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For the past month, Blue Origin has been auctioning off a ride to space. "From their first day on Earth they will be able to look up and know that there is law and order in the heavens."
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To infinity... and beyond!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One would hope, but I'm not sure that comes with Prime 
TTFN - Kent
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: To infinity... and beyond!
If the spaceship is not coming back...
would it be possible to add some politicians, lawyers and managers to the passengers list?
We could do something like the Noah's Arche but in the opposite way...  
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Nelek wrote: like the Noah's Arche but in the opposite way
Darwins Ark? 
"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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What does the ex-wife get if the rocket blows up?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Next in our series on the API changes for .NET 6, we look at collections. Arrays ought to be enough for everyone
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Performance, performance, performance, ...
What about easy to read and thus easy to understand code which can be easily maintained? Where you do not need to do a terribly long search to find out where some object could be changed because of its mutability?
Isn't that the actual performance to care for: the time taken by developers to work with the code?
"Mutable Structs" are surely the wrong direction.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: Isn't that the actual performance to care for: the time taken by developers to work with the code?
90% of the time... I agree.
But there are cases where the execution performance might still be really very important and every spared ns makes a difference.
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: ... and in those cases you'd use a modern language like C#? Instead of plain old C or Fortran?
As if you could always choose what to use and how to use it 
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- I mean if they made .NET Collection much slower instead of slightly faster I'll be annoyed...
- They are not going to change the API/public interface so your complaint is moot
- how does your comment related to the .NET Collection in anyway btw? or the .NET Api?
If your code is obfuscated, that's your problem. My .NET code has only become simpler and more beautiful over the year, and while some of it is experience, some other of it is ongoing improvement in the C# language.
Couldn't they wave some sort of magic want and make my (and yours, to be precise) code beautiful you ask?
I Think the answer is no.. but hey, apparently the code assisting AI in Visual Studio is becoming a lot more cleverer for VS2022, I heard! 
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I assumed there was very little I couldn’t do with my Apple Watch given it has its own well-stocked app store, but Nick Bild has shown me the error of my ways with this delightful Commodore 64-themed C64 Watch that not only has a retro-inspired watch face but a built-in BASIC interpreter too for coding on the go. Can I plug in a ROM cartridge?
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Is Basic taking over Doom?
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Waste of time and money - it is only looks like a C64... Event the BASIC is incompatible...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Black holes are nature’s fastest data-scramblers, and new research suggests that secrets thrown into them may be more secure than previously thought. Good news for those of you using black holes to encrypt your data
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Kent Sharkey wrote: using black holes to encrypt your data
Doesn't everyone?!
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Quote: ...One school of thought holds that information does escape from black holes in the form of photons emitted via a process known as Hawking radiation. This theory received some corroboration in 2019, but the jury is still out...
Quote: ...Assuming that black holes do encode information in Hawking radiation, they showed that when a message is sent into a black hole, its pieces can be rapidly recovered by capturing a few of the emitted photons...
Well, isn't that conclusive! < _insert_sarcasm_regarding_immediate_usefulness_here >
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In fairness, they are working from theory alone. Even if we could create a black hole in the laboratory, we certainly wouldn't want to do it anywhere near the Earth (or possibly - the Solar System), so experimental work will have to wait on major advances in space travel technology.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The article title is not theoretical!
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Security consultants are very similar to black-hole...
There is no way the report will come back all green (even you just fixed all the red/yellow issues from last week)...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You already know that side projects can help you get a better job. This article covers how they can help you advance your career. Here's the inpiration you need to make the most of your projects and make yourself proud. Always keep a little on the side?
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Side projects...
I whish I had the needed spare time
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The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms And the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire
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Quote: Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’
Maybe she reads the insider news? We have been saying it for a while now... 
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