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Members of Congress have accused Amazon executives of misleading or lying to an antitrust committee about its business practices, following recent reports that the company uses third-party seller data to copy products and promotes those versions in search results. Sounds like someone didn't get their free two-day shipping on time
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Members of Congress A case of 'takes one to know one'?
"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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Ah, golden. Sad that I missed that one.
TTFN - Kent
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Too many companies are hiring with a narrow vision of what a developer should be. A developing story
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Developers themselves have a narrow vision of what they should be, but nobody is listening.
".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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They're looking for misanthropes that can't write an intelligible sentence in their mother tongue, who if they weren't developers would be hired killers?
I fail at least one of the requirements - my English is excellent.
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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And 42 is now the number of years since the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the first in the series of wacky and beloved sci-fi books by Douglas Adams. "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Time to re-re-re-read it
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I checked into hospital two weeks ago. Does that make me 'missing, presumed unfed?'
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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Recover soon
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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Microsoft announced Blazor WebAssembly apps can now use native dependencies, allowing developers to tap into native C code, for example, upon jumping through a few hoops. You know that cross-platform solution? Now you can tie it to a single platform!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: upon jumping through a few hoops may i suggest an edit:
upon jumping through a few flaming hoops that are randomly aligned, and whose flame-timers are unpredictable.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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The Rust programming language makes it easier to build safer software. What will it take to Rust All the Things? Let's just rewrite everything. That always fixes stuff.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Let's just rewrite everything. That always fixes stuff.
That's kind of unfair.
The article explicitly says "Basically everything new we do on the backend is written in Rust". It's a bit of a stretch to describe that as "rewrite everything."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Malware on Windows devices has become a real problem in the last few years, specifically with a recent uptick in ransomware. There were icons to be redesigned! Priorities, people!
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MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing. And then the code will bloat to use up that available performance
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This sounds radical, but what if we combine the two?
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You rebel, you
TTFN - Kent
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Code bloat and Moore's Law? I thought that they already did!
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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Ah, the never ending quest for Moore improved performance.
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Meanwhile, hordes of script kiddies and dubious developers:
dO Not REInVenT thE WheEl, CompUTeRs ARe alReADy POWerFuL.
GCS 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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Traffic is hell, but what if the cars clogging up the roadways are all robots? Maybe they just want to be autonomous parking attendants instead?
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Isn't this a metaphor for San Francisco itself?
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Some companies use OpenStreetMap based maps. And some of them started "contributing" to OSM...
In countries with a small contributor base, their edits become terribly visible, as is discussed e.g. on the OSM forum re Thailand and Malaysia. Among those edits are road connections which do not exist on the ground. Changeset comment by the contributor: "improve connectivity".
Well, then, there's your connectivity at the end of the dead end road.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Microsoft originally promised new 3D emoji for Windows 11 and various other products earlier this year. My ❤️ is 💔
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Their designers were too busy rounding corners.
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