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As lawmakers consider regulating use of personal data a survey from Entrust shows a muddled understanding of what is at stake. That's just what people without the SSN of 042-42-4242 think
And if you don't believe me, I'll post my banking information to prove it!
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"Dammit, not again"
- Arthur Dent
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A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI models from the need for a supercomputer. "More BRAINS!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations,
They have probably had a look to some places in the internet or TV programs...
even an spectrum 128k could be enough to simulate the brains of some of those people  
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With .NET 6 previews starting right around the corner, it is time to start getting excited for the new .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) that was announced at BUILD 2020. "Hey, it's okay, it's okay, you're welcome"
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I was working on a scenario that involved multiple components, where success is defined as “completes within 30 seconds”. The team that was responsible for the component that initiated the scenario had a number of quality metrics covering this scenario, each one focusing on a particular variation. Some of the metrics for a particular variation showed that the scenario was succeeding at a rate of 100%. On the other hand, my metrics for the component that completed the scenario showed that the scenario was failing miserably for the same variation on a certain category of systems.
So I took a closer look at the two sets of metrics to see why there was such a huge discrepancy.
Who tests the testers?
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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Possibly unrelated...
A colleague : Your process failed last night but reported success.
Me : No it didn't, it successfully reported* that it could not continue, which is success, not failure.
* In the the log, which they are too lazy to check. 
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I'm dealing with the opposite annoyance. My Veam backups are succeeding but reporting an error a few times/month. Something on my NAS is touching a temp file at precisely the wrong moment causing Veam to get an IO error and send off an email; a short time later it's able to clean up after itself because when I check in the morning everything is fine.
Setting it to not send errors at all isn't an option because my NAS is close to full, and I need to manually clean up old backups periodically so it has room to work. And there doesn't appear to be an option to either pause the error sending for a few minutes of retry, or to send a follow up it worked this time message if it encountered an initial error.
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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Same logic but negated:
My alma mater was running an old Univac 1100 mainframe running EXEC8 (this is long ago). We submitted batch jobs as punched card decks. For student accounts, jobs were limited to 15 seconds of CPU time; if this limit was exceeded, an exception handler wrote an entry into the error log of the job before aborting it.
To run longer jobs, you had to close the error log file early in the job. When the exception handler for 'CPU quota exceeded' tried to write to the (closed) log file, the handler crashed, and failed to abort the job. So the job completed successfully, although exceeding its CPU quota.
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You remind me of a company I worked for some 20 years ago:
they had a backup script for the customer, consisting of several steps.
At one specific customer, every single step failed. But overall, the script was able to call every single step, and thus reported success. Only in the log file could the failure be seen.
A couple of month later, they needed to use a backup, but none was actually available...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The quadruped robot can now use an arm to interact with its environment semi-autonomously "But hidden in his coat is a red right hand"
Fortunately no trigger finger (yet)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Fortunately no trigger finger (yet)
And middle finger?  
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It just says "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that" 
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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"quadruped" --- is it quadruarmed as well??
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no, it has a prehensile neck.
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 founder Jeff Bezos will step down from his role as CEO in the third quarter of this year and will be replaced by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, the Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday. I hope he has enough saved up for retirement
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I hope he has enough saved up for retirement
It is not what you have, it is the rythm of you wasting it what determines if it is enough or not.
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I'm curious to volunteer to try the wasting rhythm needed to burn up USD185billion
TTFN - Kent
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I would already be happy to have the opportunity to waste just 1 of it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I hope he has enough saved up for retirement
"American freedom" is the freedom not to do so. If society establishes systems where you through your working life are more or less forced to save up some money for your retirement, that is labeled as '*****lism', which is politics and therefore forbidden to bring up in the lounge. So I won't do that.
(Well, this is in The Insider News, not the lounge. But I assume that rules are roughly the same: No matter the 'professional' relevance of the question - if a discussion revels deep, fundamental conflicts at a professional level, it easily boils down to 'politics' in the professional / PC sense. So maybe you ought to be considerate if you want to reply to this post.
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$1 billion / year translates to $30 / second.
Given that Bezos has ~$185 billion, and that his life expectancy is certainly under 50 years, he could spend ~$100 / second, and still leave a few billion to his heirs.
I doubt we'll ever see him living under a bridge... 
EDIT: s/Besos/Bezos/
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 3-Feb-21 8:07am.
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Microsoft's 2021 plans for the Azure SDK include adding codified support for more programming languages, with mobile iOS and Android libraries on tap in the draft guidelines stage, along with general-purpose languages C, C++ and even Go, the flagship programming language for cloud rival Google. In case you want to collect $200 in the cloud?
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Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past? "I'd like to thank the guy who wrote the song that made my baby fall in love with me"
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Quote: The early blue screens merely threw up garbage that was generally unreadable. It was an indicator that a Bad Thing had happened, yet it wasn't until the advent of Windows 3.1 in April 1992 that things got a little more informative and helpful with what Plummer called "the control-alt-delete" screen.
Helpful and informative... giving the same code for X different reasons... Yeah, right 
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Dig into old books of typography and the like, from long before the age of computers and screens:
For readability, two combinations stand out: White on blue, and black on yellow. For fifty years or more (actually, much more) these two combinations have been recognized as the most readable combinations. Traffic signs very often being black on yellow, pointers to e.g. attractions being white on blue, is certainly no coincidence, but the result of thorough empirical studies.
White-on-blue is actually slightly better than black-on-yellow for reqadabilty. So ideally, traffic signs should rather have adopted white-on-blue rather than black-on-yellow. The difference in readability isn't essential.
White-on-blue tops the readability list of background/foreground color combinations. Maybe today's software developers think any other color combination would smell just as well, but the original DOS developers (and their predecessors) were well aware that the the colors were not chosen at random.
When we provide software developers with mechanisms for 'syntax coloring', however... They don't have a clue about 'readability'! Sometimes, it looks like 'I have a bigger palette than you!' type contest.
So usually I edit those color maps to give me the essential text in highly readable white-on-blue. So if something is more or less unreadable, due to the choice of colors, that catches my attention.
(Which brings back a memory from my teenage days, totally off-topic:
I was an apprentice in a newspaper office with a serial line to the central office. The line driver constantly reported "framing error", indicating that the 0s and 1s didn't fit in. Investigations revealed that this happened only when the message was too short for the receiver to synchronize properly, which happened only when the message was a single byte. A 2+ byte message made the receiver synchronize properly.
There was one single case where the remote part sent a single byte message: As a positive ACKnowledge byte - successful operation. Negative acknowledge was always supplemented with additional data.
So until the the low layer ddriver was fixed. the higher level drivers were recoded to interpret 'Framing error' as a positive acknowledge.
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