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A study looking for signs of intelligent alien life in a handful of galaxies has come up short. It means that super-advanced civilizations in our local universe are extremely rare, or absent altogether. Unless you count the ones actively ignoring us
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Even looking for intelligent life on Earth is a bit of a lost cause these days
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Unless you know a thing or two about swallows
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Twitchers are the worst!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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It’s thought that a species far beyond our capabilities could utilize entire stars for energy, perhaps surrounding them in structures known as Dyson spheres, producing noticeable mid-infrared radiation.
What an absurd ass-umption.
Marc
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Seen as graffiti many moons ago:
Q: Is there any intelligent life on Earth?
A: (in different hand) Yes, but I'm just visiting.
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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Tense history aside, Apple and Microsoft now share considerable opportunities in the business world. "It's nice to be nice... to the nice"
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This is our first release shipping with the Rustonomicon, a new book covering “The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming”. Now even rustier than before (and look! 'We’re continuing to invest in Windows, with preliminary support for targeting Windows XP.')
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Kent Sharkey wrote: with preliminary support for targeting Windows XP That must be because this version was originally in alpha stage in 2003, and that page was written then in anticipation! It used to be "cutting edge" to make your stuff work in XP!
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I really don't get this. Servo is years from being ready to replace Gecko in Firefox; but that point XP's share of the web will be nearly non-existent.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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The lack of documentation of Windows' updates is a baffling move on Microsoft's part. Have you seen the tools they'd have to use to put those on the Microsoft web site?
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They already wrote it and released it. It's called 'OneNote'.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. Before you read this blurb, here's a commercial: "Yay, CP!"
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Imagine that; a really private inbox might cost a buck.
To tout that as the death of the web..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Hmm. Sounds like a "sky is falling" mantra. I've heard this before. Mainframes are dead! Long live the Mainframe!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I suspect we'll start seeing ad-block detection proliferating on sites, so only by disabling the ad-blocker can you actually view the content.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've seen sites try to break themselves if I block their ads. I also blocked the crap they used to try breaking the site for me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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They'd be better off trying to find a revenue model that isn't based on the assumption that elephanting my experience for the benefit of 3rd parties actually gives those 3rd parties a benefit instead of adding them to my avoid or boycott lists.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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 wants to solve compatibility issues with API detection technology. Because UDDI worked so well
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Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). It's not coming back. Just rewrite... to something
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The first Android app credited to "Apple Inc." has arrived Apple's writing software for Android? They've obviously decided to surrender.
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The better programmer or designer doesn’t always have a higher the salary. So, how can you make sure that you’re getting paid what you’re worth? "Always sunny in the rich man's world"
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"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, manage"
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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... Those who can't manage, teach management. Those who can't teach management,do. Those who can't,...
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Brent Jenkins wrote: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, manage"
I'm putting that on a bumper sticker and pasting it to the back of my car.
I drive a very wide car.
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