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There's failing, and, then, there's flailing.
When I am focused and on track towards a generalized solution, and fail ... perhaps a vitamin.
When I am gnashing my teeth figuring out some weird quirk in a WinForm Control, or searching incomprehensible, disorganized, incomplete, erroneous, MSDN docs for a work-around for some Win issue: I am flailing, and it has no future value.
To use an agricultural metaphor: learning occurs in a (potentially) fertile context. However, there are times when getting your ego totally crushed because you realize your arrogance or assumptions caused you to waste a lot of intellectual capital on a dead-end ... has a salubriously sobering value
«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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B students of the world unite!
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: And here I thought it was when you fail 85% of the time
That only applies to management.
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Trend Micro has revealed a "security incident" leading to the theft of personal data from customers caused by a former employee. Nevermind the hackers, fear the employees
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Oh wow, that is one hard working to sell to 120,000 customers... oh, wait he did ... ah ... how did not sell more, company claims to have 12 million clients?
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maze3 wrote: how did not sell more, company claims to have 12 million clients? Other department responsibility? Privilege restrictions?
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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It’s like having a newbie version or Ableton—or some web-based tool for creating simple beats—right on your desktop. It's better sounding than my last budget forecast spreadsheet
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The institute originally announced the system, GPT-2, in February this year, but withheld the full version of the program out of fear it would be used to spread fake news, spam, and disinformation. So it's only "kind of dangerous"? Dangerish?
Anna Karenina it's not[^]
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well crap talk was always dangerous.. this needs to be shutdown... I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It looks like Microsoft could finally bring Chromium-powered Edge, the revamped browser with dark mode and a set of exciting features to Linux. Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux?
... and they either come with Chrome pre-installed, or already have a tool to download Chrome.
I'm really not seeing the point of this.
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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/shrug. Checkmark programming I guess, or to prove they're "The New Microsoft(tm)"
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: or to prove they're "The New Microsoft(tm)" And they should have staid with the "old microsoft"... things would go better
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because there aren't any web browsers for Linux? No!
Because Linux needs yet another skin over Chromium!
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Teachable Machine 2.0 lets you train your own machine learning model with the click of a button, no coding required, and export it to websites, apps, physical machines and more. Teach... your machine well...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with the click of a button, no coding required, and... in other words... no understanding needed and it might be accesses / used / spread by every moron...
What can go wrong?
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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Researchers from the University of Cambridge have built a neural network they claim can solve the three-body problem much faster than a conventional computer, giving astronomers a leg up in understanding phenomena such as the behavior of star clusters as they collapse or the formation of black hole systems. OK, smarty-pants, do four now
I guess they'll have to rename that Liu Cixin book now (it's pretty good, IMO)
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Microsoft rewrote a low-level Windows component in Rust. Calls the experience "generally positive." And people think the existing Windows codebase is rusty
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Do I need a new sig now?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The old one is rusty, yes
TTFN - Kent
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I am certain MS will digest Rust, and, soon, come up with a rebranded initiative named "Fungus."
«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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That's too wide a divergence in the name, I suggest verdigris.
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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Dan Neely wrote:I suggest verdigris. Quote: verdigris (n.)c. 1300, vertegrez, from Old French verte grez (13c.), verte de Grece (late 12c.), literally "green of Greece," from obsolete French verd, from Latin viridis (see verdure). The reason for it being called that is not known. In other languages, "green of Spain" (German grünspan, Danish spanskgrönt, Dutch spaansch-groen), from Medieval Latin viride Hispanum. Current spelling in English is from 1789. In chemistry, confined to a basic copper acetate; popularly applied to the green encrustation on copper or brass exposed to the air. [^]
«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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Yup. You get 1 fake internet point for guessing which part of that I was thinking of.
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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Patina
#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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