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29-years in the making, the Linux kernel just accepted its millionth commit. The greatest open-source project of all time has come a long way from its "hobby" beginnings. Can I get a diff from the first commit?
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Robotic football, or soccer, is an innovative version of soccer in which human players are replaced by robots. Hasta la vista, Messi
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Microsoft is moving to fix an update that seemingly introduced a bug that could damage the lifespan of solid state drives (SSDs). The good news is that file is *really* only in one block
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Ah; if MS wrecks my hardware, we talk about liability.
In Europe. Under European law.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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A new report claims that factors are increasingly pointing to Apple expanding Siri search results and Spotlight Searches even farther, with the company potentially working on a universal search engine. Because you're searching it wrong
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Users could make change, but it was "difficult enough that people won’t," one employee wrote. Job security through obscurity
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Article: Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings
That explains some things... probably that confusion is the main reason why google went for the easiest way... There is no privacy for the users.
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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Here’s one of the more unique cameras you’ll ever see: designer Adrian Hanft took 28,248 coffee stirrer straws and turned them into a one-of-a-kind camera — the images show up as 28,248 points of light. "Snapshot image froze without a sound"
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Some have way to much time at their hands...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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As a boy, in my darkroom days, I made myself such a pinhole camera with one hole, and captured it on a sheed of photo paper.
One hole should be enouogh for everybody! (as the priest said.)
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The Bluebonnet bytecode compiler translates .NET CIL into Java bytecode in Java classes, and additional run-time support is provided by the Baselib library. "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train"
I'm sure someone will find this useful. (After all, someone felt it important enough to create.) But it is not me.
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Why?
Pointless!
#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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This release adds all of the 1.2 features into Windows Terminal and introduces new features described below for Windows Terminal Preview 1.3. For those with a Terminal case of the command-line
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Bad command or filename.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Court documents expose how tech support scammers operate. In case you need a new side-gig
Joke! Joke! Don't phone the FBI on me. Please. (in case it wasn't obvious)
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The prebuilt development environment provider Gitpod has announced it is now open source, enabling teams to automatically spin up ready-to-code environments for GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket projects. Business was so good, they open-sourced the company!
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Game developers use motion-capture tech to teach Cruise’s autonomous vehicles to understand gestures Oh look: another person telling me I'm the #1 self-driving car!
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I live in a New Jersey shore town, and during the summer there are pedestrians everywhere that you have to be careful about when driving through town.
It is very important to be able to read the body language of a pedestrian to know if they are intending to cross the street, or they are just standing there.
Lots of pedestrians like to cross against the traffic lights, so you have to be on your toes.
I can see how this technology would have its uses.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sort them into three categories:
1. About to step off the curb.
2. Not going to step out.
3. Staring at a phone, oblivious to their surroundings.
What do you think? 10% / 50% / 40% ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The number of them about to step off the curb I'd say is much higher, around 25%.
Usually the people who are staring at their phones are with a group of other people who are not staring at their phones, so they rely on them to indicate when to cross. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Will it break when the pedestrian start moving the hands and yelling "Don't hit me"?
M.D.V. 
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Well he car is receiving digital communication from pedestrians (and other drivers) after all.
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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The .NET 5.0 release is now “feature complete”, meaning that very nearly all features are in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come). This month's issue
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Kent Sharkey wrote: in their final form (with the exception of bug fixes still to come).
With the exception? 
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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Every few weeks, another security story appears saying how insecure Linux is. There's only one problem with most of them: They're fake news. The real problem is incompetent system administrators. Let's get back to the Windows security FUD
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