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While some sat out on April Fools’, a number of big tech companies embraced the opportunity to waste time this way. For those that like this kind of thing
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Hnn?
Wha..?
Oh, sorry.
I fell asleep while I was reading it.
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According to the most recent Dice Salary Survey, the average tech pro made $93,244 in 2018, a very slight 0.6 percent increase from the year before. For many Americans, that’s a lot of money—but many tech pros don’t consider their annual pay nearly enough. "Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything? Gimme some money, gimme some money"
Sorry about the US-centric poll results.
On a related note? $93K?!?!
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In my previous job, if I were to base my pay on my productivity, factoring in incompetent management, archaic "fire call" processes to get even read access to QA (not even production!) servers, etc., I would say I was greatly overpaid. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: On a related note? $93K?!?!
The "$" sign is a typo.
It really means that 93KV is what's required to wake some of us up.
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*That* makes more sense. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Many tech pros think their pay doesn’t match their value
Seeing what is being asked in the Q&A I agree totally... the pay of many "developers" doesn't match their value
Just in the opposite way as the article suggests.
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?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What’s new is Warp, a VPN built by Cloudflare that attempts to reroute your traffic to make it even quicker and also encrypts it where possible for added security and privacy. "It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right"
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WTF do people do with their phones that they need a VPN for?
If you're really desperate to tick the "I've got a VPN on my phone!" box, get something like NoRoot Firewall[^].
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Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot Beware of small children sabotaging intersections?
Yeah, not very good. But small kids and stickers seem to be going together these days.
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Damn those Chinese hackers, demanding that our autonomous autos should at least not kill us too quickly!
I mean, give us at least a fortnight to look cool, take selfies, etc.
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These are machine learning equivalent of optical illusions. All it proves is that neural networks are subject to them, as well.
We expect machinery to be "immune" to such things. However, if we train a simplified model of the brain using similar techniques to human "learning", why would you expect anything different?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Mark Zuckerberg has posted an editorial floating four ideas for regulating the internet, including approaches that could apply worldwide. In related news, the fox has some great ideas for securing your hen house
At first I thought it was a bad attempt at a April Fool's joke, but he published it on the 30th.
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"Do as I say, not as I do".
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If anyone from a large company or government entity suggests "regulating" the internet, it is MOST ASSUREDLY NOT for the users' benefit. Regulating means tracking, and tracking means oppression.
RESIST!
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Oh, they'll just pull the usual trick of making it look like they're going to add controls that will be so Stalinesque that Stalin himself wouldn't have dreamed of implementing them, then, at the last minute, "concede" that they were wrong, and instead implement the almost-Stalinesque rules that they wanted in the first place.
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0. Close FB...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Best April Fools so far? 
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Super Lloyd wrote: Best April Fools so far?
Maybe it would fool a web developer. The maximum addressable 32 bit virtual address in Windows is at 0x7FFFFFFF and the maximum 32 bit virtual address in Linux is configurable but always below 0xB0000000.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: The maximum addressable 32 bit virtual address in Windows is at 0x7FFFFFFF
That's only true in user mode...
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: That's only true in user mode...
Yes Daniel, and while we are being pedantic I also missed the /3GB switch extending and the increaseuserva BCD setting allowing Windows to extend the ceiling to 0xBFFFFFFF.
Happy April Fools Day!
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Ha ha. A Full April fool's joke to you.
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I have to say that I'm all in favour.
I'd far rather my glass were a fullpinter than a nullpinter
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Hilarious!
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