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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"?
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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? 
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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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I have learnt what PEBKAC (I knew the German version though) is... but what the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is FUD?
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Thanks 
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Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project is scheduled to debut this fall that aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving. And Mercury is already in retrograde
As much as I liked VB (3, 5, and 6. 2, 4, and VB.NET were OK), it comes a time to say farewell.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (probably not Einstein, but *someone* said it)
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A Finnish tech company has released an unusual tool to help combat cyberbullying: a type font. Does it just convert everything to white boxes?
I've used that font a few times.
And no one will possibly find a way to work around it. Ever.
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Although I am totally against bullying in any form, that is only going to help (if it helps) with a small part of bullying, where the bullies are kids or plain dumb. The most dangerous are the ones that don't use insults but common / correct language twisted to accomplish their target.
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Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled like elderberries!
Let's see what the font makes of those devastating insults 
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[add]  [/add]
I don't answer you back, because I don't want to get nuked for trolling being abusive
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modified 26-Aug-20 8:00am.
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If you read the article, it's not a font. It's code to re-write what people have written according to what the project authors think they should say.
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Go to the test page[^], I'm pretty sure it actually is a font and just doing crazy things with ligatures[^].
eg type in some offensive text that it redacts. Now copy/paste it out or use jquery to inspect the textbox ( $("#test-input")[0].value), your original profanity is still there. Alternately pick something where the replacement is a different number of letters than the original. Arrow through it, your cursor won't move evenly between the new letters, but rather in steps based on the size of the original text.
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: Derogatory racial terms are changed to the proper name of the race or religion.
Well that's one way to expedite the process where every generations polite term for a marginalized group becomes a slur a generation later.
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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Some of the substitutions actually made it worse. Many others significantly change the meaning of a sentence or turn an unoffensive sentence into ungrammatical nonsense.
Plus, as has been pointed out, what matters is context, not individual words. To assume that bullying/harrassment is individual words trivializes both. (If we just got rid of THAT salute, that unnamed group would have been perfectly fine.)
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This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo. Oh, *that's* what it does
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That's going to have a great impact in someone's life style 
I wonder how's Mark doing... I miss some of his brilliant comments
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