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That's why I try to disconnect all automatic updates everywhere and trigger it manually a bit later, enough to see if something pop in the news or not.
M.D.V. 
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These are the coding languages that devs like to work with, and the ones they want to avoid. "This one goes out to the one I love"
"This one goes out to the one I've left behind"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "This one goes out to the one I've left behind"
Her name is VB6 and she's a stalker.
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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A tour of Intel’s Israeli research laboratory has accidentally leaked the next generation of Thunderbolt. "Very, very frightening me"
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Quote: Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
the same old song 
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Some days my brain is just stuck on "the classics"
TTFN - Kent
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ACDC thunderstruck would have been a good pick for the pun too
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Sometimes, locking down a laptop with the latest defenses isn't enough. All the security in the world won't save you from someone with physical access, part TPM
edit: fixed link 
modified 3-Aug-21 12:58pm.
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Once again, if you have physical access, assume there is no security.
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Nice link, though are you sure that's the one you meant?
"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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Dah. Dang clipboard. Fixing, thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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Let's see them use it to break into my OpenVMS systems...
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GitLab has released a new open-source tool, Package Hunter, aimed to detect malicious code by running your project dependencies inside a sandbox. Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting bugs.
Not Bugs (this time)
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Tracking facial movements—and possibly their cause—is one of the proposed applications for NeckFace, one of the first necklace-type wearable sensing technologies. My face has also been known to show my detailed facial expressions
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CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans. What if you held an office, but no one came?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if you held an office, but no one came?
You could save a lot of rent?
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Which is why my previously remote-hesitant employer is ditching most of their office space.
OTOH beyond the fact that we proved the doubters wrong over the last 16 months; our current lease ending in December probably has a lot to do with the decision to downsize to a smaller space. Probably keeping the same number/size meeting rooms (one big one that can fit 20-30 people at pre-pandemic densities - enough to fit everyone localish, and a smaller one with room for 6-8) but just a few offices for people who are going in regularly and a few extra desks for people present very infrequently (ie in for meetings but not in the conference room all day).
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
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Does anyone know why there's such a mouth-foaming, feverish desire to have people in the office? I've never quite understood it. It's a win-win for both parties. A lot of people already have headphones in most of the day so it's not really all that different.
Businesses confuse me. They actively hurt their own profit in every way conceivable. Hiring is expensive? Let's pay rock-bottom wages to "save money" which causes a sky-high turnover rate that erases that savings instantly. Technical debt is expensive? Let's pile it up until our company folds. Office space is expensive? Let's force every employee to always work in the office so we maximize the square-footage we need to rent/buy.
It's like bizarro world 
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The chip is called Tensor, and it’s the first system-on-chip (SoC) designed by Google. If everyone else made their own chips would you do it too?
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The Drive reports that US Northern Command recently completed a string of tests for Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE), a combination of AI, cloud computing and sensors that could give the Pentagon the ability to predict events "days in advance," according to Command leader General Glen VanHerck. "This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace."
Yeah, I probably use that quote too often. It's the AI's decision to pick that, though.
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What's the next lotery winner ticket?
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Nelek wrote: What's the next lotery winner ticket?
The only question that matters 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Leonard Nimoy: I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters precognitive AI is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is no.
"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 TI-84 Plus CE Python is meant to introduce distraction-free programming to students. "Well chartered accountancy is rather exciting isn't it?"
Entering programs on it looks ... irritating.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Entering programs on it looks ... irritating.
I'd hope that these days you'd be able to USB upload from your PC. There weren't any reasonable options to do something like that when I was a kid though; and I still managed to write a decent number of "do this chapters math/physics problem for me" applications. 
The questions I have are:
1) When did TI start offering color displays? Casio only started sometime in the mid 90s.
2) Are they using conventional color LCDs, or the same weird as ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) tri-color thing[1] Casio did.
[1] It wasn't RGB sub-pixel based with varying brightness like a normal LCD. Instead there was a single element per pixel that would transition from orange to green to blue depending on the voltage applied to it. Which if you were using alkaline batteries instead of rechargables meant that you had to recalibrate the colors a few times as each cell dropped from 1.5v to 1.0v as it was used up. I don't remember if brightness was adjustable but the pixels only had on/off states.
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
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