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That's easy... 42! 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Is there a solution for k = 2?
I can't find one.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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1^3 + 1^3 + (-1)^3
 oops, caffeine depletion
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 27-Mar-19 7:48am.
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3^2 + (-2)^3 + 1^3
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Needs to be x^3 + y^3 + z^3
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I have to drink more...
7^3 + (-6)^3 + (-5)^3
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
modified 27-Mar-19 8:40am.
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73 + (-6)3 + (-5)3 = 2
EDIT: ARRGH - beaten by Peter Kornfeld
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Beaten by both of you!
I wrote done all the cubes up to 10 and got one wrong (which was 6 so it rather scuttled me) - and didn't quite get round to writing a program to work it out for me.
Must remember that years of computing have sapped my powers of mental arithmetic!
Points shared between the two of you, I think (unless you fancy having a shoot-out with 42 as the target  ).
(Edit)Computer has found some more:
2 = -24^3(-13824) + -47^3(-103823) + 49^3(117649)
2 = -54^3(-157464) + -161^3(-4173281) + 163^3(4330747)
2 = -96^3(-884736) + 385^3(57066625) + -383^3(-56181887)
2 = -150^3(-3375000) + 751^3(423564751) + -749^3(-420189749)
Now we just need to work out why it's a remotely useful thing to know about a number ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
modified 27-Mar-19 10:22am.
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That's rather cool although it would be nice if it showed what ranges for x, y and z it was testing on.
As a non-mathematician I must confess to being a bit lost by the time it gets to implied derivatives and the hieroglyphics that go with them, but that's very much my problem.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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In the paper, professors talk about how recent technological advancements have been biased towards automation, thereby, changing the focus from creating new tasks to productively employ labor. Beware AI from the wrong side of the server rack
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To summarize; professors from MIT and Boston University struggle to justify why they have jobs.
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In other news, the world's leading professors of Everything finally figure out what happened during the industrial revolution.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google is officially launching its so-called AMP for Email project into general availability today, allowing companies to give their emails a more engaging and interactive web-like experience. Because we never learn
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I can't even remember what AMP is -- so it's pretty obvious that it will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Almost 20 years ago, an email titled "I LOVE YOU" had a great impact worldwide.
With such great new dynamic emails, the next wave is about to start soon.
For those who don't remember the incident or were too young at that time: there's a Wikipedia article on that topic ILOVEYOU - Wikipedia[^] Quote: The ILOVEYOU Script (the attachment) was written in Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting (VBS) which runs in Microsoft Outlook and was enabled by default.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Back than you had to have a Windows OS with Outlook to be harmed. This new and improved technology can do it in a platform/software independent way...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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So your email now becomes a web page? Great! I can't see what could go wrong with that... 
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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New data shows a pretty obvious trend: the acceleration of serverless adoption. Make sure you consider the pros and cons There are servers?
I figured I'd add this for those attempting the challenge
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So, "cloud computing" is now called "serverless"?
Seems to me they're missing the obvious point - there's a server somewhere, so pendantically speaking, it's NOT serverless. It's just that you now have no direct control or input over how it's configured, secured, used, or shared. How in the actual f*ck is that a good thing?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 26-Mar-19 14:32pm.
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So we're in the process of moving our apps to "the cloud" a serverless environment, including development of said apps. For the cited article, this fills me with trepidation:
Quote: Serverless is fine for new applications, but porting applications to serverless systems can be hugely laborious and risky. This is so often the case that I find it’s usually better to start from scratch than to port something that won’t fit into a serverless framework.
We're about to stuff 10 pounds of ancient crapplications into a 5-pound serverless sock.
What? Use ASP.Net Core you say? Well, we can't, because our apps are all ASP.Net Web Forms, and we're still using VS2015 because VS2017 hasn't been added to the "approved software list", and we can't use the latest .Net Core because you need VS2019, and well, that's not on the "approved software list" either.
There is no amount of "hope and pray" that will deviate us from the inevitable continuation of our death march down the path of ruin, failure, and decay.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 26-Mar-19 14:45pm.
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There is a nice guy sitting next door and swearing constantly in French... He was called in to examine the possible adaptation of our main application to Azure...
If you didn't designed your application from the first step to run on cloud/serverless platform you are in big trouble... Actually such move is actually rewriting the application...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I think my article is better. (see sig)
but then again, even a 10 year old can write stuff better than Infoworld
Latest Article - Azure Function - Compute Pi Stress Test
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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Swift 5 is a major milestone in the evolution of the language. Thanks to ABI stability, the Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. That was fast (I didn't even have time to not look at version 4)
But still, it's not Objective-C
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I want to take over their marketing for them, now that they haven't got Jobs to hold their little hands.
How's this for an opening salvo:
"Swift: All Feathers and Birdsh1t!"
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