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It's relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion. They let people use it?
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There's some sort of weird bias going on since Skype was always sh*t.
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That's true, but it's even shittier since Microshyte got ahold of it.
#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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Cortana’s new boss Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Cortana Javier Soltero, admitted that Microsoft missed the boat when it came to personal digital assistants and smart speakers. Well, that's never happened before
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UCLA biologists report they have transferred a memory from one marine snail to another, creating an artificial memory, by injecting RNA from one to another. 4 out of 5 snails agree: tail shocks are bad (even without memory transfer)
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"JavaScript fatigue" is a well known concept (which also brought a lot of good) sired by the explosion of the JS community in the latest years but I would like to open a discussion about the rest of the software technologies as well. Or just 'X Fatigue article fatigue?'
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I think he got a bad case of article writing fatigue, there.
"I've written three paragraphs already! What more does the world want from me? Leave me alone! I'm tired."
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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In a Twitter world, that’s War & Peace.
TTFN - Kent
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Researchers at Musk-backed OpenAI propose a new way to tell if an AI is making the right decisions, and they released an online game to demonstrate the theory. 'Be it resolved that the meatbags should be eliminated'
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Ugly bags of mostly water!
#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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When Microsoft decided to reimagine its web development platform ASP.NET, they decided that having it tied to IIS might not be such a great idea. To some definition of 'Simplicity'
I was tempted to go with, "Shut up, OWIN", but I wasn't sure how many would get that - or care enough to get that.
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With coding applications constantly expanding, will the ability to write code be the literacy of the future? Rise of the Planet of the Code Monkeys
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What kind of world do these people envisage where everyone has to navigate their way through it by writing code? Is it one where code gets deleted on execution?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Depends on who or what's executing!
#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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When a crystallographer treated prime numbers as a system of particles, the resulting diffraction pattern created a new view of existing conjectures in number theory. For your prime time viewing enjoyment
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Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price of its 2 TB plan from $19.99/month to $9.99/month (and dropping the $9.99/month 1 TB plan). It’s also rebranding its storage service as ‘Google One.’ Just in case you need something to bind you in the darkness
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The flaws can expose emails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat." Whoever came up with the name efail, I salute you
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On November 30, 2016, around 100,000 people all over the world logged online and played a video game. Together, they surely would have frustrated Albert Einstein. They couldn't beat his high score on Yahtzee though
(Was trying for a dice-related video game. Blanked.)
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Updates are easily the biggest problem facing the Android ecosystem, and Google is working hard to fix that. "Once in a blue moon" is 'regular', isn't it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google will soon require OEMs to roll out ‘regular’ regular Android security 'security' patches 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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std::variant is a library addition in C++17 for sum types, and std::visit is one of the ways to process the values in a std::variant. Because every language needs a variant type
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for safety's sake, when the var is is captured by an auto , does the compiler throw a std::elephant_you exception?
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In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert proposed a list of 23 math problems that would change the world. Some have been solved. Others remain. DARPA attempted to update the list a few years back. Here are the highlights. In case you need something to keep you occupied for your next coffee break
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Google’s Project Zero has targetted Microsoft yet again and this time Edge is at fault. I'm sure they have a recommendation for an alternative
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