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So after blockchain last year, they're now aiming for "practical" blockchain.
Because, despite the hype, it's still not very practical 
Stop trying to make blockchain happen. It's not going to happen.
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staff received emails indicating there will soon be layoffs at the company; according to another report from the Wall Street Journal, sources say that thousands of people are slated to lose jobs but that the decision had been delayed because WeWork has only “weeks” of money left and can’t afford to pay severance.
I think the last time I saw a fail trajectory this steep was during the dot-bomb nearly 20 years ago. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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
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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That money should be used to pay all the other things. But sadly it won't...
Many bad examples of these managers getting boni while the company is having problems and the workers are paying the consequences   
M.D.V. 
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Does that mean that in the US legal system the company may **** their workers by not laying them off and keeping them "employed" instead, without being able to pay them?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Probably not.
But the workers will have to sue the company for wages, arrears, etc. The company will in the meantime go bankrupt, and they will probably get pennies on the dollar, after the taxmen (and possibly the banksters) have gotten their bites off the top.
There should be a 10th circle of Hell for managers who do this.
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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As C++11 did it, C++20 will change the way we program modern C++. C++++
One could almost re-arrange all those '+' characters into something else...
Ah, sure enough - Anders did say it publicly[^]:
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Kent Sharkey wrote: C++++
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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
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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Extra marks for artistry!
TTFN - Kent
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Face Unlock bug lets someone unlock you're Pixel 4 phone while you're asleep or out cold. That is how most people get their photo taken, isn't it?
Or is that just me?
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And they still wonder, why I still prefer to use passwords
M.D.V.
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In a recent interview Bjarne Stroustrup advocates learning C++, the language he started to create while a PhD student in 1979. It might just be going somewhere
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Microsoft has already said that .NET Core is the future of .NET, which means if you haven’t started, you’ll need to start migrating your existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core. I have bad news, and I have good news
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They need to add Visual Fortran support to .Net Core. If they did that, I would brush off my old FORTRAN manuals and have a go.
Note: I was very disappointed when I found out that F# was not a newer version of FORTRAN. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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And Visual Cobol.
And Visual Mumps.
And Visual ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: you’ll need to start migrating your existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core.
Not likely. It's unlikely, in my opinion, that .Net will no longer exist on machines. That's a long way out.
New development should be on .Net core but I don't see the need to migrate.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Still waiting for SQL Server Reporting Services support in Core. Without that, we can't even think about porting.
"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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I ran compatibility analyzer on the .net 4.x MVC project I'm currently working on.
~80% compatible with core 3.0 the missing items almost entirely bits of low level aspnet guts that I've no idea what actually do/and thus have no clue how they could be replaced.
Conclusion; a port's not going to happen any time soon...
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
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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Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into "smart spies." Wasn't that the point of these?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wasn't that the point of these?
Yes, but only as long as they are the only ones making money from you. Third parties spying on you are not good for their business.
M.D.V.
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Microsoft introduced a new range of devices called Secured-core PCs which come with built-in protection against firmware attacks that have been increasingly used by state-sponsored hacking groups. Now taking odds on whether it will be hacked by the end of this year, or next
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Now taking odds on whether it will be hacked by the end of this year, or next
I go for blocking the own hardware to the point of forcing you to replace it.
M.D.V.
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MIT Review: "Military artificial intelligence can be easily and dangerously fooled: AI warfare is beginning to dominate military strategy in the US and China, but is the technology ready?"Quote: Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla electric car.
The team, from the security lab of the Chinese tech giant Tencent, demonstrated several ways to fool the AI algorithms on Tesla’s car. By subtly altering the data fed to the car’s sensors, the researchers were able to bamboozle and bewilder the artificial intelligence that runs the vehicle.
In one case, a TV screen contained a hidden pattern that tricked the windshield wipers into activating. In another, lane markings on the road were ever-so-slightly modified to confuse the autonomous driving system so that it drove over them and into the lane for oncoming traffic.
Tesla’s algorithms are normally brilliant at spotting drops of rain on a windshield or following the lines on the road, but they work in a way that’s fundamentally different from human perception. That makes such “deep learning” algorithms, which are rapidly sweeping through different industries for applications such as facial recognition and cancer diagnosis, surprisingly easy to fool if you find their weak points.
Leading a Tesla astray might not seem like a strategic threat to the United States. But what if similar techniques were used to fool attack drones, or software that analyzes satellite images, into seeing things that aren’t there—or not seeing things that are?
[^] Hopefully it will be a lot "smarter" than Google ad-AI that continually tries to sell me Chinese heavy-industry machine-tool-systems.
Note: you may need to register to read this: you get some number of free reads a month, and I'm happy to tell you they do not send sales messages.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Can't we just have an electric car?
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