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Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost. Not that I'd use this as an example of the quality of these lists or anything
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I looked at FORTRAN again myself just a couple of months ago.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So you're to blame! 
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft is making its OpenJDK Java release available to customers on Windows, macOS and Linux. "Nothing's gonna stop us now"
Didn't take them long to dust that off
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Microsoft J++? No, wait, we've been there haven't we.
Rebase C# on the JVM? 
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Security researchers Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov, and Maxim Goryachy discovered two undocumented x86 instructions that can be used to modify the CPU microcode. The instructions can only be executed when the CPU runs in debug mode, which makes them not easily exploitable, though. Because no one will ever find those
My first three reactions kind of rhymed with 'for fox ache'
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For fox sake 
FFS, took me five minutes. Do the next CCC, would ya?
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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 Must be my accent
TTFN - Kent
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No, works fine, we just needed to repeat it a bit 
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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Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.
Verizon continues its campaign to destroy every last bit of internet history it owns...
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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Utterly baffling.
How much can it cost them to run it? Even if that is too much, how much can it cost them to store read only archives?
They could donate it all to the Internet Archive, of course, if they don't even want to pay the cost of storing an archive.
As someone in the UK, Verizon is not directly inflicted on us here (as yet, at least). But from what I have heard it is a singularly 'corporate' corporate, the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
modified 6-Apr-21 15:04pm.
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Verizon would burn the Library of Alexandria to the ground if someone was willing to pay them for the ashes in the name of sHaReHoLdEr VaLuE.
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
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Unfortunately, true. 
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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markrlondon wrote: Verizon ... the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
And he knows whereof he speaks draws. 
Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
Adams did not become a cartoonist by mere happenstance: every morning while working at Pacific Bell he had set his alarm clock for 4 a.m.: he would get coffee and then spend the start of his day trying to create a new career for himself.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: While working at Pacific Bell
Ahah, yes of course!
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My initial reaction was "does anybody use this?" but looks like this is quite frustrating from people from older generation.
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has survived its first frigid night alone on the Red Planet. It's always hard when they leave the nest
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If you really love something, set if free. If it comes back, it's yours, if not, it wasn't meant to be. 
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dotnet/csharpstandard provides a public space for the ongoing work to document the standard for the latest C# language versions. Watch with excitement as the Standardizing Committee standardizes the standard! (and maybe some paint drying while you're at it)
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I suspect that much of the stuff added since C++11 is the work of a committee that attracts pedants who have time for nonsense. And that C#'s more extensive capabilities in various areas are the work of folks with a real-world focus. In which case C# may now start to suffer from the same evolution problems as C++. Fortunately, C# already seems to have added its useful things before the navel gazers could arrive, debate them to death, and push their nonsense. But judging from some recent posts, C# is starting to get cluttered, so maybe slowing it down will actually prove beneficial.
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Spring is one of the two seasons of the year when Microsoft typically releases a new feature update for Windows 10, and that means we're due for another one soon. Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder why my computer went fizz
Gotta work on that rhyming scheme, I think.
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Kerplunk! - said the sh*t to the field.
(My rhyme for the day, since you started the trend.)
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You’re a poet, don’t you know it. 
TTFN - Kent
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'Till eve's soft embrace - and far beyond - I will bask in the erudition and kindness of thine words!
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21H1 sounds more like the name of the next pandemic. 
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