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Bing now fixes bad spelling in searches across 100 languages. Sew ewe khan git write stuff
Sorry, ran out of misspellings there (worked myself into a corner)
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The intrusion was detected right away and the hacker's modifications have been reversed right away. Why it's safer to stick with gin
Crazy talk idea here, but why is the system that can control the sodium hydroxide available via the internet?
Oh, sorry, it may not be connected to the internet, just available remotely. Much better idea, I'm sure.
"The intrusion took place on Friday, February 5, when the hacker accessed a computer system that was set up to allow for the remote control of water treatment operations."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Crazy talk idea here, but why is the system that can control the sodium hydroxide available via the internet?
Oh, sorry, it may not be connected to the internet, just available remotely. Much better idea, I'm sure.
hear hear...
or Smart storm counters...
or other stuff (sadly there is more than enough examples)...
I just wonder when things like in Blackout (Elsberg novel) - Wikipedia[^] or in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) - IMDb[^] are going to blow up under our nose, just because some idiots "IT Decission makers" (to quote the item below) just screwed it (in addition to not giving enough money to properly develop things)
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If only they had watched and followed Admiral Adama's philosophy from Battlestar Galactica
"I will not allow, a network computerised system to be placed on this ship while I am in command!"
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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A new report finds that open-source technologies have huge potential, but it is still largely untapped. "But if you ask for a raise It's no surprise that they're giving none away"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "But if you ask for a raise It's no surprise that they're giving none away"
Yes, they are giving raises... but 2 x 0 = 0 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How much are open-source developers really worth? Hundreds of billions of dollars, say economists
Well, the solution is clear: Stop contributing to open source projects unless there is a compensation plan of some sort.
It strikes me that things like bug bounties are one possible answer to the compensation offering but are not universally suitable. I think that code contributions need to be compensated more often than they are in order to maintain ecosystem sustainability. If the project has no money (i.e. that is to say most projects, even some that might actually be important) then (a) it needs a monetisation plan and (b) it need to issue equity to contributors such that they are compensated in the longer run if and when the monetisation plan pans out. Such a monetisation plan could, of course, be "we'll get bought by a corporation" and that would be one possibility. E.g. Jam tomorrow, hopefully, for work today, on a risk-sharing basis for contributors.
This is not to say that contributing on a personal basis to a project merely because you like it or because you think it is of value to the world is wrong! But it's not a sustainable way forward for the open source ecosystem as a whole any more. Not that it really ever was, of course.
And now, having written that, I'm off to fork the open source projects I'm currently relying on before the project managements decide to monetise them at my expense! 
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Fifty years ago, on February 5, 1971, Apollo 14 touched down on the Moon. As well as equipment for attempting to determine the internal structure of our satellite, and to measure the composition of the lunar atmosphere, the astronauts took with them a six-iron golf club head and some golf balls. It's in the rough
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Quote: "The fact that Shepard even made contact and got the ball airborne is extremely impressive."
Does 'airborne' really apply here?
"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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If they arrange another golf tournament on the Moon, which well known golf players would you want to go up there?
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In 2020 we asked 450 Senior IT decision makers in the US, UK, France and Germany to tell us what challenges they are facing in their digital transformation and how developers are being affected. A stressful year for developers? That will be a first.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In 2020 we asked 450 Senior IT decision makers in the US, UK, France and Germany to tell us what challenges they are facing in their digital transformation...
Having to understand the technical content they have to decide on?
Kent Sharkey wrote: ...and how developers are being affected.
That's easy... as always.
Devs will have to deal and to cope with the sh*tty decissions of those Senior IT decission makers and try to avoid that everything goes to hell.
I don't know the US, IK and France... but in Germany the digital transformation is a simple and plain bad joke.
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Adding Microsoft's repository allows Pi users to "apt install code" and be done. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a link is just a link
modified 9-Feb-21 9:00am.
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I see you are writing code. Would you like to upgrade your kernel to NT?
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I see you have updated your kernel to NT. Would you like to add some new fancy icons to your apps?
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On the day we on Earth call Feb. 7, Mars will cross a point in its orbit known as solar longitude zero degrees. If you want to raise a glass to that pale red dot, go for it Happy belated 4718! (drink an Irn-Bru to celebrate the rusty planet)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Happy belated 4718!
With an orbit of 687 days... shouldn't be there a bit lower than here? 
Now for real curiosity... is there a year 0 for other planets' chronology? If yes... starting on discover or are they adapted to our "0"
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Intel wants to take a bite out of Apple and prove its processors to be more worthy There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and benchmarks
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and benchmarks
Ohhhh...
I was so happy asking for benschmarks in the post below this one...
You have just blown my enthusiasm   
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This from the company that was saying benchmarks don't mean anything and shouldn't be used anymore a year ago.
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Eventually they'll be launching the M5!
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Channels give us a way to communicate between concurrent (async) operations in .NET. "There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"
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Looks like it might do the interaction between the threads easier, but I wonder how will it impact performance.
Other readers with much more knowledge than me: that might be a cool benchmarks article
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I've been meaning to explore them, which will produce an article, but I've just been slammed with work lately.
Real programmers use butterflies
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