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A computer science professor from Sweden has discovered an arbitrary code execution vuln in the Universal Turing Machine, one of the earliest computer designs in history – though he admits it has "no real-world implications". "There's nothing to see here. Move along. Keep moving."
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I really wonder...
does people like that search for those kind of things? Or do they really find them by random chance like Newton and the apple?
M.D.V. 
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In my opinion Algol W was not perfectly satisfactory. It still contained too many compromises, having emerged from a committee. After my return to Switzerland, I designed a language after my own preferences: Pascal. begin
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The ebpf-for-windows project aims to allow developers to use familiar eBPF toolchains and application programming interfaces (APIs) on top of existing versions of Windows. Step 0: embrace
That's OK, people: don't bother explaining what eBPF does. I'm sure everyone knows already.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's OK, people: don't bother explaining what eBPF does. I'm sure everyone knows already.
Do you mean the link in the first two words?
But besides trying to annoy you a bit... yes, I agree. A (at least) two liner description when someone speaks about something is a must. You can't take as granted that everyone who will read the article will know what you are telling.
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's OK, people: don't bother explaining what eBPF does. I'm sure everyone knows already.
Judging by the substance free article I assume it's a platform to convert buzzwords into being hired for a new job. 
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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But it uses the word 'familiar' so surely everyone must know 
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RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic "with a future" for all platforms. I'll let you decide if "Modern Visual Basic" an oxymoron
"with a Future" /smirk
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Is "![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing legacy" considered "future" too?
M.D.V.
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Apple: "We have advanced security technology."
Everyone: "Does it work?"
Apple: "No, but we have advanced security technology."
(Microsoft: "We have new icons.")
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Microsoft: "We have new icons."
Sad but true.
And version 78 of C#, currently running on version 42 of .NET microcore.
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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The article was about their decision to not even tell the people they knew were affected. It wasn't about telling the world. They most definitely should have told those who were affected.
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Voyager 1 has left the Solar System - and it's finding that the void of space is not quite so void-like, after all. It just can't remember the words to the tune
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"Love is a tune you hum-de-hum-hum"
Voyager discovered love!
(For really obscure: Voyager, Sing to us softly)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It just can't remember the words to the tune
Do you mean...
Quote: ... We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical... we will control all that you see and hear.... You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
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M.D.V.
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Quite as an aside:
Forty Three years and it still working. One must assume it has no Chinese-made components.
It reminds me of a time when if you bought something your (1) expected it to work, and (2) expected it to last longer than the box it came in. I guess QC must have really meant something way back then . . . perhaps "Quality Control" ?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Forty Three years and it still working.
And washing machines have a life span of 10 years 
It's easier to "live long and prosper" in space, since there's little stuff to interact with, little wear, and definetely no artificially limited lifespan. Lots of that stuff needs be replaced in a few years, where they could last 3 to 4 times that long with easier repairs.
For those factories proud of their A-label producing washing machines that are "green" and environmental friendly - elephant you, you hippocrites.
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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Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about burnout, why do we do give in? "No one on their deathbed ever said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at work'"
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I, for one, I am not suffering from that!
Must be an American thing!
modified 11-May-21 7:18am.
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At the beginning I was like that, but I luckily changed my mind a while ago.
I now prefer to say: Work to live, not live to work.
M.D.V.
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In my late 20's my manager commented on my leaving at 5 PM, saying he expected his team to work 60 to 70 hours a week. I went straight to the president, with whom I had a very good working relationship (it was a small company) and told him I would report the manager to the labor board (or whatever sounded impressive.) The manager was very respectful after that and never harassed me again.
The article mentions entrepreneurs several times. I do believe, if you're an entrepreneur, you're going to be putting in more than 40 hours a week, for a variety of reasons. And that applies to just about anything, not just software development. But once one is out of the entrepreneur phase, work hours should be more normal, except that it's hard to break that "lifestyle."
I often wonder where the 40 hour work week came from, and according to wikipedia, we have....
CANADA!
to blame:
Quote: Canada. The labour movement in Canada tracked progress in the US and UK. In 1890, the Federation of Labour took up this issue, hoping to organise participation in May Day. In the 1960s, Canada adopted the 40-hour work week.
But not entirely:
Quote: The Ford Motor Company advanced the idea in 1914, when it scaled back from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers’ productivity.
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From Eight-hour day | National Museum of Australia[^]
Eight hours to work,
Eight hours to play,
Eight hours to sleep,
Eight bob a day.
A fair day’s work,
For a fair day’s pay.
Nineteenth Century Aussie unionism.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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