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Bookmarked that great resource, thanks. I remember my team wasting many many hours mapping the cave, ca 1975, on a Interdata Fortran IV port, probably from a PDP-11 version.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've reached out to the author in the hope of educating him. Hopefully he'll respond.
(Clearly this has touched a nerve in me.)
/ravi
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 I suspect it's because ESR posted it, so somehow his anointment made it more open source than open source 
TTFN - Kent
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I can't tell if that's C or BASIC, it's sooooo baaaaad.
Marc
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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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Just how many darned developers are there in the world? All right, everyone. Count off.
I guess there's at least 12,956,173. Everyone who's anyone.
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But there's only one Marc.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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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Efforts to calculate the number of damned developers have failed to date; while it is suspected that (presumable) estimates in Hell remain a closely guarded secret.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I am not sure how many darned developers in the world there are, but I do know of a few dammed developer at work.
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I am generating a very high confidence interval that there are at least more than eight.
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Come back Next Week when Red Monk's knowledgeable team define the number of people in the world as the number of active Facebook users.
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Cryptocurrencies are booming beyond belief. Does that mean this is The Year of Blockchain
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Perhaps it's tied to the year of a blockhead. 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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A team of researchers find 8,000 bugs in pacemaker codes. "Heartbreaker, your time has come"
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That's just great.
There is somthin' really wrong with the one who like to hack a pacemaker.
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What better device to hack? Imagine a ransom attack that demands the hackee pay some Bitcoin every month or pay the highest price.
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Maybe they were just trying to leave them open to playing Doom on?  A toaster, a thermometer, a pacemaker... Logical progression, right? 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
modified 30-May-17 3:59am.
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That sounds dangerous - as the game gets more frantic, so does your heart.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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But remember, you can play Doom in God mode! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Google is testing a way to tie online ads to brick-and-mortar store purchases, a move whetting marketing appetites while fueling privacy worries. "The All-seeing Eye of Agamotto sees all"
Or maybe a Sauron joke?
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Quote: Data showing which ads are translating into real sales should mean that the relevance of ads people see online will improve as marketers abandon misaimed or ineffectively tailored messages, the analyst reasoned.
"You are going to be hit with ads for things that you might actually no longer want to buy because stalker companies can elephant off and die in an fire, so you are going to spend a lot more the same amount of money but with competitors of the ones you used to patronize until they employed scumbag advertising strategies ," Enderle predicted.
Fixed that for them.
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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In the wake of the WannaCry ransomware computer virus attack, here’s one more thing to worry about. The fingerprint identification systems that some modern laptops use to recognize users can be easily compromised with a spoofing process. Just in case you felt that giving the finger to your computer was completely secure
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ScienceAlert.com : "This Dystopian Device Warns You When AI Is Trying to Impersonate Actual Humans" [^].
But, all my friends are already virtual ...Quote: The wearable prototype device is designed to identify synthetic speech and alert the user that the voice they're listening doesn't belong to a flesh-and-blood individual. Developed as a proof of concept in just five days, the prototype makes use of a neural network powered by Google's Tensorflow machine learning software.
...While the gravest concerns envision a future dystopia where unregulated, super-powerful AIs threaten humanity's very existence, the truth is we're already entering a new, unsettling era in which machines can deceive humans by impersonating the ways we speak and look.
... As this technology gets even more sophisticated, it's becoming easier to imagine a world where soon it may be difficult or even impossible to tell when a 'person' you're talking to on the phone – or watching on TV – is or isn't a real human being.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Researchers from Bochum, Germany, and San Diego, California, say they’ve found the precise mechanisms that allowed diesel Volkswagens and Audis to engage or disengage emissions controls depending on whether the cars were being driven in a lab or driven under real-world conditions. {Company} should hire these guys to hide the bugs in {Software product}
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A series of errors resulted in the parachute being released too early It's a lander, it landed.
Or:
"Worked on my machine."
Or:
Did they install an Imperial timer, instead of a metric one?
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