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Kent Sharkey wrote: Ask 10 developers what's agile, get 12 answers
Optimist! It will be closer to zero - from the negative spectrum...
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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The Open Source Hardware Association certification could help buyers hack into and copy products Standard non-Standard
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If you aren't familiar with the popular Linux-based operating system, please know that it is the distribution of choice for the founder of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds. For those Linux fans who haven't already switched to Ubuntu, Mint, or any of the dozens of other flavours
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it is the distribution of choice for the founder of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds
I'm using Fedora since version 10 - now I would reconsider it...
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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I installed it last night. I've been using CentOS 6 at work and figured I try the Gnome 3 version of Fedora (versus the LXDE version I normally use at home [in a virtual box].)
All I can ask is; are linux users mental?
Seriously, what a hideous UI. Beyond the horrible design, the number of blatant bugs was astonishing. (When I click, "Remove" after ALL of the LibreOffice components, a) don't keep "Installed" on their logo and b) Uninstall of the other crap of LibreOffice.
Then there's the weird stuff that's missing. Like where is the user manager/user groups utility. Granted, it may be there, but I couldn't find it.
Oh, and when installing it asked if I wanted Google integration. I clicked OK and it came up with a list longer than the screen (remember, virtual box without additions) of things that it would "take over." The list would have made Microsoft blush. I clicked cancel. Still found areas where "I'm going to phone home" was still on. (Even after canceling the Google thing, I ran across a dialog box which stated that Google integration was on. Was it? Don't care. I'm deleting that install.)
BTW, for all those who complain about the Windows 10 start menu--it's still way better than whatever Gnome 3 and Unity call their horror show.
Back to LXDE.
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Whether it's a result of Brexit or they're simply sick of the weather, a new survey reveals that 56 percent of British people would like to move to the Moon. I guess the weather's better?
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I want 56% of the Brits to move to the Moon too 
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Can 56% of Californians join them?
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Why stop there?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess the weather's better?
It would certainly be more predictable... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Apple's iOS software quality is being called into question again this week, following the discovery of a five-second video that will force an iPhone to lock up and freeze. You're watching it wrong
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Serves them right for using an "it just works" iPhone *religious technology "discussion" ensues*
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You're watching it wrong
The full snark came through and I LOL'd.
+5 for real laughs 
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Use a hammer. It will take less then 5 seconds to crash it...
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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A Stanford study found that the majority of middle school students can’t tell the difference between real news and fake news. Not sure if this is real or not, but here you go
And I'm pretty certain it applies to adults as well. Keeps snopes in business, I guess.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A Stanford study found that the majority of middle school students can’t tell the difference between real news and fake news.
So, Twitter and Facebook are run by middle school students? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Critical Thinking Skills[^] - they removed them from the curriculum so they couldn't be questioned. Now they wonder. 
"Critical", that sounds hurtful to others. 
(Non)Information rushes in to fill the vacuum (the students' heads).
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The problem is that with Critical thinking you quickly realize that many of your teachers are dummies.
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Is that really surprising for middle school students? I'm more concerned about the adults who can't tell the difference
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My Grammar/Literature/History professor in middle school told us many times that the reason these and other classical subjects (Lating, Ancient Greek...) are taught is because they teach how to think critically.
Except that she fell hard on not one but two big frauds in those years and she defended it steadfastly while I, at the age of 12, was perfectly aware that they were frauds.
One is the in-famous book of Misha Defonseca[^], which I caught immediately as a poorly written fiction book while she believed each and every word. It ws year 2001, before the author confessed.
The other one was a fraud perpetrated by a subsidiary of Amnesty International which allowed to send and receive correspondence with alleged prisoners in some variable Latin American state, in order to ensure their well being. Some years later they busted the operation of forged letters... which were also re-used for other people, often with strange non-sequiturs. I smelled the stink at age 13, the professor never caught wind of it.
If these people are those who teach critical thinking...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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This is barely news in a country where nearly 70% of the population believe in a personal god and where over 40% believe in creationism.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The system mimics the brain with "neurons" that are really light waveguides cut into silicon substrates. "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"
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Any truly dramatic developments are likely years away, but it's notable that they're even on the horizon.
Now mind you, I basically just got up (see Chris, I do sleep) and read that as:
Any truly dramatic developments are likely light years away, but it's notable that they're even on the event horizon.
Marc
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