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Attributed to Charles C. Pinckney when Ambassador to the French Republic (1796): Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
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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It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today Windows 10 is just Windows 1.0+++++++++++
Posted entirely for the benefit of the folk that feel I'm too harsh on The Fish Shoppe
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Text processing is at the heart of huge numbers of apps and services, and in .NET, that means lots and lots of System.String. String creation is so fundamental that a myriad of ways of creating them have existed since .NET Framework 1.0 was released, and more have joined the fray since. I'm glad someone's working to get the plumbing working faster and cleaner, because otherwise that...stuff...can pile up pretty fast
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Depending on your goals, the software engineer vs. developer distinction can make a difference. The other one
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I prefer "software god" 
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The material is flexible like a piece of cloth yet can provide protection to the wearer when needed. "Our armour all as strong, our cause the best; Then reason will our hearts should be as good"
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Does "on demand" include being struck by a great axe?
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I know I'd demand that 
TTFN - Kent
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Condom manufacturers take note !
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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According to the CMA, the merger could negatively impact competition between social media platforms and also deprive the internet of another advertising player as Giphy was engaged in the ads space until Facebook stopped these operations. He who controls the GIFs, controls the universe
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The Divergent Association Task is a quick measure of verbal creativity and divergent thinking, the ability to generate diverse solutions to open-ended problems. Ten of these things are not like the other...
Not my usual type of thing, but I thought it might lead to an amusing "my % is higher than thine" discussion, or a distraction from the CCC (which I've yet to understand the mechanism of)
[edit]"Your score is 82.47, higher than 74.84% of the people who have completed this task." I probably could have done better if I didn't have the 3 words that I realized were easily associated. [/edit]
modified 12-Aug-21 9:31am.
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It was amusing trying to get a high score. There were sometimes associations I didn't think of until the results were shown.
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Interesting,
I did some digging around and that project is not using Word2vec[^] but rather the Stanford GloVe[^] representation along with the glove.840B.300d (400,000 word vectors) dataset.
Some of my thoughts:
1.) There are much better pretrained word embeddings available, the one he is using is a small wikipedia crawl.
2.) All the test is doing is taking 2 word vectors and using cosine similarity[^] to measure their distance. Looks like he is simply using scipy.spatial.distance.cosine[^] for the geometric interpretation.
3.) As I suspected... the author frames this as identifying creative divergent thinking[^] people. The author fails to mention what the inverse space represents. Reading the paper[^] reveals that "scores may thus partly reflect other constructs more related to divergence than creativity, such as overinclusive thinking[^] or schizotypy[^]"
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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How does “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” rate?
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I'm busy 
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I thought that language would be a barrier and would affect the result, but it was a surprise that it actually had almost no effect. I probably would have selected same or similar words in my native language so the score is probably correct.
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Researchers could give the world the first practical adaptable camouflage. "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
"There’s not a whole lot of practical uses for a slow-moving robot chameleon" <- But I'm working on a list of impractical uses as I write
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A few lines of code hidden away on a webpage can turn your blocked ads into a unique ID. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
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Competition for technology workers is fiercer than ever. To address their digital skills gap, employers need to look beyond recruitment. Shackling? Cloning?
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Zombies.Quote: reskilling, upskilling and training employees
And what in the world are those words "reskilling" and "upskilling"?
Quote: Upskilling is the process of taking your skills and knowledge in a certain area to a new level, while the term reskilling involves learning new skills so you can do a different job.
So two newfangled words that mean the same thing as "training" but the point is, you now need to hire a "skill consultant" at $250/hr to tell you how to up/re/train your employees. 
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Updated: Poly Network has asked for 'hacked assets' to be returned by attackers - and it has apparently received millions back already. Where there is money, there are thieves
Probably an Aesop fable or quote by Benjamin Franklin about that, but I'm too lazy to look.
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GitHub is making Codespaces available to Team and Enterprise Cloud plans on github.com. Who needs a local copy of their code?
Edit in the same place you save it, so losing it is much more convenient.
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Employee training doesn't seem to be helping If it ain't hacked, don't change it?
OK, I'll change mine - P@ssw0rd2. Done. The '2' is for 'twice as secure'!
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The deal comes just as ransomware is becoming a big issue I'm sure one company will do as well as the two did
I look forward to saying "no" to one fewer "Do you want to also install" prompt
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