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In a surprising new paper, scientists say they’ve nailed down a physical model for a warp drive, which flies in the face of what we’ve long thought about the crazy concept of warp speed travel: that it requires exotic, negative forces. "Engage"
"Where the existing paradigm uses negative energy—exotic matter that doesn’t exist and can’t be generated within our current understanding of the universe—this new concept uses floating bubbles of spacetime rather than floating ships in spacetime." Well all-righty then. We'll just take that 'Seriously' off of the headline, shall we?
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They be smoken some i cons!
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The techniques that taught AI to translate speech are being applied to visual tasks Apparently the watchmen will watch themselves
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Google Fonts now supports open source icons, starting with the Material Design icon set If everyone else changes their icons, will you do as well?
I told you today would be iconic.
I wonder if Oracle is doing anything in this space?
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not the type of executive to boast and put down rivals. How about changing the icons?
Not that he named any of his predecessors by name or anything...
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You have to put down your own team too!
Everyone sucks, all credit goes to you.
Also, his comments on bringing clarity and un-constraining constrained situations were said on opposite day and taken out of context here.
When you bring confusion and constrain situations, everyone will be too busy working, and you'll have more time blaming it on others.
You get bonus points for not having any skill or knowledge in the field that you're leading in.
Every good leader knows this!
Believe me, I've seen enough leaders to know what I'm talking about 
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i mean when everyone sleeps from home and just polishes the icons what can go wrong ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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.NET Interactive now ships with T-SQL support in addition to C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, and HTML. SELECT * FROM features WHERE reason='???'
OK, it does save me from Data Studio, but other than that, I don't get it. Someone save me from my stupidity.
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A bigger Windows design push is coming later this year I feel complete now
Today's news brought to you by icons!
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I con do'it, mon! (Funky Reggae music playing in background, with a cloud of stuff we will pretend is just smoke, and Nadella bravely leading the charge...)
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A study found that Java developers backtracked every 6 minutes, meaning they reverted their code to a previous state "Oh, I believe in yesterday"
I've been debating including this one for a few weeks now (so it's not technically new). Apologies if it offends.
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Because they are Java programmers.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Apologies if it offends.
Yeah, what Kent said. 
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Quote: Because they are Java programmers
When you say that stranger, you better smile! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's an open-source IT world out there, and these days we're all living there. Breaking News: Open source company finds open source software popular
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Not sure if that is just plain confirmation bias or a not so successfully covered try for marketing..
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A team of scientists from Tel-Aviv University have successfully given a robot the ability to hear sounds through the use of a dead locust’s ear. All I hear are crickets
OK, not directly related to our focus (other than the robotics angle), just sad for that locust that has to have a hearing aid now.
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Sounds like the dead locust IS the hearing aid now.
"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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Oh lord...
if we already fail to give proper / correct instructions to machines using languages explicitelly designed for it... what could go wrong, when we start "speaking" with machines if we can't even understand each other?
Additionally I wonder... will they get tinnitus or something like that?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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These speakers can transcribe and translate meetings automatically They tell you when you're playing bad music?
I may not be able to get them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: These speakers can transcribe and translate meetings automatically
And then send a copy of the transcription to the tech giant overlord so they can parse it and help you shop for something you didn't know you needed.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: And then send a copy of the transcription to the tech giant overlord so they can parse it and help you shop for something you didn't know you needed.
This is a business product not a consumer one. They'll create a blabbermouth score for all employees based on how much time they spend flapping thier gums; and that number will be used by PHBs to reward the :sunsine:s who can't shut up as the most productive people in the company. "It's the biggest number, so they're best"
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Here I was expecting that I could set up 4 or so speakers and depending on who's speaking, the sound would come out of a different speaker, to give you positional reference to each speaker.
Sadly disappointed. However I think that would be a cool, and probably useful, real "meeting room of the future" thing.
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The big news is that Flutter 2, as the release is called, has been expanded to become a portable framework rather than just a mobile framework, which means it can now be used to create slick, feature-filled web-based applications. "Won't you fly high, free bird"
And they didn't break compatibility?!
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Google is slowly phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and today, it’s making it clear that it won’t just replace them with something equally invasive despite the impact the change will have on Google’s lucrative advertising business. Do no evil (for a while)
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We aren't going to track you! We're going to follow you.
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