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One of the ongoing system administration controversies in Linux is that there is an ongoing effort to obsolete the old, cross-Unix standard network administration and diagnosis commands of ifconfig, netstat and the like and replace them with fresh new Linux specific things like ss and the ip suite And the old sysadmin grumbles.
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Now Intel has finally announced that they are shipping their Xeon 6138P Gold with integrated FPGA accelerator to selected customers. According to Intel, the integrated processor Xeon delivers a 3.2x throughput improvement at half the latency compared to an FPGA-less Xeon device.
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Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The jury goes halfway between what Samsung and Apple want. Samsung isn't happy one bit.
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May 25th marks the first day of enforcement for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, otherwise known as GDPR, a set of rules that could fundamentally flip the relationship between massive tech companies that gather data, and the users they gather it from. GDPR gives companies a new set of rules for sharing data online
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Valve’s game streaming service Steam Link won’t be coming to iOS today, despite a successful Android beta launch earlier this month. Some air quotes you have to read with a larger degree of sarcasm.
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Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect. The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among those saying they were currently unavailable in most European countries.
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Well, the prez says there all fake news, so it's all good. Now if they could block Facebook too, that would be great.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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The difficulty is that machine learning is a fundamentally hard debugging problem. What is this 'debugging' you speak of?
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Maybe "machine learning" be called "machine simulation" more appropriate for this field of study. This is because learning implies gaining knowledge about the subject which is not what the said study is about. It is about, imho, fitting of phenomenon (data outcomes) within a limited range of experiences (data coverage). Sometimes "successful" models for available data could be changed dramatically as more data is acquired, if the modeling is sufficiently far from the "truth". It could be stablized only if a tuth reflecting model is found, which is even harder ...
Some of us who had struggled in area of physical sciences know what it's like ...
Perhaps someone should invent an AI system to do machine learning for humen 
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Since most programmers only want to write code, and don’t care about what problem they are solving, you need to learn to effectively micromanage them. Bingo! (my card is full)
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And yet I've got a bunch here that I just set free and they all get the job done extremely well. I can't stand micro-management as it is really fear-incompetence-immature management.
You don;t hire a grand master and tell them what moves to make!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: You don;t hire a grand master and tell them what moves to make!
That is SO true.
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The best manager I ever had basically told us "you guys know way more about this stuff than I do so just do it the best way you know and let me know how you did it later." We were the most productive team in the company and with the fewest errors and always made the deadlines! Happy memories of long ago, sigh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Bingo! (my card is full)
On your second card is:
- Enforce a strict 8 hour day even for your salaried employees.
- Have a "no work at home" policy but everyone has to share in taking "on-call" calls from home on evenings and weekends
- Give the developers 5 year old technology and tools to use.
- Developers have to come begging for work that is doled out in dribbles, leaving 50%+ chair warming time (see #1)
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Micromanaging is only possible if you have the same or more knowledge of the subjectmatter than the employee.
Come micromanage me 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I really hope this article is a spoof.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A 'self-eating' rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more affordably is under development at universities in Scotland and Ukraine. "The future will eat itself"
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Definitely the Donner of a new era!
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Someone may have a bone to pick with you, so I'll give you a hand and suggest that you arm yourself for the responses to come.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Whatever happened to that microwave (or whatever it was) engine that they were experimenting with?
This thing.
I haven't heard a thing about it, like the gov't started suppressing it (conspiracy theory, I know).
[edit]Hmmm, they have a website. Odd how it seems no one is taking a serious interest. I'll have to watch the interview tomorrow.[/edit]
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NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thruster | Ars Technica
Still something going on, but the most detailed external noise suppressed testing setup is seeing the same net effect regardless of which way the notional thruster is pointing. Their current theory is the earths magnetic field leaking in where cables are piecing their magnetic shield chamber.
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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Avast has found that many low-cost, non-Google-certifed Android phones shipped with a strain of malware built in that could send users to download apps they didn’t intend to access. That's a great time saver
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Kent Sharkey wrote: download apps they didn’t intend to access
You have got to be joking, I have a Samsung S8 and there are more than 50 apps I have no idea what they are for and I did not install. Malware - bullshit, every vendor loads crap onto your phone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Kent Sharkey wrote: send users to download
Mycroft Holmes wrote: every vendor loads crap onto your phone
At least they do it before you buy the phone, unlike this malware that installs them after you get it.
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Parts of the brain not traditionally associated with learning science become active when people are confronted with solving physics problems, a new study shows. Don't tell the physicists. They're bad enough as it is.
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