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In terms of glitchy behavior, we’re not quite at HAL 9000 levels just quite yet—but during the debut demonstration of the International Space Station’s new AI-powered robot, CIMON, the free-floating device displayed some rather questionable behavior. Keep it away from the pod bay doors!
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Most. Boring. Space. Robot. EVAH!
In this one instance, I'd approve a redesign by apple.
Or Dykstra.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A team of scientists from Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and Germany have published in Science Advances online today an explanation of how a particular phase-change memory (PCM) material can work one thousand times faster than current flash computer memory, while being significantly more durable with respect to the number of daily read-writes. Can the market change to phase change?
Yeah. Sad blurb. I'll accept others below.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: one thousand times faster than current flash computer memory, while being significantly more durable with respect to the number of daily read-writes.
I hope this is arriving soon and cheap. I'll take a 1 TB PCM Drive for $100, please.
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Excellent!
Since it has three states, we can finally achieve the holy grail of the Yes/No/Maybe Boolean!
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This will shatter the way I live my life.
Shatter = glass = 1 state of that memory.
I'm certain this would send some people for their coats, but I'll never give up on a bad streak!
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For someone who has been a strong supporter of FOSS for a very long time, watching what has been happening to the various FOSS communities over the past half decade or so is kind of depressing. "What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding?"
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I wish people would think about the repercussions of their statements before they commit them to writing.
What must also be taken into account is that this will become a central pillar of the arguments given by idiots who want to mindlessly follow all the latest trends.
Given the choice between having to put up with discussions about adopting costly and useless flavour-of-the-month "innovative solutions", three times a month, and a bit of lag because of a bitcoin miner, I say "Get yer pickaxes out, Boys! Dig away!"
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In late November, Microsoft alongside 100 local law enforcement officials in Gurgaon, India took down 16 call centers engaging in those annoying tech support scams. Now I'll never get any phone calls
I guess there's still the "Visa/Mastercard center" calls to look forward to.
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Ha!
So I was right to do it in an Indian accent! It threw the idiots half a world away from my trail!
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D'Oh! I always thought they were all in Mumbai.
I must sound really stupid whenever I say "Good morning, Kevin. How's the weather in Mumbai?"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The somewhat silly prank highlights a much larger problem. Who?
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Printers are for wimps!
Get a typewriter.
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The intent of Privacy by Design (PbD) is to urge organizations to make privacy an ingrained part of their products, rather than an add-on after rollout. So, never ask the user for their ID
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Which developers is she taking about ...i guess this information is private and comes with an nda...there you have it privacy by desig..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Damnit, can you cancel this thread?
The devs are demanding locks on the toilet doors, now!
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33 lines out of 3.3 million lines of code have been changed. I'm feeling the warm and fuzzies already
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What bunch of lovely, cuddly, leftovers -for-brains massagers came up with this snuggling leftovers ?
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F*ckin hippies...
".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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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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It is common knowledge that hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive, and that most performance issues can be easily solved by throwing more and bigger hardware at it. But is it really cheaper in the long run? Is there still some room for optimization work? MYGNI: Maybe You Gonna Need It
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Programmers new to the game are more prone to think more hardware is better because they assume that the compiler de jeurs is already optimizing for them. Those of us that grew up in the PC dev industry when 4k of RAM was king and 320k was considered "a lot of disk space" will always do things with optimization in mind, even though we use .Net.
The kings of optimization are assembly language devs, but nobody I've worked with over the last 20 years has ever done assembly language. It's a lost art.
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The kings of optimization are assembly language devs
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: nobody I've worked with over the last 20 years has ever done assembly language. It's a lost art.
Not quite; compiler writers, and those of us who have to mess with high-performance, time-critical, software still know and use assembly language (in judicious quantities).
If you mean that no one writes entire applications in assembly language anymore - you are right.
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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before i got out of the image processing biz, i was writing a lot of assembly.
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