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In the medical industry we have medical workstations that run XP and are not permitted to be upgraded at all (not even service packs).
John
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They allow you to declare multiple variables with a single statement that are initialized with values from a pair, tuple, array, or even a struct. Because all languages deserve to be Python
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Structured Bindings are just a limited form of pattern matching, and can be traced all the way back to, at least, SNOBOL. Python was fairly late to the game.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In IT lots of features are late to the game. But often some tech popularises a feature and the users then regard that tech as the innovator.
Kevin
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That's too true sadly.
Alan Kay gave an excellent talk (tried searching, but couldn't find sadly) where he showed pictures of Einstein, Newton, and other famous scientists and asked the audience to name them. All of them got named. He then repeated with pioneers in computing like Grace Hopper, Douglas Englebart, John McCarthy, and Knuth and almost no one could, in a talk to programmers. Used it to illustrate the point that as a field too many developer's don't bother to study the history of computing, so fail to learn lessons from it. I've observed this in my own career - ideas keep resurfacing and being given a new name, frequently failing to address the deficiencies that caused the original to fall out of fashion.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Automated verification finds renewed potential for making algorithms safe. BFI is always an option
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I'm sad this article talks up SAT solvers so much and provides no worthwhile follow-up links. I'm a big proponent of TLA+[^] to verify all possible states of critical digital systems. TLA+ uses SAT/SMT[^] solvers in its model checker and I was hoping I'd learn a bit more about that technology 
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The SMB security flaw called “SMBLoris” was discovered by security researchers at RiskSense, who explained that it can lead to DoS attacks affecting every version of the SMB protocol and all versions of Windows since Windows 2000. Just in case you didn't get the message block sooner
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A team of Chinese scientists put the world's faster supercomputer to the test by using it to create the biggest virtual universe. Were they trying to make an apple pie?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Were they trying to make an apple pie?
That's too American. They were probably testing simulations of how to block VPN's from all potential extraterrestrial sources.
Unfortunately, they had to stop after they reached that point: Team leader Gao Liang said the supercomputer had other clients in line that day.
And what, they can't save the data and continue the simulation later? Now there's a design flaw! 
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
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Multi-Tasking OS for Apple II Because 6502 spells love
Assuming anyone still has an Apple IIe that can start.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Boring! I added hooks into the Commodore PET's BASIC and extended it with preemptive multitasking co-routines (complete with parameter passing and stack swapping) back in 1982. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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 Did you also need two tape drives and a mixer for data? 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did you also need two tape drives and a mixer for data?
Nah, that was the Apple II, where you had to use a separate tape deck and constantly fuss with the volume control. The PET was much more advanced! Built-in tape drive, no fussing!
Then again, I skipped all that and had dual floppy drives. Again, Commodore was superior to Apple -- double sided drives, higher density. The only reason Apple succeeded was because they gave away their computers to schools and kids went home telling their parents "I want an Apple!"
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Forget ‘mobile first’ and ‘cloud first.’ Modern applications being built today need to be ‘cognitive first.’ AI all the things!
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Aye Yai Yai!
Ooops...
AI AI AI!
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Two German researchers say they have exposed the porn-browsing habits of a judge, a cyber-crime investigation and the drug preferences of a politician. I told you not to tell anyone I visit CodeProject!
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For years, it was believed that Bitcoin mixing is a safe way to transfer funds anonymously from one account to another, mainly because there was no technology to track all the transactions and reveal the destination account. Big Bitcoin is watching?
Or, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
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after realizing that Bitcoin was a "transparent non-anonymous system by design."
Seriously? They didn't know that? Hmmm.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
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
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No one said that criminals were smart.
I suppose in this case it's more about service providers for criminals, but still.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Using a cheap robot, a team of hackers has cracked open a leading-brand combination safe, live on stage in Las Vegas. Don't let the robot into the bank
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Luxembourg's parliament has voted in favor of passing an asteroid mining law that give companies ownership of what they extract from the celestial bodies. Remember: As goes Luxembourg, so goes the world
Or at least the asteroid.
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A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity — and it Could be the Solution to World Hunger [^]
Quote: Finnish researchers have created a batch of single-cell protein that is nutritious enough to serve for dinner using a system powered by renewable energy. The entire process requires only electricity, water, carbon dioxide, and microbes. The synthetic food was created as part of the Food From Electricity project, which is a collaboration between Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
After exposing the raw materials to electrolysis in a bioreactor, the process forms a powder that consists of more than 50 percent protein and 25 percent carbohydrates — the texture can also be changed by altering the microbes used in the production.
But, what if the bacteria unionize ?
«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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