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I'm going to have to re-read the argument. Yes, I know it was an article, but most of it seemed heavy handed criticism. We're doing "agile" at one of my customers. But all of the requirements come down in waterfall form. Go figure.
Years ago, I got my hand hand on the Extreme Programming book. I could never quite take to pair programming, but there were two things that jumped out at me in a blinding flash of the obvious way. First, no one but developers do estimates. If you want to adjust the schedule, you move features.
The second issue were requirements changes. I used to hear everyone moaning about "requirements changing" where as the book pointed out that you just need to get over it. It's why it is so critical to get something running in front of the customer so that they can figure out what they want. I still have requirements in systems back from 15 years ago that were never fulfilled.
Back to the article.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Microsoft is adding a new security option to Windows Defender that is meant to help protect against malicious drivers on Windows 10 and 11 devices. I guess I won't be using that SCSI scanner much longer
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Magnetic amplifiers, the alt-tech of the Third Reich, lasted into the Internet era Magnets. It's always magnets.
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They're always the main attraction.
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No matter how hard you try to show other things, it will always go south.
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New research hints at the biophysical underpinnings of their ability to use Earth’s magnetic field lines to find their way to their breeding and wintering grounds They have to use them to avoid Schrödinger's cats
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So with the magnetic field starting to flip will we blame the demise of migratory birds on nature or man? For those of you who don't know this, the north magnetic pole has moved from the western part of Baffin Bay in Canada to somewhere near the northern British isles.
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The magnetic north pole is actually fairly close to the geographic north pole right now, heading towards Russia. From what I recall, the article suggested that birds would be OK after a magnetic reversal, but probably not in a skewed field. It also said that birds navigate by the sun and stars but learn to navigate by the magnetic field. I'd guess that over the course of a migratory bird's lifetime, the field won't change enough for it to cause significant problems.
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What makes great software? Doing the work, doing it well, and remembering that you're writing for people—not machines. *Corn field available separately
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Am I the only one who got this reference?
The movie was made before I was born...
That's sad 
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Well, I got the reference! 
But wasn't Lord of the Rings made before you were born? We'd run out of movie quotes at that rate (and I haven't seen any recent movies) 
TTFN - Kent
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Well, true, but I am just surprised that no one else got your reference.
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I saw it as a reference to the movie(s), and made serious attempts to se the connection between the movies and the article. So I got only half of it. Maybe there is something in the movies that I didn't get. (I haven't played those DVDs for at least fifteen years - maybe I should review them.)
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Sun Valley 2 will be similar to Windows 10 Anniversary Update, so you can expect minor improvements and a few new features. And it will be the last update, until the next one
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Quote: Additionally, you can soon force the Start Menu recommendations tab to open files in Office web only if your device doesn't come with full desktop apps.
Am I correctly reading this as saying that W11 doesn't currently have a way to disable an "Upload My Private Documents to Microsoft" 'feature'?
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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Josip Retro Bits is a YouTube channel that specializes in fun challenges on old hardware like the Commodore 64. Now do DOOM
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In nine categories of work tasks, more workers wanted AI to help than wanted AI to do everything or do nothing. In related news, 70% of this jobs could probably be done by AI
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In other words they want someone else to do their job while they get paid for it.
AI has a place to make people more productive, but many people seem to want to kick back and do nothing while getting paid.
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Experts predict artificial intelligence will gain sentience within the next 100 years. Some predict it’ll happen sooner. Others say it’ll never happen. Still other experts say it already has happened. I'm assuming it will tell us?
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Or some people will find out a game player is really an NPC...
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I always thought it would occur the year after the year of Linux on the desktop?
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If AI ever gains sentience, then the next logic step is for it to identify to a particular sex and gender...and political party. Equal rights for AI is sure to follow. Voting rights, no doubt.
Where does the madness end?
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Leaving aside the red herrings of sex and gender which are totally irrelevant for political rights, if an entity is advanced enough to recognize the Universality of political rights and demand them for itself, who are you to refuse them?
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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