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jsc42 wrote: What is a 'dail tone'?
Isn't the Dail the lower house of the Irish parliament? Wouldn't a 'dail tone' then be a signal calling the MPs for a vote? 
(The connection to W10 is left as an exercise for the student)
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If that works as their update system... we are fu*** up.
M.D.V. 
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Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app A data type in time, saves nine (months)
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If you want type checking, why would you code in Python?
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That's what I figured - moving to a type-checked language shouldn't have been more work than trying to type-check Python.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: In the end, most of the code was manually annotated by code owners
... Whose brains were on "foggy-auto" mode from doing such a mind-numbingly boring job that there are likely to be errors, so you can't trust any of it.
Maybe they should start another project, to type-check the annotations.
... Or just use IronPython to run it in a .NET environment.
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Microsoft says that an Emotet infection was able to take down an organization's entire network by maxing out CPUs on Windows devices and bringing its Internet connection down to a crawl after one employee was tricked to open a phishing email attachment. "Me soul on fire, feeling hot, hot, hot"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Me soul on fire, feeling hot, hot, hot"
You jammin' Mon!
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Proposal to the C++ standards committee would give up backward and binary compatibility for safety and simplicity It's a good thing there isn't much old C++ code lying around
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's a good thing there isn't much old C++ code lying around
I'll clean up porting it to COBOL! 
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For .NET 5 (Preview 2 of which was released this week), we’ve invested in some significant improvements to the Regex engine. Now you have two problems
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So more people will "discover" regex?
This will have a terrible effect on my lifestyle!
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heh. I like MS's regex engine but unless they adapt it to be able to do tokenization i'll stick to my own. =)
I wonder if they did partial-DFA though. That would speed it up significantly but increase the "compilation" time. Even uncompiled startup would take a little longer, but matching would be faster
Real programmers use butterflies
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I will still practice what has been called "almost heroic avoidance" of regex. I admit, there are things it's good for validating email addresses, for instance), but I rarely have to deal with those things.
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That’s what the State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, apparently meant today, when he said at a press conference that the State needed volunteers who with “Cobalt” computer skills to help fix 40-year-old-plus unemployment insurance systems that are currently overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19-related job losses. For those who have been preparing since 1959
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You just wait, and you'll see that I was right to keep that pile of 1981 calendars, too.
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I keep record of my whole work life both digital and in paper form.
M.D.V.
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Perfect!
So when you're reborn, you won't have to learn the hard way, again!
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In my student days, around 1980, we saw job ads asking for Cobolt competence and system stimulation programming.
Lack of Cobol competence is a serious problem; I have seen several job ads the last few years asking for competence in more or less abandoned languages. An old rule says "If it works, don't fix it". The problem with Cobol systems is that they have been working for 30 or 40 years without needing any fix, so noone has kept up the competence. Wikipedia: "In 2006 and 2012, Computerworld surveys found that over 60% of organizations used COBOL (more than C++ and Visual Basic .NET) and that for half of those, COBOL was used for the majority of their internal software."
Today, graduates believe that all programming languages are more or less "C-like". In my student days, we were studying Cobol, Fortran IV, APL, Prolog, Pascal and Simula, with hand-ins in all of these - even microcode for a 2903 bit slice processor! We had introductions to Lisp and CHILL, although no hand-ins, and in our spare time we played with SNOBOL and Forth. I think students would gain from learning other problem solving methodologies than the C-style algorithmic way.
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Google says it will publish users' location data around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures, brought in to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. "While he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them."
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And they do this without so much as a "By your leave" or "Kiss my @rse" to the users whose data they publish?
How on Earth can that be permissible?
Taking my name off my work or property doesn't mean that you can publish or sell it. Quite the opposite, actually.
BTW: You must be working from home, with the same inability to maintain attention to a certain detail that I've been suffering from, because it seems that you need a reminder that today is Sunday, not Monday...
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modified 5-Apr-20 16:01pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: need a reminder that today is Sunday, not Monday...
My life is shifted off a day. Newsletters are Sunday to Thursday, so they’re ready to go out the mornings of. 
TTFN - Kent
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Well, that's good!
Sundays are bloody boring!
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I wonder, how many of the users represented in that data had the GPS deactivated.
In other words... they can say what they want, this is another proof on what they think about us.
No, no, we don't collect your data without your permission.... bollocks.
Yes, yes, we think your privacy is important... bollocks.
M.D.V.
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