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Quote: deep, deep hole in the ground
What does that remind me of? Oh, yes, life! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh, dynamic wallpaper!
Everthing old is new again...
Active Desktop - Wikipedia
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So a Win8 tablet, but with a hinge in the middle. I predict this will work just as well as it did 7.5 years ago. 
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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But did Microsoft successfully deliver the features fans wanted ? Closed: works as designed
"The first feature is emoji, kaomoji and symbols, which Windows Insiders from around the world wanted easier ways to type. "
That's definitely the most important feature I was looking for in Windows as well. (good grief)
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Lemme guess: 93% of people in the insider program joined because of ads on twitter and fb.
They should be talking to businesses, not people who use computers as extensions of their phones.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
They should be talking to businesses, not people who use computers as extensions of their phones.
Or at least "hear" the ones (business / professionals) that did join and tried to help them with real interesting / needed / important reports
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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You mean the same businesses that are paying $hundreds/pc because they're so risk adverse they haven't upgraded off of W7 yet. Getting some IT people in large businesses to test it would be a good idea; but there's too much pointy hair in the way.
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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[^] Quote: Today 75 percent of the Earth’s land surface has been considerably altered by humans. From 1980 to 2000, 100 million hectares of tropical forest were razed to make room for cattle ranching, palm oil plantations, and more. These impacts are accelerating. Rising sea levels from climate change will make whole cities and countries unrecognizable.
As an archaeologist, this all feels very urgent to me in a way that it didn’t just a few decades ago. This mapping project must happen now, before the Earth changes even more dramatically and we lose much of our shared ecological and cultural patrimony.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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How long until Earth's core solidifies? - Earth Science Stack Exchange[^]
Quote: Verhoogen gives 5000 K as the core temperature now, and a 250 K cooling since the formation of the Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago. If it really does cool at that rate (55 degrees per billion years), it would take something like 91 billion years to cool to 0 Kelvin.
So basically never.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's my joke; DON'T PANIC, the world will end (in 5 billion years)!
..and problems occur before 0K, but that's not going to be relevant for a long time.
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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There's plenty of earlier events which will stop biological processes.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: So basically never.
Speak for yourself. I eat my veggies. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Huh, my ex-wife took much less time to become cold inside. 
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: 55 degrees per billion years
Global warming will slow down that rate.
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Not only did it physically hurt to hear, but it also made me realize that Test Driven Development is another one of those Agile Software Practices which may seem like an urban legend. To that avail, I would like to use this article to address it’s doubters directly. What about writing tests for the tests?
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TDD is essentially what AIs do; we just don't get to see how they're doing it. So it's one of those things that computers do really well, but is not for people.
It's the same as with data and information: Computers deal with data, people deal with information. If you try to blur that line, things go wrong pretty damned quickly, because computers can't deal with information (because they don't understand it), and people can't deal with data (because their brains switch off, so you end up with systems that are heavily bogged down with dehumanising processes).
So leave data-crunching AIs to crunch data, getting results TDD-style (with humans providing information on what's correct and incorrect), and let humans do development human-style.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It'd be great to have an AI look at code and write tests for it.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Create it 
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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[thinks for several seconds]
That might actually be doable, although you'd probably want it to just give "advice" ("this requires this kind of test on these values/parameters/outputs") which could then be picked up by a procedural back end.
That would keep it slimmer, and allow for a more plug-in approach to using the output (meaning that you wouldn't have to get it absolutely dead-on b@lls accurate -- retraining trained AIs can have unpredictable results).
Next time a victim someone in the lounge asks for project ideas, bring it up.
[edit] fixed the My Cousin Vinnie quote [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 30-Jan-20 3:55am.
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Let's take a step back.
Agile is overrated.
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The Maze ransomware ring has taken extortion to new heights by publicly posting breached data on the Internet—and threatening full dumps of stolen data if the ring's "customers" don't pay for their files to be unencrypted. "Pay us because we've already dumped your data", doesn't seem like a great business model to me.
But I guess that's why I'm not rich (or a criminal).
Well, rich.
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Both are just definitions
What defines you as rich today, is not relevant tomorrow. As for criminals, you'd need a record. You don't have one, so you're not.
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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Scientists have released the highest resolution observations of the Sun ever captured, which reveal our star’s surface in unprecedented detail. What did they use for lighting?
And now I want some caramel corn
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