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Photo Developer used to be high on the list but, for some mysterious reason, is no longer there.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Experts from the NSA and Darktrace discuss AI, invisible security, and why you really need to change your passwords. Ever progress
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Got fed up with that article pretty quickly.
AI this, AI that, AI the other.
AI is new tech (to people who haven't been involved in it over the past 25 years or so), so what are the first things it'll be used for?
Like any new tech, in order of priority:
1. Weapons
2. Crime
3. Pron
"AI waffle waffle waffle impersonate people waffle waffle waffle phishing waffle waffle waffle" does not an article make. A little research (y'know, that thing that real journalists do) might have made it interesting.
Mind, the fact that this is another site that forced me to go through three browsers, before it would display properly, didn't set me up to read the article with any optimism.
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This roadmap is meant to give our team and users clarity over our priorities over the next 6 months. It's meant more as a set of guidelines than as a strict set of tasks we are bound to finish. We may adjust over this period depending on changing needs and feedback from our users. It's not going away (yet)
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Not reading that one.
Google maps is bad enough, with its undelineated white roads on pale, pastel grey backgrounds.
An ASCIIart map would be almost as unreadable as that, so why bother?
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Every year, Mark Zuckerberg announces his New Year’s resolution. In years past, he’s decided to tackle more inconspicuous tasks: learning Mandarin and traveling the entire country. But in 2019, he wants to be more ambitious by tackling big questions surrounding technology’s place in our world. Because if there's one person that could do it... it's not him
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Zuckerberg wrote: “My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society”.
... So that I can patent any new ideas before some other firm thinks of them!
Beware of Greeks @rseholes bearing gifts.
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By now, Agile and DevOps are proven methodologies and well known throughout the software development industry, but their stories are not over yet. Unfortunately...
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There comes a time when it's necessary to stop talking bollocks about trivial modifications to processes, and get some bloody work done!
But people don't make names for themselves or wheedle their way up the career ladder by doing work that actually brings in money to pay everyone's salaries, so maybe not.
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Rollback attack let attackers spend 88,500 previously spent coins. Currency of the future...
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At least they were foresighted enough to give the currency a remarkably appropriate name.
The words "Disappearing into the" come to mind.
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If they wait long enough, it will only be 50 cents worth of cryptocurrency, so its not so bad.
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The 20-qubit system combines into a single package the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a machine like this for research and business applications. Didn't they just say yesterday that they'd have one, "in a few years"?
Does this mean that I have to be a millionaire now? Dang.
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Arvind Krishna said: “The IBM Q System One is a major step forward in the commercialization of quantum computing”
When did "a major step" gain the meaning "a pig in a poke that can't actually do anything useful".
What's the next step? Revive production of the Altair?
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The 'reserved storage' coming with the next Windows 10 version is another reason to avoid PCs with little storage. It's not like you were going to do anything else with that disk space, right?
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ZDNet wrote: The 'reserved storage' coming with the next Windows 10 version is another reason to avoid PCs with little storage that godawful OS like the plague.
So much for installing windows on phones, tablets, and netbooks, then. When they said "One Windows", they must have meant "On PCs Only".
I look forward to reading about people's machines bricking because temp files in current use by the OS (to perform updates, etc.) were overwritten by downloaded update files.
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GNU project made version 5.0 of its popular POSIX shell Bash ( Bourne Again Shell) available yesterday. Bash 5.0 explores new improvements and features such as BASH_ARGV0, EPOCHSECONDS, and EPOCHREALTIME among others. Not sure if it still has amnesia, I've missed a few versions
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I'm sure that I don't have to point out that, without fail, sequels get progressively worse.
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What programming languages did we fall in love with in 2018? TIOBE knows the score – Python is their programming language of 2018! If Python is not able to complete it's reign, the duties will be taken up by Miss Congeniality VB
Yeah, another TIOBE random number generated article, but I couldn't resist. I'm a weak, weak man.
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Ah, another year, another moment for me to BASH on these TIOBE ratings.
All in good jest.
First some helpfull things from the article. Python heavily used in AI and machine learning. Oh, I had not realised that. I know a lot of its use with my time on hobby IoT tinkering. These two fields are strong business needs.
However, my itch still persists. Popularity of something does not mean usefulness.
STOP: I have only a very minor knowledge of how the TIOBE index is calculated.
One of the metrics I assume is what people are posting questions and talking about across the internet. This defiantly can be a helpful indication, but also misleading.
I assume the IDE Scratch sees i sizeable install base. That is great for getting people started into code. Same I think for a number of languages.
So a question I have is what is the curve for when people start using a language professionally (earning money) and when switching from asking questions to reading documentation and finding existing questions?
For reference I have found some of the tutorials on Unity very well to follow, which compared to 10 years ago I might have posted a number of forum questions but now have little need.
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Part of the reason I started this series of book reviews was to get a feel for how approaches to debugging have changed over the years. Similarly, I’m interested in seeing what has stayed the same, perhaps parading around in different guises. The Woz debugs?
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I confess that I'm completely at sea on his motivation for doing this.
Who is ever going to need to read these books?
It's like reviewing 18-century tomes on saddle maintenance for the BMW Owners' Club.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: saddle maintenance for the BMW Owners' Club
They might enjoy reading about transportation designed without turn indicators.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: They might enjoy reading about transportation designed without turn indicators.
Je ne comprends pas.
Why would they want to read about the absence of things that they don't know exist?
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I'm still working my way through The Art of Computer Programming. It takes time, but I think there's still a few of a us reading ancient tomes.
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