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The two wealthiest men in the world—Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—are bickering about their competing satellite internet projects, in an argument prompted by SpaceX’s recent request to move some Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. How about we send them both up and let them settle it up there?
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Can we do the spaceship a bit bigger and send some additional CEOs and useless politicians?
Although I am not sure if there would be a spaceship big enough for it...
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Lasers. Big flying things with guns. There is only one way forward!
modified 30-Jan-21 15:50pm.
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The United States should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel said in a draft report for Congress. After all, nothing bad could happen. Right T-800?
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' "moral" imperative' ? really? 
I suppose the meaning of "moral" is slightly different for me than to the military and politicians
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DirectML is available in every one of the billion Windows 10 devices worldwide, and over a hundred applications already take advantage of DirectML—with over two hundred million GPU-hardware accelerated inferences performed daily on Windows. ... ... ... I got nothing.
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Something like "We trained the machines until No-Code was no longer a joke..." But then we had to send someone back in time...  
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So, looking on how the world goes, the QA and the average computer user... the machine is going to be learning crap 98% of the time...
And then we will wonder and complain if they just want to wipe us out
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DirectML = DirectAIL, the politically-correct term used in the printing industry, of which I am a small cog in a large-ish commercial inkjet printing system company
Bonus points for anyone seeing what I did there...
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 29-Jan-21 9:05am.
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Visual Studio Code only succeeded because a failed online editor was pivoted to become a desktop product, according to Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Erich Gamma. Those that don't study history are doomed to rewrite code editors
I did not know that Erich Gamma was at the Fish Shoppe. They've really got quite the collection going on, don't they?
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A new web standard is playing off of California’s powerful privacy law If at first you fail, try and fail again
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But...
Will that protect users privacy?
Or will it help corporations to be more private whilst slurping your data?
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'Global Privacy Control' doesn't sound in the slightest bit dodgy...
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Each week viewers can tune in and code alongside the hosts. In case you want to get your head in the clouds
And it's on Twitch, so you can join all the cool kids.
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With the start of a new year, it’s common to reflect on what happened over the past year and plan for the upcoming year. In this article, I’m going to look at the state of WebAssembly in 2020 and where I see things going this year. "Fight on State. Strike your gait and win!"
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This post looks at how to use C# Source Generators to build an external DSL to represent mathematical expressions. Now you can write code to get the code to write code so you don't have to write code. Right?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now you can write code to get the code to write code so you don't have to write code. Right?
I thought we had an AI for that...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now you can write code to get the code to write code so you don't have to write code. Right?
Exactly. And management productizes that as "low code" or "no code" to the ignorant masses.
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A new neural implant can be operated and charged wirelessly, allowing scientists to control lab rats’ brains from afar and in more natural settings. Just what we needed - RC rats
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As long as they don't go Ka-Boom[^] 
On the other hand...
how long is it going to take to have the first "Asking for volunteers" to test this in humans?
And the worst... they are going to get plenty of them
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Politicians brains are simple; try an actual rodent.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Europe has had enough of the blurring between work and personal time – where your boss calls you in the evening or colleagues email at the weekend – and is mulling introducing legislation that would provide a “right to disconnect.” Can I set my official working hours to 1100 to 1101?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Can I set my official working hours to 1100 to 1101?
Sure! A regular work day has 8 hours, or 480 minutes.
1 minute is 0.21% of 480, so that will be the amount of salary you'll get for that amount of work
Don't you dare squander your minute at the coffee machine though
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Can I set my official working hours to 1100 to 1101?
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I never answered phones after 5pm.
I'm not a doctor, so it cannot be an emergency. If it is, call the emergency hotline, not me.
It can wait until I'm back.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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