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If everything goes according to plan, a very big rocket will take off from Florida on Feb. 6. It will rise beyond Earth's orbit and enter a highly elliptical orbit around the sun — periodically passing close to Mars. Compensating?
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Marketing?
Yuck, btw
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think the test flight thing was rather important since it originally was going to carry people. Apparently, that's off the table, but it's still going to be used for some satellites to spy on all of us.
Yeah, and because Musk has a rather huge ego (and Tesla is running out of money.)
(Edit: While I applaud what SpaceX did, I'm tired of all the FUD they and their proponents are spreading around, especially their claims about the cost of ULA launches and pretending that SpaceX isn't getting favorable contracts and other help from the government.)
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Microsoft will be ready to support PWAs in the Microsoft Store as of Windows 10 Redstone 4. Here's its game plan. That will really help UWP adoption (not)
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An article so nice, you posted it twice!
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What you talkin’ ‘bout, Willis? I only see it once.
Dang double-clickie
TTFN - Kent
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I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. And while you're at it, "How long is a string?"
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The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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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Although we don’t know for sure just yet, as Microsoft hasn’t made any sort of official announcements, the general line of thinking is that it’s the PC component in Microsoft’s future Windows strategy. Something to stop them going South?
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Worm-like infection targets devices that have seldom-used port 5555 open. Any port in a 5555torm
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DevOps. What a concept. Developers and IT operations teams working together to ensure applications are performant, can scale, and can deal with multi-stage deployments and rollbacks. OpsDev on the other hand
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A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Planet hunting: the Andromeda strain!
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Spending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain's structure and hurt one's ability to remember and learn, indicates groundbreaking research by neuroscientists. Dim bulbs make dim bulbs
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I cannot remember if I have a dimmer. I don't see one.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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A new and emerging technology is hitting the ground running, and creating a frenzy in the industry. "But I found out I'm just a link in your chain"
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In ten years: Remember when everyone was using that block chain stuff for everything? (Yes, I'm cleaning that crap out of code right now.)
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Quote: Blockchain is bringing the concept of trust to the Internet
The only people I see interested in Bitcoin (I know this is about blockchain, not bitcoin) are criminals and get-rich-quick artists. What happens when only those two types of people are interested in something? Endless scams. Endless, endless scams, from bitconnect to the million other scams just like it and even worse.
Quote: It can make things a lot more efficient in terms of confirming a transaction and storing data.
Really? Blockchain can handle, what, 3 or 4 transactions per second? VISA can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. Blockchain isn't scalable either, something their current debating\bickering over how to solve.
Terrible article, terrible "experts".
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Really? Blockchain can handle, what, 3 or 4 transactions per second? VISA can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. Blockchain isn't scalable either, something their current debating\bickering over how to solve.
That's specifically bitcoin. Other payment blockchains have been designed to scale to much larger volumes from the start, and for applications other than high volume payment systems even a bitcoin speed chain is more than fast enough. I'd expect most of those applications are using more scalable chains anyway though; just because no one's using BTC as a baseline implementation any more.
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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Even networks designed with performance can still only do a few hundred transactions per second. The very nature of what is being done means it is never going to be as fast as a centralised network. And like all things, it's a trade-off; to gain more performance you have to compromise elsewhere, be it integrity, latency, security or whatever.
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That article read like at least the first half of it (where I stopped) was written a month or two ago before all things crypto started plunging again.
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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As a concept, block chain is still relatively in its infancy; only time will tell how it will proceed or morph. If we disregarded all technology in its infancy that had to POTENTIAL to improve over time, we would never have the firearms we have now.
Thank about that... the first firearms didn't have a fast load rate, an accomplished archer could inflict more damage than the first firearms.. but the designers persisted.
So... before we condemn block chain, look into it and ignore the hype (good and bad).
Coincidentally, I received an e-mail from work last night about emerging technologies they have on their watch list - and block chain was there. I don't work for a speculator or a criminal, by the way.
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Learn how the compiler framework for programmatically generating machine-native code has made it easier than ever to roll new languages and enhance existing ones "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years"
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I didn't expect to find LL Cool J here
And for that, I'm NOT gonna knock you out
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Low levels of alcohol consumption may reduce inflammation and help the brain clear away toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Bad news for those who like their dirty minds
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