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The principle of "You aren't going to need it!" found in Extreme Programming can be particularly valuable for keeping your programming workflows simple. You are going to need this (YAGNI)
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Don't get me wrong: The command line will always be important to sysadmins. But in many ways, it's being superseded by DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. Didn't we just have an item that the commandline was coming back?
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Sid Meier's Civilization, significantly refined in sequels by Brian Reynolds and others, is a true classic of computer gaming. And now you can play the elaborate historical strategy game as an Excel spreadsheet. Conquer the world while you conquer your budget
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The BBC is teaming up with some of the biggest names in tech to coordinate a defense against the online disinformation campaigns endemic to some of their platforms Couldn’t think of a better group of folks to fix this
Broke my sarcasm with that one
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Giants, experts in censorship and manipulation fights misinformation. And surprisingly just before USA presidential campaign if I am not mistaken. Communists regime also was fighting misinformation and propaganda. Orwell was a visionary...
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Agreed - almost hilarious that they (BBC, Facebook, etc) don't see the irony in what they are trying to do when they shovel the same shill all the time. The MSM has totally destroyed it's credibility in amazing efforts of blatant bias. Same for Twitter, FB, and on. Now they are trying to find someway to re-gain their legitimacy, because their checkbooks are running dry...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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NativeLibrary is a new class in .NET Core 3.0 for interacting with native libraries. In this article, we’ll take a closer look. Because sometimes, you really need to insert Tab A into Slot B (cross platform)
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I'm not encouraged by the fact they cannot count...
"NativeLibrary is a static class with only a couple of methods"!
void Free(IntPtr handle)
IntPtr GetExport(IntPtr handle, String name)
IntPtr Load(String libraryPath)
IntPtr Load(String libraryName, Assembly, DllImportSearchPath?)
void SetDllImportResolver(Assembly, DllImportResolver)
IntPtr TryGetExport(IntPtr handle, String name, out IntPtr address)
IntPtr TryLoad(String libraryPath, out IntPtr handle)
IntPtr TryLoad(String libraryName, Assembly, DllImportSearchPath?, out IntPtr handle)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Tide's method for protecting passwords splinters them up into tiny pieces and stores them on distributed nodes. It still doesn't protect from using the password, "123456"
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India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter circling the moon has spotted the country's lost Vikram lander on the lunar surface, but there is still no signal from the lander, according to Indian media reports. I was never good at that video game either
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150 full-time employees and interns at Microsoft have volunteered their mornings, weekends, and nights to create a Microsoft musical video. Cats, it ain't
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At the dawn of the Internet era, developers on the Windows Shell team created some nifty utilities and shared them with power users in the Windows community. A quarter-century later, PowerToys are back, and this time they're open source. In case your zones need fancying
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Ooh, shiny. 1600 nits at 120 hz.
But, I want it: [^].Quote: manages a sustained max brightness of 1,000 nits, peak brightness of 1,600 nits, and an advertised contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. As such, the display supports all major HDR standards—Dolby Vision®, Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and HDR10—and has earned the coveted DisplayHDR 1400 certification.
In terms of color accuracy, the display boasts true 10-bit color depth with support support for the DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, sRGB, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 color spaces, and ASUS’ “three-level factory color pre-calibration process” promises a Delta-E of less than 1 out of the box. The things my one good eye could do with that beauty
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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New measurement confirms 2010 finding that proton is smaller than previously thought. Pass the calipers
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Size doesn't matter.
It really doesn't, in this case; the important stuff is all about energy levels.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The goal of this challenge will be to create a substantial dataset that can be used to train models that accurately detect deepfakes and report them. In related news: McDonald's is going to combat the menace of bad hamburgers
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facebook said: Help us to make sure that our own fake videos can't be detected!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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just shutdown facebook no challenge needed
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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When it comes to facial recognition software, people trust tech companies and advertisers less than they do police, but attitudes vary based on age, race, gender, and political party, according to a Pew Research survey released today. And people think I'm mad for wearing my Groucho mask all the time
Not so much trusting the police as how little they trust Google, Facebook and the others.
13% have "never heard of facial recognition"?
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That's because the police are more likely to be incompetent with the tech, and not care much about it, whereas corporations will hire very clever people to squeeze everything they can out of it.
The police might make occasional mistakes, but the corporations won't -- when they sh1t on you, it will be all very cleverly planned, designed, and implemented, in minute detail.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A corporation may not deprive you of life or liberty. The government (the police) may.
It's interesting that people value their money more than their life and liberty, but there you have it.
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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Even the stupidest, most incompetent lawyer in the world could have AI facrec data kicked out of court if the image were not absolutely unarguably the person in question.
There is absolutely f*** all you can do to stop corporations sh1tting all over you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"The police might make occasional mistakes"
Said no black man ever.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So the police are sub-human?
OK, got it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I trust them equally.
Which is to say as far as my baseball bat or can of black spray paint can reach.
Spoiler alert I don't own a bat or spray paint.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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