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Nvidia used its CES "special address" today to tease the company's top-of-the-line RTX 3090 Ti GPU alongside other GPUs and a completely new class of "dual format" gaming monitor aimed at esports pros. Aaaaaand they're sold out
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Niiiiiice!
All your pixels belong to us now!
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OpenJDK proposals would introduce value objects, primitive objects, and unify basic primitives with objects, so that all Java values will be objects. Is it a good idea to use a name for a place where the dead go as a code name?
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And you have to die in battle to get in! It was ignominious for a Viking to die in bed, just like an old cow in the hay.
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I didn’t bring that part up as I didn’t think they deserved credit for the battle part.
TTFN - Kent
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C# says hello!
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How SAGE jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
Yeah, false quote, but I can't help but re-use it. Sorry.
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A most interesting article and a truly impressive system for the time (late 50s). The description of its active-standby configuration resembles a system that I worked on but which was designed 20 years later. Maybe our designers knew about this system.
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Great article and read the comments, especially the one about the Safeguard radar software.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, other comments noted that Soviet ICBMs made the system obsolete almost as soon as it came online, and that the British playing the role of Soviets during war games got a lot of bombers through. A remarkable system but, sadly, a white elephant.
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The Windows Developer team wanted to celebrate the New Year by tweeting some software code to its followers. Unfortunately, the code doesn’t work. And this despite the incredibly basic nature of the code. Mental note: Never ship code after New Year's cocktails
"Let he without sin..."
Plus, where's the unit test tweet?
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I wonder if the developer who tweeted that code is still employed as a developer at MS...
/ravi
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Looking on how things are going lately, I would not bet on it...
On the other hand, even if he was fired, I suppose there still are plenty of possible candidates for such situations in there...
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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On the other hand, this mistake is very iconic. They must be on the UI team.
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Never feed them after New Year's midnight.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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It’s the second time in a row that Python has been crowned the TIOBE Programming Language of the Year. If it's unable to fulfill it's duties, it will be replace by the runner-up: CSS
Yes, that pick was intentional to make more fun of TIOBE.
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Personally, I am excited to see Fortran surge to 19th place and pass Perl
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Made me look. And it's true!
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Way back in history, when Fortran IV was The Standard Fortran and those labeling their compilers Fortran V was not sure what was to be added; compatibility was rather shaky. Work on a new "Fortran 77" standard was started. Proposals for extension was gathered by a standard committee, and presented to the professional community for comments.
One of the great gurus of the time, Tony Hoare, made a walkthrough of a number of the wildest extension proposals, and dryly remarked "I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran."
When I came across some Fortran 2011 software, it immediately made me think of Hoare's comment. At first I refused to believe that it was supposed to be at all related to the good old Fortran IV I learned in school. It was an all new language. Lots of new concepts that were completely unknown in the Fortran IV/V days. Lots of Fortran IV mechanisms removed from the language. Hoare was right: The language is called Fortran, but it looks like something completely different.
So there is no reason to be surprised that a language called Fortran fills a position on the top 20 list. It is a misunderstanding to think that it has anything to do with Fortran IV.
That would be to think that USB 1.x has any significant resemblance to USB 2.x except for the plugs, or that USB 2.x has any resemblance to USB 3.x. I was really surprised to learn that USB 3.x actually is incorporated in USB4, not as a legacy, outdated, parallel operation solution the way 2.x is handled, but fully recognized a first class citizen of USB4.
Or to think that the original, thick coax, bus topology with bayonet plugs "Ethernet" has any resemblance to the twisted pair, star topology, RJ45 plugs "Ethernet" of today. Or to any of the handful intermediate technologies also called "Ethernet".
Over the years, I have lots of times been "impressed" by how cleverly IT guys have disguised a new and mostly incompatible technology to look like some old and well established technology, just so that the new technology can be sold under the old name and all the old customers will accept it because the name makes it appear familiar and friendly.
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That explains things. I've never looked at modern Fortran, even though it was the first language I learned back in 1970.
I had a great manager, and one of his favorite lines was "Same lady, new dress." But it doesn't sound like they've tried to pull that stunt.
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Wasn’t it Tony Hoare who said, “Algol 60 is an improvement over all its successors”?
How true!
😂😂😂
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trønderen wrote: That would be to think that USB 1.x has any significant resemblance to USB 2.x except for the plugs, or that USB 2.x has any resemblance to USB 3.x. I was really surprised to learn that USB 3.x actually is incorporated in USB4, not as a legacy, outdated, parallel operation solution the way 2.x is handled, but fully recognized a first class citizen of USB4.
I'm assuming they did that for the same reason that they incorporated 3.0 into 3.1 and both 3.0 and 3.1 into 3.2. It lets their members scumbag marketing people call a port whose functionality is unchanged from the initial 3.0 release and runs at the original 5gbps speed as "USB 4.0" instead of "USB 3.0".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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A team of scientists in Israel built a “Fish Operated Vehicle” and taught six goldfish to drive on land. That explains the traffic in {insert your town here}
ba dum tish
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So is this a driving school or a school of fish? and if they want to expand the program...is it scaleable? I hope wasting taxpayer dollars on a program like this makes them feel gillty.
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Looks like we're all gonna be on the hook for bad puns for quite a while...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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