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Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control. Let me check my smartphone to see what it says about this
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QM wrote: but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control.
Influencing you for 70%, yes, just not in direct control. We're not even close to that 
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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"Look, I got this person to do something dumb!"
Watches a TikTok video.
"Nevermind."
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Most people can't even control their own brain... Provided they have one 
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Any sufficiently advanced mind control is indistinguishable from your own thoughts and will deny its existence.
(With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke.)
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These are not the droids you are searching for...
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
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This month Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked at length about topics near and dear to his heart It's all the eyes
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Everytime I hear 'Point/Counterpoint' I can't help but think of the old Saturday Night Live skit.
"Jane, you ignorant slut..."
"Dan, you pompous ass..." 
"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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The New Stack wrote: Torvalds even adds later that “money really isn’t that great of a motivator. It doesn’t pull people together. Having a common project, and really feeling that you really can be a full partner in that project, that motivates people, I think.”
For someone who isn't motivated by money he sure makes a lot of it
The Linux Foundation pays Linus around $1.5 million per year to support the software. The foundation has a $50 million operating budget to manage thousands of programmers worldwide who make around 80,000 code fixes and additions in a given year.
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A foreign function and memory API, a new rendering pipeline for MacOS, and a uniform API for pseudo random number generators are planned for the Java long-term support release due in September. "I learned the truth at seventeen"
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Microsoft Teams for personal use exits preview Why should you only suffer at work?
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We have an all-day zoom at work every weekday.
I don't have any friends or family that I would want to be on a 24/7 Teams meeting with...
".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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As recently confirmed in a report published earlier this month, Windows 10X development has been paused. With that, it is expected that the Sun Valley Update would deliver a major UI redesign with more features from the cancelled operating system. Rounded corners are the new icon?
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I think they just realized that with rounded corners it is easier to bring up thing through your back entry... 
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
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If you work long hours every week, you may be increasing your risk of dying from a major cardiovascular event, according to the World Health Organization. It's not good for you? Wow, thanks WHO
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I long ago concluded that working more than 50 hours a week is counter-productive. I wonder, however, if the types of jobs where long work hours are common/expected are stressful in other ways (such that the work hours themselves are the least part of the problem.)
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What about 35? I think I am going that high at the moment... 
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That's what I have per contract 
I usually do a coupld of hours more per week, and then I do a couple of days shorter to compensate.
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
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Keep your apps safe and secure with these development techniques. If you don't have it now, you'll need it shortly
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And the example of secure software is [trumpet fanfare] using an exception to detect an illegal input.
Now, it is Java, and maybe that's the only way to do it. But there are already enough Java folks who don't give a rat's bottom about performance. Write once, crawl anywhere. At least they don't have to worry about buffer overruns, as far as I know.
But the code also catches any other exception, and writes it to the console!
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Quote: The code above is secure because it performs exception handling
Wow, that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
[HttpPost("DeleteTable")]
public object DeleteTable([FromBody] string tableName)
{
try
{
db.DeleteAllRecords(tableName);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Debugger.WriteLine($"Oops {ex.Message}");
}
Look! My code is secure!
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Your code is also missing a closing brace. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I wouldn't compile/run so it's even more secure!
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