many really want to guess and wager about what will break with the next round of updates)
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Another reason to not install the preview updates. However, if an enterprise hasn't mitigated for Printnightmare at this point I guess they really are going for the paperless office.
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The latest update brings several recently added features including improvements to IOPS performance, fix for a File Explorer bug, a new option to update Windows 11 at the startup, and lots more. "Never stop, never stop, never stop"
"You make a grown man cry" if you break something during boot up.
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As long as it really is an option...
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Having Windows update to the current version immediately during the OOBE is actually useful. It's absolutely appalling how old some Windows installs are when you unbox the machine. Even Microsoft's Surface line has this issue.
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More often than not, 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3. "Math is hard. Let's go shopping"
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All those examples, yet none from the One True Language: Cobol. Pretty shoddy reporting!
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Most likely because Cobol traditionally doesn't use floating point, so it is outside the scope of the article. Nowadays, you can use floating point with Cobol (according to Wikipedia: Since the 2002 revision), but traditionally, it was all decimal, either as BCD or scaled integer.
Quite a few times, I have had to explain the very idea of BCD to youngsters: They have a university degree in computer science; yet they have never heard about it. Usually, they have a hard time understanding how a computer can do arithmetic on BCD values, and find it hard to trust me when I tell that in the old days, a number of CPU architectures had machine instructions operating directly on BCD.
I believe that several old Cobol compilers never used BCD, but scaled integers. What appeared to you as, say, US dollars with two decimals, was internally treated as integer cents; the decimal point between the dollars and cents were inserted in the output process, but never seen at the internal level.
Maybe the article author could have mentioned: If we stray away from floating point, ... Well, he didn't but limited himself to what the headline says. I wouldn't call that 'shoddy reporting'.
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trønderen wrote: find it hard to trust me when I tell that in the old days, a number of CPU architectures had machine instructions operating directly on BCD.
Not to nit-pick, but:
- The x86 family still has instructions that operate on BCD - AAA, AAS, DAA, DAS, AAM, AAD. These aren't available in Long (64-bit) Mode, IIRC.
- The x87 coprocessor (now part of the x86 processor) still includes the FBLD and FBSTP instructions for loading and storing BCD values. These were made more as aids to binary-decimal conversion than as processing instructions - no BCD arithmetic operation is supported. These instructions are available in Long Mode.
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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This is very useful for finance, less useful for scientific and engineering. But then, I suppose that IBM has targeted the z14 at the financial sector.
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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