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The satellite was launched in 1964 and was in orbit for 56 years before re-entering the atmosphere on August 29. IT GO
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Some employers are crying out for software developers. They're not, however, apparently accepting the idea of them working from home. Probably not news, news, news to most developers, developers, developers
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As @originalGriff would say... if you pay with peanuts, don't surprise if all what you get are monkeys.
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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TTFN - Kent
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Quote: The second most desperate county -- at least according to this index -- is Minnehaha, South Dakota, home to Sanford Health, Avera Health, Citibank, and Wells Fargo.
While I might remotely (harhar) consider living in South Dakota (at least it's South, not North), who would want to work in health insurance and finance? Ewwww.
(Imagine writing fixed width delimited exports all day so they can be imported by still used COBOL apps.)
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It still surprises me that everyone didn't take their money from Wells Fargo after their shenanigans. I thought they would go out of business. They should have gone out of business. But I guess people like being screwed.
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Microsoft is starting to roll out its 'Project Moca' productivity feature for Outlook, starting with Outlook for the Web users. Because you need a new place to put your todo lists
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Both C and C++ are widely used in the industry. But go 5 minutes on the Internet and C developers will tell you that C++ is the most horrific man-made creation, while many C++ developers wait for the day when C finally burns in the hot flames of hell. "Mortal Kombat begins"
Because sometimes I just want to see a comment thread burn
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I believe this came up here a few weeks ago (or something that linked to it), and is well worth reading about another issue with C.
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Lack of native ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation in .NET Core is a sore spot for Microsoft, which just published results of a survey indicating this missing option is holding developers back from using the framework more. They want Attack on Titan to be added to the compiler? Now that is getting too big!
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Everyone's RSI is different. The cause can be equipment, but contributing factors can be broader. "Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing."
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The Federal Aviation Administration this weekend approved Amazon’s Prime Air arm as an official “air carrier,” marking a key milestone for Amazon’s drone delivery initiative. "Fly, my pretties, fly!"
Looking forward to all the stories about people shooting these down
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The Drake equation is one of the more famous reckonings in science. It calculates the likelihood that we are not alone in the universe by estimating the number of other intelligent civilizations in our galaxy that might exist now. = 0
For all practical purposes anyway (IMO)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: estimating the number of other intelligent civilizations in our galaxy that might exist now
I see no evidence of any intelligent civilizations.
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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Quote: This equation calculates the chances we live In a computer simulation
Does it means that The Thirteenth Floor is in fact reality ?
The Thirteenth Floor - Wikipedia[^]
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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A Half is a binary floating-point number that occupies 16 bits. Half a float in the hand is better than two shorts in the bush
And now the pedants can correct my math(s) and/or programming joke.
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Who even uses this?
"That'll be €29.990000000000007, sir."
I've actually worked in a team who didn't know about the decimal type and even used floats for invoices, with rounding errors as a common result
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The "half" type came originally from NVidia's CUDA. It is now part of the IEEE-754 Standard for Floating-Point arithmetic, but as an "interchange" type, i.e. not to be used for computation, but only for data transfer. Note that decimal floating-point is also part of the Standard.
Sander Rossel wrote: I've actually worked in a team who didn't know about the decimal type and even used floats for invoices, with rounding errors as a common result
Anyone who writes financial programs using binary fractions should be hanged from the nearest lamppost as a warning to others. Either use a Decimal type (if available), or perform all calculations in integer (using pennies, cents, or whatever the smallest coin is in your country).
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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Using float for financial fields wasn't even the worst part of that application.
Perhaps it was even one of the best parts
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Machine learning embraces bfloat16 , so naturally MS is adding support for IEEE half instead.
bfloat16 floating-point format - Wikipedia[^]
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mobilize.Net, an "automated modernization" specialist headed by a former Microsoft corporate VP, has upgraded its Visual Basic upgrade tool to target .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform successor of the Windows-only .NET Framework. "Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it. "
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Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid. It's really disappointing with its limited use in most RPG systems
Plus, tired of people thinking it's an isocahedron.
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In an ideal world, code should concern itself with solving the problem at hand and nothing else. Mission accomplished!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In an ideal world,... Pity is, our world is far from "ideal"
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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