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They should read: Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl[^]
maybe they learn a thing or two? 
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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Thanks to the rise of hybrid workplaces and data-driven businesses, a question that is getting a lot of attention is whether tools for monitoring the workplace’s productivity are either necessary or effective. "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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Tell the bosses proposing these measures that they need to flagellate themselves for many hours a day and many months before the proposal will be considered. The employees get to specify the tools of flagellation.
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Cattle prods? (Puleeezze  )
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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One "word":
..i.
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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If you can't trust the people you hire, you doin' it wrong
Unpaid overtime, learning new frameworks as they are released.. and you paying a "manager" more, just to "monitor" what I do? 
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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A hamster in Germany is redefining "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" author Burton Malkiel's belief that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a stock ticker list in the newspaper could do just as good as a human investment professional. Is it taking clients?
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A new index fund - HAMDX?
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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Seems to be somewhat more rational than the group-mind of the market...
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GitHub Copilot, described as an "AI pair programmer," debuted this year with a splash, amazing developers with its ability to supply chunks of code when a user is typing in Visual Studio Code and even generate whole applications solely through typed commands. Then they came for the other AI and I did nothing, as I was waiting for the AI-AI cage match
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Almost 90% of employees would take a pay cut to use the platform they prefer, while 62% of them will choose Apple when they can, Jamf-sponsored survey claims. PC/GEOS or GTEO!
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Their survey was done with people working marketing etc., not with people working in tech.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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To reduce the amount of using directives boilerplate in .NET C# project templates, namespaces are implicitly included by utilizing the global using feature introduced in C# 10. It's all fun and games until you have the third File object
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Rust is often touted as a competitive language to C++, providing memory-safe functionality at compile-time, but without the use of a garbage collector as in other languages like Java or Go, thus enabling runtime determinism, low latency, and high throughput, as in C++. And does it ever sleep?
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It's not even the first time this month Beijing's done so, let alone the first time ever, yet word of the reiterated crackdown sent coin prices tumbling, which may have been the ultimate goal. If you enjoy something, do it more than once
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It sounds as though the four space tourists on SpaceX’s historic Inspiration4 flight last week had a bit of a smelly mishap. You know it's bad when the...stuff...hits the rocket engine
"We still don’t know how the faulty suction fan ended up affecting the crew’s three day trip. " Oh, my.
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Perhaps the saying should be, "It's not space toilet science."
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Quote: had a bit of a smelly mishap.
The solution is simple - put on the space suits, open that fancy 180 degree dome, vent everything into the vacuum of space, repressurize.
And hope that the frozen turds don't collide with something important! 
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It probably wouldn't get rid of the biggest turd...
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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Roger-That Houston.
Yep, that's exactly what I said. We've been damaged in a collision in the rearward portion of the ship.
No.. Literally, not figuratively.
Yes. That's what I said - the sh1t has hit the fan. 
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Inspired by the way trees like maples disperse their seeds using little more than a stiff breeze, researchers developed a range of tiny flying microchips, the smallest one hardly bigger than a grain of sand. It's not COVID, I'm just allergic to surveillance chips
More a glider than a flyer, but at that size they could probably stay in the air for a while.
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In related news, scientists in a competing lab build the world's smallest bug-zapper.
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 dystopian possibilities are endless.
What's the betting that this has already been done. 
I wonder if one could design a device to detect this sort of thing (fruit fly and mosquito disambiguation a prerequisite, of course).
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New research reveals that organizations are not choosing the best options for cloud cost optimization and not making use of multi-cloud deployment capabilities. Come to The Cloud, they say. Save a lot of money, they say.
I wonder how much of that is idle resources that they've forgotten to shut down.
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How?
Several months ago, out of curiosity, I tried pricing out a fairly straightforward cloud service. Even after a ridiculous amount of research, I was stumped with half the options.
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