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Quote: To explore the structure of these kinds of webs, the team housed a tropical tent-web spider (Cyrtophora citricola) in a rectangular enclosure, and waited for it to fill the space with a three-dimensional web. Then they used a sheet laser to illuminate and create high-definition images of 2D cross-sections of the web.
A specially developed algorithm then pieced together the 3D architecture of the web from these 2D cross sections. To turn this into music, different sound frequencies were allocated to different strands. The notes thus generated were played in patterns based on the web's structure. If they did it based on resonant frequencies of the length and mesh, then yeah, maybe it gives some insight. But it doesn't say it did that, so it sounds like it is just random sounds.
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On Monday, the Perl Core developer known as Sawyer X announced his intention to leave the three-person Perl Steering Committee, or Council, and the Perl Core group because of what he described as community hostility. Cruft isn't quite the word I'd use to describe perl
(but it's close)
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If a programming language is nothing but cruft, wouldn't saying it "contained" cruft be at least misleading?
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It's so crufty that its cruft contains cruft?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Cruft isn't quite the word I'd use to describe perl(but it's close)
I would. Cruft is the better part of Perl.
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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It's so crufty it could organise a dog show.
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Unity software developer Josh Peterson has spoken about the future of .NET support in the widely used game development engine. Versioning issues with .NET?! Say it ain't so!
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NVIDIA has announced the release of its Morpheus framework that uses AI to detect and prevent security threats. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the security threats are. You have to see them for yourself.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the security threats are. Unless you take the red pill...
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Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, people may be more willing to trust a computer program than their fellow humans, especially if a task becomes too challenging, according to new research from data scientists at the University of Georgia. I think that I shall never see, a computer that lies as well as thee.
Thee's programs on the other hand...
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"Do you accept my cookies?"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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They clearly haven't heard of HAL9000, Skynet, The Architect, VIKI... or were never asked "Hello Dave, do you want to play a game?"
Or a bit more real stuff like (among others) the autumnal equinox incident.
Computers and algorithms are powerful tools that help us A LOT, no doubt on that.
But the ultimate usefulness or dangerousness of its usage is still something determined by the fellow humans because they are the ones programming the computers / developing the algorithms and we already have had plenty of examples of what they do...
On the other hand, the day that computers go so far that they auto-program themselves... then I really hope we don't come to the point of regretting it, because it will be too late.
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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Imagine a scenario where you’ve created a web application, be it built with ASP.NET Core or the Uno Platform for WebAssembly, for example, and it’s now time to hand it over to the Operations team so it can be made available to the world. Oh. That's what it's for.
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There's a new member in the pantheon of the worst-named companies in history. Introducing "Kyndryl." Ask your doctor if Kyndryl is right for you
Side effects may include swollen budgets, missed project deadlines, and frequent planning meetings
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I'm guessing the name "Sh*t we don't want" was taken.
How about Cruft?
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Ingenuity's team is dealing with a 'command sequence issue' with new flight control software. Is that the monthly security patches from Redmond?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is that the monthly security patches from Redmond? That's what SkyNet wants you to think...
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A long-standing problem with .NET’s Base Class Library is the inability to separately represent date and time values. As part of .NET 6, the new DateOnly and TimeOnly classes seek to correct this oversight. Oh good - we'll have a new way to deal with time zone and date order problems
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For a moment[^] there, I thought you were being serious.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hang on....
Quote: DateOnly and TimeOnly will not be implementing the Serializable attribute. In .NET Core and later, this attribute is considered to be deprecated, as are the serialization libraries that rely on it.
I had completely missed this bit of info.
<grumble> More work that I might have to do.
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In future versions of Windows 10, Microsoft has removed the venerable 'Administrative Tools' and added a new 'Windows Tools' control panel with almost double the number of tools promoted within it. You know what would be a great name for that? Control Panel
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Wordpad is among them, but I don't see Notepad.
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Jon Corbett's languages Cree# and Ancestral Code allow programming in Cree keywords using Cree concepts and metaphors. For those who may miss APL (and if you're still using APL - whaaaaaaat?)
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Quote: programmatic input is provided in story form using nehiyawewin syllabics Um sure, no problem.....
"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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