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Close - his Lawnmower Man (possibly just the movie version)
Which reminds me I wanted to read Cell. Any good?
TTFN - Kent
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Pretty good, can't go into it much without spoiling. There was a movie made, starring Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Microsoft Loop is a new AI-powered collaborative app that empowers you to create, share, and manage your projects efficiently. In case you want to get loopy
Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
"Getting" loopy? That cow's been out of the barn for a while now.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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We created the new Extension Manager to spotlight the most important content when searching for extensions, including a large pane for viewing detailed descriptions. Because Visual Studio is never big enough
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Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware—answering users' questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware. Beware of geeks bearing gift tips
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How the h*ll has the question not already been flagged as a copy/answered already?  I thought SO was pretty foolproof that way...
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Quote: This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on May 27, 2034 at 17:18.
That's quite a liberal definition of "temporary"! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The built-in business messaging service in Google Maps and Search will stop working in July. Step 1: don't tell anyone about features. Step 2: cancel feature. Step 3: Profit?
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You skipped a step: feeling smug. But I can't tell if it is 1, 2, 3, or 4 or (1 and 3, and 5 and 7). I'm leaning toward the latter.
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Large language models are capable of playing "a more active role" in financial decision-making, per a new draft study A chicken pecking at a screen can beat some financial analysts
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Anyone can get lucky once. Prove it by publishing your tax returns for the next few years.
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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With a billion chicken pecking at screens, there will always be some that beat the financial analysts.
Every year there are at least a couple of weather soothsayers that can boost: Look! That is exactly what I said in March!
The soothsayers are new every year, only occasionally is there a return. You certainly see the same wiseman ten years in a row saying "Look what I said!". (Unless, of course, if his prophesy was like "We will have some sun and some rain, and there will be wind on the coast.")
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Yes, but can they make crypto sexy again?
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"I cryptoed into her bed ..."?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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That's a good line for a book with a bit about a hooker paid in bitcoin.
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MHGA -"mugga" (mugger) - Make HFT Great Again
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Ticketmaster appears to have suffered a huge data breach, causing it to lose sensitive data on hundreds of millions of users. Someone's ticket got mastered
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'TicketBastard' as they are not-so-affectionately called at my house.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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An adjustment to the famous Drake Equation could radically refine estimates of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. Drake was an optimist?
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But just in case the updated formula is wrong, we've still got water...
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Just remember, none of the terms in the Drake equation are zero or we wouldn't be here. On the other hand, maybe one of them is zero because as a species we certainly aren't intelligent.
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obermd wrote: On the other hand, maybe one of them is zero because as a species we certainly aren't intelligent.
This brings to mind graffiti:
Q: Is there intelligent life on Earth?
A: Yes, but I'm just visiting
All terms of the Drake equation are therefore still non-zero. 
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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I can't remember the man's name. Black guy went on Joe Rogan and said a bit of crazy.
But poking some of the info, he's one of the only other people I've heard say that 0 does not exist. That's been my tinfoiliest of hats theory for a good bit. Even further, integers don't really "exist". Some cultures reflect that. All apples aren't the same, so basically, what's the point in counting them. At least, I think that's their take.
If the perfection of integers is an abstraction that isn't actually any part of the observable world, I think it's possible they're both the best and worst things mathematics has. Like it tangled itself up there early on and that's limited us or something.
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The Drake equation is made up with no supporting evidence. We have a sample size of one.
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