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India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter circling the moon has spotted the country's lost Vikram lander on the lunar surface, but there is still no signal from the lander, according to Indian media reports. I was never good at that video game either
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150 full-time employees and interns at Microsoft have volunteered their mornings, weekends, and nights to create a Microsoft musical video. Cats, it ain't
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At the dawn of the Internet era, developers on the Windows Shell team created some nifty utilities and shared them with power users in the Windows community. A quarter-century later, PowerToys are back, and this time they're open source. In case your zones need fancying
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Ooh, shiny. 1600 nits at 120 hz.
But, I want it: [^].Quote: manages a sustained max brightness of 1,000 nits, peak brightness of 1,600 nits, and an advertised contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. As such, the display supports all major HDR standards—Dolby Vision®, Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and HDR10—and has earned the coveted DisplayHDR 1400 certification.
In terms of color accuracy, the display boasts true 10-bit color depth with support support for the DCI-P3, Adobe RGB, sRGB, Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 color spaces, and ASUS’ “three-level factory color pre-calibration process” promises a Delta-E of less than 1 out of the box.
The things my one good eye could do with that beauty 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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New measurement confirms 2010 finding that proton is smaller than previously thought. Pass the calipers
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Size doesn't matter.
It really doesn't, in this case; the important stuff is all about energy levels.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The goal of this challenge will be to create a substantial dataset that can be used to train models that accurately detect deepfakes and report them. In related news: McDonald's is going to combat the menace of bad hamburgers
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facebook said: Help us to make sure that our own fake videos can't be detected!
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just shutdown facebook no challenge needed
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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When it comes to facial recognition software, people trust tech companies and advertisers less than they do police, but attitudes vary based on age, race, gender, and political party, according to a Pew Research survey released today. And people think I'm mad for wearing my Groucho mask all the time
Not so much trusting the police as how little they trust Google, Facebook and the others.
13% have "never heard of facial recognition"?
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That's because the police are more likely to be incompetent with the tech, and not care much about it, whereas corporations will hire very clever people to squeeze everything they can out of it.
The police might make occasional mistakes, but the corporations won't -- when they sh1t on you, it will be all very cleverly planned, designed, and implemented, in minute detail.
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A corporation may not deprive you of life or liberty. The government (the police) may.
It's interesting that people value their money more than their life and liberty, but there you have it.
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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Even the stupidest, most incompetent lawyer in the world could have AI facrec data kicked out of court if the image were not absolutely unarguably the person in question.
There is absolutely f*** all you can do to stop corporations sh1tting all over you.
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"The police might make occasional mistakes"
Said no black man ever.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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So the police are sub-human?
OK, got it.
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I trust them equally.
Which is to say as far as my baseball bat or can of black spray paint can reach.
Spoiler alert I don't own a bat or spray paint.
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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In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed. "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast"
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COBOL - 1959 (ancestor of PL/1)
ALGOL - 1958 (ancestor of C, ADA, JAVA, etc)
FORTRAN - 1957 (ancestor of BASIC etc, but FORTRAN itself lives on and is still being extended)
LISP - 1957 (ancestor of JOVIAL etc and many of the new functional languages)
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I guess if an Enterprise is considering porting their COBOL to a newer language/platform, they have to consider longevity. Can you think of a single modern environment that is likely to be around in 30-50 years time?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google announced that it is open-sourcing its so-called differential privacy library, an internal tool the company uses to securely draw insights from datasets that contain the private and sensitive personal information of its users. Because they're all about your privacy
:eyeroll:
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Open Source Privacy... what could ever go wrong?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Have you ever found yourself refactoring your code and making the same or similar changes in multiple locations? I thought "real coders" didn't refactor, just rewrote?
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Apps may be all we think about, but there are plenty of unique domains out there being hosted. However, only about 0.06 percent of those are active. HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
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What a silly title.
It's like saying "139 billion people now exist, but most are dead".
What they obviously mean is that 1.71bn domain names have been registered.
Given the amount of redirection (e.g. by companies who register the .com, .net, .org, etc, versions of a site), we can probably cut that down by 10-15%.
Given the number of "Get your own site for 50c!" special offers per year, encouraging people to register domains that they will never do anything with, another 15-20%.
Given the number of people who have a *Great Idea!* that will make them the next Internet billionaire, but who come to realise that there's work involved in that, and give up, another 2-4%.
Given the number of "I want to show the world how creative/clever/artistic I am!" web-sites that are abandoned after a few weeks, when people realise that having two mediocre ideas per lifetime does not make you a genius, another 10-15%.
Given the number of people who thought it would be easy to maintain a web-site, but end up deciding that it's not worth all the work, another 10-15%.
Then there are companies who went out of business, companies that never really existed (very common, on the web), and other failed enterprises -- 10-15%, perhaps more.
So that means that somewhere between a tenth and half of sites with unique domain names actually "exist".
Don't count the dead with the living; you'll be at it all day.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Don't count the dead with the living; you'll be at it all day
Was the "study" published in Chicago? 
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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