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ScienceMag.org, October, 6: "Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’"
Millions of obese couch-potatoes, posing as people, will fall asleep surfing redacted and FaceBook and Twitter tonight taking comfort from the fact that Science has found that other primates are aware when others are operating with "false beliefs."
Chimps, Orangs, and Bonobos, finally are recognized as equal to sub-humans like the Kardashians who have killer instincts for when someone else doesn't know they are between a Kardashian and a camera.
Of course, it's little comfort to we walking-erect big-headed critters viewing life through a gauze of intoxication from hormones, and through the glass of the webs of language darkly ... that there is no proof that our primate brethren and sistren are ever as disturbingly untroubled as we are by our unawareness of how unaware we are: [^].Quote: All great mind reading begins with chocolate. That’s the basis for a classic experiment that tests whether children have something called theory of mind—the ability to attribute desires, intentions, and knowledge to others. When they see someone hide a chocolate bar in a box, then leave the room while a second person sneaks in and hides it elsewhere, they have to guess where the first person will look for the bar. If they guess “in the original box,” they pass the test, and show they understand what’s going on in the first person’s mind—even when it doesn’t match reality.
For years, only humans were thought to have this key cognitive skill of attributing “false belief,” which is believed to underlie deception, empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three species of great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know when someone holds a false belief, according to a new study published today in Science. The groundbreaking study suggests that this skill likely can be traced back to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans, and may be found in other species.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Nicely written.
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Making Coffee[^]
I'm sure I've drank that coffee before... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That explains it all.
I'm back in Melbourne aka The Only Place In The World That Makes Decent Coffee Except For A Small Roadside Cafe in Italy and am OD'ing pretty badly on the goodness while I can.
I'm already savouring the caffeine withdrawal headache I always get halfway across the Pacific when thre's still 8 more hours left in the flight. It's...poetic.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hate to admit it but there used to be a little coffee shop in Pondichery that made the most exquisite espresso I have ever had.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"used to"
I have this conspiracy theory: Somewhere is a dept of unsmiling men in grey suits who go around looking for awesome places such as this alleged place of yours and, if they determine it makes awesome coffee, or has great paninis, or even just goes the extra mile with the pancakes at brunch, they shut it down.
OR worse: they instruct the chefs to modify the recipes. A little more high fructose corn syrup here, a little more scorching and souring of the milk there, and soon you have a place indistinguishable from the rest.
Every single cafe in Toronto we used to go to that started out awesome would, without exception, close or go down a dark path.
I think I've even spotted the cars these guys drive up in.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've drank
Mixing the passe-simple and passe compose? 
'I drank' or 'I've drunk'.
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Tablet autocorrect: I think it knows I'm not Nagy... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You think that's bad, when I was in the navy, I swear that the coffee wasn't brewed but delivered in large drums with markings like this:
CRUDE OIL
COFFEE
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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As a non-coffee drinker, I can relate to that.
The alt-text is awesome.
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No.[^]
I would prefer the one at 1:06. I used to be good with this one and 1200 rounds per minute are about as much fun as this can get with only one barrel.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Drones seem to survive an inordinately long time, especially with that many idjits blasting away at them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You think 1200 rounds a minute is something?
This is my weapon of choice.
75 rounds a second is more my speed.
Firing that gun was fun, however, the maintenance on those things was a real pain!
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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John J., is that you? 
I said with one barrel and bonus points for being able to carry it plus the ammo. Firing it standing already is a bad idea. I have tried. So, 20 rounds per second is quite enough.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not too many guns, just too many nutcases that think up ideas like this...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I still prefer this one[^].
"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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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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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Finished.
Built. Deployed. Configured. Hand over to be done tomorrow by someone else.
For me it's the weekend and I may have to go stick my head in the sea in the morning. Somewhere close to 80 hours this week and it feels really good to get it out of the door.
Gin, this is Tonic. Tonic, meet Gin. Now, you two can help me out...
veni bibi saltavi
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An open plea to TPTB at Microsoft:
Today I read a hilarious, and scarily on-point article courtesy of the CodeProject Daily News, about the chaos that is today's state of client-side web development.
As I read it a realization hit me: we need .NET for the browser. With Mono, Roslyn, .NET Core, etc., all coming into their own, there is at this point no longer any good technological or business-related reason why all web browsers, on any platform, cannot be made to run C# code scripts on the client-side, powered by .NET. Sure, there have been efforts to do this before, Silverlight for example. But I'm not talking about just making a browser-hosted shell that is running compiled applications. I'm talking about using C# as a client-side script, powered by .NET Core and Roslyn, to forever replace the hell that is JavaScript and the upteen-zillion libraries and other variants that are built on it.
Just imagine how much life would improve for everyone if we could use the same language for both client and server side coding. How much more stability there would be if .NET were the standard for all client-side programming rather than having a new flavor of the month come out every, well, month. As I read that article I realized that so many of the shortcomings of JavaScript that all these libraries are meant to address would all be moot if .NET and C# were the client-side standard.
I understand why this hasn't happened before. .NET was until recently seen as a proprietary Microsoft-only framework. But that's clearly changing. Google, Apple, and Mozilla would just as easily be able to integrate a .NET-based scripting system into their browsers as Microsoft could. There are no patent or royalty issues. Everything that would be needed is open source. Someone just needs to lead the charge.
Microsoft lost the browser wars, but that doesn't mean it can't still revolutionize the way web development is done. Heck, even if it only worked on IE and Edge, in the beginning, it would be so attractive that I'd even consider accepting the limitation that my application required those browsers to run. In any event, someone has to be first. Please, for the sake of our sanity - bring C# and .NET to the browser!
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Yes, right... this clasic xkcd[^] comes to mind 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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I see no problem with the number of different frameworks we can use in the client side... The problem is with those idiots, like the one call himself a 'front-end engineer' in the article... Those who spread the idea of choosing framework based on its popularity (like it was a new shoe from Nike) and not on the needs-vs-capabilities...
As for the JavaScript hell - it depends on one's knowledge... You can easily avoid the worst parts and do the things right...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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