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dandy72 wrote:
Ok, anything called the "history" channel that talks about aliens needs to be blocked from the TV.
I had no idea it had gotten that bad.
It has. There is very little that resembles history any more.
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So...the History channel nowadays has as much to do with history as Fox News is "fair and balanced"...?
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They'll probably never actually know whether or not you can code or not anyway.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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...makes it necessary for them to do what machines can't, which is to be adaptable, critical thinkers who can lead and communicate well
Given the youngun's goming out of the mill these days those aren't "soft skills," for what I've seen lately those are definite "non skills" if not "unlikely to ever have skills."
...if they can't click on something on their phone that will do it for them it's not going to happen.
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Which automatically implies that machines can code...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: implies that machines can code
and so starts the Robot Revolution...
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Clearly they need to collaborate and communicate on their code. I got an Nginx "bad gateway" error. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Thought I would see how easy (or not) it is to create one of these things... feedback welcome.
Clear dad ends high-speed vehicles without me (11)
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It works - though I'd doubt the description of "trains" as "High-speed vehicles"!
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Haha, yeah I did hesitate on that bit but the other options didn't sound right
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Believe it or not, trains are really fast - dangerously so. That's why we have a 20mph speed limit for them in the UK.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest!
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Clear - Transparent
Dad - parent
high speed vehicles - trains
me - I
without I - trans
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Transparent-ly it was too easy... 
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Not really - I solved Griffs in 5 mins today. They do generally get solved within ten.
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Withstood being worn away (9)
And if it's not solved today, pkfox gets to do it tomorrow, since he set last Fridays and it'll be my third win in a row...
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Weathered
Withstood - weathered
worn away - weathered
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And you are up tomorrow!
I liked that one!
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Yeah it basically means polar opposites - I hadn't noticed that before.
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It's an auto-antonym or contranym - I just like the whole idea of a word that also means its own opposite!
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Sometimes they're also known as Janus words or, if you want to be really obscure, enantionyms.
It's amazing how many examples there are in English - how did we ever manage to learn this language?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Quote: English - how did we ever manage to learn this language?
I don't think we every stop, it changes so often and the abuse it gets put through, spelling is a challange...
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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