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They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing. Barbeque time!
I suppose Unagi to be culturally appropriate
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Severe storms have recently hit beaches in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, causing big waves, and big damage. Of course they are - This. Is. Australia.
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It has to be poisonous sea snakes (else it isn't really Australia.)
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Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Download a present for yourself
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Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! So you can get your game on
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Attendee limit for Microsoft 365 live events has been extended until June of next year Now how am I going to get free T-shirts?
and other swag
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Reducing tedious and repetitive work while minimizing human error? The latest approach to software development, delivery and management promises just that. Maybe we'll even get Code as Code (CaC)!
From DevOps to DevDev!
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The average developer rates their happiness at 61 out of a potential 100 points, compared to the average OECD citizen who rates their happiness at 65. If you're happy and you know it - compile your code
Interpreted code developers are on their own.
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How do you mix the irrational world of pi with the real world of . . . goats? This is the spirit of a long-unsolved math problem that sounds deceptively simple. Now: how much rope for the hamster problem?
Of course I don't mean to diminish this very important solution. And now my goat is much happier.
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A new study suggests that alien civilizations destroyed themselves through progress, meaning our galaxy could be full of dead alien civilizations. This research brought to you by Wild Guesses University
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And what does that say about our own future? 
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Withough having read your message...[^]
I suppose it is true: Great minds think alike  
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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Don't worry, humans are different. Greed will destroy them way before they make enough progress.
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If they are just going to guess, this theory is as good as any other, and a hell of a lot more melodic.
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Quote: No single factor is more important than the idea that intelligent creatures generally have a tendency that leans toward self-annihilation
Based on their sample size of 1, it must be true!
"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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The sample size is arguably zero; humans aren't self-annihilating. Progress has demonstrably improved our lives and reduced conflict.
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For a while...
but, when something come, then it will be more devastating than what happened in the time without progress.
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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I'm not as optimistic as you, I think our ability to heal is equaled only by our ability to do harm.
"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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Sen. Proxmire was right - NASA is overfunded. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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William Proxmire should be dug up, reanimated or cloned, and then publicly executed as a traitor to his species. He and his ilk deliberately spent the late 70's through the 80's sabotaging NASA through deliberate politically-based mismanagement in order to abscond with any space-related budget for their own pork projects. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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IMO, your view of William Proxmire is only partially correct.
NASA proved to be very good at extravaganzas such as sending a total of 12 men to the moon (it would have been 20, if Apollo 13 had succeeded and Apollos 18-20 hadn't been cancelled). It has proven to be very good at unmanned pure science missions. Where it has failed utterly is in the use of space for commercial purposes - the only commercial use of space has been for weather and communication satellites, which do not need an organization such as NASA for their launch and support.
NASA's plans in the '70s and early '80s were mostly more of the same - a (planned) extravaganza such as sending men to Mars, a space station (SkyLab) with no real purpose, etc. Even one of NASA's successes - the Viking landers - was tied into the Bicentennial celebrations (Viking 1 was supposed to land on 4-Jul-1976).
If we compare and contrast to the history of aircraft, we find that while lighter-than-air aircraft were invented in the 18th century, it took a new technology and almost 200 years for aircraft to become commercially useful. Tethered balloons were used in the US Civil War as observation posts, but that was almost the only use made of them. At no time were significant government funds involved in the development of commercial aircraft.
We are now seeing the beginning of the real use of space, where people go to space for economically viable reasons rather than military reasons or national pride. SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, etc., while money-losers at present, may one day be remembered as the true beginning of the Space Age.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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According to PostBeyond, employers are looking for people who know their way around Facebook and have experience with analytics. "One of these things is not like the others..."
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Facebook proficiency?
A.k.a proficiency in unethical, annoying and almost illegal skills?
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
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Starting from today’s 3.4 release and in the period ahead when WinUI is expected to RTM, we will be putting an even bigger focus on maturing Uno Platform by providing a growing set of controls and mappings to existing WinUI and 3rd party components. So you're not out of control(s)
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As important as Azure is, Windows Server will remain the backbone of enterprise IT for years to come. "So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way"
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