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Smart would be per se not bad alone... but when it comes with connected to the cloud... you are not the owner anymore.
And some people still wonder why I prefer the offline solutions.
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The control freaks are ever with us.
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This is not a connected to the cloud issue. It's being played to the tinfoil hat community as that, but these people took the coin ($100 +$25/year) to opt in.
Not sure if it is truly "cloud" based, the original systems were not; they used signals sent over the power lines. Anything IP based is easy to disconnect so I'm imagining it is still the old school from 20 years ago.
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Yep - Xcel Energy is at it again. I live in Colorado and am so glad I don't have Xcel Energy.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: S-M-R-T
Smrt means death in some slav languages...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Then that’s doubly appropriate then. 
TTFN - Kent
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This post is a somewhat unorganized collection of thoughts triggered by reading of The Timeless Way of Building, including my understanding of Alexander's work, some critical thoughts and on the applications of his ideas to software. "If I could save time in a bottle"
We wouldn't serve it until its time
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TL, but read it anyway, and didn't find anything compelling. And this was far less than compelling:
Quote: The shared pattern language can, possibly, solve the problem identified by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month, which is that systems must be "conceptually coherent to a single mind of the user". This can be achieved if the system is designed by a single architect, but it is hard to achieve for systems designed by a group of people. Brooks' answer was to use a hierarchical team structure (mentioning the, now somewhat amusing, Chief programmer team methodology). Christopher Alexander seems to have a solution to this problem that works for non-hierarchical structures too (Timeless, p.432):
[A] group of people who use a common pattern language can make a design together just as well as a single person can within his mind.
Calling the chief programmer role "now somewhat amusing" calls for an explanation. I doubt the writer is capable of providing one, so he just asserts it as something that is now generally accepted.
First, a pattern language must come from somewhere. If it doesn't exist, someone like a chief programmer with experience in the domain will have to provide it.
Next, a high-level design that follows the pattern language is needed. In construction, an architect provides this, so why would software be different? An architect provides a document, but in software a framework (actual software) is needed, so who will build that? Maybe the team can do it if the architect provides excellent UML diagrams, but I would contend that actually writing code is necessary to get the details of a framework correct.
Finally, unlike buildings, software is expected to grow as new features are added. Sometimes this means evolving the pattern language (framework), lest the system degrade into a Big Ball of Mud. Can this be done without an architect? Maybe, but it is far more likely to lead to the tragedy of the commons, because it is no one's responsibility to evolve the system cleanly.
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'It's very hard to concentrate for a full 5 hours at a time. None of us can do that,' HR consultant says This news brought to you by 1899
Or earlier
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This news brought to you by 1899
And still ignored by many managers in 2022.  
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Especially when it's to use the toilet. 
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Quote: Having a snack, taking a quick nap, going for a walk or chatting with coworkers about anything other than work are some ways people recharge during the work day.
"My favourite is a break with a therapy dog," Lyubykh said.
Clearly a WFH advocate. 
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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While running, the app will detect all windows copy dialogs and paint a game overlay on top of them while they are focused. Almost makes me want to do a copy of a bunch of files
edit: grammar hard is
modified 5-Sep-22 14:00pm.
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Definitivelly... there are people with a lot of free time...
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The creator of Node.js and Deno, Ryan Dahl, has penned an open letter to Oracle imploring the company to release the JavaScript trademark into the public domain. Maybe to avoid confusion (and trademark issues), we can just call it 'That language that's vaguely related to all the C-likes, with weird inheritance and odd type behaviour'Script?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: open letter to Oracle imploring the company to release the JavaScript trademark into the public domain.
and having to reduce the legal department? No, thanks
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The state Legislature passed a law Tuesday requiring all employers in the state to post salary ranges for open positions. It also would require companies with more than 100 employees to report pay scales by gender, race and ethnicity, data that California would then make public. "Get a good job with more pay and you're okay"
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Why is it so difficult to just pay for good results, without mattering about all that crap?
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Because politics and social disruption.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Because the social justice warriors in California are looking for another source of "outrage".
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Consider this - if women are only getting paid 70 cents for every dollar a man gets paid, why are companies not hiring only women?
I also see this law as not accounting for tenure - people tend to get paid more as they gain experience and time in a position, so the lower paid staff in a company may simply not have been there as long.
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The DeepMind team created an AI system that can learn how to do things inside of a physics simulator by watching videos of other agents performing those tasks. Has it learned how to take a dive for a foul yet?
And of course, that's "soccer", not the other one(s).
Worth it for the videos of the AI trying to learn how to run
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It is a good idea to teach AI to cheat in this early stage?
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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Next step... to teach it how to play black ops, counter strike and so on...
Following step... looking for a good shelter before it rebeals.
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Turns out it’s pretty damn easy to spam the entire Air Force using just one email address. Fortunately, no missiles were launched via email
I wonder if that email alias is exposed externally?
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