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You're alone again, aren't you? Head down to the pub and read it again, it will make more sense.
TTFN - Kent
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Naturally, but you must have me confused with someone else.
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Nah, just trying to suggest a place where you'll have more company, so you won't fact check the story.
TTFN - Kent
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Ever seen me in a pub? Off in a corner, alone.
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That's a little hard to do when so many just lift the same story from others and pass it down the line and don't double check before publishing.
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It always amuses me that people have that many time to waste (and by the way - this research not listed at Columbia University sites)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's because in groups, people don't shut up, as they so like to hear their own voice and opinions.
In practice, it should be easy to avoid falling prey to fake news—upon reading something that may not sound right, all a person has to do is type a few words and run a Google search.
Right. Which usually results in more fake news. Getting good results from a search engine is actually difficult, because more often then not, you're inundated with yet more opinion. Finding actual facts is hard work.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It only took a point-and-shoot camera, laser printer and contact lens. Fortunately it doesn't involve actual hacking of irises
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Microsoft said last week it's fixing the infamous J bug that affected the company's Outlook service for the past seven years, according to a report from last week. And people say they never listen to bug reports
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Oh! At last! Thank you.
J
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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raddevus wrote: Elon Musk & Bill Gates are right. If it takes 7 years to fix that bug, I can only imagine what havoc AI will do before we get around to stopping it. There is no need to fix AI bugs when there are Armor Piercing 7.62x51mm NATO.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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'Bout frikin' time!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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J J J J J
We never complained!! J was supposed to mean JOY correct?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I've seen that J, always wondered why they just didn't show a smiley face.
Never guessed it was a bug
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Are they fixing it for all supported versions, or only for the most recent standalone and cloud versions?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Quote: But if the recipient's device didn't have the Wingdings font installed, the original " " would be printed out as capital "J", the homolog of the Wingdings "☺" character in the standard Latin alphabet. Hardly a Microsoft bug, is it?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Microsoft has responded to claims that its Windows 10 Enterprise operating system ignores user preferences in Group Policy with the advice that, basically, it does and you shouldn't meddle with it. They're just for decoration
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You're holding it wrong!
Sincerely,
~Steve Jobs
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Not content with running the classic 1993 shooter on a platter of banal machines such as toasters, Kodak digital cameras, and even billboard trucks, one enthusiast has now forged one… hot…new device to play Doom on: a thermostat. Whoever kills the boss gets to set the temperature?
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OK, then...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Programming computers is a piece of cake. Or so the world’s digital-skills gurus would have us believe. If you only read one article today about the 'techno-plutocracy', make it this one
Try not to roll your eyes too hard, it's bad for you.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Try not to roll your eyes too hard, it's bad for you.
Thankfully I can touch type. My eyes rolled so far they disappeared under the cubicle behind me.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I can't see the conflict between ethically complex work/life and fun...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm not sure why programming is so complex for some people.
I've seen plenty of software that SHOULD have been very simple, but actually was a spaghetti maze of classes, database calls, DI that wasn't DI and unnecessary abstractions...
Yeah, if you build software like that it becomes very complex and it's certainly not fun to maintain (maybe it was fun to write, I don't know).
Sure, the complexity depends on what you're building, but I often find the complexity in the domain and business, not in the actual coding.
I don't want to go as far as to say it's easy, but I don't see why not everyone with a good brain between his/her ears could learn programming.
For the fun part, depends on the project.
And whether you actually like coding.
I guess most people see it as "just a job" and that's how we end up with complex (bad) software that's not fun
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