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Astronomers have finally solved the mystery of peculiar signals coming from a nearby star, a story that sparked intense public speculation this week that perhaps, finally, alien life had been found. Which of course means it must be aliens. It's *always* aliens.
At least according to the History Channel
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Researchers have developed a method to increase by a factor of five the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed in one type of standard chip, FPGA. The new method is both simple and smart, but the road to publication has been long. For those that like their Fourier Transforms Fast.
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Joe Vito Venzor, 41, from El Paso, was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison for hacking and destroying the IT network of his former employee on the day he was let go. PSA: Don't do that.
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Two game creators are poised to make $2 million apiece. Not really 'hobbyists' then, are they?
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Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE. If it comes with more than 9 keys, it's a waste
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My 13 year old actually bought me a Razer gaming keyboard for my Birthday in May, and I must same it's a real pleasure to type on - it also comes with a column of macro keys to the left of the keyboard, and is easily programmable (although I'm uncertain of the utility of overriding alphanumerics - Harris actually managed to somehow do this accidentally for the 'J' key, causing much confusion for a while).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: although I'm uncertain of the utility of overriding alphanumerics - Harris actually managed to somehow do this accidentally for the 'J' key, causing much confusion for a while).
Occasionally you'll run into games that don't support remapping of its control system. Provided you take advantage of per application remapping instead of global it can be useful then.
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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I'm gonna throw in my recommendation of DAS keyboards. I have a Model S Professional which has been going strong for around 7 years now. The keys are easily removable so it's easy to clean (Cherry MX Brown switches), the unit has a metal switch base so no need to worry about damaging the PCB, and you get n-key rollover 
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We are releasing .NET Core SDK usage data that has been collected by the .NET Core CLI. We have been using this data to determine the most common CLI scenarios, the distribution of operating systems and to answer other questions we’ve had, as described below. Big .NET is watching!
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Microsoft is making a cloud service that uses artificial intelligence to track down bugs in software generally available, and it will begin offering a preview version of the tool for Linux users as well. Does it fix them as well?
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The scientists have already partnered with a major Korean battery maker "Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colors high."
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For much of the history of software, developers would develop and writers would write. After all, isn't it usually?
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Strange. I am so confused now: I used to think that "code documentation" and "user help files" are different things...
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Sorry Kent but this is just a spammy article for GhostDoc.
This space for rent
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I spoke to the Elders of the Internet not one hour ago. You're absolved.
!false - It's funny, because it's true
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As Pete said, it's just an ad for the commercial version of GhostDoc.
I'll be sticking with Sandcastle Help File Builder (SHFB)[^] instead. 
"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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Agree this is an infomercial for GhostDoc ... a very poorly written mishmash, or mythup [1], of generalities. Of course, I would not infer from this piece that GhostDoc is not a valuable tool (I use 'Atomineer Pro,' which is excellent, and cheaper than GhostDoc Pro).
[1] I claim to be the coiner of "mythup" ... referring to both how a stutterer with an east Tennessee accent might say "mess up," and, as portmanteau, combining "myth" with "up," where the usage of "up" perhaps resonates with the sense of exaggeration and possible con in the phrase "send me up."
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Quote: (Kitco News) -In a massive security breach on Wednesday, hackers got their hands on 153,000 units of cryptocurrency ethereum, worth around $32.6 million. This was the biggest theft of the cryptocurrency so far and comes just a couple day after $7 million worth ethereum was stolen.
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«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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 All they have to do is add a new block replacing all the stolen "currency." It's all just vapor-money anyways. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's all just vapor-money anyways
What money is not vapor ? 
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Money that exists in a solid form such as gold or paper
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The "money" of the Yap islanders, "rai," was gigantic stones which could weigh over 8k pounds: too heavy to be moved, records of ownership were maintained in oral histories.Quote from Wikipedia: The extrinsic (perceived) value of a specific stone is based not only on its size and craftsmanship, but also on its history. If many people—or no one at all—died when the specific stone was transported, or a famous sailor brought it in, the value of the rai stone increases by reason of its anecdotal heft.
For centuries in S.E. Asia, cowrie shells were "money."
"Money" is what people believe has value, what people act as if has value: i.e., it's a cultural construct often loosely coupled to goods (objects, people, land, animals, etc.), and services. Of course rare goods are often a basis for money, as with: gold, jewels, virgins, etc.
imho ... 
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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BillWoodruff wrote: What money is not vapor ?
Yes, but cryptocurrency is the distilled vapor of swamp vapor.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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