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A study published in June 2019 reveals that in the Alexa Top 1 million websites, one out of 600 sites execute WebAssembly (Wasm) code. The study moreover finds that over 50% of those sites using WebAssembly apply it for malicious deeds, such as cryptocurrency mining and malware code obfuscation. Why we can't have nice stuff: part WASM
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A minor quibble when almost all of the malicious WASM seen was miners; but obfuscation shouldn't automatically be classified as malicious when it can become a requirement any time a dev fires up an in-browser debugger to try and troubleshoot something while a pointy-hair is watching.
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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Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for internet research and many other applications. And now all it does is watch cat videos
(and cooking shows)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And now all it does is watch cat videos
Better that than watching online games and how the players behave...
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Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. I'll post this when I get to it
Yes, it collapses into a rah-rah about the company itself, but a lot of the content is valid anywhere: async, but not entirely async
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Sorry, but I am not 100% agree.
It depends a lot of the person and the task. Both options are perfectly valid and have advantages and disadvantages.
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Almost 60% of respondents said they preferred managing a firewall via a GUI, rather than a clunky CLI. This report brought to you by 1995
Sorry, really slow news day.
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[EDIT]
As it seems my message can be misunderstood... I am not against GUIs, the message is about mouse vs. keyboard in a GUI or bad GUI functionality / design
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80% to 90% of the professionals around me are mouse lovers, so no surprise in that. And it sometimes drives me crazy, how inefficient it might be. Don't get me wrong, there are things that are impossible to do without a mouse, and there are people that even using mouse are still faster than other people using keyboard. But in the big % of the cases, it is just slowing things down.
I once had an automation project. We had to do (customer policy) the whole list of error handling for Ethernet participants no matter if the address was used or not.
Result: Over 5k error messages (several subnets, several PLCs). The error messages were pairs like:
CPU XX - The profinet slave with the address XX.XX.XX.YY is not answering
CPU XX - The profinet slave with the address XX.XX.XX.YY is reporting an error
but a little bit longer.
One co-worker: Left click at left most position, move up to "ess", right click, copy, go to next line, right click, paste, type the IP Address with YY+1, left click in " is", move to end of message, right click, copy, go to next line, right click, paste, (left click in the middle, add missing empty space)
Me:
Little change to the error message (asked and got OK for it)
- CPU XX - Profinet Slave not answering, IP address XX.XX.XX.YY
Select everything up but YY, CTRL+C, down arrow, down arrow, CTRL+V, down arrow, down arrow, CTRL+V... (repeat 252 times for the whole subnet), go top, type 1, down arrow, down arrow, type 2... (repeat until 254)
Same for the second message.
I finished my 10 subnets and, in the same time, she had not finished the first one yet. (If the table had accepted pasting from excel, I would have finished it in minutes).
She had complained at the beginning of the project, because she thought I was losing time visiting CP or making smoking breaks. After this task of the error messages... she never complained again.  
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modified 29-Oct-19 4:26am.
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I think people who are all about "CLi iS sO MuCh FaSteR" have their heads up in their stuck up arse.
What's easier, opening a GUI and seeing more or less intuitively what you have to do or open up a CLI remember you don't know what to do so you look up the documentation then you have to read said documentation and then hope your exact command does what it's supposed to do?
Exactly, the GUI.
CLI may be faster if you do it daily (so you can memorize the exact commands), or for some jobs, and sometimes it's the only option like when you're automating things, but overall a GUI is easier, more intuitive and less error prone.
Some programmers are all about the Git CLI.
I can't even imagine how I'd review my changes to numerous files in a single flat text window.
Or how I'd figure out which branches were merged and when, which is really just a quick glance in a GUI.
I know it's possible, just not easy or intuitive.
They don't say "an image is worth a 1000 words" for nothing.
So why the heck do people still use these CLI tools over a clear GUI?
I think it's kind of the IT way of showing dominance over "those stupid GUI users."
Well, I think it's the other way around.
It's 2019, we shouldn't be all stuck up over some CLI, we should be wondering why there's no good GUI available (there is for Git, by the way).
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think people who are all about "CLi iS sO MuCh FaSteR" have their heads up in their stuck up arse.
I hope you don't say it for me... 
If you read carefully I didn't say anything about GUI / CLI... I only compared mouse / keyboard usage for similar tasks in a GUI.
If the GUI is well done, might be many times faster than typing everything down. A GUI can have shortcuts and allow flexibility pasting / importing from other places where the edit might be done much faster (in my example, excel and the message table)
So no, I am not against the GUIs at all.
(I will edit my previous post because it looks like it is not clear)
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modified 29-Oct-19 4:34am.
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Despite a number of new features brought to the table by Ubuntu 19.10, the headlining feature is this: it just feels really fast, even compared to Ubuntu 19.04. Breaking news: Optimizing code can work
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WHy is Forbes posting computer articles? They're a financial magazine, and have no street cred where computer operating systems is concerned.
".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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Because as much as they hate the fact, the pointy hairs who always looked down on us computer nerds can't escape technology.
The real question is why Kent posted the Forbes article instead of the source blog post[^] from Canonical.
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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The real question why Ubuntu? Every Linux that can use GNOME (and I think it means all of them) can profit from the fixes and features...
(I would install Fedora 30 to get it, but I have no problem with my current GNOME)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Probably because Canonical has deeper pockets than 99% of the other groups doing Linux. The interesting question the article didn't answer was what the status is on backporting their work into the main GNOME repo is; since one of the items on Canonical's todo list is apparently also on the GNOME people's list with the observation (by Canonical) that "maybe we won't have to do this ourselves" they don't appear to be coordinating work tightly. 
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: they don't appear to be coordinating work tightly.
Kind of mandatory[^]
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The link you provided lists 8 bugs of which 7 already merged - one open...
It seems that only 6 of the 7 merged made it into 3.34 and the seventh is in 3.35...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Cloud service analyzes commits to GitHub or Bitbucket and flags security, performance, logic, and compliance issues It looks like you're trying to write a buffer overflow. Would you like help with that?
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Bugs, there are bugs everywhere... AAARRRRGGGG
Do you want to know more?
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I just can't see how code-pattern-recognition is AI nowdays...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Microsoft has released the latest monthly update to its preview of Terminal, the Windows app for developers, with improvements to tabs. Because CMD shouldn't be enough for everyone
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because CMD shouldn't be enough for everyone
Was not power shell supposed to be the ultimative solution and the replacement of cmd?
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Yup
In case of failure: fail, fail again.
Although, this terminal is little more than a wrapper around cmd, powershell, bash, and any other shell/console you have installed. I really don’t see much purpose for it.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although, this terminal is little more than a wrapper around cmd, powershell, bash, and any other shell/console you have installed. I really don’t see much purpose for it.
So you only have a single terminal icon on your taskbar, not three? 
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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