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I've actually heard a "tinfoil-hat" idea about this: "It's a ploy by Microsoft to make their next Tay not go completely racist within seconds."
Another alternative was that Tay was turned off a few years ago, and Zo is very strictly told "not to use those words"! So all they're measuring is their own chatbots causing less offensive language than before.
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If your username and password were part of a hack, Password Checkup will let you know. So can I: "yes" (or it will be shortly)
Not that this extension makes me nervous at all. I mean what harm could there be in giving all your user IDs and passwords to Google?
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bool Pwned = EmailAddress.EndsWith("@gmail.com");
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Screw that!
Have I Been Pwned[^] does far less evil.
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Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists that past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation. Northish. To Alaska. Go northish, the rush is on
*Directions may not apply to all.
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How is this news? We've known about it for a couple of hundred years.
National Post wrote: The shifting magnetic pole is a problem for compasses. Airplanes and boats also rely on magnetic north usually as backup navigation.
... And, even before computers existed, there were tables that were used to compensate for the drift -- which didn't even matter, back in the days of slow travel and less accurate maps -- so it hasn't ever been a problem.
Nowadays, with computer-assisted navigation, you don't even have to think about it, any more.
I'm not going to call it an article, because it's barely enough words for a decent paragraph, but whatever it is, it's a waste of web space -- and I dread to think what'll happen when the web is full.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: ... I dread to think what'll happen when the web is full.
We start purging stuff - cat videos last of all, naturally. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: We start purging stuff - cat videos last of all, naturally.
Can't we proactively* make a start now?
I could easily knock up a list of "first against the wall" sites.
* This posting includes correct usage of the word "proactive"! That's a rarity, so make the most of it!
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And what the National Post didn't say was that the FAA evaluates these changes every 5 years and will renumber the runways when they get too far off; I believe Eisenhower International in Wichita has been told they need to add 1 to all their numbers
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Yup. I've worked on airport software, and it can get really confusing when all the identifiers for the runways are one off -- e.g. runway 19 (one-niner, or they moan) is the runway 20 (two-zero) you've been working on.
It can get really confusing at airports like Schiphol, which has about 937 runways (give or take 925), three of them aligned the same way, so you have L, R, an C versions to deal with, as well, where 18R is the other end of 36L (except in the code, where the numbers are one out).
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Dice's annual tech salary study shows low unemployment and stagnant salaries with Go programmers leading the pack along with Kafka and Amazon cloud skills, though job satisfaction also counts for developers and other pros who seem increasingly willing to move on. And that's without even passing it
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I'm gobsmacked!
It's just "yet another article about statistics", but the analysis is actually intelligent, rather than the usual mindless-assumption-driven tripe.
What makes that all the more remarkable is that the source of the data is the remarkably uninsightful dice.
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I'm pretty sure that's just because 99% of people using it work for Google, and as a bay area techbrofest with more money than Croesus they pay stupidly well everywhere in the country.
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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Staying relevant in today’s ever-changing digital landscape is critical to business survival. When it comes to web and mobile application development, ability to adapt to meet consumer demands is even more imperative. Another quality idea for you to discuss
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ability to adapt to meet consumer demands is even more imperative.
Seeing what Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other big fishes do... I thought the best is to know better what the user wants than the users themselves.
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
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Another quality idea for you to discuss
Sorry, but I really haven't got it in me to sit through yet another series of "great revelations" that opens with a sentence like "Staying relevant in today’s ever-changing digital landscape is critical to business survival".
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Microsoft named Satya Nadella CEO five years ago today. His tenure has been a pragmatic one, and will likely continue along the same path for the coming five years. Pragmatism, and new icons!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Pragmatism, and new icons!
And an inverted exponential curve in quality of the product.
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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Sell cloud! Sell cloud! Sell cloud!
Bugger users; put our worst people on products!
Sell cloud!
The world wants cotton candy in the sky, and we want users' data!
Sell cloud!
Rinse and repeat for 25 years.
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modified 5-Feb-19 1:47am.
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Smartphone shipments are down, and a lot of the decline has to do with high prices and growing consumer frustration. One expert calls today's smartphone market a 'mess.' I'm pretty sure 1900 was a worse year for smartphone shipments
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You got that right. You would think people would be clamoring for these high priced tech gadgets. People back in 1900 didn't have these devices and now they're all dead. We have them and we're alive, so one can properly deduce that smartphones must be the lifeblood of all human nature. This is why I got into programming. Logic is my strong suit.
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How is it that no-one seems to know the law of diminishing returns?
Smartphones are in a "settling" phase, now. The period where smartphones were a new and inventive gimmick are over, and the bulk of people has come to the conclusion that phones aren't going to get much better, so are keeping them until they run out of capacity (either in processing power or storage), so they ain't buying a new one every three weeks, any more -- most sales are for new users and breakage replacements.
Just watch: in a year's time ms will finally realise that it should have stuck with actually improving the desktop/laptop OS, rather than turn it into a phone OS in an attempt to float on the smartphone bubble, because new desktops and laptops will always sell, and the vast majority of people will always want to upgrade their computers as soon as they can.
One of the smartphone bubble's biggest "achievements" has been the almost total ruin of the ms OS and products, as it floundered its way into (and almost immediately back out of) the bubble.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: he vast majority of people will always want to upgrade their computers as soon as they can.
i haven't bought a new PC in five years - two phones ago. and i when i got it, i named it 'Fin', because i assume it's the last PC i'll even need to buy.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm pretty sure 1900 was a worse year for smartphone shipments
Not so, it was positively vintage. No 'phones shipped with malware or bloatware; no 'phones shipped with propriety chargers; no 'phones arriving late or broken ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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