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A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. npm: No Productivity Mandated
That's "reinstall Linux", not "reinstall npm". Ooops.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's "reinstall Linux", not "reinstall npm". Ooops.
Familiarity with the in's and out's breeds wider recognition! The Year of Linux is on its way!
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Only if the owner of the Linux system is so ignorant of the system he uses that he cannot restore the directories' ownership on his own, booting the system in init level 1.
The npm update is botched, but noone can't blame a system for the incompetence of its users... Especially on a system suitable only for knowledgeable sysadmins and programmers (i.e. what 99.99% of Javascript users are not).
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Hilarious. And everyone complains about Windows... 
#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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A reboot of the language to embrace our vision of Dart: as a language uniquely optimized for client-side development for web and mobile. Sharper, faster, pointier
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Microsoft is pushing to further improve the Windows Update process with speedier upgrade times. So you can get to that BSOD even sooner
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Intel Corp did not inform U.S. cyber security officials of the so-called Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws until they leaked to the public, six months after Alphabet Inc notified the chipmaker of the problems, according to letters sent by tech companies to lawmakers on Thursday. Security through "la la la, nothing to see here"
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I think you mean security through not handing the NSA's department of malicious pwnage a zero day that will remain unpatched for months.
Getting caught after infecting standards with a deliberately broken RNG is like a kick in the nuts to everyone on the defensive side of US Govt cyber security that just keeps on kicking. 
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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And when did AMD & ARM disclose their Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerabilities?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The research team has developed a novel device called a "memtransistor," which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing. With combined characteristics of a memristor and transistor, the memtransistor also encompasses multiple terminals that operate more similarly to a neural network. Maybe someone will soon have a bright idea, and we can get mem-LEDs
modified 23-Feb-18 1:03am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Chipmaker's latest microcode addresses stability issues faced by previous patches on 7th and 8th gen hardware
belongs to the thread below, methinks. Link seems OK, though.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If they're going to mimic the human brain they still need to work out the BSOD phenomenon otherwise know as stupidity.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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brain-like computing...
So computers are going to start forgetting where they left their keys?
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Chipmaker's latest microcode addresses stability issues faced by previous patches on 7th and 8th gen hardware At least until someone tries it
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Alexa-controlled toilets are a thing in 2018, but cost thousands. An enterprising person can make their own by following these instructions. It takes a bit of work, multiple components and about $750 (plus the cost of the toilet), but the end result is a voice-controlled toilet — and everyone needs that in their life. For your programming library
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My wife said if I spend that kind of coin just to make a voice controlled toilet and it doesn't work...Urine trouble mister!
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Now if it can raise or lower the seat automatically based on the person approaching, that would be worth while... 
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Can the toilet play doom yet?
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In the ideal world, software developers would analyze each problem in the language of its domain and then articulate solutions in matching terms. They could thus easily communicate with domain experts and separate problem-specific ideas from the details of general-purpose languages and specific program design decisions. You compile it with a compiler compiler?
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Weird one. The article cites lofty goals about breaking down the barriers between languages and libraries and so forth and then shows examples of what looks like a pretty generic functional language being used in a pretty generic kind of way. Unless I'm missing something huge, of course.
Why on Earth do they want to call it "Racket", I wonder?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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His discovery helps us validate models of what's going on inside these explosions. "Timing is everything"
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At IBM's Index developer conference in San Francisco, on Tuesday, The Register sat down with Big Blue's Java CTO John Duimovich to talk about the Java programming language, IBM, the cloud and other developer-oriented concerns. Instead, they should create a web-manifest file, compile their jar, sign the jar, make sure the appropriate JRE is installed...
...and a few more steps I'm sure I've blissfully forgotten.
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Quote: "The notion that as a developer you'll have to learn Docker, Kubernetes, and 30 other things before you can even deploy an app is something I'd like to get rid of," he said.
Should have added, "Therefore, I suggest you adopt .NET."
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Accenture is out with a new developer ecosystem study investigating what's important to developers and how they access resources Because if anyone knows "developer friendly", it's a huge consulting firm with a vested interest in complexity
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