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Ahh, that brings a tear to my eye mate.
Something like the softly spoken prompt when trying to exit Rise of The Triad from the early 90s.
"Press any key to pull the cord"
beside a picture of a life-support machine
"Press any key to flip the switch"
Sure enough, a picture of Old Sparky accompanies the caption.
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Microsoft has started rolling out its new option for controlling feature updates. Do you have to install an update to get this feature (it's a trap!)
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Ahead of its Build conference, Microsoft today released a slew of new machine learning products and tweaks to some of its existing services. So you won't have to learn how to make the machines learn
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Lemme guess: They're starting with baby blocks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In recent years, the software engineering community has been interested in factors related to human habits that can play a role in increasing developers’ productivity. OK, nap time
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Good God!
What incredibly worthwhile research!
Who could possibly have guessed at the conclusions?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's value in quantifying the effects to develop guidelines about when you're too wiped to work.
Some years back I did a project involving fatigue management for people working irregular shifts. The biggest talking point level takeaway from that project is if you pull an all-nighter from a fully rested start the next day your impairment in reaction time/ability to operate a vehicle will be at levels between a 0.05 and 0.08 BAC level. If you were short on sleep already you're likely to be at above DUI equivalent levels of impairment the entire day.
The model we used was derived from reaction times only; and I've been curious about if impacts on other types of cognitive abilities were equally impacted.
I know my quality of work on less than 3h of work is poor enough that if insomnia (or a book I can't put down) keeps me away to within 3h of my alarm going off I take the day off because I know even if caffeinated stupid in an attempt to compensate I'll end up spending most of the next day cleaning up my own messes.
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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Dan Neely wrote: Some years back I did a project involving fatigue management for people working irregular shifts
Yet more proof of the incredible value of this new research.
I mean, no-one has ever looked into it before...
I mean, human beings have changed so much in the time since this was last investigated...
I mean,
I mean...
Oh, bugger!
Looks like we'll just have to face that it was a complete waste of time, effort, and money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wouldn't guess in my life that sleeping is essential for being... I was thinking it is more for the fun...
It is maybe only me, but the useless/stupid/wasting 'researches' published lately increased their presence...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication - a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics"
Counterfactual sounds like it might be a great replacement for 'fake news'
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Seems all they did is pretend that light is only a wave.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it is called counterfactual communication - a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients.
I am wondering... how will they call it, when two particles travel between no recipients?
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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Jeeze, dude. Put the links in correctly... That's three in a row...
AirPod survives trip through man who swallowed it | Cult of Mac[^]
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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 5-May-19 10:56am.
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Having a clickable link in the first place is progress.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware
A license agreement John Deere required farmers to sign in October forbids nearly all repair and modification to farming equipment, and prevents farmers from suing for "crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment … arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software." The agreement applies to anyone who turns the key or otherwise uses a John Deere tractor with embedded software. It means that only John Deere dealerships and "authorized" repair shops can work on newer tractors.
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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So they've learned well the lessons of the software world.
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It is outrageous.
I think time is coming that those companies with "give me your first child" user agreements get a big kick in their balls.
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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Pretty sure this idea got tossed a while back, after a little trip to the courts.
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Not via court, but the Copyright office has granted a DMCA exception which allows farmers to hack the software themselves.
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As the software is now integral part of the equipment - excluding it from the warranty is just evil, and possibly the company can be seized only for forcing such agreement... (it is not my personal opinion but asked my friend, who is a lawyer, of course there are differences between here and there)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/youtube-algorithm-changes-negatively-impact-google-ad-revenue.html
YouTube was literally incentivized to keep its algorithms pumping junk to the top of people’s feeds so people would keep watching and the ad dollars would keep flowing. A devastating Bloomberg report
earlier this month showed that for years YouTube executives ignored warnings from their own employees that the misinformation and nastiness on the site had gotten out of hand.
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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