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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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Wall Street Journal: "The Amazing Things You’Ll Do In The ‘Metaverse’ And What It Will Take To Get There" [^]Quote: “The metaverse is going to be the biggest revolution in computing platforms the world has seen—bigger than the mobile revolution, bigger than the web revolution,” says Marc Whitten, “senior vice president and general manager of create” at San Francisco-based Unity Software While the Orwellian reality of "the surveillance state" becomes more salient in millions of lives, and the definition and meaning of "privacy," "intimacy," and "friendship," is undergoing transformations whose fractally pixelated outlines are not yet clear enough to decipher ...Quote: “In addition to being the next generation of the Internet, the metaverse is also going to be the next chapter for us as a company,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg The latest future-mongers, riding on the coattails of Ted Nelson (Xanadu [^]), William Gibson, and other far-seers and pundits of yore, are busy pumping billionaires' rocket fuel into the web ... promising lift-off from this mundane world of primate physical incarnation ... into a noosphere unbounded by such pedestrian impedimenta as space, and time, flesh, blood.Quote: “The avatar experience will feel so real that you can hardly tell the difference between a virtual meeting and a physical meeting ... And the virtual experience will be better.” Daren Tsui, chief executive of Together Labs As i get ready to sit-still and watch my breath while my mind slowly unravels the "blooming buzzing confusion"[0] of my present states of consciousness which i am so immersed in they constitute my "reality" ... i think at some point i'll remember Robert Louis Stephenson's words:Quote: "for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.[1] Dare i ask: "aren't we always living in some form of reality which is, more, or, less, virtual ?"
[0] William James, 1890, James used this term to refer to the newborn child's world of undifferentiated sensory experiences. i'm fudging it here James' view is not fashionable today; see Slocum's short critique: [^]
[1] "The Lantern Bearers" 1888 essay
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Lofty goals when MS can't get Teams to work like it should.
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Hi Dave,
Between the new-shiny on the horizon that promises perfection and the gritty cracked dirt-filled surface of ordinary-in-our-face: the wrecking ball of reality ... swings
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
modified 17-Oct-21 4:33am.
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It's all a bunch of overhyped nonsense. You're not going to be able to "walk on the moon in your pajamas," as the article claims.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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i agree with you on several levels, but, imho;
1) there's nothing fanciful about the increasingly omnipresent surveillance being adapted world-wide. and the emergence of technopolies, and governments, that amass astounding amounts of personal data.
2) look at social-networking, computer gaming, and digi-porn and the incredible number of hours various groups/age-groups are immersed in virtual realities now on a daily basis, often to the point of addiction, or health damage.
3. the coming of wearable haptic sensors (mentioned in the article) will usher in a new dimension to virtual interaction.
4. more important in my view (not mentioned in the article) are bio-sensors, brain-wave analyzers, and their potential direct interaction with the human body. the current generation of bio-hackers are already testing the edges of what's possible, and you can be sure the military is investing in research.
today we have no problem letting a pacemaker implant stabilize a hear; tomorrow we'll play the lottery to get a mega-dose of endorphins released by our gaming implant
i'm not troubled that i'll be dead before all this happens at dscale
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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