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Kent Sharkey wrote: Linux exists only because of a happy accident
Did he hit his head against something? That could explain some things   
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 Definitely would have been a better blurb. It does explain things. Maybe he had an iPhone?
TTFN - Kent
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Most children ... oh you mean the OS.
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As cellphones got smarter, they also became marginally more dangerous to the clumsy, easily distracted humans holding them, according to new research. D'oh!
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Yes, but does this include the people who were hit over the heads by the people who stole their phones?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As cellphones got smarter, they also became marginally more dangerous to the clumsy, easily distracted humans holding them, according to new resear
I would call that "smartural" selection...
Some of them should hit their heads even harder
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Fiber optic cables are quite possibly the unsung heroes of the modern digital world. Coming soon from IKEA: 'Kabelar' (with hex key for connecting to router)
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Too bad there wasn't some way to connect this story with the Carpenter Compiler story down a couple.
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That magnificently clever carpentry compiler would probably cut the wires the wrong way, across the grain.
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Wasmtime, the WebAssembly runtime from the Bytecode Alliance, recently added an early preview of an API for .NET Core Now your cross-platform code can be cross-platform!
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Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving credible reports that the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories. You're not paranoid if everyone is actually watching you
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Once a project is designed, the tool creates optimized fabrication instructions based on the materials and equipment a user has available. Sadly it does not compile to a completed bookshelf
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it probably got trained doing the instructions for ikea... 
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Okay, but how do I screw in those preprocessor directives?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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It's a bit of a way from the first of April, so I'm assuming the coding took longer than they anticipated.
Their cutting lists for the box[^] (they call it a "flowerpot") are ridiculously wasteful of effort and materials.
The expert got it spot on -- cut straight across the grain, then do a few simple rips. Easy work, and you've got a decent bit of wood left over for something else (rather than a load of little bits that are harder to store, and will eventually be junked).
And take a close look at their pictured examples[^]:
• The rear legs of the chair will break as soon as someone sits on it.
• The floor rails of the computer desk will survive just long enough for you to finish connecting all the cables, then they'll break, and the desk will tip over backward.
• The same goes for the drawing table -- those legs with the grain going the wrong way won't last five minutes, with someone leaning on it.
May the Lord preserve us from idiot students who've been led to believe they're clever.
[edit] I forgot to add links [/edit]
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modified 5-Dec-19 13:40pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And take a close look at their pictured examples[^]:
• The rear legs of the chair will break as soon as someone sits on it.
• The floor rails of the computer desk will survive just long enough for you to finish connecting all the cables, then they'll break, and the desk will tip over backward.
• The same goes for the drawing table -- those legs with the grain going the wrong way won't last five minutes, with someone leaning on it.
Look at how they rendered the woodgrain in the boards for the bookcase in those cutting instructions (or anywhere else they were cutting 2x2 or 2x4's in their slide deck). They're wrong by 90*; whoever did their graphics just always did vertical wood grain.
Everywhere they had something that looked like it should be cut from a 2x4/etc instead of plywood or a slab the source board they show is the right shape for a 2x4/etc, so I think they just fubarred the graphics.
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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Dan Neely wrote: I think they just fubarred the graphics
... In a graphics app. Not a great start.
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The just released 'the Dirty Truth' report from antibacterial LED tech creators Vital Vio found the average smartphone is regularly exposed to strep, E. coli, and fecal staph-strains. Is it lunch time yet?
Yes, a marketing study.
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Why else would you go to the bathroom? 
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Even worse, some people put their phones down on their desks, which multiple studies have shown to be far more unsanitary than toilets.
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I learned about how toilet bactaria gets all over things years ago.
So I de-cloth completely before going into the bathroom. Do my business then take a full shower. Leave into the decontamination room for secondary clean, before leaving the bathroom to put cloths back on.
Then once a month any used cloths are burned. Can't trust washing machines nowadays.
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Are geo-location services that much better nowadays?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Words matter. They affect the way we think about things. When something is mislabeled, or we use an inappropriate metaphor, it can lead to lots of misconceptions down the road as people try to reason about it with the mental model in their head that the name invokes. Yes, please
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cheesecake and Software Engineering
Pfiuuuuu... at least they are not saying anything about bacon or coffee
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Quote: Following all the rules and best practices in software do not guarantee success of a software project any more than following all the rules of grammar will make your book successful. In fact I’ve never seen any published paper that shows any correlation between the two. Would love to read it if someone has it
I'm going to print this out and stick it on my wall.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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