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Following along on that theme, you can be pretty sure - no, make that pretty damn sure- that it's not full of parts labeled "made in China".
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I just saw a notice regarding a recall on a certain very modern vehicle to update faulty software that was introduced in the first recall. We can initiate a software fix on a spacecraft on the edge of the solar system, but getting an update for the truck requires a trip to the garage. OTOH, I'm not sure I'd like my vehicle to receive an update/fix without my consent...still, I could see it being initiated from an email/website/app at least.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It's not the update that kills ya it's the reboot after!
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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An alien craft pulled it into their dock hall and then fixed it with the eventual release
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Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked - BBC News[^]Quote: Khoros is a marketing platform that businesses can use to manage their social media communications. Typically these platforms manage or have access to the passwords and login details of their customers.
What was rule 3 of security, again?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What was rule 3 of security, again?
"Don't use FarceBook, Twatter, or Instagranny"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's rule 0.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Please provide a link to OurMine's GoFundMe account. 
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Yes! I'd give 'em a couple of quid, too!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Could be somebody forgot their Post-It note.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I finished the other book [^] and it really was fantastic, but since it is only about 230 pages it did go fast and didn't cover quite as much as I wanted.
Also, I already started forgetting the things I read. I will go back and take notes, but I also wanted to read another but slightly more in depth. Not so easy to find.
I've been looking around and I thought I was going to read either:
1) Algorithms in a Nutshell: A Practical Guide 2nd 2016 (O'Reilly): Heineman, Pollice, Stanley Selkow[^]
However, I read the free introductory sample and they just jump right in and are not real clear.
Then I thought I'd read:
2) Algorithms 2011 (4th Edition): Sedgewick, Wayne[^]
I've been seeing that Sedgewick book for at least 20 years. I remember the old C++ edition and I've never been able to get far into it. I decided to try again and I read the long sample.
This book was so focused on every little detail of Java that it just burned me out on it.
I want someone to begin at the beginning of Algorithmic Thinking and go on from there. That's what the first (Pragmatic) book did.
This One
Well, I found another. It's longer than the Pragmatic one (goes into more depth, covers more topics) and is by a great author Rod Stephens:
Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms Using Python and C#: Rod Stephens: 2nd ed. May 2019[^]
This has been very recently updated and uses C# and Python for examples (versus the Ruby  ) from the Pragmatic one.
So far I'm enjoying this one as much as the Pragmatic one and looks to be even better.
This is definitely step two on the way to algorithm learning.
Have you read it?
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No but i really should. A lot of what I learned was a trial by fire while making parsers and lexers (one of the reasons i like them is they use things like finite automata and push down automata and a lot of different styles of data structures)
The rest i've either picked up as i went or on the internet via various websites like geeks4geeks or the occasional video.
I have no idea who this man is, but he makes everything from complex data structure tutorials to advanced stuff like parsing and stuff beyond mere mortals like compiling tutorials.
LL(k) parsing - tutorialspoint[^]
He produces for TutorialsPoint and if you find him in your google search and you're okay with heavy indian accented english he's a great resource, IMO.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I have no idea who this man is, but he makes everything from complex data structure tutorials to advanced stuff like parsing and stuff beyond mere mortals like compiling tutorials.
LL(k) parsing - tutorialspoint[^]
Interesting...and that is some very deep technical stuff.
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Yeah, but he's actually helped me over a couple parsing hurdles. The man seems to know everything. 
I'd be a bit intimidated working with him, I think - not that I'd hold it against him.
Real programmers use butterflies
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new record for highest temperature: 18.3C / 64.94F [^]
PETA, in collaboration with Greta Thunberg's YSMC "You Stole My Childhood" group, has started a fundraiser for a rescue mission for penguins with heat prostration: geodesic shelters will be erected all along the coastal areas where penguins congregate; they will have special solar-powered high-frequency sound emitters tuned to the pitch known to repel walruses and seals, but, for male penguins, said pitch has been shown to function as an aphrodisiac.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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A record readout for one weather station.
The average for the continent is still well below what most people would consider comfortable (heck, bearable) without a winter jacket, boots and gloves. Inland, it's still one of the coldest places on Earth, where temperatures below -60C are not uncommon.
Is the east coast still accumulating snow and ice faster than the west coast is melting?
(I may have east/west reversed, but my point stands)
Not being a denier. Just observing they still have better snowmobiling weather than we do here near Ottawa.
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You deny, then, that penguins are suffering ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Did I even mention anything about penguins?
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Penguins are quite essential in the discussion.
You may of course want to run another dialog where penguins are kept away from anybody's attention.
Or you may demand that in this thread with several participants, those that follow up your statement strictly limit themselves to whatever is on your mind.
If that principle is consistently followed, that no poster should bring in (or bring back) anything not referred to by the previous poster, the majority of threads would dwindle away almost instantly.
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dandy72 wrote: Did I even mention anything about penguins?
Now, you admit you are not even aware of penguins !
That is shocking, but, it is a first step to recovery, and I suggest you attend your local penguin consciousness raising twelve-step program to start the long and difficult process of rehabilipenguin.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Penguins aren't even all that tasty, so I can't bring myself to care too much about them...
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BillWoodruff wrote: You deny, then, that penguins are suffering ?
Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.
Do you question the sworn testimony of Penguin whisperers, then ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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