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Obligatory video (produced by Fermilab): Are time crystals real? - YouTube
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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The cookie company is taking precautions against the "Election Day Asteroid" scheduled to graze Earth on November 2. "They can’t go stale ’cause they weren’t ever fresh."
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If you want to build a long career as a software developer, you need to pay attention to those programming languages and other skills that will endure for years, if not decades. I got a good laugh out of it, so you can too
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It is a brave (or foolish) article author who predicts the death of C within 5 years. 
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I was thinking more "foolish" myself.
TTFN - Kent
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Whaddya mean I can't run Java and C# on my $2ea Atmel, Microchip and Stm32 chips?!
Guess that rules out the 3cent Padauk ones... 
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Maybe you can get an interpreted environment running on that, so you can be like the cool kids? 
I'm sure it will stroll just fine on a 3cent chip. 
TTFN - Kent
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With a kiloword of program memory and 64 bytes of ram. Ooh yeah, it'll be awesome..
Running Doom on a pocket calculator? Amateurs!
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I have yet to see a list of popular programming languages that applied a metric that is both measurable and useful for the term 'popular'.
For the polls with measurable data, the metric is suspect. As an example, the TIOBE index is based on the following:TIOBE: The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
It seems like the TIOBE index would measure the number of users for each programming language. I'm not sure how that correlates to popularity or the importance or even how much the language is used.
Useful metrics might include "which languages are most prevalent?", "which languages have the best job security?", "which languages give me the most flexibility?". Each of these attempt to answer an intangible. By the time you constrain it to a tangible and measurable result, you've lost the sense of the original question.
Software Zen: delete this;
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C, I very much doubt it.
Perl, I very much hope so.
Kevin
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Talk about failure by hyperbole.
Perl, Objective C, and Ruby are going to see severe decline due to lack of new project starts and attrition in legacy ones; but that isn't going to kill them off. Not even Objective-C which is probably the worst off.
Haskell's never been more than an academic/ivory tower language to begin with. It'll go from nothing to nothing. 
Regular C's probably the worst off. Along with C++ it suffers from not being relevant to the main growth areas in programming. Web and mobile applications are taking the majority new app starts, and are displacing existing desktop apps - when they're not rewritten as web apps using electron anyway  🙄 - but embedded/OS programming isn't going away. And it's going to take a lot more than a few years for Rust or any other newly hyped language to make a serious dent there.
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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With some micros having ram measured in mere bytes (certainly not Ks) that's simply never going to happen.
30 dollars for a thousand of em.. (Padauk PMS150C) Good luck Rust!!
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Which is why I said it would take a long time for Rust/etc to make a dent, and didn't say anything about wholesale replacement.
With sufficient toolchain support (which is going to take a while in the best case) Rust's a potential competitor in the market segment between that sort of chip and systems that are embedded linux running a web server.
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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As with any technology, you’d be foolish not to be concerned about moving your organization to Blazor. Let’s clarify what’s worth worrying about. Also: Why you shouldn’t worry. Or maybe just a sports coat? Just a button-up shirt?
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The number of reported machine identity-related cyberattacks grew by 433 percent between 2018 and 2019, according to a new report from Venafi. Don't forget to make your machines do mandatory security training
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Kent Sharkey wrote: grew by 433 percent between 2018 and 2019
So between 2019 and 2020 is going to be a 1000%?
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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Hmmm...That article is not fantastic.
It doesn't explain what a "machine identity attack" even is.
What does that even mean? Does it just mean using the name of the machine when attempting to log in? Not sure.
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Realizing the value of a company's data, hackers more and more are targeting backups to hold that data ransom. Instead of being reactive, companies must go on the offensive. "Baby, back back back it up"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Instead of being reactive, companies must go on the offensive.
And this is now different from 10 years ago... how?
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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We are happy to announce that the Typelib and ActiveX Wizards are now available in Visual Studio 2019. 1996 called...
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but they murdered the "stdafx.h"  
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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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft did its job a little too well on Tuesday, when it tried to scoop up a handful of rocks from an asteroid named Bennu more than 200 million miles from Earth. Somebody's eyes are bigger than their stomach
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At least the stones are only in the stomach... imagine it had it in the kidney 
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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This is the .NET implementation of the Functions Framework Contract… but more importantly to most readers, it’s “the way to run .NET code on Google Cloud Functions” (aka GCF). So you can get functions in your functions
OK, mostly because it's Jon Skeet (and I'm curious about this solution - no so much about the Google Cloud)
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As of this year, IoT kit makes up a third of all infected devices. Welcome to the Internet of Trouble
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