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The popular cross-platform, open-source video player VLC has received a significant update in 3.0. It adds support for HDR, including both 10-bit and 12-bit color and 360-degree video.
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In 2016, delivery transactions made up about seven per cent of total U.S. restaurant sales. In a research report published last June, analysts at Morgan Stanley predicted that that number could eventually reach forty per cent of all restaurant sales "It’s worth noting that, even while charging restaurants steep rates, most delivery platforms are not yet profitable, either."
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AHEEC (Association of Ethical Humanoid Eating Cannibals) spokesperson Dr. Maria Lecter commented: "Nothing like a fresh deliverer to your door; so much nicer than bagging a waiter or waitress in situ."
«... 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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Only for caged animals big cities dwellers. Most of the people live outside big cities and these services are far more scarcer since the distance to cover would make them unprofitable.
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
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Legacy technology can be a major obstacle to digital transformation projects and, according to a new survey of financial services technology decision makers carried out for business consultancy Janeiro Digital, almost 51 percent say existing technology is holding back innovation. On the plus side, their WinXP machines never need to restart for updates.
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I want to spend a little bit of time talking about a deceptively hard problem django-registration has to deal with: usernames. Any questions? Yes you there, BoatyMcBoatface?
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Hacker group fail0verflow shared a photo of a Nintendo Switch running Debian, a distribution of Linux The group claims that Nintendo can’t fix the vulnerability with future firmware patches
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Scientists working at one of Russia’s top-secret nuclear facilities have been arrested by state police for allegedly trying to use the site’s powerful research computers to mine cryptocurrencies. The scheme blew up in their faces
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From the article: The bungling miners have been detained by the competent authorities.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The darker the skin, the more errors arise — up to nearly 35 percent for images of darker skinned women, according to a new study that breaks fresh ground by measuring how the technology works on people of different races and gender. “You can’t have ethical A.I. that’s not inclusive.”
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 Funny! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I wonder how long it takes until the first "racist" complains are shouted because it discriminates darker skins
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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To be fair, there would be some justification. The technology clearly isn't ready if it can't work for what is a pretty significant proportion of the world's population based on skin colour alone.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A security researcher has discovered thousands of legitimate websites — many belonging to local governments and government agencies — running scripts that secretly force visitors’ computers to mine cryptocoins. Thankfully there's a plugin for that.
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This infoworld article mentions that Swift popularity has fallen. And yet, people are still developing iOS apps. Could this mean that Xamarin is beginning to win? Could be.
That may have interesting impact on Kotlin uptake too.
Doing nicely now, Visual Basic’s popularity could take a hit | InfoWorld[^]
article said: Elsewhere in this month’s index, Apple’s Swift language experienced a drop year over year, from 12th place last February to 16th place this February, with a rating of 1.794 percent. It was 0.33 percentage points higher the same time last year. Swift had been expected to keep rising in popularity as the successor to Objective-C for iOS mobile development. But Swift’s drop is again being attributed by Tiobe to a growing dominance of cross-platform mobile development frameworks.
modified 12-Feb-18 11:37am.
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It is a logical assumption. Learning a language, its philosophy and its framework requires time and money. Single purpose languages are investments with limited return compared to a language that can be used for fundamentally anything, using the same tools and producing software that runs on twice the target devices.
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I agree. I think Microsoft has made some big changes that have not looked great in the short run but really may be changes that keep them on top in the long run. It'll be interesting to see how they continue.
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I think you linked the wrong article, since that one appears to be talking about github counting what's been committed to its public repos, not Tiobe's bogodex.
In general though, I' recommend against giving Tiobe's index even as much weight as you paid to see their numbers since all they try and do is count how much each shows up in google results.
Beyond worthless doesn't even begin to sum up my feelings for its wretchedness.
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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 Oops.
Thanks, I fixed it.
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I share with Dan Neely (I think) a general mistrust of such surveys, and their methodology, more so for anything coming out of InfoWorld.raddevus wrote: Swift popularity has fallen. And yet, people are still developing iOS apps. Could this mean that Xamarin is beginning to win?
I cannot see any basis for this hypothesis. A .33 per-cent "drop" means ... what ?
If there a thousand developers using "X" to create a bunch of cheap store apps, and one-hundred developers using "Y" to develop apps that generate massive revenues and are used by many thousands, and ten-thousand kinda-devs putting up open source projects using "Z" ... what does that tell you about this year's salmon run ?
I suspect that over time (sooner) Xamarin will fade in the sense it will be merged into the next shiny thing: MS must play in the cross-platform arena.
cheers, Bill
«... 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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We all want to stay up to date, but our reading time is finite. Here are several email newsletters for developers, sysadmins, and DevOps that curate tech news, how-tos, and entertaining articles that make you say, "How 'bout that!" *blushes*
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