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Repairnator is a bot that identifies bugs in open source software integration and creates patches without human intervention, submitting them to the open source project's maintainers under an assumed human identity; it has succeeded in having five of its patches accepted so far. Then they came for our bugs, and I did nothing (as that was kind of nice of them)
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Scientists of AI at Google's Google Brain and DeepMind units acknowledge machine learning is falling short of human cognition and propose that using models of networks might be a way to find relations between things that allow computers to generalize more broadly about the world. No Skynet yet!
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It should read, "Scientists of AI at Google's Google Brain and DeepMind units acknowledge machine learning is falling short of anything more than simple pattern recognition and kind of sucks at that too."
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China is planning to launch its own 'artificial moon' by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Do your own, "That's no moon" item here. I'm just not that lazy 
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So they are going to unfurl a square miles wide reflective surface in an orbit of some kind? As pointed out in the comments, this is probably BS that phys.org fell for. Or the Chinese government is using it as an excuse to cover some other expenses.
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It’s time for the world to start building a canon of the most significant websites of all time I do believe they missed one
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The first one. Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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Of the thousands of plugins for the jQuery framework, one of the most popular of them harbored for at least three years an oversight in code that eluded the security community, despite public availability of tutorials that explained how it could be exploited. Then I'm sure no one exploited it
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For the first time in Windows Server history, Microsoft went straight from testing to general availability without RTMing its Windows Server 2019 release. See other article on testing
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Microsoft’s upcoming $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub has cleared another major hurdle: the EU has approved the deal after determining that there are no antitrust concerns in Microsoft buying the popular open-source software repository, via the Financial Times. They can always sue them later to get some money when they need it
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It's fair to say that the Windows 10 October 2018 Update has not been Microsoft's most successful update. "It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end"
Long, but worth it IMO. Stuff like, "There's surprisingly little time spent actually developing new code: for a Windows release, two stints of 6-8 weeks over an entire three year period."
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Even though I wasn't using Win10, the problems with the Oct update is what spurred me to move to Linux.
Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
It has one in Azure Sphere.
Kevin
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Microsoft should just stop all this Windows foolishness, and come out with it's own Linux distro.
Are you sure? Do you really want them to get deeper involved in Linux?
That would be for sure the year of the iMAC 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"The unreliable updates have been a cause for concern since shortly after Windows 10's release."
Youngster who doesn't remember "the odd service packs suck" problem with Windows NT 4.0.
More seriously, the update problem has also existed with Visual Studio. I see two problems at play; first, the release date takes on more importance than anything (which is compounded by managers reluctant to pull the plug on delaying features.)
Second, the increased dependency over-reliance on automated testing. Automated tests aren't magic; issues which can be found through automated tests require that the tests be written to find them. In turn this requires quality test engineers. There are also many issues which can only be found with use, again with quality test engineers. Regardless of how the the testing is done, the goal of the test engineer is NOT to prove a product works, but to prove it doesn't. Their job is to break the software as badly as possible.
modified 22-Oct-18 12:57pm.
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Every now and then, I’ve wondered how people view a person graduating with an engineering degree. Today's discussion topic
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Here's a guide:
"Educated": The degree "I" got.
"Trained": The degree every else got.
"Useless": The degree I actually got (and which most people get.)
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Hey, I got a "Useless" degree too - did we go to the same school?
TTFN - Kent
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You go to Columbia College Hollywood film school? I guess not then.
At least I didn't bother getting an MFA like one of my brothers.
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Liberal Arts people that go on to be baristas claiming academic superiority?
Say it ain't so. Never seen that before.
</sarcasm>
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Bachelor Common Art and Cultural Sciences (if it has a long name it has to be good, right?) and Master's Journalism here!
I've never been a barista, but I've been kicking your butt in code since 2010 
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Thank you for proving my point. 
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Meanwhile, your closing </sarcasm> element was never opened to begin with
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