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Interesting it mentions Lucene but not the obvious inspiration which is a product called Solr.
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MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other problematic terms. So people will have to train the AI by hand again
Hi, Tay
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Twenty-five years on from the date the famous “.mp3” filename was chosen, we take a look back at how it came to be, and why it took over the world. As a gift, may I suggest a new audio format?
I was thinking of going with 'Because some llamas deserve it', but that might be too obscure and/or not appropriate?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that might be too obscure
It's only been seven years since we last whipped the llama's ass. 
"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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Front-end developers will soon have a new PowerToys tool to help quickly identify the color of images on screen. Well, that's it. Sorry, Linux, game over
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Source code from exposed repositories of dozens of companies across various fields of activity (tech, finance, retail, food, eCommerce, manufacturing) is publicly available as a result of misconfigurations in their infrastructure. Does this count as 'open-source'? (Or just 'opened source'?)
"Kottmann believes there are thousands of companies that expose proprietary code by failing to properly secure SonarQube installations."
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We’d assume at this point that every smartphone user knows that their touchscreen is one of the nastiest devices they own. Coming soon: headphones that don't need a head
Or keyboards that don't use keys?
Powercords without power?
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the current world climate with the coronavirus pandemic leading to illnesses that could potentially kill people Ah, to be young and dumb. If it wasn't for that darned coronavirus, we'd all live forever. And heaven forbid you touch anyone with your filthy fingers!
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But...
touchscreen and not touch
is always false!
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Oxymoron level ninja... 
M.D.V. 
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Are they calling it a don'ttouchscreen?
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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Meh, powercords without power are passé. I've got a couple of boxes of 'em if you'd like one.
Power without the cords on the other-hand.. SIGN ME UP!
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July 17 was “World Emoji Day,” and so the online learning site Codecademy found a fun way to celebrate. 
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Looks really cool, but I wonder if this can compete with other established languages such as Malbolge, Brainfuck and Whitespace.
I might use it in my next project, in favor of LOLCODE.
Most of my code is currently written in Whitespace, but best tool for the job and all that 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Most of my code is currently written in Whitespace, but best tool for the job and all that
Totally evil
I do hope you're printing all your source code off for long-term storage though.
TTFN - Kent
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Scientists successfully stored 'Wizard of Oz' into DNA, and this yellow brick road could lead to the future of a data storage. It's hard to get a decent framerate with polymerase though
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I think words like "virus", "memory corruption" and similar will get to a new level...
Popular mechanics wrote: DNA is uniquely future-proof... because we are made of it
What can go wrong? 
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I'm pretty sure DNA based organisms are the epitome of planned obsolescence.
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The design doc documents the high level implementation strategy and key design decisions with emphasis on the trade-offs that were considered during those decisions. I think that I shall never see; a design doc as lovely as a tree
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The writer forgot the sections:
How long with this be in beta
When will the product be cancelled
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And...
how many data will get "saved" from the few people that try to use it
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If you’ve ever wanted to build a real and working Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft, now is the time. But does it run... oh wait, it does
Not sure about Crysis, but they already did that joke
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This is kind of similar to many IoT crap things...
Only because you can, does it mean you should? 
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Garmin’s fitness wearables remain disconnected after almost a day And now no one knows where they are
modified 26-Jul-20 15:53pm.
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This one is really puzzling. For the last 4 days I've been unable to automatically upload my rides to Strava (which has a licence to connect to Garmin's APIs) and I keep wondering "what's taking them?".
There servers were compromised. Databases and server files encrypted. All a big mess. And yet, I'm fairly sure they still control their DNS and they, I hope, can still do clean deploys of their codebase and database restores of their (offsite?) backups.
And yet they still aren't up. So what's missing? Are their backups also compromised? Have they lost access to their DNS? Or lost access to the code that runs their systems itself? It's an odd one and I'm sure the post-mortem will make for interesting reading for all those in DevOps.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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