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In an attempt to boost broadband competition, Canada's telecom regulator is forcing large phone companies to open their fiber networks to competitors. Smaller companies will be allowed to buy network capacity and use it to offer competing broadband plans to consumers. Would be funny if Canada responded to Bell by threatening to nationalize them.
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Sounds like a perfect opportunity for SpaceX to push StarLink in rural (and urban) Canada.
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Chamberlain Group—the owner of most of the garage door opener brands like LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Merlin, and Grifco—would like its customers to stop doing smart home things with its "myQ" smart garage door openers. I felt a great disturbance in IoT, as if millions of garage doors suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Researchers combing through some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe have found one that appears to have an actively feeding central black hole. The size of the sun already causes my brain to shut down. Everything about this is beyond contemplation.
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Kudos for not stooping to Kent's level and making the obvious "your mum" joke.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I appreciate the sentiment, but you should know the truth. If I had thought of it, and making that joke meant I could joke faster, I would have done it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Your mum’s so fat she bends space-time?
TTFN - Kent
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Doesn't everyone?
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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Floating windows feature has the most thumbs up (2.89k) in the entire VS Code history. I didn't even know I wanted it.
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Heck SQL Server Studio had that back in version 2012. Except it happens randomly and I never want it.
But will the floating window reattach to the tab bar?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: But will the floating window reattach to the tab bar?
randomly [when you don't] want it
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After more than two years of work, a patch series was posted this weekend for a "fully functional" ffmpeg multi-threaded command-line application with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines being wired up. Is it automatic or does one need to do command line parameter gymnastics?
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I love ffmpeg, but the command line gymnastics are a killer.
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey. I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
modified 7-Nov-23 18:20pm.
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Whip me, beat me, make me compute π to N digits...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sean Ewington wrote: so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done. wrong and make the systems lose performance and go to their limits anyways just because "what ofr? computers today are so powerful, that we don't need to pay attention" FTFY
M.D.V.
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But how would you fry your eggs otherwise???
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Heard somewhere that this is one of the reasons why AI became widespread. The fundamental theories of AI (neural networks, optimization methods, etc.) are several decades (or even centuries) old, it was only the computational horsepower which was missing to make it feasible. Now, with today's computational speeds, AI is a practical reality.
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One of the most highly anticipated PC games of the year Cities: Skylines 2 was released last week to a mixed reception. My impression is that gameplay and simulation-wise it seems to be a step in the right direction, and at least on paper the game seems more well-rounded in terms of features than the original was at launch. This reminds me of that guy who went digging through GTA V and found out loading is slow because of low performance for its JSON processing.
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As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown. The game of cat and mouse escalates.
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Allowing ads is a security risc for the machine. No ads on my machine until youtube accepts financial liability for the stuff it distributes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No ads on my machine Is your right to decide that
Eddy Vluggen wrote: until youtube... is their right to say "no ads? no service"
If at the end is a good decission or not... that's another topic.
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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some things with ADs is the shift of uncertainty
the long last 1 second, is so frustrating, unless this just a thing on "other" video sites
and how many, when, how long, all add to a bad uncertainty.
90s and 2000s TV growing up was fine. Its N ads, or when the station Ad comes on, the show will resume after. And at set times.
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With the release of ChatGPT one year ago, OpenAI introduced the world to the idea of an AI chatbot that can seemingly do anything. Now, the company is releasing a platform for making custom versions of ChatGPT for specific use cases — no coding required. Feels like the app store moment for ChatGPT
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Quote: The creators of GPTs won’t be able to view the chats people are having with them, and it’s unclear what high-level usage data they’ll get access to. OpenAI says it will be monitoring activity to block things like fraud, hate speech, and “adult themes.” Of course...
Same as FB, Google and Co.
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
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