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Microsoft to explore using Rust
Microsoft plans to explore using the Rust programming language as an alternative to C, C++, and others, as a way to improve the security posture of its and everyone else's apps.
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They should.
It's in line with the decay in their quality.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Because Rust will never have any security issues.
The blind faith too many developers have in "Memory-safe languages" is scary.
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Some light has been shed on how emojis are designed for Windows 10. They're almost as important as icons
World
Emoji
Day
Let that settle in for a while.
Apophis, take us now!
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How do you get vomit out of a keyboard?
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About four minutes after SpaceX briefly ignited the vehicle’s engine, a second small explosion engulfed the rocket in flames for a few seconds — seemingly by accident. The part that wasn't supposed to catch fire, that is
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I suppose that is the hardware version of windows 10 test and QA process
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
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SpaceX?
As in Space 10?
As in Best! Space! Evah!
It's funny, but I have a feeling in my bones that I'll never trust them to give me a ride to the Great Outdoors.
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'struth, but both they and Blue Origin seem to be doing better than SLS these days. (Maybe "slow but sure and permanently attached to government money" will win)
TTFN - Kent
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According to a survey we conducted of over 2,500 working software engineers, nearly half of the respondents spent more than 15 hours studying for their technical interviews. My parachute is purple, the third philosopher sees the other two laughing, and in five years I want your job. Done.
Because if you want to improve interviewing, ask the company that perpetuates the 'stupid question' form?
Anyway, posted out of fear of companies picking this up.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because if you want to improve interviewing, ask the company that perpetuates the 'stupid question' form?
Don't worry... AI comes to the rescue. Next we will have interviews with a chat bot that will evaluate how good we are by the speed of our keystrokes
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: posted out of fear of companies picking this up.
And rightly so.
They press all the linguistic pressure points that perhaps-not-too-incredibly-experienced-at-it-hirers will fall for.
Looks like a bunch of bullsh1tters who were looking for a niche market.
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Microsoft has created a hologram that will transform someone into a digital speaker of another language. To the Holodeck!
I don't think the title is entirely accurate, but it makes for an interesting demo (for the minute or two of the video).
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Yet more technology stolen from Chinese companies by US companies.
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Defunctionalization is about turning functions into not-functions, into data structures. Assuming you've heard of 'refactoring'
Posted mostly as I want to hear from "y'all hexpurts" on this one.
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Yes. Very interesting. Needs a bit of rewrite itself though.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OneWeb's first six satellites pass test as company moves closer to real service. Better than running a cable from up there
32ms latency? At 1200km? That's ... impressive.
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"There's a lot of caching."
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Despite what everyone says about the power of modern devices, they’re nowhere near as capable as the landmark early NASA system. But can you play DOOM on it?
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From the article: The calculations required to make in-flight adjustments and the complexity of the thrust controls outstripped human capacities.
That's not even remotely true.
The problems were two:
0. The amount of paper required to do the calculations -- and the desk to work at -- outweighed the computer.
1. Astronauts tend to be "more jock than Spock", so the limitation wasn't in human mathematical ability, it was in astronauts' mathematical ability -- some of them were very bright, but Maths is Maths, and most astronauts don't qualify as nerds.
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Jim Lovell once made a quip about how nice it would have been to have a simple $20 scientific calculator on board the Apollo 13. (Where they did their orbital calculations by hand using slide rulers.)
I wonder if you could program a TI-95 (or even a TI-59) programmable calculator to do everything the Apollo Calculator did.
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Yet, the Apollo computer can't hold a candle to the smart toaster since it can't cook toast.
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Game
Set
Match!
TTFN - Kent
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