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So we can still party like it's 1799?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bugs are not just some random annoyance, but an integral part of the development lifecycle. "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
Or Bonus #0: "How many more are hidden behind you?"
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Or Bonus #1...  did I really write that?
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M.D.V. 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
What do you mean, an African or a European Swallow?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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My three questions:
- Who was the idiot that wrote this code?
- Why aren't there code review practices in place?
and the most important question of all:
3 Do we even need this code?
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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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0: Do you come here often?
1: Do you need a lift home, Baby?
2: Fancy a shag?
Never fails with women, so it might work with bugs.
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I find it annoying that English Lit helped me with this every time:
simply ask the 5 Ws + How
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ECCploit is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat error-correcting code. It's just a marketing stunt to sell DDR4 memory
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The International Space Station is apparently in need of a garage sale. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, currently in residence up in, well, space, discovered a treasure trove of floppy disks tucked away in one of the lockers on-board. That's just NASA's offsite backup
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Patch is causing as much as a 50 percent drop in performance in some Linux workloads. Just leave the vulnerability in place?
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Or install an older chip that will give its all.
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Yes, definitely. I think all of that is much ado about nothing. I have a conspiracy theory for what's really going on but I will refrain.
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Ah, you can't just leave me hanging like that - I need a good conspiracy theory now and then.
Did you hear that THEY are making plants grow, so that we eat more of them? 
TTFN - Kent
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What a new survey from Axios tells us about Facebook and its peers The others are too busy arguing on Twitter to complete the poll
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So 60% of US citizens aren't completely stupid? That's reassuring news (and probably matches global figures).
But it's the other 40% you have to worry about -- and when you consider the jobs that some of them have, things aren't so reassuring.
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New research from the BrainGate consortium shows that a brain-computer interface (BCI) can enable people with paralysis to directly operate an off-the-shelf tablet device just by thinking about making cursor movements and clicks. So they can play Candy Crush like the rest of us
All (lame) joking aside, this is a great development that sounds like it might be relatively economical.
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In the small set of cases where it is the only thing to use, it could be a great thing, but I'd have serious concerns about releasing such technology into the wild, because thoughts are too flighty -- by the time you get around to typing or clicking something, it has become a far more conscious thing than an idle thought.
Extreme example: if a nutter has control of a red button, you don't want his nutteresque thoughts about it causing it to be pressed.
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A group of researchers have created an AI based app that can take ordinary photographs of people and turn them into hilarious caricatures So the AI can now have a side-job at the county fair?
To very limited amounts of 'hilarious'
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Only one of the examples on the page comes even close to being a decent caricature, and even that one's not much good. Give the same photos to decent caricaturists, and they will highlight the features that are actually prominent.
Why can't people just let computers do what they're actually good at?
Bad management, that's what it is. Make people who go off on these pointless flights of poor imagination take some management training.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Bad management, that's what it is.
I think point of Research at some point is just a Research. After all if they would Research actually something valuable, Research would be done - 'no more job for you!' 
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Those "caricatures" are truly awful - they fail to get the basic features of the character - often getting the basic head shape wrong (even allowing for the artistic license of caricature, where prominent features are exaggerated).
It may have worked better if their training data had actually included some caricatures.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ktor is a Kotlin framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems. It is being created by the Kotlin team, and as such, it takes full advantage of the language in order to provide a great developer experience and excellent runtime performance. Just in case you needed another web framework
It's been 15 minutes since the last one, hasn't it?
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From the article: The Hello World of Ktor is small enough to fit in a tweet:
fun main() {
embeddedServer(Netty, port = 8080) {
routing {
get("/") {
call.respondText("Hello World!")
}
}
}.start(wait = true)
Please don't tell me that I'm the only one who sees this as being ridiculously over-engineered.
How many ports do you need open to print "Hello World!"?
None, usually.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How many ports do you need open to print "Hello World!"?
Unless you are writing a web method that suppose to return "Hello world!", right?
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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The function of a "Hello World!" routine is to print the words on the screen; anything else is superfluous.
And, potentially, you might be able to say that this one doesn't even do that, as it may need functions of another application to make the calls to print the characters (but I haven't played with it, so I'm not going to commit to that).
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