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Combining this with poop AI (above), do we get artificially intelligent horse poop?
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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Hackers are showing an increased interest in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as an attack surface as they build new malware, the more advanced samples being suitable for espionage and downloading additional malicious modules. So Windows is now the Vulnerability Subsystem for Linux?
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"We’ve worked as software engineers at companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech and found that they all suffer from bad documentation, if it even existed at all" // assign 1 to i
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The code is the documentation. At least, that's what I've been told. I actually worked for people that don't believe in commenting for that very reason.
At my last job, I worked on a set of 12 applications that had no design specs (not even glossy overviews of specs), very few meaningful comments in the code, no data dictionary in the database, and no documentation related to the business rules.
It was a very high stress job.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Look at every bit of development tooling you use. What is a joy to use, and what is a pain? "Does this spark joy?"
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He makes a good point. And I like that his post is short and readable and leaves me with a "huh, something to think about." Same with his "Software that has a soul" post.
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Quote: As an example, I’ve gone back to powershell, and was trying to get information about a command, and so I tried:
<command-name> help
<command-name> /?
<command-name> --help
And none worked.
Why not? /? and –help have both been methods for getting help for decades — why wouldn’t powershell adopt them? Instead, I have to do:
Get-Help <command-name> Oh my friggin lord! Powershell is the linux of Windows. Thank God I've never delved into it!!!
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It's worse - it's documented like .NET is.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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This makes a lot of sense and I already developed my thoughts on this matter when I was learning GIT and the gurus were fixated with the command line and berating me for using a graphical tool.
The reality is that as developers we already deal with complexity, it's the core of our job to make sense of the complexity of the real world and model it in a logical and as simple as possible way. This means that every bot of added complexity makes our job more difficult.
Adding unnecessary complexity through hard to use tools is just a detriment and brings nothing to the table. And I'm not berating git command line: it is powerful and when I became a little more expert in the concepts and the usage of the tool I managed to integrate it in shell scripts to automate operations on repositories. It's just not the right tool for the everyday use of git for a developer (integrators have different needs of course).
A graphical tool with an ergonomic interface that shows the relevant informations in a single screenful simply makes the task of managing branches and revision that much simple, preserving brain power to manage the complexity that cannot be managed otherwise. And the same goes for compilers: gcc is powerful, VisualStudio is simple. I choose simple.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Four US engineering students were brainstorming the perfect invention for their product design course, when lunch inspiration -- literally -- fell into their laps. So I can stop using my staplegun?
Well... it is "technology", right?
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Earlier this month, a rumor suggested that Microsoft might be nearly ready to launch a Chromecast-like game streaming stick for its Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Can they save the icons?
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Only 104 critical vulnerabilities were reported in 2021, an all-time low for the world’s largest software company. Just imagine what things would have been like if hackers had easy access to all the Windows ME machines
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A team of scientists in the US have accidentally created overly-aggressive mutant hamsters following a gene-editing experiment. And this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with millions of adorable squeaks
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Notice the article didn't say anything about giving them water...
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I wonder what that really means?
Quote: The scientists chose to experiment with Syrian hamsters because, unlike mice, they have a social organisation that’s similar to humans
Also, I see no mention of mutant super powers... Is that a voluntary omission?!
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When are we (as we in human beings) going to learn that only because can do something, it doesn't mean we should do it...
Starting experiments with gene-editing... what could go wrong?
Note: I do see the potential good of it, but I can really imagine the probable evil of it (and then there are accidents too).
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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"What if it changes?" isn't just a question. It's a powerful heuristic for software design that can be used to justify almost anything. "Still don't know what I was waiting for"
Of course I had to use that song.
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Quote: It's a powerful heuristic for software design that can be used to justify almost anything. Yup, and the art of software is to find the balance between "oh, we didn't design the software for any new features" and "you want to add a time machine? No problem!"
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Hybrid working is a boon for wellbeing - but we might have some trust issues to work on. "You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care."
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GitHub revealed today that an attacker stole the login details of roughly 100,000 npm accounts during a mid-April security breach with the help of stolen OAuth app tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI. No Protection, Man
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Anyone with a 3D printer can make a new twist on the oldest type of TV Sorry, not 4K
I figure some of you might need a project for your long weekend, right?
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If I had a 3D printer, one of the first things I would do is: this thing[^]
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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Open, aim, shoot!
Shouldn't that be open, drink, shoot, aim?
Yes, I know my suggestion is against every firing safety rule in the book
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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Are capped glass bottles still commonplace in other countries?
Around here (Norway, that is), aluminum cans and plastic bottles (with a screw cap) has taken over more or less completely. There is no longer a deposit on glass bottles, but rather a heavy bottle tax: This year it is NOK 6.28 per packaging unit (i.e. bottle), around 60 cents. If a significant fraction of the bottles are returned to collect the deposit, the tax is reduced; if 95% is returned, the tax is reduced to zero. But as the machines no longer accept glass bottles, they are not returned. So glass bottles are used only for beverages where NOK 6.28 is a tiny fraction of the total price, like medium to high class wine and spirits. (Cheap wine is either BagInBox or plastic bottles.)
A few of the highbrow micro breweries still deliver some of their top lines in glass bottles - but if I told you the price of a single bottle of those brands, you wouldn't believe me
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I would believe you. I have been in Norway visiting a friend and we all had the request to buy as much alcohol as possible in the duty free...
Then I saw the prices in a shop...
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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