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Snap, flatpack, etc. are disasters waiting to happen.
Yet another headlong rush into a "Great New Way of Doing Things" that can only end in tears.
I refer the learned gentlemen to my previous comment on a matter[^] that also applies here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think the answer to your comment there fits even better here 
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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Android Things, Google's stripped-down version of Android named for its focus on the "Internet of Things" (IoT), is now no longer focused on IoT. New name: "Android Somethings"
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I ran the article through a BS translator, and it came up with this:
Google said: We are gonna get sooooo burned when all those IoT devices using 993 different versions of our unmanaged mini-android OSes start getting hacked by the millions! We'd better get out of that biz ASAP!
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Microsoft’s Chief Legal Officer and President Brad Smith met with the Catholic Pontiff today to discuss how AI can be used ethically and what can be done to help bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations. They're really pushing their products hard, aren't they?
Personal visits for everyone!
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Yes, because if you want a logical, rational talk about science, the first place to go is the Catholic church.
Just ask Galileo.
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A new study shows how easy it would be for price-setting algorithms to learn to collude with each other and keep prices at a disadvantage for customers. The robot apocalypse will begin with personal bankruptcies
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Except "collusion" doesn't mean what the "researchers" think it means. Instead, the identical algorithms came to an identical optimal solution. Big surprise.
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Exactly.
It's common knowledge that the most profit is made by collusion between companies, resulting in the illegal version of "price fixing" -- it is the single most effective way of swindling customers.
WTF did the AI trainers expect the AIs to learn?
It's bad enough that AIs can go off and work things out in wrong ways (which can go unnoticed for a long time, as long as the results are within parameters), but if we allow fidiots to feed the AIs, really bad things could result from it.
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At Build developer conference last year, Microsoft announced that they will be introducing a new Windows class that will allow developers to easily include multiple windows support in their UWP apps. After some delay, Microsoft has now finally released this support for developers. Progress is a heckofa drug
I can't wait for all the popups to start appearing (again).
modified 13-Feb-19 15:01pm.
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One developer let out a loud cheer. The other two just yawned.
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Golly Gosh!
Just think what a dream it would be if they ever came up with a way of working with everything in its own window, which can be moved around, minimised, and even maximised (that's maximised as in what their previous Great New Advancement, UWP, introduced).
Since they will obviously be really busy working on an icon for that great, new system, we should think of a name for it!
How about "XP"?
Or "'95"?
Or just "3", or "7"?
The future will be so Great, once they've figured out how to used windows!
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Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
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Spacious. Minimalist. Clean. Bountiful white space has become the de facto design aesthetic in consumer apps. Life was so much easier when everything was battleship grey
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I've just tried for seven minutes to reach (a copy of) the article that isn't slaved to the medium.com con artists, but failed, so I can't read it.
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A popular note on the Linux Kernel Mailing List claims that a program's author can block people from using his code at his discretion. Wrong. "No backsies!"
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I'm not convinced and until it's tested in court, nobody should be.
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Wow. This could bring back the AOL days -- "ill send the fbi to ur house!!!!"
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Ponemon says that a third of companies do not believe they could fend off a data-stealing cyberattack in 2019. Look to your right. Look to your left. Now duck.
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WTF do they care?
It's been shown that proper spin on the way you handle a data breach means that it won't affect your bottom line, so who amongst the CEOs and CFOs gives a f***?
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This is awful on so many levels.
how confident are you that your organization can avoid a data breach:
Very confident: 10%
Confident: 23%
Somewhat Confident: 23%
Not confident: 44%
At a minimum that reduces to roughly 1 in 2 companies can't protect themselves from a breach. But I think it's more likely the headline reader misunderstood the data (or the chart creator got it backwards), and based on the survey data it should read "Only One in Three Enterprises can Protect Themselves from Data Breaches".
OTOH I suspect what the data really shows is that 56% of companies are in denial about their risk of being breached. 
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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NASA is finally saying goodbye to its Opportunity rover on Mars after spending nearly a year trying to reestablish communication with the silent robot. It's a lost Opportunity T_T
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Only eight months?
Give it a chance, guys!
I've known devs who've been incommunicado for over a year, but they were still making commits and drawing their salaries, so I just let them get on with it.
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Slack today made its Block Kit tool for building more visually appealing apps generally available. The Slack App Directory currently has more than 1,500 apps, and the Slack Platform for the creation of apps and automated bots dates back to 2015. I bet this would come in handy if anyone had a contest to build a Slack app
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