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You've just finished installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on your Windows 10 computer and feel pleased to see your favorite Linux distro icon pinned to your taskbar. You click to open a shell session and think, "OK, what can I do with it?". Because it is The Year of Linux (on Windows)
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Google is gradually rolling these changes out in a personalized way, so that Chrome learns user preferences of which sites should and should not be blocked. This won't make the cats happy
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Speaking at an AI conference, Rahimi charged that machine learning algorithms, in which computers learn through trial and error, have become a form of "alchemy." They're doing a good job of turning press releases into gold
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Whether you’re doing freelance work full-time or tackling a side project, deciding on an hourly rate is tough. CodeMentorX’s new ‘rate finder‘ tool can help you decide what to charge, even down to your location and experience level. "THIS IS YOUR GOD"
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Google is reportedly helping young tech entrepreneur Michael Sayman build and launch a social gaming startup. Surprisingly, they haven't cancelled it yet
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Surprisingly, they haven't cancelled it yet
They have to release it and have people actually using it before they can cancel it
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So true! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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As the team announced at the company’s F8 developer conference today, the ELF OpenGo bot has now achieved professional status after winning all 14 games it played against a group of top 30 human Go players recently. At least we can still beat the computers at the game of "off switch"
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I developed an AI bot that takes me fishing. I call him Row bot. He can also setup chairs in a horizontal line.
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Quote: Facebook’s AI Research group has also developed a StarCraft bot that can handle the often chaotic environment of that game. The company plans to open-source this bot, too.
So, my only question is what's going to be higher. The number of people using the bot to cheat in competitive play, or the number of people accusing anyone who beats them of using the bot to cheat? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A couple of months ago, I launched version 2 of Pwned Passwords. This is a collection of over half a billion passwords which have previously appeared in data breaches and the intention is that they're used as a black list And 100% of terrible passwords are terrible
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I guess I have to change my password to horrible.
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While the update process has gone smoothly for most, it appears that there is at least one major post-update bug affecting numerous users. "Mission accomplished!"
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Google's spying module is incompatible with Microsoft's? 
Ad astra - both ways!
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YouTube acts funny as well.
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The toolkit was first released over a year and a half ago with 26 different features. Since then, we’ve added five new packages over nine new releases, each one adding new controls, helpers, services, extensions, object models and more – most coming from the community directly. "And that made all the difference"
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One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. So I can finally remember the syntax for the options on the FOR command
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Finally, a new DOS-manual.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Microsoft wants to banish 'inconvenient, insecure, and expensive' passwords. So what's going to replace them? I think I've seen this movie before
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I don't mind as long as they still support using passwords if I want to. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My Surface Book already uses facial recognition to sign in. It seems to work fairly weell. I recognizes me with or without glasses,even when I wear a ball cap, but doesn't seem to recognize anyone else, even my son or brother, who actually appear to be similar tome for genetic reasons.It's very convenient, except when you want to allow someone else to use the mschine.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Quote: Singh said that Microsoft is also working on a private preview for shared PCs to allow users to log on using FIDO2 Security keys, allowing staff to carry their credentials with them and authenticate to any Azure AD-joined Windows 10 shared PC that's part of their organisation.
How well do roaming profiles work these days?
The last time I talked with a sysadmin about them a few years ago, he ultimately decided not to implement them on the (server 2012r2/win7) network he was standing up for our project because they apparently still had some messy edge case failures he didn't want to clean up when 99% of the time we always logged into the same PC every day anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Let's hope he's not spending the rest of eternity on a C5.
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