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Pfft!
All their PR people need to do is comment that you can't trust weather satellite trajectory forecasts, and they'll come out of it as great guys.
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Last week’s article about smaller C++17 features mentioned updated operator new() that handles non-standard alignment of objects. It's new
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I mistakenly read that as C#, and, for a moment, was delighted by the idea that someone was trying to get OO-wallahs to do grown-up stuff with memory handling.
Then the dream ended, and I woke up to sad reality.
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Despite fake names being illegal, almost eight in 10 Americans do not care and plan to continue using a fake name on the internet. "You don't know what it's like breaking the law, breaking the law" (DUN DUN)
I bet many of you gamble at home
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In civilised countries, using "fake" names, nicknames, pseudonyms, etc, is not only not illegal, but you can do anything you want with them.
E.g. If you want to put your name down on the banns in the UK as "Mickey Mouse", you are perfectly entitled to, and the wedding can go ahead with you using that name (but it's you who gets married, not Mickey Mouse).
As long as there is not a criminal act or criminal intent, you can call yourself what you like -- even the taxman doesn't mind, as long as you're not trying to fiddle your way out of paying your taxes.
Mind you, it's good news that it's illegal in the States.
It means that an awful lot of awful actors and pop stars can be locked up.
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"Revealed: How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran:" [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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People who embark on such self-righteous, illegal, and immoral acts of aggression really need to remember that what's good for the goose...
But I can't help wondering how many non-secret moles there are, gadding about the world.
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Self-righteous? perhaps.
Illegal? No.
Immoral? Hell, no!
Bear in mind that this is a state who reiterates its intention to destroy another state at every possible occasion. The only ways to deal with it are:
- Asking it nicely to stop
- Imposing sanctions, until it agrees to stop
- A covert operation of this kind
- Bombing the production sites until they are incapable of producing nuclear weapons
- Bombing the entire country until the local industrial base can no longer support the production needed
- Turning the entire country into a sea of glass
(1) and (2) didn't work; should they have tried (4) through (6) without trying (3)?
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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Yes, well, most of the world wishes that a particular country would stop bombing all others whenever it feels like it, but I ought to point out that this is not the soapbox, so it is not the place for politics at all, let alone political hawkism or discussions about murdering women and children.
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Quote: soapbox
What's that?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Soap Box 1.0 - Professional Profile[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm... tempting.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I thought that was on the "ToDo" (a.k.a. to be cleaned up) list
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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If you go there you'll see there's no messages, but the board still exists. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Interfaces are getting a significant overhaul in C# 8. I've been looking at some of the features, and I'm frankly stumped at some of the decisions that have been made. You had me at, "C# 8 are a bit of a mess"
I'm sure someone needs this, but I'm beginning to feel they're just shoveling features for shoveling's sake.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: shoveling features for shoveling's sake
aka "software development" 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Well, they'd already finished the major task of creating a new icon, and idle hands, as they say.
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It does seem to muddy the water, but since in C# using abstract classes as interfaces would disallow multiple inheritance, it makes sense to add default implementation to interfaces. Once you have that though, it becomes necessary to have access modifiers to enable hiding. Not sure of the point of static data in an interface though except to enable some of the possible default implementations.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This is why I subscribe to Java Code Geeks (JCG). I haven't used Java for 6 years (and even that was a very old version), but JCG gives info on changes to Java which often get 'invented' for C# about 6 months to a year later. I have been reading articles about interfaces with default implementations in Java for some months now.
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It’s already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too. The manager - Stephen Hawking - was not available for comment
Yes, I know he's dead. It's an attempt at a voice joke.
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TNW said: the funds the CEO transferred to Hungary were eventually moved to Mexico
Oh Jeeze! They'll never get the money back, now that it's behind that impenetrable wall!
But how much more joyful will the world be when phone communications can no longer be trusted for business purposes, and people stop spending 93% of their time talking (too loudly) into the damned things.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: But how much more joyful will the world be when phone communications can no longer be trusted for business purposes, and people stop spending 93% of their time talking (too loudly) into the damned things "fix" the problem by talking EVEN LOUDER.
FTFY ... just like they solve the problem of foreigners not understanding their language by cranking their volume up.
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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My personal musings on the common thought that a senior/principal developer is only a stepping stone to a manager. Some would rather be useful (present company not included)
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Next up,
Water is wet.
Sky is blue.
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Except try to find a developer job when you are in the mid 40 or more. Try to justify to the hiring manager that you are worth 1.5-2 times the salary of the 20 y/o fresh college graduate. Try to convince him that you MFC/VB6 skills from mid 90-ies are still relevant.
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