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I'm looking right now at a perfectly good (very good, actually) phone that no longer works because it got a little too wet and the battery shorted out.
As it is, it's a piece of junk. If I could change the battery (for less than the price of a new phone), it would be perfectly OK.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If I could change the battery
Lobby against the battery makers. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Are you saying EU citizens do NOT have the right to repair their phone right now?
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No, and neither do Americans. The law is to stop device manufacturers implementing policies and designs that make it impossible to repair devices. It is in the manufacturer's best interests that you buy new rather than repair so they take steps to make sure that happens. The EU is trying to make those steps illegal. So things like stopping the manufacturer of replacement parts after a few years, making devices where you can't replace the battery, stopping old devices from receiving software updates, degrading the performance of old phones automatically. It's to tackle those kinds of things.
Don't worry though...they'll still sell versions of the phones that can't be repaired in America 
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Vulnerability would have allowed attackers to take over computers running the Avast antivirus. What does an antivirus need with a JavaScript engine?
$('virus').on('detect', function() { play("ringtone.mp4"); delete(); });
Maybe run some animation?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What does an antivirus need with a JavaScript engine?
Have you met any developers?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What does an antivirus need with a JavaScript engine?
I picture a condom packaged among a bunch of needles.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Amount of iron in the atmosphere is the difference between night and day. 'Iron rain' was not a charting hit for Prince
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Amount of iron in the atmosphere is the difference between night and day.
Who has activated the big electro-magnet in the satellit, it was supposed to be a secret weapon... was that you, mini-me? 
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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Wow!
These astronomers are sooo clever!
They can tell us absolutely everything about these exoplanets without having received even received one, single photon of light from them!
I mean, we already knew that they're total geniuses who can take absolutely zero data, and make a frieze of what exoplanets look like, what they're composed of, etc, but now it turns out that they can even predict the weather on exoplanets! People study for years to learn to predict Earth's weather, but cant get it as brilliantly and completely correct as astronomers can for exoplanets!
I'm totally gobsmacked by these utter geniuses, who can't tell us a damned thing about our own solar system without getting 70% of it wrong, despite the planet-sized piles of data they've got to work with, but can tell us absolutely everything about exoplanets!
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We used to say: A messziről jött ember azt mond amit akar (The man who comes from afar says what he wants)... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: A messziről jött ember azt mond amit akar (The man who comes from afar says what he wants)
It sounds much better in Hungarian!
(Although I might be slightly biased by the cute woman's voice in the reader app.)
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Microsoft’s Power Apps, Oracle’s Visual Builder, and other tools let you create software without needing to code I think I'll come up with no-no-code software development
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Kent Sharkey wrote: let you create software without needing to code
That explains a lot...
M.D.V.
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The thing is that it's pointless.
The hardest thing about coding isn't writing the code -- that only requires learning (or looking up) syntax.
The hard part is the logic. Taking away the code doesn't take that away, so unless all programs in the future are going to be single-operation, logic-not-required affairs, you're still going to need developers.
And most of those developers will spend as much time working on the code as using this "plug-in" cazzabubbolo.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The hard part is the logic.
Exactly. Even if natural language understanding was good enough to write the code given the spec, the problem would be making the spec complete and unambiguous. The whining would then be about how difficult it is to write a spec.
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40-50 years ago, programmers were rejoicing: High level programming languages - great! We don't need to comment our code any more!
Today: Quanting computing - great! Now we can solve problems that are ambiguously specified!
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Was quantum computing ever touted for ambiguous problems? Problems that take exponential time, sure. But wby not ambiguous problems?! There will be lots of results, and users can just pick the ones that they like! Perfect for economic forecasting.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The thing is that it's pointless.
On the contrary, no-code and low-code environments are becoming much bigger. I have to deal with a low-code environment because it was already in use when I got hired. And it is an enterprise app running the business. They are not pointless at all.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think I'll come up with no-no-code
I've been writing that for years -- at least, that's what everyone else calls it.
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modified 12-Mar-20 1:49am.
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From now on, all our apps should be done in MIT Scratch.
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We'll still need developers to write the no-code software.
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While speaking on a panel recently, Landing AI founder and Google Brain cofounder Andrew Ng described a moment when he read the OECD’s AI ethics principles to an engineer, and the engineer told him the words give no instruction on how he should change how he does his job. When you need ethics done right, call Microsoft
and I just rebuilt that sarcasm meter...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: the engineer told him the words give no instruction on how he should change how he does his job
Oh, that's classic!
Look, Mr. Ng, you don't need a story for developers; what you need is a bullet point list!
I'll start you off:
DO NOT:
• Murder people with:
• Guns
• Knives
• Garottes
• Sticks
• Those cool Batman/ninja star things
• Spoons
• Coffee mugs
• Atlases
• Hairpieces
• Anything else
OK, you can carry on from there.
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In this final article, we’ll look at static local functions, indices and ranges, and using declarations. Because we needed another use for 'using' (and friends)
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