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Now you know where the developers who were supposed to fix the new release of Windows went...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables The argument may, or may not, work for you (or both simultaneously)
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That is the most informative write-up of quantum computing I've ever read. Interesting.
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Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. Bonus #0: work on a newsletter all day instead of actual work?
Not that I qualify, it's just something I heard
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Is it possible that the very "underachieving" genius of these people is, they realize that if nonintellectuals figure out who they are, the work will pile up for them from people who can't do it themselves? Ignorance is bliss, because nobody expects anything from you. That is true genius.
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I am a fan of Wally. He is the best genius ever.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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That post had some interesting points, but I'd rework them a little:
- Smart people often devalue other skills, like management.
Solution: Find a job where management isn't a hindrance but actually recognizes that you're smart and treats you as such.
- Teamwork, ie, working with dumb people, can be frustrating for very smart people.
Solution: Be active in promoting training. People aren't necessarily dumb by choice (though there are those) but often lack the training and motivation to become smarter. Often enough, management likes to keep people dumb.
- Smart people often attach a lot of their self-esteem to being smart.
Solution: That's actually dumb to do, but is pretty much the only fallback to a toxic work environment that doesn't recognize and utilize your skills. Find a job that does.
- Smart people get bored easily.
Solution: Many boring tasks can be automated, which requires "smarts" to recognize and execute. Other boring tasks are often the result of "that's how we do it" dictates from management. Suggest improvements to alleviate or reduce boring tasks for everyone, not just yourself.
- Smart people see in-depth thinking and reflection as the solution to every problem.
Solution: Recognize that you're doing this to compensate for the fact that others aren't. Involve others in your thought processes with the goal that they need to think more so you can think less.
And if I were truly smart, I'd know how to override the auto-numbering so that my 1-5 actually appears as 1-5, instead of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1!
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 Marc Clifton wrote: hat post had some interesting points, but I'd rework them a little:
- Smart people often devalue other skills, like management.
Solution: Find a job where management isn't a hindrance but actually recognizes that you're smart and treats you as such.
- Teamwork, ie, working with dumb people, can be frustrating for very smart people.
Solution: Be active in promoting training. People aren't necessarily dumb by choice (though there are those) but often lack the training and motivation to become smarter. Often enough, management likes to keep people dumb.
- Smart people often attach a lot of their self-esteem to being smart.
Solution: That's actually dumb to do, but is pretty much the only fallback to a toxic work environment that doesn't recognize and utilize your skills. Find a job that does.
- Smart people get bored easily.
Solution: Many boring tasks can be automated, which requires "smarts" to recognize and execute. Other boring tasks are often the result of "that's how we do it" dictates from management. Suggest improvements to alleviate or reduce boring tasks for everyone, not just yourself.
- Smart people see in-depth thinking and reflection as the solution to every problem.
Solution: Recognize that you're doing this to compensate for the fact that others aren't. Involve others in your thought processes with the goal that they need to think more so you can think less.
Marc Clifton wrote: And if I were truly smart, I'd know how to override the auto-numbering so that my 1-5 actually appears as 1-5, instead of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1!
Like that, you mean?
Too many ols and the lis were in the wrong places.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pretty much what Marc said, but I'd add that being the smartest man in the room makes you a target for political attacks from comparatively incompetent people.
nb. I was going to say "comparatively lazy and incompetent", but the amount of time and effort some of these people spend on studying and implementing political dirty plays is staggering -- it's no wonder that their work is such poor quality, when all their effort is applied to sticking knives in their colleagues' backs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A large planet appears to be orbiting out near the system's snow line. Someone want to head over and check?
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What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? Efficiency considered harmful
Apologies if you can't access Motherboard for some reason (I hear there are problems in Australia)
Coincidentally, he has a solution for you to download and rewrite all your code in.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coincidentally, he has a solution for you to download and rewrite all your code in.
Long Live Assembly Language!
(Am I right or what? )
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Ah, the long form advertisement, complete with straw men and all other maladies of the advertising field.
(Did he really find "more than 400 memory unsafety vulnerabilities."? Or did he did he do a grep for memcpy and assume all them were vulnerabilities? That no checking was previously done?
Seems to me that he falls for the fallacy that anything not hidden must be unsafe. In other words, he "graciously" allows Rust, for example, to verify internally that a buffer index is valid, but denies the validity of doing that externally.
He also cherry picks his bugs, ignoring that the biggest problem are poor algorithms. If Rust were so perfect, why does Mozilla software have bugs?)
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Japanese lawmakers were understandably baffled when, on Wednesday, Sakurada appeared confused when asked some basic technology questions relating to the use of USB drives in nuclear power plants. Because the only secure computer is the one you don't use
And who says only the US has bad politicians?
And the UK. And The Netherlands. And Canada. And Australia. Probably a few more I've missed.
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At least he has admited it, instead of saying it is fake.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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You know what they say in politics; "If you can't do it, ad-minister it"
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https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/14/exploding-iphone/
That must be one powerful upgrade !!! Wonder who wrote the code ?
Caveat Emptor.
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Probably some guy with a short fuse.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The phrase "stuffing 10 pounds of sh|t into a 5-pound sock" comes to mind...
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes, well, if your apple log-in is Jim Phelps, what do you expect?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What if, having a battery already on the edge of failure, the upgrade slightly changed the charging/discharge cycle and thus accelerated and/or compounded the failure?
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As a former (shot) Dutch politician used to say "At your service !" 
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Sometimes the blatantly obvious needs stating!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I love how the ecosystem like to use the same old mantra, "You can sill use <insert old="" os=""> here but you won't get anymore security updates anymore. Oh my gosh I'm shaking.
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