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That's basically my understanding of it as well. What you're buying is basically just the transaction in a block on the chain that contains the bytes of the work. That's it. There's nothing stopping someone from selling the same thing added multiple times to the blockchain. Since there's no uniqueness guarantee, in my mind that makes it even less valuable than traditional reproductions.
What do I know though? Tons of people love crypto and I don't see the point in that. Why trade "real" money you can use for money you can't spend anywhere? It seems like a well-disguised pyramid scheme.
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By leveraging its new Multitask Unified Model (MUM) machine learning technology in small ways, the company hopes to kick off a virtuous cycle: it will provide more detail and context-rich answers, and in return it hopes users will ask more detailed and context-rich questions. Fortunately, you can still Bing for it
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"You'll find whatever we damn well want you to find!"
(I have noticed that verbatim search no longer guarantees the results contain all the terms you entered in the search. I'm sure this will make the results even more unusable.)
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Over the next year, the majority of hiring managers in the tech space "plan to increase their use of freelancers," according to a new Upwork report. "You'll get going while the going's still good. You're so very unnecessarily mercenary."
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I love a good bug, especially ones that are initially hard to explain but then turn into forehead slapping moments - of course! Sometimes you just need a wooden stake
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A study shows humans willingly choose physical pain over difficult mental tasks. Which is why we'd rather bang our heads on the desk, rather than debug code?
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I must be weirder than I thought. I love difficult mental tasks. I wouldn't touch C++ otherwise.
Real programmers use butterflies
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You took the words out of my mouth, although I wasn't thinking of C++ specifically!
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Shouldn't we be suspicious of experiment that inflict pain of experimenters?!
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Inflicting pain on the experimenters is what they deserve. Inflicting pain on the subjects is a problem. It hope (for the experimenters' sakes) that the local Helsinki Committee signed off on 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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Quote: A 2020 study suggests that thinking hard can actually be more unpleasant than real, physical pain
That, unfortunately, is plain to see these days.
I'm currently reading Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson which talks about the role the brain plays in Endurance sports. As a cyclist, data and gadget geek I'm deep into the numbers for my sport, recording heart rate, HR variability, Muscle oxygen, power, breathing rate, cadence and occasionally blood lactate, all in the name of trying to understand my limiters and ensure my workouts are targeted at the areas needed.
How the brain affects performance is really, really interesting, and anyone who's exercised to the point they've depleted their energy stores such that their brain is no longer getting the glucose it needs understands, painfully, the concept of the brain being the limiter.
I was reading last night about brain training, where they have people complete intensely boring tasks before a workout to (a) measure the effect (you perform well below peak), and (b) to train the brain to adapt to this mental fatigue to restore your capacity to direct your body to keep working under this fatigue.
I was thinking: I bet us programmers are really, really, really good at hours-long mentally fatiguing exercises. It would be interesting to test this.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Businesses could make their employment prospects more attractive by addressing 'technical debt', according to a new survey of software engineers. That's OK. They'll find bad code in their new job as well.
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Hope they find work at that utopian-like place where there's no changes in deadlines, changes in specifications, where time can be taken to implement, document, and verify an important fix before pushing it out, where code reviews are positive learning nurturing experiences, where coding policies are clear and understood by all....
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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and may they be stuck in the corner, working on old Crystal Reports
TTFN - Kent
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Indeed!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They'll find bad code in their new job as well. That's the reason I am not quitting my current f***ing job.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released guidance for hardening the security of virtual private network (VPN) solutions. I'm sure the guidance also works against security agencies?
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Just use our algorithms. Trust us.
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Google's lawyers told the EU courts on Tuesday that its overwhelming search dominance is due to user choice. How else are they going to find anything?
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The founder of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity companies has been arrested on suspicion of state treason and will be held in a notorious prison run by the security services for the next two months, a Moscow court said on Wednesday.
The charges against Ilya Sachkov, founder of Group-IB, are classified and details of them were not immediately clear. State-run news agency Tass cited an anonymous source who said Sachkov denied passing on secret information to foreign intelligence services.
Group-IB, which specializes in preventing cybercrime and ransomware, confirmed that law enforcement raided its officers yesterday but said it did not know the reason for Sachkov’s arrest.
How do you say "Tell us that spreading ransomware is government policy without saying that 'spreading ransomware is government policy'" in Russian?
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
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This custom backdoor lets attackers remotely steal tokens and certificates from Microsoft's identity platform. "Shake for me girl, I wanna be your backdoor man"
"FoggyWeb is stored in the encrypted file Windows.Data.TimeZones.zh-PH.pri, while the malicious file version.dll can be described as its loader." See?! I told you time zones were evil!
Lovely in-depth writeup on the Microsoft article linked, but I don't see the words "fix" or "solution" anywhere in it.
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Ah, the SolarWind gift that keeps on giving. I wonder what else they are going to find under the hood.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Amazon and Epic Games Store will be the first to integrate into the Microsoft Store The store is coming from inside the store
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Why do I have the impression that this is not going to end well?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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