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Kent Sharkey wrote: A pair of mathematicians from Australia and France have devised an alternative way to multiply numbers together Does it start with "Alexa what is..."?
"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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Find out how long it takes to reach $100,000 as a developer in the US and how using Scala, Redis, Go, or Apache Spark will benefit you. Blurb writer still didn't make the list?
If it were by value, I'd be paying @chris-maunder...
"The situation in Europe, Russia, Brazil, and India is not quite as positive, with mostly stable salaries this year compared to last, controlling for education and experience."
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Bosses worldwide will be rejoicing after a British academic declared that banning work email use out of hours could negatively effect underlings' mental health. I'll reply to this one tomorrow morning
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Yes, the sudo command has a security bug. But, in the real world, it's hard to see how it could be used against you. "But I feel so good if I just say the word"
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"su-su-sudo" - isn't that a Phil Collins song?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Quote: But, in the real world, it's hard to see how it could be used against you. Which pretty much summarizes most "the sky is falling" vulnerabilities.
Researcher: We have discovered a vulnerability that lets us blah blah blah
Hacker: I asked the user to give me full access and he did.
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Although they aren’t widely used now, groups once served as a watering hole for discussion on wonderfully niche interests, such as TV show fan communities and extremely geeky computing topics — almost like Reddit does now. Disk space is expensive?
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Pretty sure that's December 14th, 2004. Yahoo died a long time ago.
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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The side-effect of being innovative is that some rather strange and unphysical ideas sometimes escape from NASA. This probably explains the Helical Drive. "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, etc. - all dead, white, males, out to prevent NASA reaching for the stars. The necromancy, race, and feminist conspiracy theorists must be having a field day!
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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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I spent my schooldays ignoring physics and can confirm that it did not leave me with near-infinite specific thrust.
I'm a small sample, though, so who knows what's (im)possible?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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A new Windows SDK will not be issued in conjunction with this version of Windows, since this release doesn’t introduce new APIs. That means there’s no need to target Windows 10, version 1909 or modify your project files. Grief
Is there ever another answer?
OK, in this case it sounds surprisingly limited. It hardly even sounds like a Service Pack level of discomfort.
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They should call it "Vienna" - after all, it means nothing to me[^].
"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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Audio .WAV files are the latest hiding place for obfuscated malicious code; a campaign has been spotted in which malicious content was secretly woven throughout the file’s audio data. "Turn me on, dead man"
Or the slightly more obscure: "The ultimate sound. And a message from Satan if you turn it around"
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Microsoft's Desktop Analytics is designed to help business users check their app-compatibility levels and mitigate issues involving the latest Windows 10 feature updates. Find out if your apps are compatible with Win10, before the apps find out for you
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OAM is a specification for describing applications so that the application description is separated from the details of how the application is deployed onto and managed by the infrastructure. Because we always need one more standard
And yes, there is an xkcd for that[^].
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> OAM is a specification for describing applications so that the application description is separated from the details of how the application is deployed onto and managed by the infrastructure.
Wow. So it's a description for describing descriptions that have no information on deploying and managing the application.
Is there a YouTube video I can watch instead?
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Cybercriminals have multiple markets to get illicit goods and prices on these underground forums are likely driven by supply and demand, just like in the legal economy. So, I'm not worthless?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm not worthless? Don't get confused... you are worth the same... it is your data what has value for them
But for what is worth... you are very valuable for us. Life would be a bit more boring without your news and comments
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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Not totally worthless.
You contain a few liters of water, a few kilograms of common organics, and a few kilograms of even more common inorganics. I'd set your value at $4.99 (Canadian dollars, that is).
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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My credit is so bad that I get sent a bill when someone steals my identity
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he’s “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars in the 1970s.” "Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know, he's in the best selling show"
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Note that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
The Viking landers did find signs of life, but the results were ambiguous. Of the four separate experiments designed to detect life or disprove its presence, one (Labeled Release, or LR) was a strong positive, one (Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometer) was a strong negative.
In 1980-81, I was a lab assistant on a NASA-sponsored project that tried to see if the LR results could be produced in other ways. To summarize and simplify, we discovered that finely-ground clay, with no organic matter whatsoever, could cause a similar release of CO2. Given that Mars has regular dust storms that would create such finely-ground particles, this introduced enough "reasonable doubt" that they could not say that life had been discovered.
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 Viking landers did find signs of life, but the results were ambiguous. Well they did first visit the north of England...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Mars was not called the red planet because of Eric the Red.
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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