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Australian scientists taught bees the concept of zero — something human children struggle with. "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
It was either that, or a Jon Snow reference.
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"The Connectomic Revolution: What the Insect Brain Can Tell Us About Ourselves
A Conversation with Andrew Barron" [6.12.18] Edge
An excellent article on the current multi-disciplinary study of cognition, and, possibly, consciousness, of honeybees: [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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The Developer Ecosystem survey aims to reveal which technologies are trending today, how languages are evolving, and which tools developers are adopting the most. "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
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The company says the forums will no longer provide technical support for older Microsoft Products, though it still encourages users to use it and interact with each other. Did they ever?
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This is excellent: the staff can now devote 100% of their time to not answering users' questions on the latest products.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I'm amazed - I never realised they had actual people posting the "canned response which makes it blindingly obvious that you haven't even read the question" responses. 
public class MicrosoftAnswersBot
{
public string GetResponseToQuestion(string detailedQuestion)
{
Random rnd = new Random();
switch (rnd.Next(3))
{
case 0: return "(Answer for a completely different question about a totally different product.)";
case 1: return "Try creating a new account, and losing all of your settings and associated benefits.";
default: return "Try resetting your computer, and losing all of your programs, files and data.";
}
}
}
"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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There's a worldwide race to dominate quantum computing, and two new pieces of legislation might help the US claim the lead. A government of the quantum, by the quantum, and for the quantum (and a cat in every box)
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I think they have already reached the quantum state (just have a look to the soapbox or the news over the world):
50% think the POTUS is a moron, the other 50% think he is a genius.  
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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The FCC's decision to overturn Obama-era net neutrality protections goes into effect today, giving internet service providers leeway to block, throttle and prioritize websites and content. Sky unfalling (for now)
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Gitlab told Motherboard that the company gained 50,000 new projects in the lead up to Microsoft's announcement that it acquired Github New marketing strategy: get Microsoft to buy your competitors!
All the news happens when I'm on vacation
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Microsoft's next press release: "We are proud to announce that 20,000 whiners have left Github."
I'm genuinely curious how many dead projects both sites are hosting. For these purposes, I'll define dead as not being updated in five years. Yeah, there's probably a quick way to find out, but I'm too lazy.
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Our team is focused on introducing features that make every developer more productive It's like reverse Jenga: keep piling features on until it all falls down
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I wonder if it is simply a move to insure they are not sued in the same manner they were by Oracle.
Or, they could just be evil.
If it is an effort to patent public domain item it is in fact evil.
Determining the difference could be almost (or entirely impossible) since to know you'd have to get to the heart of intent.
Interesting story.
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This highlights the worse way the patent system is broken, but which few talk about; works and derivative works are patentable but ONLY if they are not obvious to practitioners of the craft. This is a case where the derivative work is blatantly obvious.
(A second problem is that a patent should describe and actual invention. That is, a practitioner of the craft should be able to use the patent to recreate the thing that was patented. I've read a lot of patents and most are ideas. Software patents are the worst. I can't count the number of patents I've read where there is little to no connection between the contents of the patent and what is being claimed to be patented.)
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I agree with you 100%! When I was doing research for my app C'YaPass (C'YaPass: Forget All Your Passwords | Get C'YaPass[^]) and the novel way that I create a SHA-256 hash password from a drawn figure on a grid salted with string key, I read so many patents my eyes glazed over.
Anyway, I found patents that were great ideas but the people who sit around patenting things have never implemented. Implementation is worth so much more than scribbling down ideas. I probably found a patent that would've negated my idea but the people who wrote the patent wrote it 20-odd years ago and never implemented it. Believe me, implementing is far more difficult because you are up against the real world and the way things work or do not work.
The patent system is definitely broke because you could ingeniously implement something that you thought up independently only to find that some patent troll had written down an idea close to it years ago. Terrible.
I open-sourced all my code so it is a moot point for me.
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The simple soultion would be for the inventor to point out the military applications of his invention. 
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Then Google won?t be able to patent it, but the NSA or another Acronyms-Division will claim it directly and make it theirs.
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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In the early days of computing, 1 + 1 didn’t always equal 10
In the summer of 2016, USDS assigned me to the IRS to work on a project called Online Accounts...
The IRS has a lot of mainframes. And as millions of Americans recently found out, many of them are quite old. So as I wandered about meeting different types of engineers and chatting about their day-to-day blockers I started to learn much more about how these machines worked. It was a fascinating rabbit hole that exposed me to things like “decimal machines” and “2 out of 5 code”. It revealed something to me that I had not ever considered:
Computers did not always use binary code.
This is a fascinating dive into the weird and wonderful world of early computing architectures before the world settled on binary 2's compliment arithmetic.
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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Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation nearly two years ago, and more than 15 years after former CEO Steve Ballmer labeled Linux “a cancer.” Microsoft heads to Reddit to calm developer nerves
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If you're like me, then you'd do pretty much anything to have your own R2-D2 or BB-8 robotic buddy. Just imagine the adorable adventures you'd have together! *turns to robot* "Don't get technical with me."
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the link is to the prior chatbot article.
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Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. You mean, buzz and hooplah failed to manifest into reality?
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Intel's recent demonstration of a 28-core processor running at 5GHz has certainly stirred the pot here at Computex, particularly because the presentation appeared to imply this would be a shipping chip with a 5.0GHz stock speed. "Oh no. I forgot to say the demo was overclocked. Do you think if we tell them now, they'll believe us?"
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