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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that the WebAssembly Core Specification is now an official web standard. Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly thus becomes officially the fourth language to run natively in browsers. Coming soon: a brand new collection of malware to guard against
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Did they do this because there is someone in the world who is actually crazy enough to want to work with WebAssembly, or as a paid advertisement?
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I'm sure all the malware folk are very excited to use it. ActiveX returns!
TTFN - Kent
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Unity compiled to WASM is the replacement for Flash for in browser games.
It's no worse an idea than writing a game in flash was. 
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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Quote: officially the fourth language to run natively in browsers
Well, I think if you combine HTML+CSS you get a turing complete, but independently I am not sure. Anyhow, if your you got javascript on hand and still using HTML+CSS as programming languages, you might be doing something wrong.
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Microsoft developers keep plugging away at the "huge technical challenge" of duplicating the Windows Forms designer found in the aging, Windows-only .NET Framework in .NET Core, the new open-source, cross-platform default approach for .NET coding. If only there was some code lying around they could use
I'm assuming they are, so that's why I don't see how it's a 'huge technical challenge'
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WinForms is not "Windows-only", it runs without any complaints under Linux, and probably every device that Mono supports. And "aging" here means "well tested and proven, under fire", instead of the experimental UI's MS is pushing these days and abandoning twice as fast.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: why I don't see how it's a 'huge technical challenge'
Quick answer: the ghost of COM on the castle walls.
«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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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm assuming they are,
That's why it IS a huge technical challenge. Script kiddies wrote it.
#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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The shadows act like mirrors and could help self-driving cars see around corners. Because the shadows know
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When science meets darkness...
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Scientists say the unexplained rogue waves and high winds mean we are “missing something really fundamental in our standard models of the Sun.” Maybe if they shone a really bright light on it?
For those in the UK and west coast of the US/Canada, they didn't discover "sunshine".
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Oh, that's just ridiculous!
They can give us huge volumes of detail about planets, black holes, and other celestial bodies that are umpty-bazijillion light years away, but they don't know anything about our own Sun?
... Or is it just that, with a celestial body that's so close to us, fact-checking becomes a serious threat to their statements?
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No, it just means that the model of the sun works fine for the gross elements (surface temperature, mass-luminosity ratio, etc.), but needs modification for the new data discovered. It may mean that a "steady state" (== no major changes occur in the sun) model is wrong, and the sun must be treated as a variable star.
It remains to be seen how much of this is applicable to other stars - do they also vary on very short periods, or are they more stable?
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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It's not even that much of a surprise. PSP was build because we don't have a good understanding of what heats the corona and powers the solar wind.
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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It's probably the Faeros[^]. 
Quote: ... how the wind escapes ...
Or maybe it's me after a large helping of sprouts[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS (“Current”) release, it is supported for three months after the next release. The good ones die so young
.NET Core: the Ephemeroptera of code frameworks
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Does MS want to take over Google in speed of droping support of projects?
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
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The good ones die so young
So why is 2.2 being axed? /trollface
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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Microsoft developer technologies fared well in Upwork's list of the top 100 in-demand skills as compiled by the freelancer-focused careers company. Must have 20 years experience with .NET Core using Typescript
Just be sure to pick the right version of .NET Core (see next)
The list though. Makes no sense. I do like the idea of recruiting for Technical Recruiter. Very tautological. And I've no clue why "Landing Pages" is so high.
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Better get my "eBooks" certificate 
Only numbers 1, 2 and 15 on that list make any sense...
It makes a bit more sense when you realize this isn't just tech: "The top 10 industries hiring U.S. freelancers for the Top 100 skills are 1) Consulting 2) Internet Software & Services 3) Internet 4) Consumer Discretionary 5) Health Care 6) Consumer Staples 7) Publishing 8) Education 9) Advertising and 10) Specialized Consumer Services"
The list as a whole[^] makes a bit more sense, although stuff like "eBooks" and "eLearning" sounds like they're putting the output in the list rather than the skill like "author" or "writing" or "(educational) content creator" or whatever.
That's like saying "software" instead of .NET Core.
"Romance writing" made the list as a separate skill, while that could also mean "eBooks".
The list also has "AWS" on 15, "AWS Lambda" on 80 and "Amazon S3" on 100, those are all AWS...
Seems odd to mention AWS services specifically.
While last years buzzword was Blockchain and this year's (or last few years maybe) is AI/ML, I find them very absent from this list.
Also, over a third of those skills are technical, while far from a third of America works in tech (a bit short of 8% if I'm to believe this article[^] ).
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MIT researchers say they’ve taught test subjects how to manipulate their own alpha brain waves, thereby improving attention at a given task. The key: give the participants live feedback of their brain activity. Does it involve a buffer overflow?
I could have sworn I've seen videos of people doing this back in the 90s, if not earlier.
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Where did I put that damned tin foil hat?
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
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It's called the "Sitting your arse down at the desk and bloody well getting on with it!" technique.
Tried and tested for generations.
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