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Vivi Chellappa wrote: We might as well make his life on Mars useful to others!
There's many a true word spoken in jest...
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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Researchers in UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi's lab have enabled, for the first time, counting a stationary seated crowd using WiFi signals, and without relying on people to carry a device. "You can count on me like one, two, three"
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"Like sands through the hourglass, such are the days of wifi."
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Tech Explore: It has a variety of applications, including smart energy management, controlling the crowd size during a pandemic, business planning, and security, and creating the Orwellian hellscape of a pervasive surveillance state.
FTFY
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
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An unsecured database containing over 61 million records related to wearable technology and fitness services was left exposed online. Oh, you say you did your 10,000 steps today?
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They discovered the Strava Global Heatmap[^]? It's already embarrassed the US military.
To be fair, we have found it useful in bush firefighting, revealing where the unmapped walking tracks are (and, more importantly, where the mapped ones don't exist on the ground).
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Python could soon take first place in one more programming language popularity ranking. Everyone who's anyone is doing all their work in it*
* Where:
'everyone' is 'everyone looking up how to do things with it'
'doing all their work' is 'learning how to do things with it'
The fact that "The top 20 languages also included Classic Visual Basic, Groovy, Ruby, Go, Swift, MATLAB, Fortran, R, Perl, and Delphi. " should really let people know of the quality of these lists.
"Why did you bother posting this, Kent et al?" Because it's a slow news day, and I needed to vent.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and I needed to vent.
"Vent" - that's a great name for a new programming language! The adVent of a new programming paradigm where we reinVent the old, break the conVention, and give you something new to Vent about, but it will be an adVenture! Venture forth, and eVentually we'll be in the list of 20 top languages!
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David Fowler has been quietly creating an amazing piece of documentation for Minimal APIs in .NET 6. And that's all I'm going to say about that
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It looks like Python and some flavor of one of the modules for a simple server.
I guess they plagiarized the idea. Since "Microsoft is now a 'Visionary Sponsor' of the Python Software Foundation" I shouldn't be so harsh. 
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if not for those bloody white space, python is minimalist, so, personally, I rejoice that C# copy some good idea from around here!
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Mozilla has quietly made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows recently. Try it before they undefeat it
Probably later today
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Steve Wozniak has started a company called Privateer Space. If all the other billionaires wanted to go into space, would you do it too?
Although, "Privateer Space" is the best name so far.
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They should intercept satellites and hold them for ransom payable in Bitcoin.
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Yar! That be an excellent suggestion!
TTFN - Kent
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Probably not too hard to build. Docking capability, a big mouth, and a Faraday cage for a stomach.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yar! That be an excellent suggestion!
About a week early for that kind of talk!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So they built a Total Perspective Vortex.
Douglas Adams did so years ago, and only required a piece of cake! 
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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This is something so important that it must immediately be stored in a blockchain somewhere!  And then sold as an NFT!
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Give it a little time and they'll be running a full simulation inside the simulation.
It's turtles simulations, all the way down. 
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Quote: The cosmos contains everything we can observe, so astronomers can't study multiple universes to see how our Universe ticks.
Whaaaatttt????
So Marvel is lying to us?  
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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Compilers and build systems are slowly starting to support C++20 modules. Because they finally managed to ship them
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Flexible materials trap heat in the devices, making bit-flipping more efficient. If I stretch it can I store more stuff?
There are a lot of cat videos out there.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If I stretch it can I store more stuff?
Another possibility... if you bend it enough, you can get two from one.
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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