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"heads-down coding is a commodity"; only if you're talking about sh*t code. Quality code is a vanishing thing.
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A team of researchers with the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine has conducted experiments involving implanting electrodes into the brains of human volunteers to see if doing so might improve memory recall. Will this help me to remember not to get wires shoved into my brain?
It does make me wonder if it would be possible using non-wire means though. Magnets or summut.
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Cool. One of the people involved in this project is an acquaintance of mine.
I knew he was working on this and had been expecting results 'soon' earlier in the year; but I hadn't heard he'd published yet.
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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The first was to use the implant to listen for and record electrical activity in the brain while the volunteers engaged in memory exercises. The second part involved mimicking the signals that had been recorded in the first part
So, I immediately see several new applications:
1) Even if you have forgotten your password, your brain can now be stimulated to remember it.
2) Authentication by brain electrical pattern
3) "Dial a memory" - how does this work in Python? What are all those obscure docker command line arguments? What's my mistress' name again?
And of course the inevitable negative applications:
1) Upon entering your place of work, all memories unrelated to work will be suppressed.
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In a keynote at the SecTor security conference, Bruce Schneier makes a case for more regulatory oversight for software and the Internet of Things Or: 'A well-regulated thing being necessary to the security of a internet-connected refrigerator'
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The new study from the Brookings Institution used government data on work tasks to track how use of digital tools changed in a wide range of occupations between 2002 and 2016. Because even the robots don't want to mess with those macros?
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The dominant theme of C# 7.2 centers on improving expressiveness around working with structs by reference. "The man who lives the span, he is something."
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Wow. I'm so excited, my struct is becoming referenced.
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This is cool, and will be a good tool in the box.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Has anyone written up a text explanation? Outside of GUI designer tools I almost never find dev videos a useful medium of information exchange.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Has anyone written up a text explanation?
That was my first thought too when I clicked on the link - oh geez, a freakin' video. I watched the first 7 minutes, skipped forward, got the idea.
Apparently (from that link):
In the December 15 issue of the MSDN Magazine, Stephen Toub will go into even more detail on Span and how to use it.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Dan Neely wrote: Has anyone written up a text explanation?
That was my first thought too when I clicked on the link - oh geez, a freakin' video. I watched the first 7 minutes, skipped forward, got the idea.
Apparently (from that link):
In the December 15 issue of the MSDN Magazine, Stephen Toub will go into even more detail on Span and how to use it.
@Kent-Sharkey Update your calendar, I'll be expecting the article in the next days insider.
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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Aw, I thought you folk didn't like me posting MSDN Magazine anymore
Will do. I know a guy that will let me know the instant it's live.
TTFN - Kent
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MSDN mag has solid content.
When I grumble about what you post it's because you went with low quality clickbait site content to get the total up on a slow news day.
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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In many cases, Google will display estimated salary ranges plucked from multiple sources (including Glassdoor, LinkedIn and PayScale) whether or not the listing itself mentions pay. If a position represents a big raise, you'll know very quickly. Is that including tips?
Yeah, US-only (for now, I hope)
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On November 16th, between 8PM and 10PM Eastern, SpaceX is sending a secret payload called "Zuma" beyond our atmosphere. Launching that 'beverage' into space is for the best
Oh wait, that was Zima.
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Another piece of Microsoft's 'Open Mind Studio' falls into place: A new extension enabling developers to use AI services from inside Visual Studio. To make up for the missing NI behind the keyboard?
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My first project will be a programming assistant floating about in your VS and commenting on your code and what you should do next. His default message will be: "My first guess, your code sucks!" Not to be derivative, but I will call him: Snippy (official name: Snippit - Visual Studio Assistent).
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
modified 15-Nov-17 14:26pm.
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And it's already more useful than Clippy
TTFN - Kent
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True, but let's be honest.. even newly created empty project is.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Smart K8 wrote: My first project will be a programming assistant floating about in your VS and commenting on your code and what you should do next. His default message will be: "My first guess, your code sucks!" Not to be derivative, but I will call him: Snippy (official name: Snippit - Visual Studio Assistent).
Prototype over here[^]
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Nice, looks about right.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Microsoft continues to build best all-in-one dev ops platform for mobile development. If Johnny programmed off a bridge, would you do it too?
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Isn't VS Code just Atom with a few bells and Microsoftisms? (Too lazy this morning to do a search) That would explain the synchrony.
TTFN - Kent
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