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What could be better in the holiday season than a little bit of Pi mixed in with some tradition and Donald Knuth. Find out what Pi has to say about computer programming. 'Tis the season
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Well... the publication of volume 4b of his 'The Art of Computer Programming' would make a very good present for me!
(I don't mean fascicle 4b; I mean the second half of volume 4)
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: the publication of volume 4b of his 'The Art of Computer Programming' would make a very good present for me!
Pity that the people who would like to have such an information are probably not going to read this post  
M.D.V. 
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Microsoft recently confirmed that they will be switching Fast Ring to the active development branch (called “RS_PRERELEASE”). This means that Windows Insiders on Fast Ring will receive new features which are not necessarily tied to a specific Windows 10 update bi-yearly update. Because we need those new icons NOW
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have they separated annoying internet explorer?
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Yes. Now you get annoying Microsoft Edge 
TTFN - Kent
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Why would ANYONE in their right mind want to use binaries from the active development branch? That's just begging for trouble.
".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
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#realJSOP wrote: Why would ANYONE in their right mind want to use binaries from the active development branch? That's just begging for trouble.
Kind of worrying, but not really surprising after the last couple of years...
That would even make somehow sense and probably explain some of the things happening.
M.D.V.
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Such as?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Doesn't make sense to me...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Newly surfaced doc outlines FBI's IDLE program—which teases thieves with "decoy data." Security through entrapment?
It worked for the Greeks (once), right?
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Those who love their Cheerios for breakfast are well acquainted with how those last few tasty little "O"s tend to clump together in the bowl: either drifting to the center, or to the outer edges. Vital knowledge, to advance humanity
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Cheerios are actually sentient beings that group together for warmth and common defense.
".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
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Unfortunately for them, clumping together in a bowl of milk is poor defence against a 9-mil.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So... what was the dollar value of the research grant that funded this?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Much like the Toy-Story alien groupies.
Quote: It all adds up to a type of capillary action. Basically, the mass of the Cheerios is insufficient to break the milk's surface tension. But it's enough to put a tiny dent in the surface of the milk in the bowl, such that if two Cheerios are sufficiently close, they will naturally drift toward each other. The "dents" merge and the "O"s clump together. Add another Cheerio into the mix, and it, too, will follow the curvature in the milk to drift toward its fellow "O"s.
Proof of Einstein's theory of Gravity. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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With everything from cars, to trucks, to even airplanes going electric, the demand for batteries is going to continue to skyrocket in the coming years—but the availability of the materials currently used to make them is limited. "50,000 watts of power, and it's pushin' overload"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but the availability of the materials currently used to make them is limited.
Not only batteries, energy demand will be skirocketing too... they will need to be charged somewhere, somehow, somewhen
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Digital transformation is table stakes for being in business at all—but a new report from Microsoft illustrates how “tech intensity” takes things to another level. Code harder not faster?
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Kind of ironic to see what they say... and then suffer what they actually do  
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The most impactful lesson I've learned in 2019 has to be this quote - "Software Is About Developing Knowledge More Than Writing Code" by Li Hongyi "Developing knowledge" still shouldn't lead to bugs however
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Those who can, do. Those who can't write articles about how programming is everything but actually programming.
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I didn't read the article so I can't tell about it.
But I do agree with the content of the subject of Kent's message. I have always said, the best thing I learned in college, has nothing to do with the knowledge acquired. I am happy / proud that I learned how to learn by myself.
So yes, developing knowledge is a big plus
But again... I didn't (and probably won't) read the article, so I blindly trust what you say about it
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The Visual Studio Code development team placed a Santa hat on the settings gear icon in the IDE as has been done in the past for the holiday season, but this year someone objected. Happy holidays
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Threat actors breaching company networks are deploying a cornucopia of malware over the remote desktop protocol (RDP), without leaving a trace on target hosts. They're still technically *someone's* remote desktops, right?
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