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I have learnt what PEBKAC (I knew the German version though) is... but what the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is FUD?
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Thanks 
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Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project is scheduled to debut this fall that aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving. And Mercury is already in retrograde
As much as I liked VB (3, 5, and 6. 2, 4, and VB.NET were OK), it comes a time to say farewell.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (probably not Einstein, but *someone* said it)
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A Finnish tech company has released an unusual tool to help combat cyberbullying: a type font. Does it just convert everything to white boxes?
I've used that font a few times.
And no one will possibly find a way to work around it. Ever.
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Although I am totally against bullying in any form, that is only going to help (if it helps) with a small part of bullying, where the bullies are kids or plain dumb. The most dangerous are the ones that don't use insults but common / correct language twisted to accomplish their target.
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Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled like elderberries!
Let's see what the font makes of those devastating insults 
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I don't answer you back, because I don't want to get nuked for trolling being abusive 
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modified 26-Aug-20 8:00am.
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If you read the article, it's not a font. It's code to re-write what people have written according to what the project authors think they should say.
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Go to the test page[^], I'm pretty sure it actually is a font and just doing crazy things with ligatures[^].
eg type in some offensive text that it redacts. Now copy/paste it out or use jquery to inspect the textbox ( $("#test-input")[0].value), your original profanity is still there. Alternately pick something where the replacement is a different number of letters than the original. Arrow through it, your cursor won't move evenly between the new letters, but rather in steps based on the size of the original text.
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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Quote: Derogatory racial terms are changed to the proper name of the race or religion.
Well that's one way to expedite the process where every generations polite term for a marginalized group becomes a slur a generation later.
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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Some of the substitutions actually made it worse. Many others significantly change the meaning of a sentence or turn an unoffensive sentence into ungrammatical nonsense.
Plus, as has been pointed out, what matters is context, not individual words. To assume that bullying/harrassment is individual words trivializes both. (If we just got rid of THAT salute, that unnamed group would have been perfectly fine.)
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This post describes two new generators that we added to the samples project in the Roslyn SDK github repo. Oh, *that's* what it does
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That's going to have a great impact in someone's life style 
I wonder how's Mark doing... I miss some of his brilliant comments
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A side effect of having spent 10 years with limited income in college and grad school, 6 of those here in expensive NYC, is that I eat of lot of cheap sandwiches, even though I now have a nice Tech™ job. Finally, solving the important questions of humanity
Allergy warning: Post contains traces of nuts.
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I'm pretty sure an optimal layout won't have entire bites without any banana at all. 
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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Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college. Bachelor of Googlosity?
I wonder if they also offer Hotel Management and Small Engine Repair?
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Are they going to hire all the people finishing that "degree"?
And note that I do not specially agree with the price / quality of many college studies, but this...
I suppose Elon Musk is buddy of some of Google's high directives.
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The certificate offered will be B.GfN - Bloody Good for Nothing.
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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That's great news. Most universities are so overpriced and don't teach hardly anything useful. We need a change in that system and more things like this will cause that change.
The regular 4 year degree will be ancient history in the next generation if universities don't wake up.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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we are sucking so much data we could use a copula Data analyst UX designer and Project manager..............
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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RF-Diary works in the dark and can generate descriptions of what someone's doing. 10:00-16:00 sitting at computer, typing 19:00-23:00 sitting at computer, typing
OK, maybe I'm not the target audience
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