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That is a great feature you know. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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... and in Berkley's internet domain to name them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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ExtremeTech, March 18: " ... researchers from Nanyang Technical University in Singapore have developed a new technology they think is already capable of the ‘brain-like’ computing effects many have imagined for it.
The secret to their new device is something they call ‘photonic synapses’. They are exactly what they sound like: networks of light-bearing amorphous metal-sulphide microfibers that make synapses on to each other much like those found in actual brains. These unique microfibers aren’t something they just pulled out of thin air. The so-called ‘chalcogenoid’ alloys, alloys with elements like sulphur, selenium, or telluride, are prized in the fiber business for the unique optical properties they give to glasses made with them. The researchers here used gallium lanthanum oxysulphide (GLSO, syc) fibers which can be photodarkened by light itself." [^]
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Probably they can define something near to brain. But the actual thing is the response, artificial intelligence and the intelligence itself are two different things. No matter how tough you build the program, there would be glitches in it.
But, let us give them a warm good luck for their product!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us." 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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What’s that got to do with the job? That’s what you’ll be thinking after looking through this list of oddball interview questions published by Glassdoor. Also known as the, "Ten companies you don't want to work at" list
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This is the only one that makes sense:
9. "You have a 1 mile long x 1 mile wide private island that you wish to turn into a resort. A plane requires a 2-mile long runway to take off. What do you do?"
I'd only allow cruise ships, duh.
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Catapult launch while blasting out the theme from Top Gun - tourists would love it
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Of course.. budget sick bag or deluxe? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Quote: 5. "How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?" - Facebook Online Sales Operations job candidate
I would charge absolutely nothing, but I would cover my costs by pasting advertising materials over 95% of the window's surface and then spend the rest of my time trying to make it bafflingly complicated to find out how to close the curtains.
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I regret I have but one upvote for that one.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I regret I have but one upvote for that one.
I'll sell you some upvotes. Reply privately and I can hook you up. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: 5. "How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?" - Facebook Online Sales Operations job candidate
About 20% more than it would cost to hire out the job.
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Sarcasm is the answer. Deliberate sarcasm is our only natural defense against involountary idiocy.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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den2k88 wrote: Deliberate sarcasm is our only natural defense
Riiiighht!!! It's our ONLY defense. Because there is no other defense possible at all.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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One year ago, on March 18, 2014, Java SE 8 was released, and with it, the bliss of functional programming through lambda expressions and the streams API. Oh, don't worry. There'll be another release along in 5 minutes. It might be on that one.
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Richard Matthew Stallman is a stubborn man. And it is this trait of his above all else that has spawned the wonderful world of free and open source software, a world that was barely hinted at when he wrote the first document about his intentions. But it's still not Unix
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By analysing these planetary systems, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have calculated the probability for the number of stars in the Milky Way that might have planets in the habitable zone. "Where is everybody?"
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1) Most life - even within an actual human - is simple and "intellectually unambitious" bacteria and smaller. I would expect extra terrestrial life to be similar.
2) Any communication (e.g. radio) that is able to leak across galaxies is massively wasteful and it is unlikely that it would be in use for a long period. For example, as soon as humans work out how to do point-to-point communication using neutrinos (or quantum entanglement) that communication would not be detectable.
3) The assumption that because life is found on earth, the conditions of earth are ideal for life is not strictly logical. If you consider the range of environments that bacteria and tardigrades can survive there is a distinct possibility that we are a distant (albeit exciting and productive) outlier of the true "goldilocks condition".
4) The above thoughts are largely the product of a bottle of Italian white wine. Errors and omissions (emissions?) excepted.
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That's a pretty good, and wise, bottle of Italian white wine!
Point three... a little quibble. Usually the Goldilocks zone is "liquid water possible", and I still think that - and a largely carbon-based metabolism - are probably commonish. The usefulness, and commonness of those two chemicals are difficult to ignore.
I need more wine to think on this. New corporate policy coming up! :wine: Wait! why doesn't that work? CHRIS!
TTFN - Kent
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True - but the Goldilocks zone is "liquid water possible due to solar influence". A radioactive core on a planet or gravitational "squashing" on a large moon orbiting a gas giant would also create liquid water outside that zone.
Also liquid methane / ammonia are also good candidates for supporting a different form of life.
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That's long been my opinion. We've anthropomorphised the search for life, by looking for it in our own image, or at least in the image of life on this stone.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ah true - as they now think with Encaladus/Europa. Good point.
I'm still skeptical about methane/ammonia. It's possible, but Nitrogen just doesn't have the flexibility as a molecule as Carbon. Only three possible bonds - with some of the combinations being highly reactive - limits its use in my mind. Of course, it could just be my mind that's limited. The bacteria search[^] could lead to some interesting (and possibly mind expanding) finds.
TTFN - Kent
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