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When it comes to voting, we’ve come a long way from dropping pebbles into an amphora, but still not nearly far enough, if the lack of confidence in our election systems is any indication. A new update has been applied to your country. Press any key to reboot it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A new update has been applied to your country. Press any key to reboot it. Don't worry, it's been thoroughly tested, and you won't lose any data, even in the middle of a count.
I believe you meant ^, which would shatter sarcasm meters everywhere, bringing civilization to an end.
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Techcrunch said: lack of confidence
Funny they should mention that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Inside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser[^]
Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, didn’t welcome Microsoft’s move. It could mean that web developers will be less likely to code to web standards that would with any browser and more likely to just code for Chromium and Safari. It’s a real risk, and so Mozilla says it will continue to “fight for a truly open web.”
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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What they should do is fight for a STANDARD web.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Sadly, that camel already sailed. What kills me is that all that work back when to move us towards an XML based scheme was just tossed for HTML5. That made absolutely no sense to me. An XML based markup would have been so much better, both tighter and more extensible.
Explorans limites defectum
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A few years of this and we'll understand the afterlife of dead stars. Just a few more mergers, and they'll have a Megazord!
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Azure Blockchain Service is a fully-managed blockchain service that simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks so businesses can focus on workflow logic and application development. "I can still hear you saying we would never break the chain"
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Attackers are targeting GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket users, wiping code and commits from multiple repositories according to reports and leaving behind only a ransom note and a lot of questions. git reset --hard HEAD (or at least a hard hit to someone's head)
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And they call me "old fart" because I keep a copy local and another one in USB  
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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Golly. If only GitHub had some way to restore data.
... And also some way to stop devs being so bloody idiotic with passwords.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They found out that the repositories are still there, and there is a method for getting them back.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's amazing what's possible when the backups are owned by a different user whose storage the pwnd accounts don't have permissions to access.
This plan was clearly not thought through anymore thoroughly than crimecoins themselves. 
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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Well, MS owns github, so things are expected to fall apart sooner or later... 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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New Xbox Code of Conduct translates existing legalese into online trash talk. Gee willikers, old chum. You certainly did best me that time!
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Saying that ms is cool and hip is like saying winio is the best windows ever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think they should change it to an opt-in policy -
Trash-talk:
(*) Yes, I can handle being called names in a f*cking computer game - accept all trash-talk
( ) No, I'm a snowflake and can't bear the thought that anyone that I don't know would hate me
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ahh, that brings a tear to my eye mate.
Something like the softly spoken prompt when trying to exit Rise of The Triad from the early 90s.
"Press any key to pull the cord"
beside a picture of a life-support machine
"Press any key to flip the switch"
Sure enough, a picture of Old Sparky accompanies the caption.
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Microsoft has started rolling out its new option for controlling feature updates. Do you have to install an update to get this feature (it's a trap!)
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Ahead of its Build conference, Microsoft today released a slew of new machine learning products and tweaks to some of its existing services. So you won't have to learn how to make the machines learn
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Lemme guess: They're starting with baby blocks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In recent years, the software engineering community has been interested in factors related to human habits that can play a role in increasing developers’ productivity. OK, nap time
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Good God!
What incredibly worthwhile research!
Who could possibly have guessed at the conclusions?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's value in quantifying the effects to develop guidelines about when you're too wiped to work.
Some years back I did a project involving fatigue management for people working irregular shifts. The biggest talking point level takeaway from that project is if you pull an all-nighter from a fully rested start the next day your impairment in reaction time/ability to operate a vehicle will be at levels between a 0.05 and 0.08 BAC level. If you were short on sleep already you're likely to be at above DUI equivalent levels of impairment the entire day.
The model we used was derived from reaction times only; and I've been curious about if impacts on other types of cognitive abilities were equally impacted.
I know my quality of work on less than 3h of work is poor enough that if insomnia (or a book I can't put down) keeps me away to within 3h of my alarm going off I take the day off because I know even if caffeinated stupid in an attempt to compensate I'll end up spending most of the next day cleaning up my own messes.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Some years back I did a project involving fatigue management for people working irregular shifts
Yet more proof of the incredible value of this new research.
I mean, no-one has ever looked into it before...
I mean, human beings have changed so much in the time since this was last investigated...
I mean,
I mean...
Oh, bugger!
Looks like we'll just have to face that it was a complete waste of time, effort, and money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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