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That's the best example I've ever seen, period! 
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I have seen people swear by Bing. I can't understand why they don't swear AT Bing! I certainly did when I tried it!
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Yeah, me too.
The last time I tried it I was looking for a Final Fantasy boss.
Typed in the name of the boss, got nothing that actually related to the boss.
Did the same in Google in the first page was all about that boss.
It's ridiculous.
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Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo isn't any better from my limited uses. Google with Verbatim search is the only thing I can stand. Too much crap any other way.
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Amazon has announced the introduction of Distance Assistant, an artificial intelligence tool, that will enforce social distancing at its premises. In case you need an AI to tell you to stay away from people
I'm good. Thanks.
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As a techie, that's pretty cool 
As a person, hell to the no! 
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Is it configurable, as in can you load the hosts file with people you are happy being around?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The European Commission has formally opened two separate antitrust investigations of Apple, for its App Store and electronic payment system. The announcement comes one year after the regulatory body opened preliminary investigations of the tech giant. iMonopoly?
In what is entirely unrelated news (I'm certain), Apple says they collected USD500 billion from their app store (OK, only 30% of that is theirs)
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Boston Dynamics’ robot dog, Spot, has been put up for sale to businesses, offering a four-legged – and somewhat creepy – way to integrate a robot into the workforce. Now I just need to convince Chris I really, really need one
Hmm. There's a Python API...
“should never be used to harm or intimidate any person or animal or for any illegal or ultra-hazardous purpose.”
Dang. Nevermind then. Spoil-sports.
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Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye"
Not entirely news as they announced it years ago, but the end to our shared nightmare is coming soon.
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I'll gladly let the photographic video formats go. Either FLV is just a different wrapper for e.g. H.26x, or it is inferior to more recent standards.
But I surely loved the SWF part of it - the animations! Roughly fifteen years ago was the peak of a wave of some great animation, many of them really funny (remember "Dear P*nis"? And the SWF version of bubble wrap), some crazy (I had to pick up "Falling girl", haven't watched it for years), and some were great pedagogical tools, e.g. for showing how different peoples have had control over which areas of the Middle East through history, or a really great illustration of sizes related to each other, spanning 61 orders of magnitude, from strings (of string theory) to the entire known universe...
It is a pity that I didn't save more of those animations. They were great.
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True, those were good. It was the "let's replace our whole website with a Flash version" that got me to hate it.
TTFN - Kent
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I didn't know these - thanks for the link!
That guy has made a whole series of similar animations - search for "Alan Becker" on YouTube. Looks like a guy who knows well both the art of animation and the art of storytelling.
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A pleasure. Thank-you for reminding me of them. 
Uh-huh. Didn't want to spoil the surprise. Apparently, he still does stuff like this. 
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Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably and safely as classical computers. if (cat) { print "maybe?" }
What key on the keyboard is ℕ?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if (cat) { print "maybe?" }
I love that!
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Build approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips They made a switch out of a tenderloin?
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Duke University researchers have developed an AI tool that can turn blurry, unrecognizable pictures of people's faces into eerily convincing computer-generated portraits, in finer detail than ever before. "Enhance!"
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Quote: The system cannot be used to identify people, the researchers say: It won't turn an out-of-focus, unrecognizable photo from a security camera into a crystal clear image of a real person. Rather, it is capable of generating new faces that don't exist, but look plausibly real.
Perfect for identifying non-existent criminals.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Actually where that could be useful is google street view.
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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The three-way comparison operator <=> is often just called spaceship operator. The spaceship operator determines for two values A and B whether A < B, A = B, or A > B. I'd like to report a UFO in my code
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When we last reported on Simplified Parameter Null Validation, this feature was being challenged by several competing proposals ranging from attributes and compilers flags to full scale AOP with IL weaving. "I ain't got nothing but the blues"
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According to a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, there could be dozens of intelligent alien civilizations hiding in our galaxy, all capable of communicating. Could be, might be, possibly, full of doubt me
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And if they are clever, they will stay the hell out of sight.
Damn it... Seeing the news (and I am not speaking about the insider news) I would not even want to meet us.
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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