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Microsoft is working to improve the reliability of its Azure infrastructure on multiple fronts, including via 'Project Tardigrade,' its effort to enable a cloud app to survive platform failure. In the future, our VMs will have VMs
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But will it be as adorable as a tardigrade?
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Not possible! 
TTFN - Kent
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No name, specs, or other details available yet. But the screen is amazing. But all laptop screens fold. Oh, this one *unfolds* (and still works)
We know you like typing on a screen, so we made you a full-sized screen keyboard?
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When the unhackable turns hackable you know there will be lots of noise. Case in point: The eyeDisk USB flash drive. "Unhackable" is an invitation
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'Eyes'... snicker. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft's Azure Cloud talk seems boring and mundane, but it's actually where all of the action is. "I work so hard every day, with that old black cloud hanging over my head to drive my dreams away"
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Don't make me feel so blue on a Monday.
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Will they water the garden for me?
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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Over the past few years, a series of studies have come out showing that drinking coffee--in fact, drinking a lot of coffee--has significant health benefits. In fact, some suggested there could be big benefits in drinking copious amounts. A hint: if you can't hear individual heart beats, you may have gone too far
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Ah, the joys of science by confirmation bias.
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And exactly how big is a "cup" of coffee?
The measurement for a cup is 8 fluid ounces (~237 ml).
An American coffee cup is defined as 6 fluid ounces (177ml).
And then some marketing genius figured out that if you redefine that to 5 oz (739ml), you can get 12 cups out of a coffee maker instead of 10.
All I know is that the vessel I drink coffee out of can only be filled 4 times per pot.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Every other engineering discipline has built modern computational tools: for computer aided design, simulation and testing, and for manufacturing. But programming hasn’t progressed significantly since the 1970s. Maybe if we added fins and a racing stripe it might look new?
Or maybe all the failed visual languages should tell the author something?
TTFN - Kent
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Ah, another rant from the "it's old it must be bad" camp. Or is it the "change for the sake of change" camp? Or the "I suck at what I do so I'll demand something different" camp?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe if we added fins flat, monochrome icons and a racing stripe mandatory git source control it might look new?
FTFY
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary, you took the words out of my mouth! 
/ravi
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Don't worry, I'll give them back...
Software Zen: delete this;
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It will automatically post "send codez plz urgent" to all the Internet communities and merge the answers in the code.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes, they should tell the author something.
"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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A number of groups around the world have since demonstrated two-qubit gates in silicon—but until this landmark paper today, the true accuracy of such a two-qubit gate was unknown. Accuracy ... is good?
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Even the most advanced chatbots can’t hold a decent conversation, but AI systems are definitely getting better at generating the written word. A new web app provides ample proof, letting anyone enter a text prompt to which AI software will automatically respond. "You are probably looking for something that is easy to understand, yet gives you valuable insights into what is out there."
Which is (part of) what it responded when I asked, "What should I write as a blurb?"
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There are already enough humans who talk utter bollocks all the time, for free.
Why do we need to pay for a machine to do it?
It's about time we turned the tables and started putting them out of work!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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