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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, no idea why my brain went there. Sorry.
Probably because of the "left-pad" or the "water plant" or other news of the last days about remote access and dependencies between software?
I think it is something that is going to blow up when you expect it the less and will screw us all pretty much
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Quote: "Being able to work remote, where folks are in the same time zone, or one or two time zones away, is very different than working with teams that are spread across the globe," he said. "Once you have to deal with time zones, that forces you to go from synchronous to asynchronous in a whole bunch of ways, whether that's email, writing documents or using tools like whiteboarding. That ends up being a big part of the phase shift in terms of going from synchronous to asynchronous."
Overall I think it's a good blog post, but that paragraph made my brain go asynchronous.
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Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s star about six light-years out. Be vewy, vewy quiet - I'm hunting pwanets!
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So.. nothing in it for me? 
Just be glad criminals don't cooperate that way. Yet..
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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Container-based application deployment and execution has become very common. Nearly all cloud and server app developers we talk to use containers in some way. My .NET install didn't come in a box
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We can't use containers because a) it requires someone to install the supporting software on all of our servers, and b) they're DoD systems, so adding things like Docker are a potential security threat.
".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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Microsoft may have been looking to acquire social-media company Pinterest, according to a new report. But why? Because they're a consumer?
Why buy PInterest? Are they trying to corner the market on wedding planning? (Mental note - new feature for Teams!)
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More consumer social networks = more knowledge, more opportunities to sell advertising, more opportunities to sell aggregate (supposedly) data.
There is money in them there consumers.
Free Pinterest with your Windows365 (or whatever it's called) subscription? Etc.
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Because data is information and information is money / power?
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Microsoft has fixed a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) that could allow attackers to gain admin rights on unpatched Windows systems. Apparently no one defends the Defender
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So, can we expect a Windows Defender Defender in the next update? I can visualize the shield-in-a-shield icon now... 
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Probably something similar to the bugs of bitdefender?  
ADDITION (I just remembered it):
The 3 bugs about TCP a couple of days ago are 12 or more years old too...
looks like bug's puberty is not compatible with remaining hidden
I wonder what will come out once they reach the legal adult age.  
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modified 12-Feb-21 5:21am.
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From the annals of “nothing to see here,” China’s largest state physics lab is insisting it’s not helping a private company build a time machine. That's what they *always* said
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The announcement is dated 25-Jun-2097.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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If they succeeded, we would have known a thousand years ago.
There's no time travel, but keep spending resources on it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If they succeeded, we would have known a thousand years ago.
A great many time travel scifi stories include the idea of a law that prevents disclosure of time travel to earlier societies. Some stories even have a police force to enforce this regulation.
So the lack of evidence for travelling back in time is not evidence of lack of time travel, even by our own current estimations of how it might work in practice.
Is it likely that it could work? Seems unlikely. But we are in no position to know that it absolutely cannot ever work. Spending a few billion dollars on finding out more seems like a good investment for the Chinese to me: If it doesn't pan out then the Chinese government is down some pocket change (and it will soon be replaced by western consumers eager for cheap goods). If, on the other hand, it does pan out then it was worth it.
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markrlondon wrote: A great many time travel scifi stories include the idea of a law that prevents disclosure of time travel to earlier societies. Some stories even have a police force to enforce this regulation.
So the lack of evidence for travelling back in time is not evidence of lack of time travel, even by our own current estimations of how it might work in practice.
Or it might have been possible and worked, but created another temporal line / parallel reality. And we still would never know.
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Hah, quite!
I'm partial to the time stream concept of time (i.e. that there are multiple parallel universes or streams of time, with many possible outcomes all continually diverging or perhaps reconverging) and what you suggest would fit.
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markrlondon wrote: A great many time travel scifi stories include the idea of a law that prevents disclosure of time travel to earlier societies. Some stories even have a police force to enforce this regulation.
And there's never a "mistake" where they get found out? Ever? Because humans from the future don't make those mistakes?
Like aliens; if either existed, we would have seen them. And we have no written recording of either.
We cannot even send information back, so not worried about humans being sent. (Just binge watched "travellers" on NetFlix)
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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If they could build a time machine, maybe the first thing they could use it for is to stop the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2? 
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12 monkeys?
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Would that be to China's advantage? They don't seem to have suffered, strategically speaking.
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Economically, they do, still. And they depending a lot on economy and trade. Having food gives stability.
And their population still at risk, moreso due the mutations. That's what scares me most; the flu doesn't mutate at that rate. If it is not eliminated soon and the vaccine not world wide, we'll meet a version that adapts to the vaccine.
I dare not think about how this evolves in the next five years.
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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If you're looking at a future in software engineering, these are the platforms and languages you should get a handle on. Because that's what people enjoy - the interviews
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The argument boils down to "if you don't know we messed up, it can't hurt you." I wonder how well it would work if I tried that
No more suing me for bad song lyrics, meanness to a certain company, or horrid puns (sorry, that last one is redundant).
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