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If you were about to start playing a game of online poker, you might want to think again. Humankind has just been beaten at yet another game, this time Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker. This is a milestone moment for artificial intelligence (AI). At least we're still masters of "Go Fish"
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Thought to have lived 540 million years ago, the discovery of Saccorhytus coronarious fossils sheds light on the early stages of evolution The origin of management?
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This helps demonstrate how *unlikely* it is that there are other intelligent civilizations out there in the galaxy.
Life is known to have existed for about 3 billion years on Earth, but only in the last few million did it become truly intelligent. And then only by chance.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When considering the estimated number of galaxies and Earth-like planets within those galaxies I'd rather take the bet there's an intelligent civilization out there somewhere. More or less intelligent than humans I can't say. Within our galaxy alone it's somewhere in the range of 1-40 billion planets depending on if you count red dwarf stars.
These[^] links[^] give some data and estimated numbers.
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Somewhere between 1 planet and 40 billion planets? That's quite a wide error margin. 
"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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It's closer to 1 billion if only counting sun-like stars; closer to 40 billion if you count other stars which are not necessarily sun-like but still have goldilocks zones such as red dwarf stars 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: but only in the last few million did it become truly intelligent. And then only by chance.
Are you sure about it? I would say we are still quite dumb.
Einstein already told it: Only two things are infinite... the universe and human stupidity. And about the first one I am not 100% sure
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: I would say we are still quite dumb
Speak for yourself! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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"We" = I plus 7,5kkk+ other people...
So yes... I am speaking for myself (too) 
M.D.V.
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That would be nothing but a huge anus and mouth.
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You should really move this to the Soapb...oops... sorry, for a moment there I thought this was political. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: The origin of management?
Definitely, and I suspect car salesmen and auto mechanics.
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A controversial programme that could have seen persistent content-pirates have their internet access cut off, has been stopped in the US. To the Torrents!
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Quote: The programme demonstrated that real progress is possible when content creators, internet innovators and consumer advocates come together in a collaborative and consensus-driven process
Ah, that last bit explains it:
"when content creators, [anyone] and [anyone else] come together in a collaborative and consensus-driven process"
People who think they're above everyone else don't come together in collaborative and consensus-driven processes with anyone else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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JDK 9 is now feature complete, and the general availability date for Java 9 Standard Edition has been announced as July 27th 2017. Battleship turned, full speed ahead
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"fix the bugs that need to be fixed and understand why we're not going to fix some bugs that perhaps ought to be fixed."
I must be getting old. Used to be, the goal was to have no known bugs when we shipped a product. Funny Sad how that's changed over the years. And the "well, software has gotten a lot more complex" is a BS excuse IMO. Programmers have simply gotten lazier.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Sad how that's changed over the years. And the "well, software has gotten a lot more complex" is a BS excuse IMO. Programmers have simply gotten lazier.
Agree!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Programmers have simply gotten lazier.
I was too lazy to bother reading the link.... so um yeah... I gotta agree with this.
Jeremy Falcon
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Microsoft docet: whrn a bug is well known since a certain amount of time fixing it will break compatibility with tons of programs that make expilict usage of said bug. Label it as "feature" and "by design".
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"Go ahead, make my day"
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Time to disable the bloody annoying java updater service for a few months, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Called Delegated Recovery, Facebook engineers created a protocol that allows one online service to vouch for a user on another website. I was originally so shocked that the answer was, "login to Facebook"
Better than entering you mother's maiden name, I guess.
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Bob has an account on Facebook and GitHub. What ? Bob is no longer on CP ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I wouldn't trust either of them.
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Problem is... idiocy is very contagious... I bet this will spread very fast 
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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