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Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also paintings. I think I saw this already on that Harry Potter documentary series
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They should run it against something like The Weeping Woman by Picasso[^] , now that would be interesting and creepy all at the same time!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. "So put another dime in the jukebox, baby"
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Part of the reason this is such a persistent myth is because Kay himself said it in 1998 An object-oriented rant (OOR)
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While correctly stating that Simula predated Smalltalk, the article fails to account for earlier programs that had the concept of objects. They were fairly common in the LISP community (although the term OOP wasn't used), and Sutherland's famous Sketchpad program extensively used Objects and Templates (prototypes) in the 1960's.
All of which could have been seen with a tiny amount of Wikipedia research.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission says its probe will examine whether Google’s processing of data in advertising transactions breaches EU privacy rules. You can't investigate what doesn't exist, can you?
I'm sure they're dreading another fine.
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Given that Google has 6000 employees in Ireland (albeit for tax reasons) don't expect the Irish to come down too hard on them.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Microsoft's Windows 10 is suffering from a serious security issue, according to a new report. Why do I feel I could use that headline daily?
More "security researchers". Grrrr.
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Quote: ... Could Let Hackers Gain Full Access to Your PC ...
... the vulnerability won't necessarily allow hackers or malware to gain access to your machine ...
I guess local privilege escalation bugs don't make for sufficiently click-bait-y headlines. 
"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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I was going to say that when my dog or cat (who are the only ones with access) are smart enough to work on my computer I will let them do whatever they want with full privilege, as long as they pay the bills! 
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After ordering cat toys, the cat would just reformat your system (which is the digital equivalent of pushing off the edge of a desk.)
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So you are telling me that no matter what happens, I never need to worry about the vulnerability in that article! That's good news! 
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Exactly.
If you have access to the machine, just use RunAsSystem. Where's the difference?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: They have to already be on your machine.
Sigh. Physical access means you have no security.
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If approved, any visitor to a website could be automatically bound to its terms and conditions. Terms of Servitude?
"What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom at the ocean?"
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How can anyone be deemed to have accepted a contract without (a) being given the opportunity to read it, and (b) being given the opportunity to decline it? And how can anyone (other than Congress or the several State legislatures) unilaterally modify US contract law? And do they really believe that this would pass muster in any other country?!
This appears to be scaremongering at its worst!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah, I wasn't sure how it would go from, "Lawyers association votes on ToS wording" to, "New law". I think I missed that episode of Schoolhouse Rock!
Of course, if the lawyer's association passed it, I'm sure the politicians would rubber stamp it.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom at the ocean?"
too few? 
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 this post we’re going to look at what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and, in collaboration with Windows, adding a default “python.exe” command to help find it. I guess I have to upgrade then
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess I have to upgrade then
Uugh!! The 'me-to' movement hits computer programmers. 
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Snake? Garden? What garden?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Superconductivity offers the promise of hyper-efficient electric motors, ultra powerful magnets, and the transmission of electricity without losses. Not cool!
Actually, super cool if they can fix that pressure problem, and it sounds like a useful project for computer modelling.
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In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard. And I thank him every time I have to maintain an Excel macro
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Yes, there's a community that contributes things to Go, but Google is the gatekeeper for these community contributions So let's just keep using Java and C#
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With Oracle now charging for Java, I believe your list can be reduced by one.
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