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No Darth Vader? 
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Thanks to NASA and space agencies in Europe and Canada, the world has a brilliant new space telescope that will allow humanity to see further back into the depths of galactic time than ever before. The telescope might even identify the first truly Earth-like worlds around other stars. NASA is pretty darn cool. We should give them more money.
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Hurray, Canadians are going to start paying for NASA.
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Well... It didn't end well the last time Americans tried to make Foreign Neighbors pay for an expensive project...
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AMD will begin selling its latest budget GPU, the Radeon RX 6500 XT, on January 19th. Its retail price is $199. But the ongoing GPU shortage, caused in part by cryptocurrency miners and scalpers who are snapping up every card they can get, has made it mostly impossible to get any graphics card at its list price over the past year. Not bad. Maybe I'll sell my six year-old card at a profit and start saving now.
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On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems.
However, something went very wrong. MongoDB - I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!
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Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Well there's always the community maintained version of faker.js
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This is why I refuse to use external jquery libs in my web apps.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Google has accused Apple of benefiting from bullying as part of a deliberate strategy to make Android users into second-class citizens on the iPhone-maker’s iMessage service. Aw, but ain't that America
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However, as Malcolm Murdock, machine-learning engineer and author of the 2019 novel The Quantum Price, puts it, “AI doesn’t have to be sentient to kill us all. There are plenty of other scenarios that will wipe us out before sentient AI becomes a problem.” All you gotta do is make a button I can't stop pushing. So you're halfway there.
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A National Labor Relations Board ruling sheds light on a highly secret anti-union campaign at Google, that a top executive explicitly described as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions suck." Sounds like people were in a genuine conspiracycahoots.
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Now, physicists have revisited this unusual mechanism for interstellar travel in a new paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica, and alas, they have found the ramjet wanting. "It is very unlikely that even Kardashev civilizations of type II might build magnetic ramjets."
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Traditionally, software development was (and still is, in large part) done on individual machines using integrated developer environment (IDE) tools like VSCode, JetBrains, Eclipse, etc. While this model of “offline” development worked really well in earlier days, it was soon noticed that this approach was not without its own share of setbacks. But what will I say intead of "it works on my machine?"
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He lists 3 benefits, and five downsides. The verdict? Cloud-based IDEs are not suitable, nor advisable.
Development should NOT be done on a cloud system. You become constrained by the hosting company's arbitrary and overly restrictive security concerns, ON TOP OF your own organization's security requirements. Ask me how I know.
If your cloud gets hacked, say bye bye to your code base as well. Nothing about cloud-based development is good.
".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
modified 10-Jan-22 11:37am.
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And the snarky comments that you write when working on other people's code, but usually have the good sense to remove before the commit, end up being visible!
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Communication is its own form of enjoyment!
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It is with a heavy heart we report that Microsoft's redesigned Notepad has begun to make its way to the Windows Insider Beta channel, taking one step closer to end users already reeling from the Windows 11 experience. You dare touch the sacred texts!?
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Security researchers from JFrog said on Thursday that they discovered a critical JNDI-based vulnerability in the H2 database console exploiting a root cause similar to Log4Shell. What we have here is a variant.
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Nearly one in five professional jobs are now advertised as remote roles, with software and developer roles bringing the highest-paying remote-working opportunities. My salary goes up, but my pants options go down.
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I first read this as "My salary goes up, but my pants go down", thinking it was a reference to working remotely. 
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The majority of companies have now deployed machine learning (ML), making it the most popular subset of artificial intelligence (AI), a new report suggests. Half of the time when companies say they need "AI" what they really need is a SELECT clause with GROUP BY. - Mat Velloso
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Following a preliminary ruling in August, the US International Trade Commission has issued a final decision saying that Google infringed five Sonos smart speaker patents. *unplugs Google Nest* That'll show 'em.
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Next, Google gets sued by customers for false advertising. (And all because they don't want to pay a licensing fee.)
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Meta will continue to use a modified version of Android after all. It seems creating an OS is difficult, Metaverse Edition
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Wow. They pulled the plug faster than Google pulls the plug on their stuff.
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