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Microsoft is testing a new 'Suggested Actions' feature in Windows 11 Dev builds where the operating system suggests actions you can take with data you copy into the clipboard. Because some people miss Clippy?
Something something doing the same thing over and over and expecting something something
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So the new batch of interns has made it through orientation. Ah, the smell of naïvety! Reminds me of childhood!
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This is just stupid, but then, I *am* an old fart. It's early here on the east coast. I'm answering emails and Office 365 has decided to start adding all of these suggested responses to click on. Thankfully, I found the method to disable this feature, but I'll bet the virus comes back.
I guess this is maybe the fact that MS is targeting all manner of devices. This might be useful for someone working on a tablet or phone.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: I guess this is maybe the fact that MS is targeting all manner of devices As it was such a good result last time
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?
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A regular expression, or regex, is a string that enables a developer to express a pattern being searched for, making it a very common way to search text and to extract from the results key finds "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
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That kind of reminds me a qoute of Woody Allen:
Quote: One gets married to solve problems, that wouldn't have living alone (or something like this)
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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Even the healthiest-looking plants faced stress from unusual minerals present. Sadly, they didn't try potatoes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sadly, they didn't try potatoes Neither did they try poo...
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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The world has been gifted the second photograph ever taken of a supermassive black hole — and this time, it’s a black hole that’s relatively close to home. Does this black hole make my galaxy look fat?
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Hey,
I was watching the announcement early this morning. If anyone is looking for something unusual or mysterious there is only one thing that stands out. Shep Doeleman is saying that it's orientation is 'pointing directly at Earth'. I think he is referring to the Kerr metric[^].
Shep Doeleman[^]
Other than that, it's very similar to M87. Which is supposedly also oriented towards the Earth.
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Wouldn't it kind of make sense that the first ones we'd be able to visualize would be "pointing directly" at us? If there were the accretion disc "in the way", we wouldn't be able to see them yet (until our telescopes get better). Maybe?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wouldn't it kind of make sense that the first ones we'd be able to visualize would be "pointing directly" at us? No,
It would be really anomalous for it to be pointing at Earth.
I personally doubt that it's pointing in our direction. I suspect the light is bent[^] making it appear that way. But you shouldn't listen to me, Shep Doeleman has worked with astrophysics for decades, listen to him.
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Do you do any online journalism?
I wanted to add that if you know anyone that works in science journalism... and if they wanted to make a quick buck... the implications of being in the direct line-of-sight of a black hole are periodic mass extinctions.
It's only been a few hours, I don't think anyone has realized this part yet. Haven't seen anyone mention it online. Would make a great story, all you need is an illustration of dinosaurs looking up and burning.
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attention grabbing title: "first picture"
first line of article: "second photograph"
Did the rest of the world forget that 2019 existed or just clickbait
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That 2019 photo was the first of a black hole. This is the first of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Thus the new hullabaloo. No memory loss required.
TTFN - Kent
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Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems. There. That was easy, wasn't it?
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In my student days, we had a look at number theory, fundamental axioms and such, and learned how to prove, based on those axioms, that 1 + 1 = 2. The conclusion really came as no surprise to us, but maybe it gave us a deeper understanding of why 1 + 1 = 2.
Similarly, I sort of knew in advance that certain problems are fundamentally hard. (When I was working with databases, a coworker handling distributed databases remarked that 'I learned at an early stage that query optimization is an NP complete problem, but once I got into the work I saw that that is a gross oversimplification'.)
Maybe, if I had continued working with number theory, I would have had a deeper understanding of why some problems are fundamentally hard (similar to the thorough understanding of why 1 + 1 = 2). On the other hand, I am not sure that it would make me a better programmer. Or human.
Among my friends, there is a way of speech when talking about difficult problems: 'It is more difficult to understand than the general theory of relativity, but easier to understand than women'. I think that comes closer to what has any real significance to me personally.
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One big challenge is shoehorning everything into AI
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I suspect Kurt Gödel's [In]Completeness Theorems for logical systems is just a subset of the overall P/NP Complete question. In other words, since computational systems are all "logical systems", the Completeness Theorem's proof that in any logical system you can ask questions that cannot be answered in that system applies to computation as well.
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It does, and it's entirely possible that if P = NP is on the wrong side of the theorem.
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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New Pixel hardware, in addition to new advances in machine learning and AI. Or you could just Google for it
I figured I use these kind of posts for Microsoft and Apple presentations, so...
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What are your peers doing to stave off burnout? What else would they be doing?
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That's what occurs when you eat lunch at your desk.
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