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IMHO, the best way to kill the ransomware "industry" would be to make paying the ransoms illegal.
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Researchers say they have captured a radio signal from the most distant galaxy to date. I guess this means they're not coming over?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess this means they're not coming over?
Probably not before the end of earth...
(as long as they don't have a working worm hole or something like that)
M.D.V. 
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Last line of the article The research shows scientists may be able to probe the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with low-frequency radio telescopes in the near future.
Do you understand how important it is that we will be able to "probe neutral gases"?? It's so freaking amazing!!! This is a game-changer. And, it's a lot of fun too. 
Also, I wish my office mates' gases were neutral. 
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Dave Farley's exploration of seven common excuses that software developers make for doing a terrible job. Let me count the ways...
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"I got a degree in programming but it didn't teach me anything about real life software development."
Oh wait, that's not an excuse, it's a valid reason.
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That's sadly true, though I am grateful for my Computer Engineering degree. It didn't teach me anything about coding in the real world but it gave me a lot of tools I used to learn that fast and to do what the average programmer can't due to lacking scientifical knowledge.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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May I say that I never hear any of those excuses? They seem made up just to repeat obvious takes sounding intelligent by faking strawman counter-arguments. There was an XKCD on that somewhere.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Every office has one – the inexplicably cheerful, kind and generous co-worker who brings in cake and/or biscuits and leaves them somewhere for their weight-sensitive colleagues to graze on. "Donuts…is there anything they can’t do?"
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If it's supposed to move, but doesn't - use WD40
If it moves, but shouldn't - use Duck Tape
If it's silent, but should talk - use alcohol
If it talks but shouldn't - use donuts
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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Might get slapped down for this but, I gotta try.
Quote: Professor Susan Jebb
sounds fat.
Or, more reason to not go to the office.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Just one more busybody trying to tell us how to live. Are we sure her first name isn't "Karen"?
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Damn, I knew I should have brought more in my previous companies.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. There's a use for OneNote!
I know, some people really get use out of it, but its purpose evades me.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I know, some people really get use out of it, ...
MS Access for the win! Really! (Converted OneNote work to Access and never looked back - Access is so much more useable even though a bunch of people love to hate on it.)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but its purpose evades me.
I had to use it in my last job as my boss loved it. The best thing I saw was its cooperative tracked work. You have common boards and see who, what, when did something.
It might be practical, but I don't really like it.
M.D.V.
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OpenAI needs Microsoft’s funding and cloud-computing power to crunch massive volumes of data and run increasingly complex models. Microsoft already plowed $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 and invested again in 2021. What does that work out to in ex-employees?
Or Sting concerts?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What does that work out to in ex-employees?Or Sting concerts?
or hookers...
I suppose they are just trying to be ahead of google for once (at least regarding this topic)
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There's been a shift towards 'memory safe' languages. So, can updates to C++ help it catch up in the eyes of developers? Garbage collection++?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So, can updates to C++ help it catch up in the eyes of developers?
As it would need to catch up...
If you want XYZ then go to the language that offers it, don't modify something to try to fit in something it was actually not designed for.
At the end it will end giving more problems that it just had...
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Otterkit is a free and open source compiler for the COBOL Programming Language on the .NET platform. Now you can join those cool kids at the COBOL table
And by 'kids', I mean 'greybeards', but they both enjoy pudding cups
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I'm glad I never got rid of my COBOL book.
It raises my monitor JUST RIGHT.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Tempting, tempting... ..but not enough. I forgot that the nostalgic memory of COBOL was actually a nightmare!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion. I wonder if it's because I'm just finding out GitHub supports Subversion?
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At least you had the possibility to find it out...
I wonder how many projects google cancelled that I hadn't even had known (if it were not for you.)  
M.D.V.
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