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The first tests of Elon Musk's revolutionary high-speed transport system could begin soon after Hyperloop One, one of 12 companies competing to make the idea a reality, completed its test track. The radical mode of transport is being designed to hit speeds of up to 800mph
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In a fascinating example of poor timing, disk images of OS/2 2.0 pre-release level 6.605 from July/September 1991 were missing for over 25 years, only to show up literally one day after after the 25th anniversary of the OS/2 2.0 release The 6.605 pre-release fell between 6.149 and 6.167 -- and "It is not known what possessed IBM to assign it a completely out-of-sequence number."
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Sean Ewington wrote: "It is not known what possessed IBM to assign it a completely out-of-sequence number."
But it no doubt explains why it was lost.
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Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides his time between his family – he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildren – and helping U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns. *tips hat at bank clerk on way to servers* "Ma'am."
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Sounds like a job for @John-Simmons-outlaw-programmer
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No, I believe he has a hankering for the days, a few years back, when he was finally allowed to work in VB.
Now, has anyone seen where I left my bulletproof vest?
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It's 2017, but you can still experience the Internet of 1986 thanks to BBS enthusiasts. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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They worked, and they were fun.
Boards like CP work better, and are more fun.
Looking backward is OK, even good; but going backward is usually plain daft*.
* Unless, of course, the topic is cr@ppy operating systems.
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In case you haven’t had your dose of paranoia fuel today, WikiLeaks released new information concerning a CIA malware program called “Grasshopper,” that specifically targets Windows. *tin foil hat goes back on*
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Damn those Russian and Chinese hackers!
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Don't forget the ones in Africa
Ooops... Forget it, they are more scammers than hackers 
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Nelek wrote: they are more scammers than hackers
Really?
I thought they were princes among men.
At least, that's what they keep telling me.
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Research shows that the problem with interviews is worse than irrelevance: They can be harmful, undercutting the impact of other, more valuable information about interviewees. Time to try the "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" style of hiring.
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You can't trust CVs, you can't trust references, and you can't trust interviews, so the only winning move is not to play.
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From cassette tapes to blocky graphics, modern computing has taken away some things we really rather miss ... Prepare the nostalgia center of your brain -- it's about to be tickled.
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#22 owner has total control of the computer
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Great. Now I'll be mentally humming tunes from 8-bit games, all day.
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#2 When games with parallax scrolling backgrounds first happened. (ie when you moved 2 pixels left the mid background would shift 1, while the far background shifted at 4:1).
#6 The first (and only) time I heard understandable speech coming from the internal PC speaker. And that it was wasted as an installer gimic not for anything more useful. 
#7 Writing my own games is why I'm where I am today. I never did it professionally - labor conditions at US gaming companies are hellish - but my first big applications were a Tetris clone and the engine for a top scrolling shooter where I reinvented a big chunk of the abstract base class concept via function pointers (data was fixed, between object types but move/shoot/etc methods were configurable).
#18 Somethings never change
#21 Having to restart from scratch being the other half of why I'm not a game programmer. (How naive my thinking was at the time.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: the PDP-10 mainframe
Ummm... what? DEC did not make mainframes. 
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[updated]
The 36 bit PDP-10 was considered a mainframe.
The 32 bit VAX 8600 was considered a mainframe (the first in the 32 bit series?). There were others in the 32 bit world as well.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one machine or in a datacenter. And Google has built one of the most secure and robust cloud infrastructures for processing this data to make our services better. Big potential down the road?
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Which is the very same, it's just centralized in the Cloud. Machine learning actually without centralized training data has great potential of degenerating to uselessness.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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den2k88 wrote: has great potential of degenerating to uselessness.
I prefer uselessness than self conscious 
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I prefer deterministic algorithms with repeatable results to machine learning, and leave the learning part to the humans designing the algorithms.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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good point 
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