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Marc Clifton wrote: Letting junior programmers write code without code reviews.
FYFY. Just because experience means we've already done so many of the bad ideas that occur to kids who don't know any better doesn't mean we're immune to occasional attacks of stupid.
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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Over the past year, Microsoft has pitched a new and better environment for PC gaming that includes the use of Windows 10 as its catalyst. Odds are you will not pass go, you will not collect $200
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Intel today introduced a new chip module it calls Joule, a tiny board for developers designed to bring powerful computer vision technology to cheap and easy-to-make prototypes. I see what you did there
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Microsoft says a fix is in the works, offers temporary workaround that isn't very feasible. That's just the "thank you" for installing
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The only issue I had was the coincidence of Firefox going "full HTML5", which is causing all sorts of grief with video.
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The MS part of my update went completely fine. Razer OTOH won itself another Elephanting Sunshine of the Week award.
They're the only company who sells left handed ergonomic mice, so I don't have any real choice about using their products. The issue is that their default appearance is brightly lit and flashy in the tackiest sort of "gamer" way, and in order to save a penny on the BOM there's no onboard storage in the mice themselves so I need to run their crappy cloud based manglement software on every PC I use to turn the lights off after every boot/mouse plugin.  (If I was gaming on multiple PCs and creating complex per game button mappings/macros being able to store them in the cloud would be a useful value add. But I don't and I'm not so it isn't.)
The reason for their dishonor last night was that their software managed to inject installing an updated version of itself into the middle of what was billed as a walk away and let it churn and reboot itself repeatedly upgrade process and sat there requiring me to click an I Agree button before it started doing anything. And while it was probably coincidental timing (I've had more than a few similar problems from other OS/Video driver updates before) the point it injected itself into the process corresponded with the OS updater moving from my main monitor to one of my side ones without realizing that the side monitor was oriented in portrait not landscape mode just to make everything that much more annoying to read and interact with via mouse. 
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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Quote: Microsoft claims the freezing issue is experienced only on computers with SSDs where apps are installed on a different drive than the one where Windows 10 is installed.
Like every PC in this room (14)! And MS really think we will move our software?! Especially those MS software that can not be moved?!
How lucky we are - we have no W10... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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SpaceX appears to be betting big on carbon fiber composites, which could increase the capacity of its future rockets to get people and supplies into space—and eventually to the surface of Mars. I wonder how many you get for that kind of cash?
And can you use them to knit a sweater?
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It's not Elon Musk's money; it rarely is.
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Microsoft is starting to roll out the Anniversary Update version of Windows 10 Mobile, beginning with those who have unlocked devices. That guy is going to be really happy
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Quote: Carriers are in charge of when they'll release the update to those without unlocked devices.
So W10 for phones not for free?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Internet Explorer was released in the Windows 95 era and quickly managed to beat Netscape as the most popular browser on Windows PCs. Now legally allowed to drink in the US, which is appropriate because of all the people IE drove to drink
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Researchers at OpenAI are developing algorithms capable of learning language by reading the Web and controlling robots through practice. In the future, all of it's conversations will be in the form of memes and image macros
An AI that has learned language (and presumably human interaction skills) using Reddit? Yeah, we're doomed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, we're doomed.
Why? That will postpone the judgment day maybe forever...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Reddit? Really?
How cruel to put such an innocent computer through such major pain and suffering!
Computer Lives Matter!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Google Duo, a new video chat app that works exclusively on phones, is getting released today. Oh good. We were running short on video chat apps
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh good. We were running short on video chat apps
That's why they come in Duo... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Windows 10 users will be able to dive into mixed reality starting next year, with an update planned that can let any “mainstream” Windows 10 PC run the Windows Holographic shell the company first revealed in January 2015. Jem available separately
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So Windows 10 2017 edition will have applications that are indented to function in both Desktop and TabletHologram mode? I'm certain that won't cause any problems with applications not working optimally in either mode.
PS I've also got a bridge to sell. Or beachfront property if you want some time in the sun. Come on. Trust me. Pull my finger. 
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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For the first time, using a model of a black hole that traps sound instead of light, scientists have seen spontaneous evidence of what comes out of them. You had me at, "Aaaaah! Tabletop black holes! Our tables are DOOMED!"
Or perhaps just turned.
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Given that sonic "black holes" are a non-relativistic phenomenon, this would seem to imply that Hawking radiation occurs even (only?) in a non-relativistic environment. A relativistic environment would appear to give different results:
- The energy required to create a virtual pair of particles may only be borrowed for a time shorter than h/E, where h is Planck's constant and E is the total energy of the particles.
- During this time, the particles cannot travel more than a distance of hc/E, where c is the speed of light.
- In order to escape the black hole, the "surviving" particle will experience a gravitational red shift, which will change the spectrum of the emitted radiation.
- The gravitational red shift will be greater for particles closer to the event horizon, i.e. for the more energetic particles.
The above points appear to imply that if the radiation from a real black hole is "black body" radiation, the radiation from the sonic "black hole" will not be "black body".
Any physicists are welcome to correct me. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Whoever serves first in ping pong wins.
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It's called a "Hawking Hole".
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Beginning October 2016, you will be able to install a new update release called the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup. The rollup will update the .NET Framework with the latest security and quality improvements. One patch a month! Sign me up.
Wasn't that the promise of Patch Tuesday?
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